We’ve got quite a few updates on a number of stories we’ve been covering of late on The BradCast. Some of them not necessarily happy and others quite astounding. As well as some mainstream media failure, and other news from this seemingly endless Summer. [Audio link to full show is posted below this summary.]
Among the stories covered on today program…
- Even as infections, hospitalizations and deaths continue to soar in their states, more politically ambitious Trumpy Rightwing Governors are leading their constituents on a death march by banning mask mandates by small local governments and school districts. Happily, a number of the school districts are putting the health and safety of their children above the authoritarian edicts of their Governors, as well as over the deadly demands of too many brainwashed, disinformed parents fighting to endanger their own children and themselves.
- We’ve got updates today on several stories we’ve covered in recent weeks, including the anti-vax parents of four children in Texas, who both changed their minds about vaccinations just before they were intubated several weeks ago. Also, updates on some of the Rightwing anti-vax radio hosts who have either recently died or are now hospitalized in grave condition from COVID. Also, yet another far-right radio host — this one a Christian broadcaster who derided COVID vaccines as “government control” on his daily “Prophecy Today” program — has now died from…you guessed it.
- A disturbed far-right Trumper from North Carolina brought Capitol Hill to a standstill today — requiring evacuations from the U.S. Capitol to the U.S. Supreme Court — after pulling his license plate-free pickup truck onto the sidewalk in front of the Library of Congress and threatening to detonate a bomb. During the 5-hour standoff with police, which thankfully ended peacefully, media outlets reviewed the man’s Facebook Live-streamed rants and other videos. He reportedly railed against Joe Biden, “Nancy”, “antifa” and the Democrats, demanding they all resign en masse; declared “the revolution is here” and that he is the “last generation” of those willing to stand up for America. He said that Trump will be reinstated and posted video from his participation at “Stop the Steal” and “Million MAGA March” rallies. So, how did Associated Press, at least for a time today (via the Internet Archives), lead their description of the man’s politics? By claiming that in one of his videos he “said he loved the president, Democrat Joe Biden.” — Really, AP?
- We’ve also got a few quick updates today on the Trump-loving Mesa County, Colorado County Clerk, Tina Peters, who, as we have been reporting in some detail over the past week, allegedly entered a secure area of the County’s Election Division in the middle of the night with two accomplices last May, turned off the security cameras, and allowed two hard drives containing Dominion Voting’s Election Management System (EMS) software to be copied in full. During one of her several appearances on stage last week at MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s failed three-day “Cyber Symposium” where he didn’t reveal the promised “proof” that China stole the election for Joe Biden, the extremely sensitive contents of those hard drives were released into the Internet wilds for download by thousands. That, in the middle of California’s critical Gubernatorial Recall election, where some 60% of the state will rely on that same, proprietary Dominion EMS software. Peters claimed during Lindell’s forum that she was being “persecuted” by CO’s Democratic Sec. of State Jenna Griswold because she’s a “conservative Republican”. Griswold has now removed Peters from her role, as Mesa’s now-former chief election official is facing a criminal probe by the County’s conservative Republican District Attorney. This week, the FBI joined that investigation, as federal crimes may have been violated in the theft and release of that software. And today, VICE reports, Peters is on the lam, being sheltered in a “safe house” somewhere by the MyPillow guy (who already faces a $1.3 billion lawsuit [PDF] from Dominion himself.) Will the “persecution” never end?
- Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for our latest Green News Report, with grim news of deadly climate change-fueled extreme weather from Haiti to both coasts of the U.S. to much of Europe; and some happier news this week from the Biden Administration…
The BradCast
with Brad Friedman
8/19/2021
The Brainwashed Right’s Newest Culture War Hill to (Literally) Die On: ‘BradCast’ 8/19/2021 | Also: Unhappy updates on COVID hospitalized RW radio hosts and other anti-vaxxers; FBI joins CO voting software theft probe, as Mike Lindell harbors Mesa County Clerk in 'safe house'; And, hey, AP...are you okay?... · · · · · The Brainwashed Right’s Newest Culture War Hill to (Literally) Die On: ‘BradCast’ 8/19/2021 | Also: Unhappy updates on COVID hospitalized RW radio hosts and other anti-vaxxers; FBI joins CO voting software theft probe, as Mike Lindell harbors Mesa County Clerk in 'safe house'; And, hey, AP...are you okay?...
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State mandates for vaccines have been upheld by the Supreme Court since 1905. You do not have a right to put other lives at risk.
https://jimsoper.medium.com/vac...l-c6f2f7ec0668
Re Jim Soper @1:
We covered Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905) in The Legal Case for Compulsory COVID Vaccinations.
Earlier this month, that case was further bolstered when the U.S. Supreme Court via Justice Amy Coney Barrett, of all people, summarily rejected a request by 8 students to block an Indiana University COVID vaccine mandate.