We dumped a big planned portion of today’s BradCast to open phone lines to listeners, in hopes of taking their end of year temperature before next year’s Presidential election year begins in earnest. [Audio link to full show follows below this summary.]
Specifically, I wanted to hear from voters who claim to have supported Joe Biden in 2020, but are now planning to…do something else in 2024. Why would they want to do that with so much — including American democracy itself — on the line next year? They call in to explain. Lively conversations ensue.
Also today, before we took our right turn toward callers: Donald Trump is getting more and more dictator-y with each new rally and social media post of late. Over the weekend, in Nevada and New Hampshire, it was in regard to immigration (and his increasing love for fellow dictator, Vladimir Putin).
On Friday, a D.C federal jury awarded Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss $148 million dollars in their civil defamation lawsuit against the racist Rudy Giuliani, who lied about the women falsifying 2020 election results in Atlanta and turning their lives upside down ever since in the bargain. The judgment was $100 million more than they’d even asked for. And, on Monday, the pair filed yet another suit against Giuliani following new defamatory remarks he made outside the federal courthouse after the first day of his trial last week.
But ya know who was arguably the most terrified by the verdict in Rudy’s case? One Donald J. Trump, who is both facing a huge multi-million dollar judgement in his own civil trial in New York State for years of fraud, even as he is facing a federal criminal trial, scheduled to begin in just over two months time, for crimes related to his attempt to steal the 2020 election. That trial will have a jury pulled from the very same D.C. federal jury pool that just awarded Freeman and Moss $100 million more than they even asked for.
Buckle up….
That woman who called fairly early (Jo?) said something that was a dead giveaway and quite depressing, actually.
She said (after as slew of heated opinions on Biden), “They say Biden is worse than Trump”, showing that, underneath it all, she is persuaded by what others SAY (probably from talk shows), and not by her own analysis of actual NEWS.
Her “criticisms” of Biden were sincere, but sophomoric, IMO.
This is depressing because there are surely millions more like her, who get confused by things that loud media voices scream repeatedly, and seem to know or understand little in terms of actual events and policies.
What’s up with that?
Are they so INcurious, or lazy, that they miss that part?
I’m a Bernie Sanders/social-democrat kind of person. Biden is no great shakes to me (and I know a lot about his political history thru the 80s and 90s).
But unlike Trump, he is no crook.
He’s a centrist Democrat, who, since 2021, has swung somewhat to the left of where he’s been most of his political life. Nothing too remarkable, but I do appreciate the evolution.
I wish he were younger, but he insists upon running, so that is that.
Our system itself is what finally helps lock him into place as candidate.
So out choice is: An imperfect, but decent, Biden.
Or, utter disaster, chaos and destruction, in Trump.
That poor lady seems nice, but like too many others, seems tragically confused, and utterly misses the profoundness of this truly terrifying moment in American history.