I can’t believe we’re covering any of this. But, on today’s BradCast, we’re sounding twin alarms about the President of the United State’s explicit threats of wars against both Venezuela and…yes…Chicago. There must really be some bad shit on him in those Epstein Files! [Audio link to full shows follows this summary.]
You would think that when Donald Trump posts on social media on Saturday morning that “Chicago [is] about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR” with a photo of him in battle fatigues in front of attack helicopters, a burning Chicago skyline and the phrase “Chipocalypse Now” in the style of 1979’s Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now, that the nation’s major newspapers might report on it in their print editions on Sunday. But, nope. Apparently a threat by the U.S. President to invade another major U.S. city no longer even merits a notice in either the New York Times or Washington Post the next day.
Moreover, you’d think ten U.S. warships ordered down to Central America within missile range of Venezuela — just days after Trump violated all international (and U.S.) law by bombing a speed boat he claims to have been filled with “narco-terrorists” carrying “massive amounts of drugs” (there is no public evidence of either) that we’d see screaming ALL CAPS front page headlines about a pending U.S. war in Central America across all of the nation’s papers. I guess blatant war crimes admitted to by a President of the United States and the threat of an impending U.S. attack on yet another sovereign nation just doesn’t spark the outrage from the “liberal media” that it used.
So, here we are. The guy who those same papers described as an “anti-war” Presidential candidate is still playing them all like chumps as he threatens to unleash new wars both foreign and domestic.
Whatever is actually in those Epstein Files that he is refusing to release — after promising to do so while running for President — must be really really bad for him. And while everyone is looking for just two more Republicans with the courage to sign on to a Discharge Petition to force a vote in the U.S. House on the release of the criminal files on sex traffickers and Trump pedophile pals Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, perhaps they should look at the Democrats who are likely to win two upcoming Special Elections this month instead. Signatures from those two Democrats, once seated in the House (unless somehow blocked by Republicans from doing so), would be enough to trigger that vote. Could be a very interesting month.
We cover all of that and more on today’s show, and open the phones to a bunch of listeners with their own thoughts on all of this madness.
Please tune in and let me know if you can make any more sense of this moment than I can. I welcome all the help and good sense you can offer. God knows ain’t any Trump supporters calling in to defend him anymore. So make of that what you will…
I don’t think this is a distraction from Epstein, this is who Trump is and who he’s always been, especially since entering the political arena 10 years ago.
Yes indeed Brad:
BreakingWaking up is hard to do (The Ways of Bernays – 4).There’s a meme going around that has a natural-looking photo of someone in bed with Ghislane Maxwell who looks a lot like a young SCOTUS Justice Roberts.
Probably fake.
But I hope it’s real.