{"id":11739,"date":"2016-06-24T18:26:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T01:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11739"},"modified":"2016-06-24T18:25:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T01:25:28","slug":"brexit-if-it-could-happen-there-bradcast-6242016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11739","title":{"rendered":"Brexit: If it Could Happen There&#8230;: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 6\/24\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_BrexitBalloonTrump_062416.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, the bombshell passage of Britain&#8217;s EU &#8216;Brexit&#8217; Referendum is shaking both world <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/storyline\/brexit-referendum\/brexit-backlash-dow-closes-down-more-600-points-n598286\">markets<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-politics-36615028\">politics<\/a>. Is the rise of nationalism and anti-immigration sentiment in the UK a disturbing omen for the U.S. Presidential election this fall? [<i>Audio link to complete show is below.<\/i>]\n<p>Donald Trump certainly hopes so, as he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2016\/06\/donald-trump-european-union-brexit-flip-flop\">changed<\/a> his position on European unity from just three years ago, when he was for it, to today, when he&#8217;s apparently against it, now that he&#8217;s running for President. On today&#8217;s show we discuss a number of things that Americans can and should learn from both the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/politics\/uk\/2016\/06\/watch-brexit-lies-unravel-nigel-farage-calls-350m-week-promise-nhs-mistake\">dishonest<\/a> politics of the Brexit vote and the way the election itself was carried out (on publicly hand-counted, hand-marked paper ballots.)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, back here across the pond, the fight to count votes from the June 7th primary in California continues, and the fight to keep (certain) voters from voting at all continues as well in a federal courtroom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/appeals-court-considers-north-carolinas-controversial-voting-rules\/2016\/06\/20\/0fbe2f32-340a-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html\">in North Carolina<\/a> (No, <i>Washington Post<\/i>, Photo ID is <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10850\"><i>not<\/i> required to board an airplane<\/a> and you should let your readers know as much), and in the great state of Texas, where so-called &#8216;conservatives&#8217; have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2016\/06\/17\/texas-tab-voter-id-lawsuits-more-35-million\/\">spent millions<\/a> of taxpayer dollars attempting to defend their illegal, discriminatory and <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10864\">unconstitutional<\/a> Photo ID voting restriction <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11297\">year<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9522\">year<\/a> in case after case. (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBradBlog\/status\/746224830660280321\">Texit<\/a>, anyone?)<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/06\/21\/482968834\/latino-voters-hit-hardest-by-brooklyn-voter-purge\">details<\/a> from the unlawful purge of voters in Brooklyn, which came to light after the NY state primary in April. Were Sanders voters purged at a higher rate than Clinton voters, as Sanders supporters have been charging? We look at some of the actual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/story\/brooklyn-voter-purge-age-clinton-sanders\">evidence<\/a> now in, which suggests otherwise (and as we&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11733\">previously argued<\/a>.) Plus: Death toll rising along with flood waters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/weather\/west-virginia-floods-14-killed-thousands-without-power-n598346\">in West Virginia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2016\/06\/23\/tornado-disaster-in-china-at-least-78-feared-dead\/\">in China<\/a>; And Bluegrass fans lose a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2016\/06\/23\/ralph-stanley-bluegrass-legend-dead-89\/86038242\/\">legend<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_TrumpBrexit_NCTXPhotoID_BrooklynPurge_062416.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_TrumpBrexit_NCTXPhotoID_BrooklynPurge_062416.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stitcher.com\/s\/player.php?fid=25838&#038;src=psl\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s BradCast, the bombshell passage of Britain&#8217;s EU &#8216;Brexit&#8217; Referendum is shaking both world markets and politics. Is the rise of nationalism and anti-immigration sentiment in the UK a disturbing omen for the U.S. Presidential election this fall? [Audio link to complete show is below.] Donald Trump certainly hopes so, as he&#8217;s changed his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[494,89,675,21,479,390,841,136,650,226,477,188,111,43,147,829,172,771,47,617,549,280,243,53],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bernie-sanders","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-california","category-donald-trump","category-economy","category-eu","category-great-britain","category-greg-abbott","category-hillary-clinton","category-kpfk","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-new-york","category-north-carolina","category-lava","category-pat-mccrory","category-photo-id-laws","category-race","category-texas","category-tpp","category-uk","category-vote-caging","category-voter-registration","category-washington-post","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11739"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}