{"id":11795,"date":"2016-08-08T18:07:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T01:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11795"},"modified":"2016-08-08T18:15:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T01:15:43","slug":"the-great-trump-dump-the-voting-rights-act-and-the-planets-greatest-threat-bradcast-882016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11795","title":{"rendered":"The Great Trump Dump, the Voting Rights Act and the Planet’s Greatest Threat: ‘BradCast’ 8\/8\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, the weekend marked 52 years since the signing of the Voting Rights Act, and Republicans in North Carolina still can’t take “No Voter Suppression!” for an answer. At the same time, things appear<\/i> to be going from bad to worse for Donald Trump. [Audio link to show is posted below.<\/i>]\n

Despite a U.S. appeals court finding<\/a> in late July that their voter suppression law “target[ed] African-Americans with almost surgical precision” and despite previously telling the court they’d have no trouble responding to the ruling in time for this year’s general election, and despite their previous appeal being denied, North Carolina and it’s Gov. Pat McCrory (R-NC) vow to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Good luck<\/a> with that.<\/p>\n

Also today, Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers continue to rise<\/a> and Trump’s continue to plummet, even in what have long been considered as “red” states. (She’s now up by 7 points in Georgia<\/i><\/a>?! Really?). In the meantime, long time GOPers — from the national security industrial complex<\/a> to college Republicans<\/a> — announce they are abandoning the Republican nominee, who they believe “would put at risk our country’s national security and well-being” and serve as “a threat to the survival of the Republic”. And the “Never Trumpers” have even come up with a new candidate<\/a>, for some reason.<\/p>\n

But are there reasons to question the reliability of those poll numbers and the sincerity of those Republicans? And is Trump an embarrassment to the GOP because he’s an incompetent, uninformed, pathological menace, or because he’s just saying out loud what most Republicans now believe? And while it’s undeniable that Trump would pose a threat to the planet with his finger on the nuclear button, unfortunately, as we were reminded again<\/a> over the weekend, he wouldn’t even need nukes to help finish<\/a> off humanity.<\/p>\n

All of those stories and many more on today’s BradCast<\/i>!…<\/p>\n

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On today’s BradCast, the weekend marked 52 years since the signing of the Voting Rights Act, and Republicans in North Carolina still can’t take “No Voter Suppression!” for an answer. At the same time, things appear to be going from bad to worse for Donald Trump. [Audio link to show is posted below.] Despite a […]<\/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":[89,675,405,543,230,479,594,28,200,859,548,72,226,477,860,109,107,43,172,592,300,31,348,243,517],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-bush-legacy","category-climate-change","category-condoleezza-rice","category-donald-trump","category-election-2016","category-election-reform","category-environment","category-evan-mcmullin","category-extreme-weather","category-georgia","category-hillary-clinton","category-kpfk","category-macedonia","category-mexico","category-national-security","category-north-carolina","category-photo-id-laws","category-reince-priebus","category-republicans","category-utah","category-vote-by-mail","category-voter-registration","category-voting-rights-act"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11795","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=11795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11795"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}