{"id":12249,"date":"2017-08-09T17:58:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T00:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12249"},"modified":"2017-08-09T18:02:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T01:02:05","slug":"fire-and-fury-world-and-callers-react-to-a-madman-with-nuclear-weapons-bradcast-892017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12249","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fire and Fury&#8217;: World (and Callers) React to a Madman With Nuclear Weapons: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 8\/9\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_KimJongUn_DonaldTrump_080917.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, the world reacts to Donald Trump&#8217;s alarming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/5564982c-7c6c-11e7-9108-edda0bcbc928\">threat<\/a> on Tuesday to rain down &#8220;fire and fury like the world has never seen before&#8221; on North Korea, if they continue to threaten the U.S. with nuclear weapons. [<i>Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>]\n<p>North Korea further threatens an attack on a U.S. airbase in Guam and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/931769550f3b433ca64f6c5e633da23b\/NKorea-dismisses-Trump's-threat,-warns-of-'absolute-force'\">describes<\/a> Trump as &#8220;bereft of reason&#8221; on whom &#8220;only absolute force can work&#8221;; U.S. Sec. of State Rex Tillerson <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/tillerson-americans-sleep-night-amid-korea-crisis\/story?id=49111147\">tries<\/a> to calm frayed nerves, promising &#8220;Americans should sleep well at night,&#8221; during a stop-over in the island U.S. territory; some in Congress pretend to <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/345835-gop-senator-trump-needs-congress-to-approve-strike-on-north-korea\">assert<\/a> Constitutional authority for a preemptive strike on North Korea (maybe they should have thought about that when they lauded his <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12102\">unconstitutional<\/a> bombing in Syria several months back), the President <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/fact-checking-trumps-false-nuclear-weapons-tweets-1efd460f332a\/amp\/\">tweets a few lies<\/a> about himself and the U.S. nuclear arsenal, and the nations of the world try to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2017\/08\/09\/not-helpful-donald-world-reaction-trumps-fire-and-fury-comments\/551491001\/\">determine<\/a> what the hell Trump was actually thinking, if anything, with his reckless <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/09\/us\/politics\/trump-north-korea.html?_r=0&#038;referer=https:\/\/t.co\/Q8e063mF0B?amp=1\">&#8220;improvised&#8221;<\/a> remarks.<\/p>\n<p>For our part, we cover all of the above and open up the phone lines to callers to get <i>their<\/i> take on which madman with nuclear weapons, North Korea&#8217;s Kim Jong-un or U.S. President Donald J. Trump, they are most worried about.<\/p>\n<p>Then, Desi Doyen joins for the 800th episode of our <a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\"><i>Green News Report<\/i><\/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_TrumpNK_FireFuryWorldReax_Callers_080917.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_TrumpNK_FireFuryWorldReax_Callers_080917.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 world reacts to Donald Trump&#8217;s alarming threat on Tuesday to rain down &#8220;fire and fury like the world has never seen before&#8221; on North Korea, if they continue to threaten the U.S. with nuclear weapons. [Audio link to show follows below.] North Korea further threatens an attack on a U.S. airbase [&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":[192,89,675,543,1015,272,479,200,451,1021,916,477,107,157,905,868,127,960],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-climate-change","category-dan-sullivan","category-dept-of-defense","category-donald-trump","category-environment","category-epa","category-guam","category-james-mattis","category-kpfk","category-national-security","category-north-korea","category-rex-tillerson","category-steve-bannon","category-the-constitution","category-war-powers-act","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12249","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=12249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12249"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=12249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}