{"id":12324,"date":"2017-10-06T18:17:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T01:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12324"},"modified":"2017-10-06T18:17:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T01:17:54","slug":"calm-before-the-storm-bradcast-1062017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12324","title":{"rendered":"‘Calm Before the Storm’?!: ‘BradCast’ 10\/6\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, we can only hope that Donald Trump’s ominous comments to reporters last night at the White House were as ill-informed and misleading as he usually is on just about everything else. [Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>]\n

In somewhat chilling and wholly cryptic remarks<\/a> during a short press avail Thursday night, Donald Trump suggested the moment might be seen as “the calm before the storm.” He refused<\/a> to clarify to the media, beyond gesturing to military leaders and their spouses who were at his side for a White House dinner, and adding “you’ll find out.” We discuss what it may (or may not) mean.<\/p>\n

The storm he almost certainly wasn’t<\/i> referring to was Tropical Storm Nate, which, after killing<\/a> more than 20 in Central America, is now expected<\/a> to slam the U.S. Gulf Coast (possibly New Orleans) as a hurricane over the weekend.<\/p>\n

That, even as disaster relief continues in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island more than two weeks ago. More than 90% of the island’s 3.4 million U.S. citizens are still without power and some 50% without clean running water, despite recent Administration attempts<\/a> to obscure the ongoing catastrophe. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in the meantime, has now publicly offered<\/a> to help rebuild Puerto Rico’s entire power grid with solar panels and batteries and the island’s Governor seems interesting in taking him up on it. That may be a glimmer of good news — for Puerto Rico and all the rest of us — as the island could become a highly visible U.S. proving ground for clean, renewable energy and micro-grids. <\/p>\n

And, in not-at-all unrelated news, Trump has nominated a top coal industry lobbyist<\/a> to be second-in-command at the Environmental Protection <\/i> Agency, as well as a chemical industry scientist<\/a>, whose work has, for years, downplayed peer-reviewed scientific studies critical of his clients’ products, to head up EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention.<\/p>\n

Then, in the aftermath of last Sunday’s Las Vegas Massacre, some progressives<\/a> and, yes, even conservatives<\/i><\/a> are calling for an idea that is rarely mentioned, much less debated in this country: amend or abolish the Constitution’s Second Amendment entirely. As U.S. democracy has been stifled and bastardized<\/a> so much on issues related to guns and gun safety — and even the Constitution itself — after years of distorting propaganda by the NRA (the gun lobby) and its tools in both government and media, we discuss the issue today, not in support of abolishing the 2nd Amendment (necessarily), but in hopes of welcoming actual<\/i> debate on both that and other related issues.<\/p>\n

Finally, several recent polls — on issues from health care to the NFL to media to immigration to climate change — all find opposition steadily growing AGAINST pretty much every position that Trump and Republicans hold on them. Trump, it seems, has “the reverse Midas touch”, as one writer observes<\/a>, in what suffices today for a bit of encouraging news at the end of another horrible week in the U.S…<\/p>\n

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