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Every great Reality TV show needs a dramatic and gripping season finale. So too, apparently, does does every horrible Reality TV Presidency! [Audio link is posted below<\/i>]<\/p>\nEvery great Reality TV show needs a dramatic and gripping season finale. So too, apparently, does does every horrible Reality TV Presidency! [Audio link is posted below<\/i>]<\/p>\n
Today is our last new BradCast<\/i><\/a> before Christmas (Angie Coiro<\/a> will be filling in for us, along with a few “evergreens” over the next week or two), but, as has become clear today, Trump! The Presidency!<\/i> has certainly delivered in the shocking and suspenseful season finale department! Including…<\/p>\n TWISTS AND TURNS!<\/b><\/i> Acting AG Matthew Whitaker did not<\/i>, as misreported<\/a> earlier today, get approval from a DoJ ethics review to oversee Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. In fact, the ethics review determined he should<\/i> recuse<\/a> himself. But, apparently, he plans to ignore that finding;<\/p>\n SURPRISES!<\/b><\/i> Trump defies<\/a> his military advisers, not to mention stuns and infuriates<\/a> members of Congress on both sides of the aisle along with experts in the region, by declaring “victory”<\/a> on Twitter over ISIS and that he plans to now pull U.S. troops out of Syria! But when? Nobody<\/a> seems to know. Is Afghanistan next? (Apparently so!<\/a>);<\/p>\n MAIN CHARACTERS ‘KILLED OFF’!<\/b><\/i> Defense Secretary Gen. James Mattis, the last of Trump’s “My Generals”, and none too happy<\/a> about the Syria decision, submits his surprise resignation<\/a>, charging the President is anything but “clear-eyed” about the need for U.S. alliances and the threats faced from its adversaries;<\/p>\n SUSPENSE!<\/b><\/i> Will Trump shut down the federal government over Christmas? Last week he said he would. Earlier this week he indicated he wouldn’t. But, today, it looks like he will<\/a>! And all over $5 billion in funding for a southern border wall (now “steel slats”<\/a>) he promised that Mexico, not tax-payers<\/a>, would be paying for;<\/p>\n CHRISTMAS VILLAINY!<\/i><\/b> Trump’s USDA, in defiance of Congress’s newly passed farm bill, announces<\/a> they will now make it more difficult for the poor to receive food stamps. That’ll show ’em!;<\/p>\n NUCLEAR CLIFF-HANGER!<\/b><\/i> North Korea bluntly declares<\/a> that “denuclearization of the Korean peninsula” actually means what it sounds like, and what those of us in the reality-based world (as opposed to the Reality TV world) already knew. They will not denuclearize unless the U.S. removes its own troops and nuclear weapons at the same time. Will Trump return to his threats for “fire and fury like the world has never seen”?! Stay tuned for the thrilling 2019 season!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Also today: The DNC announces<\/a> its planned schedule for a dozen 2020 Presidential primary debates beginning in 2019, even though we’re not yet even done with the 2018 election around here yet! <\/p>\n As we await the scheduled January 11th evidentiary hearing over the GOP’s 2018 Absentee Ballot Election Fraud Scandal that has prevented Republican Mark Harris’ 905-vote U.S. House “victory” over Democrat Dan McCready from being certified in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, the state Board of Election’s stunning 279-page 2016 investigative report [PDF]<\/a> on apparent absentee ballot fraud by McCrae Dowless, the same GOP contractor hired in 2018 by Harris, is released. And it includes some jaw-dropping evidence<\/a> begging the question: How can it be that Dowless not already<\/i> prosecuted after 2016, but allowed instead to carry out the same unlawful election fraud scams in 2018?!<\/p>\n Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, with a number of climate crisis Christmas gifts from states around the country and hardly any lumps of coal at all!…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n![](\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\"){kind=icon}
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