{"id":13538,"date":"2020-08-24T17:39:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T00:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13538"},"modified":"2020-08-24T17:53:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T00:53:01","slug":"a-party-that-now-stands-for-nothing-has-voters-who-fall-for-anything-bradcast-8242020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13538","title":{"rendered":"A Party That Now Stands for Nothing (Has Voters Who Fall for Anything): &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 8\/24\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_GOPMeltdown_082420.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Everything is now happening all at once. So, we couldn&#8217;t get through half of what we would have liked to have covered while still having enough time left to open phones on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a> to thoughts from listeners on last week&#8217;s Democratic National Convention and this week&#8217;s GOP version. [<i>Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>]\n<p>So, before we opened the phones to a bunch of great calls, we covered, among other things&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Last week, Donald Trump claimed Joe Biden will &#8220;hurt God&#8221; if he&#8217;s elected. But it seems that God may have already chosen sides in this year&#8217;s Presidential election. As if the COVID crisis derailing Trump&#8217;s plans for rallies and a national convention in two different cities wasn&#8217;t enough, this year&#8217;s record Atlantic Hurricane season continues with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/08\/24\/weather\/marco-laura-gulf-coast-weather-forecast-monday\/index.html\">not one but two storms<\/a> in the Gulf (Marco and Laura) at the same time, both gunning for Louisiana and\/or Texas this week as the Republican National Convention finally gets under way.  Desi Doyen joins us for the latest on that;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Even Donald Trump&#8217;s own family doesn&#8217;t trust Donald Trump. We already know his niece, Mary Trump &#8212; who recently released a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/32oM9JM\">best-seller<\/a> about him &#8212; thinks he&#8217;s a lying, fraudulent, menace. But so too, apparently, does Donald&#8217;s own sister, former federal Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, who is heard during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/maryanne-trump-barry-secret-recordings\/2020\/08\/22\/30d457f4-e334-11ea-ade1-28daf1a5e919_story.html\">secretly recorded conversations<\/a> with Mary describing her brother, the President, as stupid, cruel, phony and a liar, among other nice things from a family member who knows him best. We share some of those audio recordings released over the weekend today;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Also parting ways with Donald Trump today, more than two dozen former Republican Senators and Congressmen, including Arizona&#8217;s former Sen. Jeff Flake, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2020-election\/jeff-flake-other-former-gop-congressmen-endorse-biden-ahead-rnc-n1237826\">announced their endorsement<\/a> of Joe Biden just hours before the Republican National Convention was to get under way on Monday;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>That follows a group of more than 70 longtime national security officials who served under Trump and other Republican Administrations who issued an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defendingdemocracytogether.org\/national-security\/\">open letter on Friday <\/a>endorsing Joe Biden and describing Trump as &#8220;dangerously unfit to serve another term&#8221;;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>But, of course, all of this is just part of the GOP&#8217;s long spiral into a party that believes in absolutely nothing at all other than clinging to power any way that they can and, of course, cult-worshiping Trump, as Politico Magazine&#8217;s Tim Alberta details in a new piece today headlined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2020\/08\/24\/republicanmeltdown-trump-convention-400039\">&#8220;The Grand Old Meltdown: What happens when a party gives up on ideas?&#8221;<\/a> As one longtime Congressional GOP stalwart laments in Alberta&#8217;s piece, &#8220;Owning the libs and pissing off the media. That&#8217;s what we believe in now. There&#8217;s really not much more to it.&#8221;;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>One thing that happens when a party gives up on ideas is they are unable to even craft a policy platform for their party. That is &#8212; other than officially selecting a nominee for President &#8212; the whole point of holding a national convention in the first place. But with a complete dearth of legitimate policy proposals, the RNC on Sunday essentially admitted as much by <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/rnc-abandons-adoption-of-new-party-platform-points-at-support-for-trump-instead\">announcing<\/a> they would not be producing a platform at all this year for the first time in&#8230;.ever?;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Then, after  a few words about the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13533\">ongoing fight<\/a> against the attempt by Trump and his Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13527\">steal the election<\/a> by slowing down the mail during the largest Vote-by-Mail election of all time, we open the phones to listeners with their thoughts on all of the above and much more&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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_BradFriredman-TwoHurricanes-RNCBegins-MaryanneTrumpBarryTapes-RepubsEndorseBiden_Callers_082420.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriredman-TwoHurricanes-RNCBegins-MaryanneTrumpBarryTapes-RepubsEndorseBiden_Callers_082420.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=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/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>Everything is now happening all at once. So, we couldn&#8217;t get through half of what we would have liked to have covered while still having enough time left to open phones on today&#8217;s BradCast to thoughts from listeners on last week&#8217;s Democratic National Convention and this week&#8217;s GOP version. 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