{"id":14948,"date":"2024-02-26T18:19:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T02:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14948"},"modified":"2024-02-27T13:44:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T21:44:41","slug":"from-russia-withthe-left-bradcast-2262024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14948","title":{"rendered":"From Russia With&#8230;The Left: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 2\/26\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_UkrainianSoldier-Flag-Crying_022624.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">I&#8217;m fighting (and losing to) a sinus infection, so otherwise exhausted after today&#8217;s <i>very<\/i> lively <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>. Thus, Imma try to keep this short and leave you to tune in for all the juicy fun on today&#8217;s program. [<i>Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>In general, amongst the stuff we covered&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GOP <b>South Carolina<\/b> primary results prove yet again that about <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/edblog\/dont-believe-the-hype-this-is-a-weak-result-for-trump-in-south-carolina\">40% of <i>Republican<\/i> voters<\/a>, at least in the nominating contests to date, want an alternative to<b>Donald Trump<\/b>. Clearly, that&#8217;s a crisis for&#8230;<b>Joe Biden<\/b>, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ok_post_guy\/status\/1761646013495083224?s=46&#038;t=HLiN6axbv_5Esg4Tvm1utg\"><i>New York Times<\/i> helps us understand<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A whole bunch of primaries (and caucuses and dysfunctional GOP party conventions) are coming up in a whole bunch of states <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wakeuptopolitics.com\/february-21-2024\/?ref=wake-up-to-politics-newsletter\">over the next week<\/a>, beginning with <b>Michigan<\/b> tomorrow and some 16 states and territories next Tuesday &#8212; <b>Super Tuesday<\/b> &#8212; March 5th. We lay out <i>all<\/i> of the confusing details, attempts by Trump to game the GOP nomination, and a move from some on the Left in Michigan to call out President Biden or his position on <b>Israel<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In addition to a whole bunch of nominating contests over the next week, the inept <b>House GOP<\/b> has scheduled a potential (if partial) government shutdown for this Friday, the same day that President Biden is set to deliver his <b>State of the Union Address<\/b>. At the same time, <b>SCOTUS<\/b> could come down with two key rulings any minute on whether Trump is allowed to be on the ballot at all this year, as per the Constitution&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/constitution.congress.gov\/browse\/amendment-14\/section-3\/\">&#8220;Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause&#8221;<\/a>, and on his ridiculous &#8220;Presidential Immunity&#8221; argument in his criminal trials. Buckle up for all of the above over the next week or so.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><i>AND THEN:<\/i> <b>Russia<\/b>&#8216;s deadly invasion of its peaceful, democratic sovereign neighbor of <b>Ukraine<\/b> has now entered its <a href=\"https:\/\/carnegieendowment.org\/2024\/02\/07\/in-year-three-of-ukraine-war-it-s-time-to-learn-lessons-of-first-two-pub-91580\">third horrific year<\/a>. More and more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/joe-biden\/ex-fbi-informant-charged-false-intel-bidens-set-appear-court-rcna140454\">evidence<\/a> over the past week has emerged to document both <b>Vladimir Putin<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/navalny-was-close-being-freed-prisoner-swap-says-ally-2024-02-26\/\">treachery<\/a> and his Kremlin&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/edblog\/a-bigger-story-than-you-can-possibly-imagine\/sharetoken\/eP9yZcrf77SQ\">decade-long, active intelligence operation<\/a> to interfere with the U.S. electoral system. All of it highlights the perfidy and\/or stupidity of a whole bunch of Useful Idiots on the Right &#8212; from Trump to rightwing media to Republicans in Congress &#8212; who are all too happy to echo blatant Kremlin propaganda for (potential) political gain.\n<p>But what of the small, if intense, number of folks on the supposed, <b>&#8220;anti-war&#8221; progressive Left<\/b> who have also spent years at this point echoing much of the same Kremlin propaganda? The one who, today, agree with <i>Republicans<\/i> who want to simply throw Ukraine to the Russian wolves because, something something &#8220;World War III&#8221;, something something NATO, something something &#8220;negotiate&#8221; with the invaders, something something &#8220;privileged few&#8221; who want Ukraine to &#8220;fight to the last Ukrainian&#8221;? (That last, <i>literally<\/i> a <a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/48oX9H6\">documented Russian intel talking point<\/a>, repeated endlessly now by many on the Left <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/national-security\/4473663-raise-your-privileged-hand-if-youre-willing-to-fight-to-the-last-ukrainian\/\"><i>and Right<\/i><\/a> who oppose aid to Ukraine to allow them to both defend themselves and democracy itself against imperialist foreign military aggression.)<\/p>\n<p>We call out some of those on the Left today for falling for disinformation and talking points, knowingly or unknowingly&#8230;because someone has to&#8230;and they call <i>in<\/i> to today&#8217;s <i>BradCast<\/i> in response.<\/p>\n<p>Lively conversation ensues&#8230; \ud83d\ude42 <\/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_BradFriedman-GOPResultsSC-SuperTuesPreview-LeftwingUkraineRussiaPropaganda_022624.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/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>I&#8217;m fighting (and losing to) a sinus infection, so otherwise exhausted after today&#8217;s very lively BradCast. Thus, Imma try to keep this short and leave you to tune in for all the juicy fun on today&#8217;s program. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] In general, amongst the stuff we covered&#8230; GOP South Carolina [&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":[192,89,675,21,299,479,1611,6,841,320,477,305,774,300,534,248,698,628,1719],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-california","category-democrats","category-donald-trump","category-election-2024","category-election-irregularities","category-eu","category-joe-biden","category-kpfk","category-michigan","category-nikki-haley","category-republicans","category-russia","category-south-carolina","category-ukraine","category-vladamir-putin","category-volodymyr-zelenskyy","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14948","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=14948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14948"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=14948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}