On today’s BradCast, following the Northeastern Primaries on Tuesday in PA, CT, MD, DE and RI, the 2016 cycle gets even stranger, if that’s even possible. But, first, the longest serving Republican U.S. House Speaker in U.S. history is sentenced to 15 months in prison for a crime related to being a “serial child molester,” according to the judge.
74-year old former Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) will serve more than a year in jail after pleading guilty in a hush-money case related to payments to one of his 14-17 year old victims during the time he served a high school wrestling coach years earlier. “Nothing is worse than using serial child molester and Speaker of the House in the same sentence,” U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin said during today’s sentencing in Chicago, marking yet another shameful disgrace from the years of GOP control of Congress during the Presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
Then, as if the 2016 Presidential race couldn’t get any more bizarre, imaginary GOP nominee Ted Cruz today named his imaginary Vice-Presidential running mate, who promptly broke into song. Really.
Then, results from Donald Trump’s reported crushing landslide victories in five states yesterday, Hillary Clinton’s huge reported wins in four of those five states, what Bernie Sanders plans to do do now, and some concerns about the accuracy of Tuesday’s reported results (some debunked, some not.)
Then, phone calls from listeners on all of the above.
And, as if all of that’s not enough, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report on the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown and, other than that, some actually encouraging green news, believe it or not!
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it can’t be the names were transposed
@16.4% reporting
sanders 6247
clinton1250
@39.7% reporting
clinton 3592
sanders 2383
both candidates together don’t have as many votes as reported for sanders the first time
hc’s votes shouldn’t go backwards either
Ok, let’s see where we’re at here in this election season….time for some serious triangulation….sorry, Mrs. Clinton, what’s good for the goose is good for the panderer…
Bernie is still in this thing, heart and soul, all the way to Philadelphia and beyond….he has consistently been our only honest and sincere presidential candidate of this yearlong race, in unabashed love with the American Dream for each and every one of us, and not just one’s own fat face in the mirror, as the 2 current frontrunners are….we ALL know the myriad problems undermining our nation….only one candidate enumerates and tackles EVERY SINGLE ONE of those issues head-on, no tapdancing, no placebos, no bullshit….if you live to be 100 you will never again see a person of his integrity running for President again….you may dispute any of this, but that will say more about the kind of person you are than the kind of person he is…
So what then, if it proves to be Clinton versus Trump, two of the most insincere and megalomaniacal politicians i’ve ever smelled coming from 9 miles downwind?….either way, the American people are seriously skullfucked….triangulating sucks when your options are all horrible….hats off, all you highly informed primary voters…
The Clinton / DLC / DWS / globalized corporate corruption of the Democratic Party must be destroyed, to save the Party, and the only way to do that is to take down the Clintons once and for all, like the ghouls they are….the Republican Party is already in unsalvageable ruins, thanks to THEIR even longer history of sex trade with the upper class….oh America, one party dead and the other riddled with worms, how did we get to this place???….
Might it be possible, when the masks come off, that Trump looks better and Hillary worse?….which of them would inflict the least longterm damage on our country?….or is it already too late?….is this just the sad end of an empire, answering that age old question, how could Rome have possibly fallen apart?….pretty much like this…
What to do?….well i know what I’M doing: still fighting and standing with Bernie!!!!….you can’t always stop the darkness, but you can always hold tight to the light, and fight….the chips will fall where they may….i envision an unprecedented tsunami of write-ins this November, serving notice on the PTB, we’re onto all you motherfucking bastards….i envision a lightning quick assimilation and coalition of the disenfranchised into a formidable Third Party of the People at the national level….WE HAVE THE PEOPLE!, We have the candidates, We have the fundraising, We have the technology, and not least importantly we have the balls on fire to storm their fucktastic castles for keeps….these are interesting times, as the Chinese aphorism warns….and every one of us will play as dramatic a role as we care to….We are legion, expect us….game on!!
…and GO BERNIE GO !!!!!!
KarenFromIllinois @ 1:
You are absolutely right, Karen. Thanks for catching it. Missed it, I guess, in the blur of incoming last night. Still trying to get answers… (Though, given the entire state uses DREs, I don’t expect very satisfying answers, even if I’m able to get one from someone there.)
So who you supporting this year, Mel 😉
Still on the fence, Brad….but i wouldn’t underestimate Deez Nutz when putsch comes to shove…
If it comes down to Hillary and Trump, Karl Rove is going to be rigging the machines for Hillary.
That’s just ripe! 😀
Ripe is probably the most polite (politic?) four-letter word one could use to describe the unmitigated Hell of an American presidential contest between that succubus and incubus…