On today’s BradCast, our week of exploding ridiculous GOP myths continues. On Tuesday, we debunked the absurd notion that they oppose “big government” in favor of state and local control. Yesterday, the decades-long scam that they oppose debt and deficit spending. Today, their opposition to “socialism” is exposed for the lie that it remains. [Audio link to show follows below.]
But, first up today, Tuesday’s primary runoff in Georgia offered yet another stark reminder of what could go terribly wrong in the Peach State — and all of the others — this November, as voters were, again, prevented from casting ballots due to a failure in the state’s voter registration database and its computerized electronic pollbook system. That, of course, is on top of the 100% unverifiable touch-screen voting systems that voters are still forced to use in Georgia on Election Day — at least when they are allowed to vote.
But, don’t worry. Brian Kemp, the Republican Sec. of State who “oversees” both systems — including during the several years when the entire registration database and administrative passwords for the tabulation systems were left unprotected online for downloading — is now the GOP’s nominee for Governor in the state. He’ll make certain the public has confidence in the results of his race this November between him and Stacey Abrams, who could become the nation’s first African-American female Governor.
Then, it’s onto Donald Trump’s socialist — yes, socialist — scheme to bailout farmers in the Midwest who are being devastated by Trump’s trade war with China. But, again, don’t worry. He’s found an old FDR-era New Deal program that the White House plans to use to give farmers $12 billion in tax-payer money to make some of the losses he has caused them a bit less stinging. In response, Republicans in Congress this week pretended to be outraged about the bailout, while taking no actual action to reverse either it or Trump’s trade wars with the world.
Of course, the GOP only pretends to oppose socialist programs, which are otherwise wildly popular with the American public. When needed, they are more than happy to privatize profits and socialize losses when they control the reins of government. By way of yet another example today, we share a remarkable story along those lines, about a very powerful Republican family from Indiana who has been enjoying local, state and federal government bailouts for years — to the tune of some $20 million — following the failure of their once-formidable gas station empire and the toxic trail it has left behind.
Finally today, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report, as heat records continue to be shattered this month, global warming-fueled fires and flooding wreak deadly havoc across the globe and in the U.S., and as Trump and the Republicans expand their ongoing war on the environment, public lands and endangered species…
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The topic (GOP hypocrisy regarding socialistic policies) was spot-on.
The bare 2-facedness of this is maddening.
I maybe quite angry at the Democratic Party, but I despise even the polluted ground the GOP walks on.
Reagan was a horror.
GDubya Bush was a BIGGER horror.
Trump is the biggest horror so far.
The GOP keeps escalating its ignorance and destructiveness.
Who’s next up for GOP Presidential candidate?
David Duke?
It would not surprise me in the least.