I don’t relish saying “I told ya so” on The BradCast. But, in today’s lead story, unfortunately, I have to yet again. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.]
Among the news stories covered on today’s program…
- We’ve been telling you for months that West Virginia’s corrupt Democratic U.S. Senator Joe Manchin — whose family makes millions from the coal industry and campaign rakes in millions from the fossil fuel industry — never had any intention of allowing any environmental measures to pass that might actually help reduce the deadly emissions that are causing our climate crisis. Nonetheless, his fellow Democrats and corporate media, like Charlie Brown, seem to keep buying his BS claims that he really really wants to adopt environmental provisions and raise taxes on the wealthy to help pay for them. After months of more pretend negotiations, Lucy pulled the football away from Charlie Brown yet again on Thursday night.
- Gas prices are finally falling. Will Joe Biden get credit for that, since he was inappropriately blamed for Big Oil’s record profits from war profiteering and price gouging? (Which all Republicans in Congress refused to outlaw recently?)
- Texas‘ privatized, unregulated electric grid is on the brink of collapse yet again, thanks to record heat (which is thanks to a fossil fuel industry-sponsored climate crisis that all Republicans and Democrat Joe Manchin refuse to do anything about.) Will Lone Star State voters this November finally figure out who is to blame for the outages — and hundreds of deaths that continue to come with them — during both extreme heat and cold in the state?
- Oh, look! The Secret Service seem to have accidentally erased all of their text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, even after the Dept. of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General asked to see them. Luckily, not much happened over those days that the American people would very much like to know about.
- Oh, look! A D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer has reportedly testified to the bipartisan U.S. House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 insurrection and Donald Trump’s other attempts to steal the election that there was a physical altercation with Secret Service officials inside Trump’s limo when he wanted to go to the Capitol instead of back to the White House that day. The alleged under-oath corroboration has so far received much less corporate media notice than the anonymous, still-unnamed person at the Service who claimed that Cassidy Hutchinson was lying during her explosive public testimony late last month about what she’d been told about the incident just after it happened. And the Secret Service officials who were supposed to come forward to dispute her story to the Committee have still failed to do so. (Sure would have been helpful if the Service hadn’t erased their text messages from that day.)
- Mesa County, Colorado‘s disgraced County Clerk (and recently failed GOP candidate for Secretary of State), Tina Peters, is in yet more legal trouble. The easily-duped MAGA election fraud conspiracy theorist — now charged with 7 felonies and 3 misdemeanors related to her orchestrating an illicit scheme to unlawfully copy and publicly distribute very sensitive voting system software last year — had a warrant issued for her arrest by a Judge on Thursday after she left the state without court permission to speak at another evidence-free MAGA election fraud conspiracy conference in Vegas.
- But the actual election fraud perpetrated by GOP officials running for office continues. Just a few short weeks after 5 of the 10 Republicans running for the Gubernatorial nomination in Michigan were struck from the ballot for turning in tens of thousands of fraudulent petition signatures, it’s happened again. This time in New York. The GOP nominee for Governor, U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin — who voted against confirming Joe Biden’s 2020 Electoral College victory and whose website features a “Team Zeldin Election Integrity Task Force” page, vowing to work “around the clock now and into November to ensure we have fair elections” — apparently turned in nearly 13,000 fraudulent petition signatures, including 900 pages of photocopies of signatures, in hopes of appearing on the Independent Party ballot line this fall. The Libertarian Party challenged the fraudulent signatures and the state Board of Elections confirmed the fraud, denying Zeldin a third line on the November ballot.
- Finally, Desi Doyen has our latest Green News Report, with a passel of climate related stories that are so grim, we can’t even bring ourselves to tease them here. On the other hand, she does have one pretty good piece of news out of California…so there’s that!
(Snail mail support to “Brad Friedman, 7095 Hollywood Blvd., #594 Los Angeles, CA 90028” always welcome too!)
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Looks like elements of the secret service are in on the maga insurrection.
What the hell else am I supposed to think after the mass-erasure of SS emails from Jan 5/6th?!
Those emails must have been extremely damning.
The bad guys are clearly pulling out all the stops in blocking Justice and transparency.
But now, the insurrection looks like a bigger plot than ever thought before.
Yeah, it’s a cover-up plot . . .
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216928257
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