There were almost too many clear and present dangers to fit into today’s BradCast. But we did our best. Buckle up. [Audio link to full show follows below this summary.]
Among them…
- Trump-endorsed 2020 election denier, Dan Cox, named as winner of Maryland‘s GOP gubernatorial primary. Democrats rejoice…but should they?
- A bipartisan team of U.S. Senators, lead by Maine Republican Susan Collins and West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin, strike a deal to reform the Electoral Count Act of 1887 to clarify, in theory, that Vice Presidents may not steal elections during joint sessions of Congress to confirm Electoral College votes. We are, let’s say, skeptically optimistic.
- Brazil‘s far-right autocratic President Jair Bolsonaro — loved by Trump and Tucker Carlson of Fox ‘News’ alike — goes full Trump in declaring that his re-election contest in about 75 days, in which he is predicted to lose by a landslide, will be marred by massive fraud requiring military intervention to sort out.
- It’s not looking good for Steve Bannon in his Contempt of Congress trial. It is looking much better, however, for those who believe in accountability and the rule of law.
- It’s also not looking good for a whole passel of conspirators who attempted to help Trump steal the 2020 Presidential election in Georgia, including Rudy Giuliani, Sen. Lindsey Graham, whose attempts to quash their subpoenas have failed so far, and 16 GOP fake electors now designated by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis as “targets” in the special grand jury probe.
- GOPers in the House and Senate are squirming today, as House Democrats play some excellent hard ball (for a change) by calling votes on the Respect for Marriage Act, to give federal statutory protection to both same-sex and interracial marriage, and the Right to Contraception Act. Republicans are outraged — OUTRAGED! — that they’re being forced to take a public stance on these issues during an election year, after SCOTUS recently made clear those previously Constitutionally-established rights may now be on their chopping block as well, following their corrupt overturning of Roe v. Wade.
- Following the corrupt SCOTUS majority gutting the ability of the EPA to regulate carbon, and the corrupt Joe Manchin gutting Joe Biden and the Democrats’ critical climate change agenda, the President announced plans for Executive Actions to take on the crisis which he describes (correctly) as a “clear and present danger”…
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