We’re back on today’s BradCast after our holiday break! And just in time for today’s completely peaceful January 6th certification of the 2024 Electoral College results during a joint session of Congress. It sure is fun how peaceful things are when Republicans aren’t pretending the election was stolen from them, eh? [Audio link to full show follows below this summary.]
But that doesn’t mean 2025 hasn’t started off with a bang, unfortunately, as discussed along with a whole bunch of stuff today as we begin to get caught up on some news we missed over our break and the news that continues to break now that we’re back.
Before opening up the phones to listeners in the second half of today’s show, here are links to just some of the stories cited in our coverage today…
- Blogger and activist Jeff Tiedrich offers perhaps the best ever journalistic description of the “cognitively-impaired rage-baby” who, over the weekend, “melt[ed] down into saddest sad ever” over flags to be flown at half-staff in memory of President Jimmy Carter during the rage-baby’s second inauguration two weeks from today.
- Our factoids of the day on Jimmy Carter‘s environmental legacy, as the long goodbye to the 37th President of the United States continues before he is finally laid to rest in Plains, Georgia later this week at age 100.
- In her capacity as President of the U.S. Senate, Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost the 2024 Presidential election to Donald Trump, oversaw the certification of the Electoral College results today during a peaceful joint session of Congress. It was carried out without challenge, incident, death, insurrection or terror attack on the U.S. Capitol, as previously incited by the former President (now official President-elect) four years ago today.
- Criminal felon and rage-baby Donald Trump continues to rage this week following the ruling [PDF] last Friday by the judge in his New York hush money trial, where he was found guilty of 34 counts of felony fraud related to paying off a porn star to help him cheat to win the 2016 election. Justice Juan Merchan ordered that Trump would be sentenced this coming Friday, ten days before his second inauguration. But the judge also signaled Trump was unlikely to face any jail time and will instead receive an unusual, “unconditional discharge” for his many crimes. Nonetheless, Trump continues to rage and appeal and, so far, lose all of those appeals. Despite that likely lack of any actual punishment at all, the news now means Trump will almost certainly be sworn in to office as the first convicted felon to enjoy that great honor.
- Also today, a few words about the terror attacks by two U.S. citizens last week on New Year’s Day, one in New Orleans on Bourbon Street, one in Las Vegas outside of a Trump hotel in a Tesla Cybertruck, The latter was carried out by a hardcore Donald Trump (and Elon Musk and Bobby Kennedy Jr.) supporter, even though that aspect of the attack has been virtually ignored by the corporate media.
Then we open the phones to listeners for the first time in the new year, To discuss the news of the day along with hopes and fears for what lies ahead this year. In addition to one of our favorite Trump trolls, we also hear from a caller who says that he went to school with Elon Musk in South Africa. What he tells us happened at that school, if true, may explain a whole lot about Elon Musk…
(Snail mail support to “Brad Friedman, 7095 Hollywood Blvd., #594 Los Angeles, CA 90028” always welcome too!)
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“rage-baby Donald Trump” … reminds me of Smashing Pumpkins anthem lyrics “In Spite of my Rage I’m still just a rat in a cage” … (Bullet with Butterfly Wings)
“Speaking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, Trump would not rule out using military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, citing national security interests.”
AP News
Greenland “belongs” to Denmark like stuff around the world belongs to “US” … Denmark is NATO … when NATO countries are invaded NATO is invaded … uh oh …
On Jan 6th anniversary, is the election certification in Congress. So repeating here:
Joe Biden has said that he would have won the election.
How, given that legitimate Democratic Voters were denied their right to vote and Kamala’s valid win.
According to Greg Palast, Jessie Jackson told Biden and Harris at a White House visit about the GOP’s plan to steal votes from Democrats and so from Kamala.
https://www.gregpalast.com/will-vigilantes-or-voters-choose-our-president/
Will Vigilantes or Voters Choose our President?
by Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr.For the Chicago Tribune Syndicate
November 4, 2024
“We’ve marched too long, we’ve worked too hard, and died too young. Don’t let them steal your vote.†— Rev. Jesse Jackson
So informed, what plan did they or she have to thwart GOP anti-democracy theft of votes? Any plans for Nov 5th did not work, no communication, no remedy, or plans now, or upcoming plans?
https://donorbox.org/palast-vigilantes-inc-stream
https://mastodon.online/@GregPalast/113765389784244409
GregPalast
@GregPalast@mastodon.online
We’re working feverishly to get the data to calculate the effect of racist voter suppression trickery on the election’s outcome. Not unexpectedly, we are getting stonewalled by red-state officials about the number of provisional ballots uncounted (> 42.3% we find from well-hidden data), the number of mail-in ballots discarded (> 2 million), and the number of vigilante challenges to legit voters (> 852,000).
Here’s what the numbers are telling us so far :
https://www.gregpalast.com/carter-the-kochs-and-the-donald/
Carter, The Kochs and The Donald
by Greg Palast
December 30, 2024
The U.S. media will write about vote suppression tactics during an election. But never would the media report on the effect of suppression on the November 5 vote count.
But the Palast Team does, with precision, based on data and facts. And here’s what the numbers are telling us so far. Absent vote suppression tactics,
“The wholesale attack on votes and voters cost Kamala Harris Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia — which would have brought her to a winning 286 Electoral votes.â€
As Gerald Griggs, President of the Georgia NAACP told me, “Vote suppression and voter intimidation won.â€