{"id":15098,"date":"2024-07-17T17:35:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T00:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15098"},"modified":"2024-07-17T20:17:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T03:17:32","slug":"holding-on-for-dear-life-amid-the-political-whirlwind-bradcast-7122024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=15098","title":{"rendered":"Holding on for Dear Life Amid the Political Whirlwind: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 7\/17\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_Twisters-HoldOn_071724.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Welp, we&#8217;ve just been through about three political weeks in this country unlike any other, at least in my lifetime, as briefly summarized at the top of today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>. And, before I&#8217;m even able to get today&#8217;s show posted, that summary is already out of date, with the breaking news just after airtime that President Biden has COVID again. Good lord. [<i>Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, to help me <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/morning-memo\/the-whirlwind-of-events-defies-what-we-know-about-the-slow-grind-of-politics\">&#8220;hold on for dear life&#8221;<\/a> amid the political whirlwind, I brought back our friends and fellow old school bloggers <b>HEATHER DIGBY PARTON<\/b> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/writer\/heather_digby_parton\">Salon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/digbysblog.net\/\">Hullabaloo<\/a>, and <b>&#8216;DRIFTGLASS&#8217;<\/b> of <a href=\"http:\/\/professionalleft.blogspot.com\/\"><i>The Pro Left Podcast<\/i><\/a> to try and help us make sense of everything that continues to unspool this week. Among those things&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The weekend&#8217;s assassination attempt of <b>Donald Trump<\/b> by a registered Republican and how all of that has (or hasn&#8217;t) affected the current state of the Presidential race. <\/li>\n<li>The temporarily-undergrounded and now-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/07\/17\/biden-step-aside-schiff-pelosi-election-00169025\">reemerging<\/a> battle among elected Democrats as to whether <strong>Joe Biden<\/strong> should or shouldn&#8217;t be replaced on the Presidential ticket. <\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2024\/07\/17\/donald-selection-of-jd-vance-as-running-mate-is-a-sign-of-weakness\/\">&#8220;sign of weakness&#8221;<\/a> in naming of Ohio Sen. <b>J.D. Vance<\/b> as the GOP&#8217;s Vice-Presidential pick and what Trump hopes to gain from selecting a former critic-turned-toady who opposes support for our democratic allies in Ukraine and seeks a nationwide abortion ban (even in cases of rape or incest) as his running mate.<\/li>\n<li>Other noteworthy observations from the Republican Party&#8217;s &#8220;unity&#8221; convention, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/lasvegassun.com\/news\/2024\/jul\/14\/gop-convention-is-no-place-for-union-leaders\/#:~:text=It%20is%20unconscionable%20for%20any,we%20are%20pledged%20to%20represent.\">curious<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/jul\/17\/teamsters-sean-obrien-rnc-speech\">controversial<\/a> anti-corporate elite\/pro-union <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/video\/teamsters-president-challenges-gop-on-union-support-at-rnc-214920261798\">speech<\/a> delivered at the RNC by Teamsters President <b>Sean O&#8217;Brien<\/b>, why Republicans refuse to learn how to pronounce <b>Kamala Harris<\/b>&#8216; first name after more than 3 years in office, and the media&#8217;s terrible job in covering the entire affair. (Especially MSNBC in this case!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of that and too much more on today&#8217;s <i>BradCast<\/i>! 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And, before I&#8217;m even able to get today&#8217;s show posted, that summary is already out of date, with the breaking news just after airtime that President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[802,675,479,1611,1738,924,477,1628,874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-schiff","category-bradcast","category-donald-trump","category-election-2024","category-jd-vance","category-kamala-harris","category-kpfk","category-labor-unions","category-lester-holt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}