{"id":15194,"date":"2024-10-10T18:36:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T01:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15194"},"modified":"2024-10-10T18:48:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T01:48:34","slug":"miltons-mess-fls-us-house-liars-trumps-made-in-china-bibles-bradcast-10102024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=15194","title":{"rendered":"Milton&#8217;s Mess, FL&#8217;s U.S. House Liars, Trump&#8217;s Made-in-China Bibles:  &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 10\/10\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_HurricaneMiltonDamage-Gaetz-TrumpBible_101024.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">When it rains, it pours on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>. [<i>Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]<\/p>\n<p>Among the muck we wade through today&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Hurricane Milton<\/b> walloped much of central <b>Florida<\/b> after coming ashore as a Cat 3 om Wednesday night, just south of a worst-case-scenario direct hit on Tampa Bay. But, as we&#8217;ve learned since covering <b>Hurricane Katrina<\/b> way back in 2005, it&#8217;s best never to say &#8220;they dodged a bullet&#8221; too early.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Just in case your favorite media outlets featuring wall-to-wall wind-whipped reporters foolishly risking their lives by standing outside in multi-colored rain slickers to fulfill your disaster porn needs forgot to tell you that man-made climate change exacerbated Milton&#8217;s awesome destructive power and signals an even grimmer future for us all, <b>Desi Doyen<\/b> has you covered today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>While <b>Donald Trump<\/b> has been lying to you about <b>FEMA<\/b> and the Biden-Harris Administration&#8217;s response to both <b>Hurricane Milton<\/b> this week and <b>Hurricane Helene<\/b> last &#8212; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/top-stories\/latest\/helene-milton-disinformation-trump-fema-dan-abrams-rcna174889\">putting his own brain-poisoned supporters at grave risk<\/a> in the bargain &#8212; three points worth noting today: 1) Everything out of Trump&#8217;s mouth on these subjects is a lie. (But you knew that, right?) 2) All of the <b>Republican Governors<\/b> in all of the effected states have lauded the response from FEMA and <b>Joe Biden<\/b>. 3) Since they&#8217;re all on the ballot this year, it&#8217;s worth noting that a whole bunch of Republican Congressmembers from Florida <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/florida-republicans-who-voted-against-funding-fema-are-now-facing-disaster\/ar-AA1rZ0zR?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&#038;cvid=b359301b2a9440ceb84bb8cf617853e6&#038;ei=20\">voted <i>against<\/i> funding FEMA at all this year<\/a> just DAYS before Helene made landfall, even as many of them are now demanding more money for FEMA. As you or someone you know may be voting in the Sunshine State soon, you should know the names of those hypocrites. They are: Reps. <b>Aaron Bean<\/b>, <b>Gus Bilirakis<\/b>, <b>Kat Cammack<\/b>, <b>Byron Donalds<\/b>, <b>Matt Gaetz<\/b>, <b>Laurel Lee<\/b>, <b>Anna Paulina Luna<\/b>, <b>Cory Mills<\/b>, <b>Bill Posey<\/b>, <b>Mike Waltz<\/b>, and <b>Daniel Webster<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>As <b>Donald Trump<\/b> continues to line his pockets (his own, not his campaign&#8217;s!) in a seemingly desperate, hopefully Going Out of Business sale &#8212; Shitty golden sneakers! Cheap silver coins! Worthless NFTs! $100,000 diamond-encrusted watches! (They make a perfect off-the-books Christmas bribe from your favorite foreign autocrat!) &#8212; his $59.99 Trump-endorsed, <b>Lee Greenwood<\/b>-branded &#8220;God Bless the USA&#8221; faux-leather bound bibles may be his sleaziest scheme yet. But that hasn&#8217;t prevented <b>Ryan Walters<\/b>, the MAGA Superintendent of Public Schools in <b>Oklahoma<\/b>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oklahoman.com\/story\/news\/2024\/10\/04\/donald-trump-supported-bible-one-of-few-that-meets-ryan-walters-criteria-for-ok-classrooms\/75510021007\/\">trying to force state tax-payers<\/a> into buying 50,000 of them to place in every classroom, even while all but ignoring a year-old, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawdork.com\/p\/oklahoma-ryan-walters-bible-inhalers\">already-funded state mandate<\/a> to purchase emergency asthma inhalers for schools. (He&#8217;ll get to it, okay? He&#8217;s busy with the Trump Bible thing right now! Never mind that <a href=\"https:\/\/oksenate.gov\/press-releases\/governor-signs-school-inhaler-legislation-protect-students\">child who died<\/a> at school for lack of one!)  Oh, and as long as we&#8217;re on the topic, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-god-bless-usa-bible-china-32a80611605d4052d8238064bbcace4c\">AP did some digging this week<\/a> to find that Trump&#8217;s &#8220;God Bless the USA&#8221; bibles are actually &#8220;printed in a country that the former president has repeatedly accused of stealing American jobs and engaging in unfair trade practices &#8212; <b>China<\/b>.&#8221;  In reality, AP discovered, they actually cost less than $3 a piece to print. But, don&#8217;t worry, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i_6TVa7scKM\">Bible experts say it&#8217;s crap<\/a>, you can still buy a version hand-signed (or so the website says?) by Trump himself for the low-low price of just $1,000 if you act now!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen joins us to help mop things up with <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15193\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a> on <b>Milton&#8217;s landfall<\/b>, Republican disinfo on <b>FEMA<\/b> and its funding shortages, and <b>President Biden<\/b>&#8216;s landmark rule that will now, officially, finally replace every toxic lead water in America! (Sure, but does he have overpriced, crappy, Chinese-made bibles to sell?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All that before I close the show with an offer you can&#8217;t refuse! <i>God bless the USA!&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_MiltonLandfall-FEMALiesFloridaGOPers-TrumpBibleScams_101024.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><center><i><b>* * *<\/b><\/i><\/center><center><\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr style=\"background: blue; color:white;\">\n<td width=\"50%\"><center><span class=\"footnote\"><b>MONTHLY BRAD BLOG SUBSCRIPTION<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\"><center><span class=\"footnote\"><b>ONE-TIME DONATION<\/b><\/span><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid blue;\"><center><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\" style=\"margin-top:-3em; margin-bottom:2em;text-align:center;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"9PMSTMCJK9B3E\"><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Choose monthly amount...\">Choose monthly amount&#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><select name=\"os0\"><option value=\"$10\">$10 : $10.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><option value=\"$20\">$20 : $20.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><option value=\"$50\">$50 : $50.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><option value=\"$100\">$100 : $100.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><\/select> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\"><input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_subscribe_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/form>\n<p><\/center><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid blue;\"><center><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\" style=\"margin-top:0em; margin-bottom:2em;text-align:center;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"K5A5LX7J6WTHQ\"><input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"footnote\">(Snail mail support to <b>&#8220;Brad Friedman, 7095 Hollywood Blvd., #594 Los Angeles, CA 90028<\/b>&#8221; always welcome too!)<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it rains, it pours on today&#8217;s BradCast. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] Among the muck we wade through today&#8230; Hurricane Milton walloped much of central Florida after coming ashore as a Cat 3 om Wednesday night, just south of a worst-case-scenario direct hit on Tampa Bay. 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