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Rittenhouse Judge Tells Story About "A Black"
Bruce Schroeder, the judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse case, referred to a former member of a jury as “a black” and then “the black.” Schroeder has been criticized throughout the trial as being too eccentric and out of touch with modern sensibilities and this is just the latest example of that. Schroeder was responding to members of the media questioning why Rittenhouse was able to choose the members of his jury by blindly picking numbers out of a tumbler. Schroeder explained that he did it this way as to not provide the perception of bias. He said that a clerk used to pick the names of jurors and alternate jurors but in a case many years ago, there was a black defendant and only one black member of the jury pool. Schroeder went on to explain that when the numbers were picked determining who would be left off the jury, it included “a black.” Schroeder didn’t seem to realize that he was creating more controversy in the media by referring to a person of color this way. He also expressed disinterest in allowing cameras in his courtroom again for future cases because of spin from the media. Schroeder apparently doesn’t seem to realize that the chances of him presiding over a case of this degree of national attention are incredibly slim.
UH-OH: FBI Raids Home of Lauren Boebert's Ex-Campaign Manager
On Tuesday, the FBI and local prosecutors raided the home of a former campaign manager of Congresswoman Lauren Boebert. Tina Peters, who works as the Mesa County Clerk, was accused of leaking the passwords of voting systems she was in charge of to the right-wing blog Gateway Pundit. Peters was later a speaker at MyPillow guy Mike Lindell’s cyber symposium in August. She reconnected with Lindell after the raid, saying it left her “terrified.” Peters went on Lindell TV and said, “the FBI raided my home at 6 a.m. this morning, accusing me of committing a crime. And they raided the homes of my friends, mostly older women. I was terrified.” Last month, a judge said that Peters could no longer oversee elections in her county after these clear conflicts came to light. She is also under investigation for allegedly accepting private flights and travel expenses paid for by Mike Lindell, which would be in violation of the Colorado state constitution. All in all, this is a situation where a Republican election clerk allegedly gave out passwords to her county’s voting systems and then ran from the FBI with the help of the MyPillow guy. But it’s exactly these folks who claim it is Democrats who are the ones rigging elections.
From yesterday’s show:
OH NO: COVID Resurgence, Cases Up 22%
Coronavirus cases are now definitively on their way back up globally and in the United States after a small trend downwards over the past few months. In the US, cases have gotten back up to an average of about 100,000 new infections every day, when only a few weeks ago they were in the range of 60,000 to 80,000. Luckily, the death numbers have not also increased but since deaths are a lagging indicator, it is expected that those too will rise over the next few weeks. Globally, the numbers are getting worse as well, with the average daily case count being over 500,000 when it was between 300,000 and 400,000 in mid-October. Epidemiologists are still trying to figure out exactly why case counts are ticking back up and if there is a seasonality to this virus. If so, it’s expected that this winter will see many COVID deaths like what took place last winter. Luckily, this time around there are vaccines but not everywhere in the world are they widely available and not everywhere in the world are people willing to take them.
From yesterday’s show:
BUCKLE UP: Mike Pillow Says Trump Fraud Case Coming on Nov 23
MyPillow guy Mike Lindell has come up with a new deadline relating to Donald Trump’s supposed reinstatement. Lindell says that the Trump fraud case will be filed presumably to the Supreme Court on November 23rd. The pillow tycoon appears unaware that cases get appealed up to the Supreme Court and that he won’t be able to bring his evidence directly to them. He said at a religious conference that his documents are “thick” and “not what was filed before.” This is in keeping with Lindell’s prediction that Trump would be reinstated by Thanksgiving. Previously, the MyPillow guy said that the ex-president would assume power again by August based on what he promised to deliver at his much anticipated cyber symposium. At some point, Lindell will have to give up on his predictions, simply because we’ll be close enough to the 2024 election and Trump will decide whether he wants to run again. Certainly, Donald Trump will keep rewarding Lindell for his efforts, as he did recently by granting him an “exclusive” interview for Lindell TV.
More on the show:
--Geoffrey West, theoretical physicist and professor at the Sante Fe Institute, joins David to discuss his book Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies. Get the book: https://amzn.to/30L0Ytg
--Jacob Chansley, known as the "Q-Anon Shaman" from the January 6 Trump riots, is sentenced to 41 months in prison
--Polish nationalists shout "death to Jews" while burning books about Jews at a rally
--Notable discussions from the David Pakman Show subreddit, including about the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, Hatriot Mail, and more
--Lunatic anti-vaccine osteopathic doctor Sherri Tenpenny delivers an insane rant at the "Re-Awaken America" rally where she says vaccinating children against COVID is a "late term abortion"
--Possibly the most xenophobic voicemail that we've ever received
--On the Bonus Show: Republican Paul Gosar censured over AOC anime video, Republican-backed bill would decriminalize marijuana, investigating high gas prices, much more...
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