Noam Chomsky Interview on Today's Show
The David Pakman Show - June 1, 2021
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SHOCK: Michael Flynn Says Trump Coup Should Happen in America
The treasonous and seditious tentacles of the Trump administration continue to grow and spread as Trump's indicted and pardoned former national security adviser Michael Flynn has been caught on video saying that a coup like what happened in Myanmar should happen in the United States. Flynn made the comments at a QAnon conference officially called the "For God & Country Patriot Roundup" in Dallas, Texas. An audience member who claimed to be a Marine asked Flynn if what happened in Myanmar could happened in the US and Flynn said that it could. The reference was to a coup that began on the morning of February 1, 2021 in Myanmar when democratically-elected officials of the country's ruling party, the National League for Democracy, were deposed by the Tatmadaw—Myanmar's military. The country's military executed a morning raid, detaining elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other political figures. The military defended its actions as necessary in light of voter fraud allegations in the country’s November election.
The audience member’s exact question was, “I want to know why what happened in Myanmar can’t happen here.” Flynn responded “no reason, I mean it should happen here.” This prompted the audience to erupt in applause. There is a real question as to if Flynn’s comments were actually promoting violence or if they were simply unhinged but not malicious. It would be highly inappropriate and perhaps even illegal for a retied Army lieutenant general and former national security adviser to making comments supporting an overthrow of the United States government. But it’s even crazier to think that so many people on the right believe him. There are still people in America to this day, many Q followers but not all, who believe that five months into his presidency, Joe Biden will be deposed and Donald Trump will return to power.
BREAKING: New Details Emerge on Hunter Biden Laptop Emails
Fox News is acting as though a major story has come out about the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” scandal. Fox & Friends spent Memorial Day talking about Hunter’s old business dealings, even though Hunter has no role in his father’s administration. The story had to do with emails exchanged between Joe Biden and Hunter’s business contacts around the world. Fox reported the story as a bombshell new revelation because it showed that Joe Biden planned on sharing a meal with people who his son worked with. But there was really nothing new or “exclusive” about this story at all and in fact, it was more like a repeat of a story Fox reported on back in October of 2020. Before the election, the network ran a story called “Hunter's ex-partner recounts meeting Joe Biden, claims family 'paranoid' about hiding former VP's involvement.” Apparently, there wasn’t anything of substance for Fox to criticize dealing with the Biden presidency this week, so they had to rehash this uneventful report from seven months ago.
From over the weekend:
Trump Sliding Dramatically Toward Online Irrelevance
Donald Trump is having a difficult time drawing readers to his new blog, “The Desk of Donald J. Trump.” The former president launched a blog a few weeks ago to stay active online despite being banned from virtually every social media outlet. But Trump’s posts aren’t getting that much attention. As the Washington Post reports, discussions about Trump online have dropped to a five-year low, and his new blog is getting less traffic than pages like the pet adoption site Petfinder and the recipe site Delish. Trump’s blog posts are routinely getting only around 2,000 shares on Facebook. This weak performance goes to show a few things, including that it’s much harder than these right wingers may think to make a sustainable social media site. But also, it goes to show that two things can be true at once: Trump remains the most influential figure in the Republican Party and most on the right say that they would vote for him again. However, at the same time, the guy can barely attract attention online at this point and the social media world appears to have moved on from him.
--More on the show:
--Noam Chomsky is one of the most renowned and quoted intellectuals of our time and is the author of over 25 books, including "Chomsky for Activists (Universalizing Resistance)," and joins David to discuss geopolitics, Trump and Biden, the future of American politics, and much more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3yQGRpP
--Republicans simply will not stop calling for violence, including Tucker Carlson's recent call for a "real" insurrection, Michael Flynn's encouragement of a coup, and Matt Gaetz' recent 2nd Amendment comments
--20% of Americans believe at least one Q-Anon-based conspiracy theory
--Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene says she never compared masks to the Holocaust just days after comparing masks to the Holocaust
--A random person yelled "Jew Zionist imperialist" to David on the street over the weekend
--Voicemail caller asks about the origins of the anti-vaccine movement
--On the Bonus Show: Nevada moving forward on state health insurance public option, Arizona wants to execute people with Zyklon B, FAA seeing surge in "unruly" passengers, much more...
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