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Visibly Confused Trump RETURNS in Incoherent Speech
With multiple public appearances over the weekend, Donald Trump has confirmed that he is very much in the picture for 2022 and expects to play kingmaker over the next few years before launching another run for president. On Saturday night, Trump spoke to the North Carolina Republican Party. He opened the speech by touting his supposed huge successes on the pandemic, even though the ex-president was a disaster on COVID and metrics only started to improve in the country once Joe Biden took over. Trump claimed to have done an incredible job “coming up with the vaccine” and arguing no one else could have done it, which is a tired and ludicrous claim. It’s also ironic how Trump takes credit for the vaccine, yet his supporters are among the most skeptical about its efficacy. Well over a year into the coronavirus pandemic, Trump still hasn’t learned that the Spanish flu pandemic started in 1918 and not 1917. He has to keep doubling down on it being 1917 because being a narcissist, he can’t admit he was wrong on even a minor detail.
Eventually, Trump got into discussing the criminal investigations on him and his business, and it sounds like the stress is really getting to him. He mentioned that the New York investigation into the Trump Organization involves millions of pages of documents. The ex-POTUS claimed he might go down for something as little as a comma being out of place or a misspelling and that that would be a a “disgrace to our country” and “prosecutorial misconduct.” Trump wants the Supreme Court to put an immediate stop to these investigations. It’s amazing how despite being president for four years, the guy really doesn’t know how the government works. Trump assumed SCOTUS was going to step in during the election disputes and come up with a reason to give him the win. In truth, they had no interest in doing that and certainly they have no interest in getting involved in this case out of New York. This is just another way for Trump to act like an aggrieved victim and we know that his supporters love when he does this routine.
Trump Announces Return to Presidency in Deranged Video
It wasn't just a speech in North Carolina that Donald Trump gave this weekend. The former president also recorded a Republican fundraising video wherein he once again spoke about taking back the White House “sooner than you think.” Some argue this is just Trump saying he will get elected to a second term in 2024, but given the context of everything going on, it suggests he’s telling people to prepare for a reinstatement. The New York Times’s Maggie Haberman reported last week that Trump is regularly talking about how he’s going to come back to power by August. Now, he’s told the Republican fundraising organization: “We’re gonna take back the Senate, take back the House, we’re gonna take back the White House – and sooner than you think. It’s going to be really something special.” There are two main possibilities here: Either Trump has been convinced by Mike Lindell and other voter fraud theory propagators that this is a real possibility. Or, Trump knows it can’t happen but he’s appealing to his conspiratorial base of supporters who think it actually could. It’s totally possible that Trump runs again in 2024 and wins a second term, but there is no constitutional process that would allow him to return before then.
From over the weekend:
Which Statues Are Too Disgusting to Keep?
An audience member called in to ask about honoring historical figures by naming things after them and putting up statues to commemorate them. As this conversation has ramped up over the past few years, people have been looking for hard and fast rules to determine who it does and doesn’t make sense to honor in 2021. While there isn’t an exact formula, there are some basic guidelines that are sensible to abide by. The statues of Confederate generals like Robert E. Lee, for example, should be taken down from public squares as those figures fought explicitly to continue slavery in the states. But a figure like Abraham Lincoln, for example, should probably stay up. He’s remembered primarily for emancipating enslaved people and preserving the union. Lincoln would not at all be considered perfect on issues of race by today’s standards, but he was monumental for pushing the country in a more enlightened direction. All of these historical figures are nuanced and there are going to be some tough calls. But it’s totally acceptable to assess these on a case by case basis and rethink who we want to honor in public squares as society progresses.
--More on the show:
--Democratic Senator Joe Manchin is turning out to be every bit the problem we imagined him to be
--Many of the companies celebrating Pride Month previously donated to anti-gay candidates, in the latest corporate charade
--Donald Trump likes the idea of running for Congress, in order to become Speaker of the House, to then impeach Joe Biden
--It's not just Donald Trump, but Trump and two former Republican senators, who think they may be "reinstated" by August
--An absolutely wacky conspiracy theorist believes that her friend, who died of COVID, was actually "medically abducted" by a hospital and killed for money
--The recently released Dr. Anthony Fauci emails are not the smoking gun that many Republicans want them to be
--Voicemail caller calls David out in brutal fashion
--On the Bonus Show: The ACLU's identity crisis, California approves pilot program for driverless rides, FDA approves obesity drug, much more...
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David
Your systems are modelled in yesterday
How about improving them
Like make your justice department a stand alone non political department
Also do same with the supreme court’s
All judges be elected by say the justice department and they be picked because of their experience not because some politicians say so