Episodes
Thursday Apr 23, 2020
Elie Mystal: Trump's Immigration Order Is Another Bait-and-Switch for the MAGA Rubes
Thursday Apr 23, 2020
Thursday Apr 23, 2020
This week, Liz Preza and Joshua Holland Talk about the right's new line of attack against Joe Biden -- and why it has a pretty good chance of back-firing.
Then we're joined by Elie Mystal, legal correspondent for The Nation, to discuss Trump's "immigration ban," and why it (thankfully) isn't exactly what he promised the members of his cult. We also talk about these Astroturf protests against Democratic governors and the conundrum of covering a fake debate without lending it more weight.
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Why do so many COVID-19 patients who are on ventilators die?
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
This week, Liz Preza and Joshua Holland talk about how the Trump regime botched the rollout of their expert-free expert commission on re-opening the economy, Senators engaging in insider-trading and Captain Crozier's potential reinstatement on the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
Then we're joined by journalist Lindsay Beyerstein to talk about her piece in The New Republic, "The Staggeringly Complicated Ethics of Ventilating Coronavirus Patients."
Thursday Apr 09, 2020
David Cay Johnston: Donald Trump has turned the GOP into 'the party of death'
Thursday Apr 09, 2020
Thursday Apr 09, 2020
This week, Joshua Holland and Liz Preza go through the Kübler-Ross cycle of grief over the Democratic primaries now that Bernie Sanders has suspended his campaign and Joe Biden is the presumptive nominee.
Then we're joined by veteran journalist and DC Report Editor-in-Chief David Cay Johnston to talk about Trump's disastrous mismanagement of our government's pandemic response and why he doesn't have the power to re-open the economy even if he tried.
Thursday Apr 02, 2020
Democrats Are Failing to Hold Trump Accountable For His Disastrous Pandemic Response
Thursday Apr 02, 2020
Thursday Apr 02, 2020
This week, Liz Preza and Joshua Holland were intent to figure out something other than the COVID-19 outbreak to talk about but they failed as badly as the Trump regime has in managing this crisis.
And speaking of Trump's epic failures, we're then joined by journalist Matt Robison to discuss the Democrats' weak, scattershot attacks on Trump for the role he's played in creating this public health disaster. Robison wrote a piece on this titled, "Why Democratic messaging on Trump’s disastrous pandemic failures has been uncoordinated, passive and ineffective," for AlterNet this week.
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