A Very Strange 24 Hours in the USA
The David Pakman Show - November 10, 2021
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DISASTER for Trump, Judge Denies Request to Block Riot Records
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has denied Donald Trump’s request to block the National Archives from releasing his records to the congressional committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riots. Trump has desperately tried to hide this information, first by requesting that President Biden protect it using executive privilege and then by filing motions in the courts. With Judge Chutkan blocking the ex-president’s request, the files are expected to get to Congress on Friday, however this does not mean that they will be made available to the public. Chutkan wrote in her decision, “while broad, these requests, and each of the other requests made by the Committee, do not exceed the Committee’s legislative powers.” She also said, “Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.” Trump’s lawyer, Jesse Binnall, did not immediately respond to the court’s decision and Trump has filed a court notice saying that he would be appealing the decision. If news on this commission continues to not go the ex-president’s way, he’s likely to behave more erratically, as everything so far suggests that he has a lot to hide as to what he was doing on and in the days leading up to January 6th.
Aaron Rodgers Issues Bogus "Apology" for Lying About Vaccine
NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers has issued an apology for misleading the public about his COVID vaccination status. It came out last week that the Green Bay Packers star player had not been vaccinated after he came down with COVID and had to miss Sunday’s game. Rodgers had previously said that he had been “immunized” but was apparently referring to having COVID before or taking prophylactic treatments. Rodgers received a great deal of criticism over this and now he is getting even more for issuing what many are calling a non-apology. He said on The Pat McAfee Show, “I made some comments that people might have felt were misleading and, you know, to anybody who felt misled by those comments, I take full responsibility for those comments.” This weak apology may be coming as a result of Rodgers losing money over this scandal. The health care company Prevea Health ended a nine-year partnership with him and State Farm cut most of its commercials featuring Rodgers this past weekend. This story is yet another example of why it’s best to get medical advice from doctors and not from those who society deems to be role models in other fields.
From yesterday’s show:
Trump Threatened to LEAVE REPUBLICAN PARTY After Riots
There’s new reporting from ABC’s Jonathan Karl which reveals that Donald Trump threatened GOP party leadership with leaving the Republican Party as he was flying out on Air Force One for the last time as president on January 20th. This confirms numerous reports at the time that Trump was considering leaving the GOP, feeling as though the party wasn’t fighting hard enough following his reelection defeat and the subsequent insurrection and impeachment. The sourcing for this phone call comes from Karl’s new book Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show. Karl wrote in the book, “[RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel] called to wish him farewell. It was a very un-pleasant conversation. Donald Trump was in no mood for small talk or nostalgic goodbyes. He got right to the point. He told her he was leaving the Republican Party and would be creating his own political party.” When McDaniel pushed back and said this would mean the right wing would lose elections forever, Trump said, “I don't care . . . this is what Republicans deserve for not sticking up for me.” In addition to confirming Trump’s plans to create a third party, it also confirms that the ex-president was always just in it for himself and had no interest in ever putting the interests of his party over his own.
From yesterday’s show:
Trumpist COVID Deaths Dramatically Outpacing Biden Deaths
At this stage of the pandemic, COVID-19 has become a virus that disproportionately affects the right wing in the United States. We’ve long suspected that this was inevitable, as people in red areas were more likely to disregard mitigation measures and to not get vaccinated. The New York Times has a piece on this which shows that the partisan gap on this has grown substantially throughout 2021. Back in January, it was only slightly more likely that COVID deaths would affect people on the right. Both Trump voters and Biden voters were at a coronavirus death rate of about 100 in 100,000. That gap has spread and spread as the months have rolled on, with the numbers increasing much more for Trump voters, who are now at almost 300 deaths per 100,000 people as opposed to 200 for Biden voters. These numbers make sense looking at vaccination rates. Forty percent of Republican adults are not vaccinated whereas only ten percent of Democratic adults have not gotten the shots. This trend was predictable and the consequence of many conservatives in America buying into disinformation they came across online and in their peer groups about COVID-19 and the vaccines.
More on the show:
--Chilean President Sebastián Piñera has been impeached by the lower house of congress for the revelations about him in the Pandora Papers
--Despite claims about Facebook's supposed left wing bias, the top political posts on the platform are almost exclusively right wing
--Fury grows, including calls for arrest and investigation, over Republican Congressman Paul Gosar's tweet of an anime video depicting him killing Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
--The Republican civil war continues escalating as Donald Trump publishes a wild statement trashing and attacking Republican Senator Mitch McConnell
--A new grift of potentially historic proportions surfaces, led by Bari Weiss and others, called the "University of Austin"
--Newsmax reporter Emerald Robinson is permanently banned from Twitter just hours after having her temporary suspension lifted, all due to her continued spreading of vaccine disinformation
--Voicemail from a caller explaining that his mom is now completely off the deep end with right wing insanity
--On the Bonus Show: Singapore withdraws free healthcare for unvaccinated COVID patients, GE is splitting into three companies, Congress tells carmakers to stop drunk driving, much more...
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David you say your for Social Democracy but if it wasn't for Democratic Unionism there would have neither been a Social Democratic party. It's called the Labour Party in Sweden, in England, in Australia, in New zealand and elsewhere, they were originally described as Fabian Socialist which is a pretty soft form of Socialism capable of selling out the union movement they are meant to represent only when these Labour Parties are run by the rank and file are they truly a Left-Wing Party. Our famous Democratic Socialist Prime Minister Gough Whitlam is an example of this. "Socialism through Evolution not Revolution."