Ep 904: President Soft Taco
This week, we take you back to the "Before Time" - specifically 2011 - to trace the toxic road that led us to where we are today. We revisit the birther movement, explore how "Conservatism cannot fail; conservatism can only be failed" evolved into "Trump cannot fail; Trump can only be failed," and examine what happens when an entire political movement becomes nothing more than loyalty to one man.
We discuss the courts blocking Trump's tariffs (and then unblocking them), judges using 26 exclamation points to strike down executive orders, Harvard losing a quarter of its student body overnight, and the president's ongoing extortion and bribery schemes - from CBS settlements to Mar-a-Lago pardon purchases.
Plus, we cover Chris Cillizza's traumatic encounter with a mean note on his Tesla, Trump's potential pardons for would-be kidnappers, and why the meatheads will always find someone else to blame when their dear leader inevitably fails them.
It's another episode in which we boldly venture into a place where others fear to tread—recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance.
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3 comments:
It was hilarious to listen to Kinzinger yuk it up over voting to repeal Obama care, and leading the tea party towards magaville .
God damn it, this is the third try at this. It is true that the jobs we are currently interviewing candidates for have changed since we last interviewed for them. I can almost hear the whining now: "President (candidate we managed to get elected against all odds) is betraying my interests and is just as bad as that soft taco guy."
We have a lot on our plates just now, and I don't see any expectations adjustment programs happening any time soon.
I am unsurprised at the allegations of drug use by Elon Musk (or Fergus, for that matter).
My brother was a biker, and I have spent most of my life around heavy drug users (I can't blame that all on my brother, but his being ten years older than me brought it around sooner than it otherwise would have arrived).
I quit using drugs when I moved to Oakland for various reasons that made a lot of sense at the time, and I remember how obvious to me it was which of my new coworkers were using the drugs that I was foregoing at the time. Which made me think of a story my mother told me while we were having a conversation about drugs and my brother when I was a teenager: "Oh yeah, he was using hard drugs. I even know where he was getting them. Maybe I should tell you about a game the other secretary at the law office and I used to play: when a new client would come in, we would write on a post-it note what drugs we thought they were on. We stopped playing that game after a few months because neither of us had been wrong even once."
Exper fucking tise.
Thank you again for the podcast. Should you find yourself in need of a mood lift, let me recommend any of the videos from Henry Rollins' show Keep Talking Pal. The one about meeting David Bowie seems right up your alley and all of them are reminders of how political the Punk Rock scene was.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
The photo with Bumpy in a dress titled, "TACO
Belle" has become a fan favorite.
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