#1444 The Ongoing Coup and Other Ways to Destroy Democracy
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 26 September 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Air Date 9/25/2021
Today we take a look at the continuing efforts of Trump and his supporters to subvert and ultimately destroy democracy through conspiracy theories, gerrymandering and harassment campaigns
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SHOW NOTES
Donald Trump sends a delusional letter to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger requesting Trump be declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election in the state
Analysis of the CA recall as a giant waste of time and money
Ch. 3: Agents of White Supremacy - In The Thick - Air Date 9-17-21
Nathalie Baptiste writes about the flaws of California’s recall election process in this piece for Mother Jones.
Tonight's guests are Charles Stewart III, professor of political science at M.I.T.; and Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University.
Sam Seder discusses gerrymandering with David Daley.
Mary Trump explains why so many Americans are still in deep denial about Donald Trump’s enduring power and his ability to cause destruction and other harm to American society and the world.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Ch. 7: Redistricting Battle Heats Up Across the U.S. - The Takeaway - Air Date 9-21-21
Ari Berman, senior reporter at Mother Jones, joined The Takeaway to talk redistricting and gerrymandering around the country, as well as the districts and states to watch in the coming months.
Ch. 8: How Will the Ongoing Trump Coup End - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 8-5-21
Trump's slow coup is setting off a nuclear bomb at the heart of our Republic, but the scariest part no one knows if Democracy will survive?
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 9: Safe, legal, and rare bullshit - Alyson from Boulder, CO
Ch. 10: 9/11 and inevitable slide/leap into wars - Maureen from Boston
Ch. 11: The war prayer - Maureen from Boston
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments on how to avoid conspiratorial thinking
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.1 | take a look at the continuing efforts of Trump and his supporters to subvert and ultimately |
| 0:12.1 | destroy democracy through conspiracy theories, gerrymandering and harassment campaigns. |
| 0:18.4 | Clicks today are from the David Pakman show, the Bradcast, In The Thick, The Majority Report, |
| 0:24.3 | Rachel Maddo show, The Chancy De Vega show, The Takeaway and The Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:36.2 | Okay, if you want to get a sense of how long this election fraud stuff is going to be going |
| 0:40.2 | on, Donald Trump just sent a letter to the Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffinsberger, |
| 0:46.9 | demanding that he be declared the winner of Georgia. Trump demanding that Trump be declared |
| 0:52.1 | the winner of Georgia. Don't check your calendar. This isn't a repeat. It really is mid-September |
| 0:56.6 | of 2021. It's not November of 2020. It's not December of 2020. It's, it's almost October |
| 1:03.6 | of 2021. And Donald Trump is demanding that he be given the state of Georgia in the November |
| 1:09.1 | of 2020 election. Donald Trump sent this letter on Friday. I fully expected when I saw |
| 1:13.8 | this headline. I thought this must be from months ago. It must have just resurfaced like |
| 1:18.7 | it can't be from now. But indeed it is. The letter is dated September 17, 2021. The letter |
| 1:26.2 | says, Dear Secretary Raffinsberger, large scale voter fraud, cap random capitalization. |
| 1:34.6 | I still don't understand it. His followers do it too. Large scale voter fraud continues |
| 1:40.2 | to be reported in Georgia enclosed is a report of 43,000 absentee ballot votes counted. |
| 1:47.2 | Now the count counted is capitalized, guys. The counting is so important that he's put |
| 1:52.0 | a capital C on it in the middle of a sentence absentee ballots of ballot votes counted in |
| 1:56.4 | decalb county that violated the chain of custody rules, making them invalid. I would respectfully |
| 2:02.4 | request that your department check this. And if true, along with many other claims of |
| 2:06.0 | voter fraud and voter irregularities, start the process of desertifying the election or |
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