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4.8 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week the band is back together with Loren, Radha, and Erin once again all in the same time zone. They dive into Mike Pompeo's China speech, global COVID trends, and the world-famous Missile Technology Control Regime. Also, Congress approved the NDAA, and they have lots of thoughts on DHS "troops" engaging protesters in Portland. Stick around for pop-culture dissection of the Guinevere Deception!

Links

“Communist China and the Free World’s Future,” US Department of State, July 23, 2020
Thomas Wright, “Pompeo’s Surreal Speech on China,” Atlantic, July 25, 2020
Richard Haass, “What Mike Pompeo Doesn’t Understand about China, Richard Nixon and U.S. Foreign Policy,” Washington Post, July 25, 2020
“The Missile Technology Control Regime at a Glance,” Arms Control Association, July 2017
Aaron Mehta and Valerie Insinna, “Trump Admin Officially Makes It Easier to Export Military Drones,” Defense One, July 25, 2020
Amanda Macias, “Trump Allows Defense Contractors to Sell More Armed Droned to Foreign Militaries,” CNBC, July 24, 2020
Rachel S. Cohen, “House, Senate Approve Defense Authorization Bills,” Air Force Magazine, July 23, 2020
Connor O’Brien, “Senate Clears Bill Removing Confederate Names from Military Bases, Setting Up Clash with Trump,” Politico, July 23, 2020
Jacob Nagel and Mark Dubowitz, “With a Potential Iran-China Deal, Time for Israel to Reassess its Policy,” Newsweek, July 26, 2020
Philip H. Gordon, “Has Trump Driven China and Iran Together?” War on the Rocks, July 21, 2020
Pablo Gutierrez and Sean Clarke, “Coronavirus World Map: Which Countries Have the Most Covid-19 Cases and Deaths?” Guardian, July 28, 2020
Pablo Gutierrez and Ashley Kirk, “Revealed: Data Shows 10 Countries Risking Coronavirus Second Wave as Lockdown Relaxed,” Guardian, June 25, 2020
“Global Coronavirus Cases Surge, Stinging Even Places That Seemed to Have Control,” New York Times, July 23, 2020

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson.
0:12.0	I'm Lauren DeYoung-Sholman. And I'm Roda Ayangar. And we are all back. Not only are we all back on bombshell, we are all back on the Eastern time zone, which is really exciting.
0:23.9	Before we, we're going to give you guys a little bit of a summer update, but before we start, ladies, what are we drinking?
0:30.8	I'm drinking yesterday's coffee, but iced.
0:35.6	It's iced. It's iced, and you do this this now too. I don't do it with yesterday's
0:39.2	coffee. Okay, fair. Yesterday's coffee but ice and then I added some frangelico to it. So it's quite
0:44.5	tasty. I was drinking today's but morning coffee so many hours old. But then I proceeded to spill it
0:51.0	all over everything, including my notes. So I decided to solve the problem of that by switching to a nice sparkling rosette.
0:57.3	Very nice.
0:58.0	That sounds perfection.
0:59.4	I had my coffee a little bit earlier, and I've been trying.
1:03.2	We'll get to this, but I can't have too much coffee in the morning because I have too
1:06.4	much asthma medicine in the morning.
1:08.2	And so that combination is problematic.
1:10.7	So I've now switched to
1:12.3	just a small amount of gin with some Passion Fruit Lacroix, which really is my favorite
1:18.4	mixer at the moment. I will say, so I bought this rosé that I thought was terrible called
1:24.5	Lilette, which it turns out is actually a fancy French rosé
1:28.6	apartice, which is terrible if you drink it straight. But if you mix it with either passion
1:34.2	fruit or grapefruit, La Croy, and a little bit of lime and some berries is fantastic. And I highly
1:38.8	recommend. Well, aren't we all just living our best lives at the moment? So, so it's been, I think, Rada, you and I have both, well, I've missed two episodes.
1:49.6	I haven't been around for a little while.
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