Wednesday 1 November '17 show notes

Nov. 2, 2017 8:32 am

By SueN

Donald Trump Jr. - The Rich Are the Ones Taking Half Our Candy...Not Socialism!
Marshall Curry, A Night At the Garden: How Seductive Fascism Is...the Scariest Film You Can See Right Now
When Did Fox-So-Called-News Take Over Trump's Brain? And, Start Setting Policy for the US?

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How Reaganomics Are Turning America into a Third World Country

The Republican tax plan costs five trillion dollars which is not paid for and will not create jobs or do anything to stimulate the economy.

The whole spectrum from Bernie on the far left of the Democratic Party to Debbie Stabenow sort of in the middle of the Democratic Party to Chuck Schumer and the leadership of the Democratic Party, they have all been seriously out there talking about it.

America is becoming a third-world country.

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Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Donald Trump Jr. - The Rich Are the Ones Taking Half Our Candy...Not Socialism!

Tweet: "Ken Burns told me Robert E Lee killed more Americans than Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Ho Chi Minh, Saddam Hussein & Osama bin Laden combined." by Joe Scarborough.

Tweet: "I’m going to take half of Chloe’s candy tonight & give it to some kid who sat at home. It’s never to early to teach her about socialism." by Donald Trump Jr.

Article: "Donald Trump Jr schooled on Twitter after Halloween 'socialism' tweet" by Martin Belam.

Article: "Trump's politicised reaction to New York attack a far cry from Las Vegas shooting" by David Smith.

Article: "Trump and the Fox & Friends show. Think ego, not news" by Adam Gabbatt.

Quote: "Well that appears to me to be a kind of socialism for the rich and rugged hard individualistic capitalism for the poor." - Martin Luther King Jr.

Quote: "One America is flowing with the milk of prosperity and the honey of equality. That America is the habitat of millions of people who have food and material necessities for their bodies, culture and education for their minds, freedom and human dignity for their spirits" - Martin Luther King Jr.

Site: AmericanRevolution.ORG.

Article: "Trump on terrorism: White man with gun? Thoughts and prayers. Muslim with a truck? This is war!" by Laura Clawson.

Article: "Is diversity visa program a 'Schumer beauty,' as Donald Trump says?" by Louis Jacobson, Miriam Valverde.

Article: "Chuck Schumer responds, demands Trump rescind cuts to anti-terrorism funding" by Anna Giaritelli.

Article: "What to look for as 'Obamacare' 2018 enrolment opens" by Tom Murphy.

Site: HealthCare.gov.

Article: "Trump attacks Schumer over diversity visa program that exists because of Republicans" by Joan McCarter.

Article: "Las Vegas Shooting Victims Are Turning To GoFundMe For Help With Medical Bills" by Anna Almendrala.

Article: "Trump lies on Twitter about terrorist attack. Sen. Flake calls out the lie and defends Sen. Schumer" by First Amendment.

Article: "The Poor Pay a Higher Percentage of Income in Taxes" by Elaine S. Povich.

Article: "Baseball (TV series)" by Ken Burns.

Article: "How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history" by Coleman Lowndes.

Tweet: "Last night, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said that the Civil War was a product of our failure to "compromise" and praised Robert E. Lee. It was straight Lost Cause-ism, no chaser. He should watch this video. Everyone should." by Ezra Klein.

Tweet: "Republicans cancel Hearing where Brock Long FEMA Dir and myself where to testify on FEMA’s readiness in PR. What are they afraid of?" (video) by Carmen Yulín Cruz.

Article: "Kelly: 'Lack of an ability to compromise' led to Civil War" by Sophie Tatum.

Article: "GOP Senators Pour Cold Water On Bannon Push To Defund Mueller Probe" by Alice Ollstein.

Article: "Nuclear-capable B-2 bomber flies sortie over Asia days before Trump trip".

Article: "Russian Fighter Jets Intercepted Near US Warship in Sea of Japan" by Colin Fredericson.

Hour Two: How Seductive Fascism Is...the Scariest Film You Can See Right Now

- Marshall Curry, A Night At the Garden

Article: "Night of the Long Knives" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Charles Coughlin" (Father Coughlin) by Wikipedia.

Article: "H.R.2997 - 21st Century AIRR Act" by Rep. Shuster, Bill [R-PA-9].

Article: "Senate Environment Committee Approves Toxic EPA Nominee In Party-line Vote" by Sharon Lerner.

Article: "Trump Considers Guantanamo for Suspect in New York Terror Attack" by Jennifer Epstein.

Article: "White House facing scrutiny for Russia sanctions delay" by Kevin Liptak, Ted Barrett and Sara Murray.

Tweet: "In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Trump's environmental chief to increase security detail spending to $2m after unprecedented death threats" by Mythili Sampathkumar.

Article: "Report: Interior Secretary Zinke Has A Flag Raised When He’s At HQ" by Matt Shuham.

Book: Deep Denial by David Billings.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief

Article: "Driver kills eight cyclists and pedestrians on NYC bike path in terror attack" by Regina Holmes.

Article: "Terrorist Suspect Sayfullo Saipov Made ‘dry Runs’ Days Before New York Attack, Reports Say" by Greg Price.

Article: "Poll: Pence more popular with Hoosiers as VP than as governor — and more popular than Trump" by Tony Cook.

Article: "Arctic refuge oil bonanza may be more likely to be bust for GOP budget" by Jennifer A. Dlouhy and Alex Nussbaum.

Article: "Top Trump Campaign Aide Clovis Spoke to Mueller Team, Grand Jury" by Ken Dilanian, Mike Memoli.

Article: "Bipartisan Ryan-Murray bill provides evidence-based policy roadmap for agencies" by Jory Heckman.

Article: "Climate Battlefront Comes To New Mexico Schools" by H. Sterling Burnett.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.

Hour Three: When Did Fox-So-Called-News Take Over Trump's Brain? And, Start Setting Policy for the US?

Article: "Trump’s beloved alma mater eviscerates his tax plan" by Rebekah Entralgo.

Video: Jimmy Carter: Ted Kennedy Blocked Health Care Reform.

Article: "Nevada GOP Is Trying To Use Recalls To Overturn Last Year’s Election Results" by
Sam Levine.

Event: Nov. 2, 2017 Vancouver, BC: "A Celebration of Science & Reason".

Article: "Papadopoulos' guilty plea visualized: From Russian contact to arrest" by Marshall Cohen and Sam Petulla.

Article: "Marco Rubio Quietly Undermines Affordable Care Act" by Robert Pear.

Article: "EPA bans research grant recipients from advising agency on science" by Scott K. Johnson.

Book: "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate" by Naomi Klein.

Book: "Threshold: The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink" by Thom Hartmann

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