Crowned Turd Trump
I'm rushing to get this posted before the program starts to air. We talked about Donnie Bonespur
Trump's terrible actions of this past week. The worst part is that he des not really know what the hell he's doing. This does not at all excuse his stupid, counter-productive and sometimes murderous behavior. We have more to post up here so it should be worth it to check back later on to see what updates we've done.
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Donnie Bonespur
Trump has announced that he's cut off trade negotiations with Canada that were supposed to be about the very high tariffs trump has unilaterally imposed on steel, car parts and a bunch of other exports from the country. The reason? Bonespur
is having a hissy fit because the province of Ontario has put out an ad that has former Republican President Ronald Reagan making negative comments about tariffs.
Trump wrote on his social media platform, tariffs are very important to the national security, and economy, of the U.S.A.,
and that, Based on their egregious behavior, all trade negotiations with Canada are hereby terminated.
Trump has imposed a 35% tariff on many of the imports from Canada. The ad began airing in the United States last week during a Toronto Blue Jays baseball game against the Seattle Mariners, and the same ad is scheduled to continue to air over the next two weeks.
Trump called the ad fake and said that it had been placed, To interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court,
because the Supreme Court is considering a legal challenge to Trump's tariffs, which may or may not even be legal.
The Reagan speech is from 1987, when Congress had been considering additional tariffs on Japanese goods. Reagan says in his speech that, When someone says,
Reagan's speech said tariffs cause economic damage and, Let's impose tariffs on foreign imports,
it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products,Markets shrink and collapse,
Reagan also says in the ad that, industries shut down and millions of people lose their jobs.
Reagan said this although he had just levied tariffs on Japanese goods.
So Trump says that the ad taken out by the premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, is a terrible thing to do but it's perfectly all right for him and his whole administration to repeatedly say that Canada has to become the 51st State! Trump simply doesn't understand the idea that not everyone is going to just knuckle under to his bullying. Canada is neither Paramount nor CBS!
From what I've read it seems that Trump got a bug up his ample posterior after the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute said in a statement posted on social media that, The ad misrepresents the Presidential Radio Address,
and that the Ontario ad had used selective
audio and video from Reagan's address. What are they supposed to do, air Reagan's entire speech?
So something that should have been shrugged off is now going to cause more serious problems. And the idea that the Supreme Court, two-thirds of which is in thrall to Trump, is going to be swayed by an ad played during a baseball game shows how deranged Trump really is these days.
Trump does not understand the idea of international relations, not does he understand about allies. He is damaging America a lot more than any foreign enemy has in the past century.
Trump has now blown up 10 boats and killed around 43 people on the high seas.
The USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group have been ordered to deploy to the U.S. Southern Command region to Bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States,
Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said on social media.
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There are a lot of issues that are considered hazardous to talk about on the air at WBAI, even though the gag rule was lifted in 2002. However, there is the Internet! There are mailing lists which you can subscribe to and Web based message boards devoted to WBAI and Pacifica issues. Many controversial WBAI/Pacifica issues are discussed on these lists.
One open list that no longer exists was the WBAI-specific Goodlight
Web based message board. It was sometimes referred to on Back of the Book as the bleepin' blue board,
owing to the blue background that was used on its Web pages. This one had many people posting anonymously and there was also an ancillary WBAI people
board that was just totally out of hand.
In June 2012, I ended up having to salvage the bleepin' blue board, and so I was the moderator on it for its last seven years, until it got too expensive.
Sometimes we used to have live interaction with people posting on the Goodlight Board
during the program.
Our very own Uncle Sidney Smith, whose program Saturday Morning With the Radio On used to alternate with us, has a blog these days. You can reach his blog here.
There used to be a number of mailing lists related to Pacifica and WBAI. Unfortunately, they were all located on Yahoo! Groups. When Yahoo! Groups was totally shut down in December 2020, all of those mailing lists ceased to exist. One year earlier their file sections and archives of E-mails, had been excised leaving only the ability to send E-mails back and forth among the members. Now it's all gone. Older Back of the Book program Web pages tell a little more about those lists.
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