ORLYEP0162B - Trash Day Round Up, Nazis and Such

ORLYEP0162B - Trash Day Round Up, Nazis and Such

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #162 recorded Friday, August 18th, 2017 - where we dismantle the current events for your edutainment through mostly rational conversations that make you go ‘Oh Really’! I’m your host Andy Cowen with my usual suspects, Daniel Atherton.

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What happened this week:

1. Charlottesville, Va - White Supremacists turned out to protest the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue, and it got ugly and people died. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/charlottesville-attack-170813081045115.html

2. The President didn’t say the right thing as usual. Not condemning the white supremacists involved in Charlottesville. They took to their websites and were pleased that he embraced them and not condemn them.

3. https://www.facebook.com/travis.lazers/posts/10105887162520943

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis

5. Bannon out http://www.npr.org/2017/08/18/523778912/reports-steve-bannon-out-as-chief-white-house-strategist

6. All 16 of the prominent artists, authors, performers and architects on the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities resigned on Friday, the latest group to protest Donald J. Trump’s defense of white nationalists after the violent demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/arts/white-house-arts-committee-resigns.html

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EpicProgress.com - Damage Report February 8th, 2017

http://www.epicprogress.com/daily-trump-damage-report-282017/ 

Here is your recap of the ongoing catastrophe and biomedical waste dumpster fire that is the Trump administration.

• Trump’s nominee for Attorney General, Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions, has been confirmed. Sessions opposed civil rights, was against prosecuting lynchings, and is what you might envision an Alabama Senator to be like if you closed your eyes and imagined the worst, most stereotypical Alabama Senator.

• In opposition to naming Jeff “Ominous Banjo Music” Sessions Attorney General, Senator Elizabeth Warren wanted to read a letter from the late wife of Martin Luther King Jr. She was silenced on the floor of the Senate. She was told to keep quiet. Nevertheless, she persisted.

• Trump lashed out at a private company for deciding to drop a product based on a lack of sales. The product in question was profiting his daughter, Ivanka. He decided to use the power of his office to attack the company in the interest of the financial stakes of his daughter.

• Spicey Boy, his press goon, immediately informed us that the private company seeking to drop a product for sale that was marketed as the personal line of Trump’s daughter was, in fact, a direct attack on the President.

• Trump’s nominee for Supreme Court, Gorsuch, finds Trump’s tweets about the judicial branch to be disheartening. We agree with Mr. Gorsuch.

• Sean Spicer, Minister of Truth, makes us aware of a terrorist attack in Atlanta that never occurred and didn’t happen. Three times.

• Thanks to Trump’s Muslim Ban, a Canadian woman is turned away from the U.S. border after questioned regarding her faith. She was not permitted to enter.

• Sean Spicer, Trump’s fourth fetich soul and demigorgon of weaponized deceit, insists that critics of the Trump-ordered raid in Yemen that resulted in the death of a U.S. soldier and an 8-year old American girl should apologize.

• Trump is revealed to communicate entirely in slogans during diplomatic calls with international heads of state. Almost as if he were a baby-handed imbecile incapable of formulating rational thought and then verbalizing it.

• Evangelicals are turning on Trump with an ad buy, as the full breathtaking scope of his refugee ban becomes understood. Evangelicals are a religious sect of Christianity, a religion founded by a refugee who later became an innocent victim of capital punishment.

• Trump jokes about “destroying” a Pennsylvania State Senator.  The Pennsylvania State Senator politely responds with “Come after me, you shit-gibbon!” 

• Trump “is not bound by all the facts” according to Rick Santorum, whose name shares a fate similar to what will shortly occur with Trump’s.

• The Pope condemns Trump’s planned wall. And how he plans to pay for it.

• Meanwhile, President Steve Bannon is working behind the scenes with a virulently anti-gay cardinal to undermine the Pope.

• Melania Trump, who lives in a golden tower at taxpayer expense, has expressed through her legal team her desire to rake in millions in cash as a result of being First Lady.

ORLY-EP0142 - 2nd Week Damage Report - How Bad Could It Be?

ORLY-EP0142 - 2nd Week Damage Report - How Bad Could It Be?  

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #142 recorded Friday February 3rd, 2017 - where we dismantle the current events for your edutainment through mostly rational conversations that make you go ‘Oh Really’! I’m your host Andy Cowen, with my usual suspects, Stephen Griffith, Amber Bieseker, Fred Sims, and David O’connor.

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1. Federal judge blocked the Muslim Ban, and then enforcement continued causing a possible constitutional crisis as the Judicial and the Executive clash. - Canada says they will take those we cast aside.

2. Trump puts Bannon on security council, dropping joint chiefs. The reshuffling of the National Security Council downgrades the military chiefs and gives a regular seat to his chief strategist Steve Bannon. The director of national intelligence and the joint chiefs will attend when discussions pertain to their areas. (BBC)

3. Bannon is making sure there’s no White House paper trail. The Trump administration’s chief strategist has already taken control of both policy and process on national security. (Foreign Policy)

4. At this point Trump CNN, WaPo, and New York Times as FAKE NEWS, and urges FOX as a source. (Politico) White House ices out CNN. Trump administration refuses to put officials on air on the network the president called “fake news.” (Politico)

5. White House statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day didn’t mention Jews or anti-Semitism because “others were killed too.” (CNN)

6. Trump fires acting attorney general Sally Yates, after she defiantly refused to defend his immigration executive order. (NY Times)

7. Senate altered rules to approve Steve Mnunchin, Trump's nominee for treasury secretary, and Tom Price, the nominee for health secretary push Jeff Sessions as the Attorney General.Republicans suspend committee rules, advance Mnuchin, Price nominations after confronting a boycott from Democrats. Senate Committee rules normally require at least one Democratic senator present to have a vote. But when Democrats refused to show, the committee’s chairman suspended those rules. (CNN)

8. Trump signs executive order requiring that for every one new regulation, two must be revoked. (Politico)

9. Trump Picks Neil Gorsuch, A Scalia Clone, For The Supreme Court. Ideologically, Gorsuch would almost certainly represent a reliably conservative vote and voice. Gorsuch would be the most conservative justice save for the silent stalwart Justice Clarence Thomas and would sit somewhere just to the right of the ideological space occupied by Scalia. (FiveThirtyEight)

10. Rex Tillerson is confirmed as Secretary of State amid record opposition. The votes against Mr. Tillerson’s confirmation were the most in Senate history (NY Times)

11. Bannon thinks there will be war with China in the next few years. Comments on his radio show are re-surfacing as the “special counsellor” assumes unprecedented power in the White House. (The Independent)

12. Trump to Mexico: Take care of “bad hombres” or US might. Trump threatened in a phone call with his Mexican counterpart to send U.S. troops to stop “bad hombres down there” unless the Mexican military does more to control them itself. (Associated Press)

13. Trump badgered, bragged and abruptly ended phone call with Australian leader. Trump blasted Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over a refu­gee agreement and boasted about the magnitude of his electoral college win. Trump called it “this was the worst call by far.” (Washington Post)

14. Trump to focus counter-extremism program solely on Islam. (Reuters)

15. Trump administration “officially putting Iran on notice.” National security adviser, Michael Flynn, issued a statement in reaction to an Iranian missile test and an attack on a Saudi warship by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. “It’s either an empty threat or a clear statement of intent to go to war with Iran.” (The Guardian)

16. Trump tells Israel to hold off on building new settlements, saying new settlements “may not help” achieve Middle East peace. (NY Times)

17. Trump Putin Call - Off the record. https://twitter.com/WashingtonPoint/status/826826543779479557/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

18. Spicer falsely accuses Iran of attacking U.S. Navy vessel, calling it an act of war. National Security Adviser Michael Flynn said he was “officially putting Iran on notice” following the country’s ballistic missile test and an attack on a Saudi naval vessel – Iran did not attack a U.S. Navy vessel. (The Intercept)

19. House rolls back rule restricting gun sales to severely mentally ill. Republicans are using the Congressional Review Act to roll back all manner of regulations. Rep. Kevin Brady said the Social Security Administration “overstepped its mission.” The vote was 235-180. (CNN)

20. Trump vows to “totally destroy” law restricting political speech by tax-exempt churches, a potentially huge victory for the religious right and a gesture to his political base. Repealing the law would require approval by Congress. (NY Times)

21. Trump at national prayer breakfast: “Pray for Arnold… for those ratings”. Trump veered off script at the start of the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday when he asked a room full of lawmakers, foreign dignitaries and religious leaders to pray for Arnold Schwarzenegger so that ratings of his show – NBC’s “The Apprentice” – would go up. (CNN)

22. Schwarzenegger to Trump: “Why Don’t We Switch Jobs?” (NY Times)

23. Leaked draft of Trump’s religious freedom order reveals sweeping plans to legalize discrimination. If signed, the order would create wholesale exemptions for people and organizations who claim religious objections to same-sex marriage, premarital sex, abortion, and trans identity. (The Nation)

24. The G.O.P. campaign to repeal Obamacare hits a wall. Republicans are struggling to come up with a replacement and a key senator has declared that the effort is more a repair job than a demolition. (NY Times)

25. Why Congress just killed a rule restricting coal companies from dumping waste in streams. (Vox)

26. Kellyanne Conway cites “Bowling Green massacre” that never happened to defend travel ban. Kellyanne Conway has taken “alternative facts” to a new level. During a Thursday interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, the counselor to the president defended President Trump’s travel ban related to seven majority-Muslim countries. At one point, Conway made a reference to two Iraqi refugees whom she described as the masterminds behind “the Bowling Green massacre.” (Washington Post) (CNN)

27. Government reveals over 100,000 visas revoked due to travel ban. (Washington Post)

28. Trump will order a sweeping review of the Dodd-Frank Act rules enacted in response to the 2008 financial crisis. Trump also will halt regulations that requires advisers on retirement accounts to work in the best interests of their clients. (Bloomberg)

29. http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/02/politics/house-vote-guns-mental-illnesses/

30. Black History Month Fuckery http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/a-full-transcript-of-donald-trumps-black-history-month-1791871370

31. http://www.epicprogress.com/daily-trump-damage-report-2317/

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ORLY-EP0141A - Trump Damage Report - 2.5 Minutes to Midnight

ORLY-EP0141 - Potpourri:  2.5 Minutes to Midnight

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #141a recorded Friday January 27th, 2017 - where we dismantle the current events for your edutainment through mostly rational conversations that make you go ‘Oh Really’! I’m your host Andy Cowen, with my usual suspects, Stephen Griffith, Amber Biesecker, and Daniel Atherton.

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1. Alex Jones of InfoWars says they have received White House press credentials.

2. McConnell says Trump border wall to cost $15 billion. The cost for clean water for the entire planet, one Large Hadron Collider, the island of Jamaica, or one USS Ford Aircraft Carrier.

3. All senior State Dept officials have resigned, rather than deal with Trump. American diplomacy values are reset to 0.

4. Trump White House senior staff still have private email accounts, not that there's anything wrong with that, now.

5. Executive orders signed allowing torture again, re-opening CIA black sites, closing America to refugees fleeing the crisis in Syria.

6. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists have moved the Doomsday Clock forward 30 seconds. It is now 2.5 minutes to midnight, thanks to Trump's comments on nuclear arms build-up and use, and climate change.

7. Trump claim 3 million voted illegally, source offers no proof, says they need months to provide evidence.

8. Trump pressured national parks service for evidence about his crowd size.

9. Trump continues to use an unsecure Samsung Galaxy S3 that does not meet the security needs of an average teenager.

10. Trump's border wall is revealed to be paid for by us, reimbursed by a crippling +20% trade tax on imports from Mexico. Mexico is our 3rd largest importer, selling us cheap electrical machinery and mineral fuels which we use to make products for export.

11. Trump asserts to Hannity: Waterboarding is not torture, and it works.

12. Trump's WH Strategist, Steve Bannon, said "the media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut".

13. Trump met with UK PM Theresa May, who changed his mind on NATO, now he likes it, and waterboarding.

14. Trump's ban on immigration from predominantly Muslim countries expressly excludes all Muslim countries where Trump has business ties or investments.

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