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The Politics Bar After Hours - Sausage Making
No ICE without water | No money for TSA | No more QR codes (eventually)
PLUS: Why is Donald Trump averse to listening to his experts when it comes to Iran?
Social Circle city officials closed off and locked the newly-purchased DHS warehouse utility box – meaning “no water for ICE,” and no access to sewer services, either. [RELATED: Quinnipiac poll: 64% want path to legal status for most undocumented immigrants]
Georgia seems to be primed to move back to using hand-marked paper ballots … by 2028. All this overhauling over one man who couldn’t accept the result of one election and none of the others before, that same day, or since. Insane, but at least they’re not racing to upend local and state elections’ offices before November.
Today I provided another reminder that the “Biden-flation” the right keeps pointing back to while shrugging off “affordability” concerns was sparked by a Trump-negotiated deal with OPEC to throttle back oil production for two years.
The notable eight-year gap between Trump 1.0 ignoring his secretary of state – who told Congress Iran was ‘fundamentally in compliance’ with the JCPOA negotiated by President Obama and Iran – and Trump 2.0 ignoring his director of the National Counterterrorism Center has us where we are now: spending $1 billion a day in a war-like “excursion” with Iran that’s also spiking oil and gas prices globally – while simultaenously making us less energy independent in shuttering coastal wind farms for no good reason. Also, while Trump boasts he knew the Strait of Hormuz would be choked off, he apparently never planned for it.
If you haven’t heard much about the plight of Rodney Taylor, my last two segments today will infuriate you. Arrested about fourteen months ago for a crime he’d been pardoned for more than fifteen YEARS ago, Taylor is set to be deported back to Liberia. He came here at age 2 with a medical visa to help his parents provide for him the opportunity overcome being a double amputee. Oh, the pardon? DHS simply chooses not to recognize it, plus he’s a man of color so “off he goes!” While detained, he’s literally dragging himself through excrement to get a shower (when he even can) and relying on other prisoners for food the days he can’t get to the cafeteria to eat. It’s disgusting.
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Jody Hamilton and Shawn "Smith" Peirce are the proprietors of The Politics Bar, a progressive audio show that recreates the spirit of the old neighborhood bar where friends could discuss the news of the day without starting a brawl. Jody is an Emmy-nominated, award-winning media producer, actress, and radio host—daughter of TV producer Joe Hamilton and comedy legend Carol Burnett—who's made her own mark in media through "The Carol Burnett: Show Stoppers," "The Porkchop Playhouse," "From The Bunker" podcast, and her work as executive producer and fill-in host of "The Stephanie Miller Show". Shawn is a long-time national media producer and radio talent who's one of the few producers in U.S. political media to have worked on the left, right, and center, including more than a decade with "The Randi Rhodes Show" and stints producing "The Stephanie Miller Show," "The Bill Press Show," "The Laura Ingraham Radio Show," and "The Steele & Ungar Show" for SiriusXM. The show airs weeknights on progressive radio affiliates nationwide and is available on-demand through podcast platforms and Substack subscription.
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