J. McVay and Joe Virgillito discuss the final days of the campaign between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, including the following events that have happened since they spoke last month… 1) Senator JD Vance and Governor Tim Walz, the Republican and Democratic nominees for Vice President, debated in New York, hosted by CBS. 2) Both the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post withheld endorsements for Kamala Harris at the direction of their billionaire owners. 3) John Kelly, the longest serving White House Chief of Staff during Trump’s term in office, said in an interview that he believes that his former boss is indeed a fascist; this came apparently in response to Trump saying he would be willing to use active-duty military personnel against American citizens and also came after it was reported by Bob Woodward that General Mark Milley, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Trump, had called the former president “fascist to the core” and “the most dangerous person to this country.” 4) Former President Donald Trump held a rally at Madison Square Garden that many compared with a 1939 rally of American Nazis at the same venue. 5) Vice President Kamala Harris held a rally on the ellipse in Washington DC, the same spot where Trump urged his followers on January 6th, 2021, to march on the US Capitol – of course ultimately resulting in an insurrection and attempt to overthrow the 2020 election.

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Episode Credits:

Producer/Host - J. McVay

Guests - Joe Virgillito

Music - Hansdale Hsu

Produced by Stereoactive Media

Okay, so here I am again with a reminder about a simple truth about Donald Trump that, if the world were a rational place, would easily disqualify him from public life and public office. I’m mainly doing this as a means to maintain my own sanity in the run up to election day because considering how terrible a person Trump is, it’s ludicrous that the election is so close. He truly doesn’t deserve to have a platform for anything in public life and should not be close to the White House again… and he never should have been able to reach the office the first time around.

Somehow, though, here we are. Again.

And what I’m going to talk about in this episode could probably be considered the original sin of Trump – the thing that should have kept him out of public life before we had to ever suffer through all the other sins.

So, here’s just another reminder of one thing that should disqualify Donald Trump from being President: The man is a bigot.

I mean, seriously. What the hell? He started his career discriminating against black folks who wanted to live in the buildings owned by his family. Famously, the Nixon administration sued his family’s company over it. How racist do you have to be for Nixon, of all people, to come after you for discrimination. So that’s example one.

Example two, and I’m skipping ahead now, is his treatment of the so-called Central Park 5. These were children who were swept up by New York City police for supposedly attacking a jogger in Central Park in 1989. And those kids were the targets of racism from all sides. The NYPD essentially pinned the attack on them because of the color of their skin and little else. And that was good enough for Trump. He took out a full page ad in the NY Times calling for the death penalty to be brought back in New York so that these kids could be put to death. Over the years it became clear that they were innocent and police had coerced confessions out of them. As a result, all five were eventually released from prison and exonerated. But Trump still apparently thinks they’re guilty and they’ve even sued him for defamation in recent days because of comments he’s recently made to that effect.

Then of course, there’s Trump’s inane quest to prove that the first Black president of the United States wasn’t born here and therefore was illegitimate. Despite all his PT Barnum bluster about bombshell evidence that he was always on the verge of being able to share with the world, the evidence never came. And it never came due to a simple truth: it was complete and utter bulls**t. Barack Obama was born in the United States. But as has become abundantly clear through the years, if you’re not a rich, white, straight, cis man, Donald Trump just thinks you’re worth less and worthy of his scorn.

Then, of course, he launched his first presidential campaign with a thick dose of prejudice against Mexicans and went on, after taking office, to try and block people from Muslim-majority countries from entering the US. Fast forward to the COVID-19 pandemic, and he tried his damnedest to blame it on the Chinese. Oh, and let’s not forget the supposed horde of invading brown people he’d warn everyone about every time there was an election. Now, in recent weeks, he’s been demonizing trans people as yet another one of his many bigoted get-out-the-vote schemes. Plus, for all his supposed love of Jewish folks, you don’t have to dig very deep to connect how he talks about them to antisemitic tropes and conspiracies.

And here’s some late-breaking, wholly unsurprising news: The preferred candidate of David Duke and plenty of other American Nazis has, according to his former chief of staff, expressed admiration for Adolph Hitler and his generals.

So, yeah, these are pretty much the greatest hits of Trump’s prejudices… Suffice it to say, though, that you could devote a long-running weekly podcast to dissecting all the ways in which he’s a racist and a bigot. In a sane world, this would disqualify him from the presidency.

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Episode Credits:

Producer/Host - J. McVay

Music - Man In Gray, The Unsacred Hearts

Produced by Stereoactive Media