After Piling on About Biden’s Mental Acuity, the Press is Mostly Silent on Trump’s Obvious Madness
We begin with Trump’s demented rambling yesterday on the first anniversary of his second term which was followed by his incoherent, slurred and embarrassing speech today a Davos before a deathly silent audience as he railed against windmills, repeated grievances about winning the 2020 election and told the Europeans how terrible Europe is without offering evidence. Joining us to discuss why the press piled on about Biden’s mental acuity but are silent in the face of Trump’s obvious madness is David Cay Johnston, the co-founder of DCReport.org, a professor at The Rochester Institute of Technology and a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and 13 year veteran of The New York Times. He is the bestselling author of The Making of Donald Trump and his latest book is The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family.
The Country’s Closest Friend and Neighbor is Making Precautionary Military Plans Against a U.S. Invasion Ordered by Trump
Then we examine the shocking fact that this country’s closest friend and neighbor is now making precautionary military plans to defend itself against a U.S. invasion ordered by a dangerous American leader who has many times claimed Canada as his 51st state. Joining us is Christian Leuprecht, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science and Economics at the Royal Military College of Canada and Director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations at the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Military Journal and his books include Security. Cooperation. Governance: The Canada-United States Open Border Paradox and, most recently, Military Operations in Response to Domestic Operations and Global Pandemics: Implications for Civil-Military Relations.
Will the Counterculture Led By Artists Rise Again?
Finally, we speak with Jonathan Taplin, an author and director emeritus of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab who has produced music and film for Bob Dylan and the Band, George Harrison, Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Gus Van Sant and many others. He was the founder of Intertainer, the first streaming Video On Demand Platform and currently sits on the boards of The Authors Guild, Americana Music Association, and has produced 12 films including Mean Streets, The Last Waltz, Under Fire and To Die For. He is the author of Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon Have Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy, and his latest book is The End of Reality: How 4 Billionaires are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars and Crypto. We discuss his article at Rolling Stone, “Can the Counterculture Rise Again? Artists have always led resistance in America — until Trump and the technocracy took over.”