Seriously, if you didn't catch Rachel's show last night, you really need to. Here's the podcast.

[Squinch]

We have never been in this much danger as a country before. Here at DU, we MUST stop our troll-incited internecine battles and fight the forces that are trying to take the whole country down.


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1. elections now are about democracy vs. autocracy

the old line about no difference between the parties most definitely doesn't apply these days!

[Squinch]

3. Exactly. This misinformation campaign is terrifying.

[brush]

24. Yep. It's more and more apparent that trump is a Russian asset...

whose administration is purposely dispersing misinformation to hide their Russian ties.

With this evidence Rachel exposed that they are doing openly, the validity of the November election outcome is in definite peril.

They think they can get away with this stuff.

My fingers are crossed though that our system (with the few watchdog media members, Mueller and select, outspoken Dems like Waters and Shiff) will prevail and bring this traitor down.

[triron]

20. Trouble is elections will be corrupted.

[unblock]

22. Already are. But that is what is at stake

[betsuni]

2. Thank you!

[Squinch]

4. My plan, going forward, is that whenever I see one of these threads aimed at dividing us, I'll

post them this podcast and remind them that we have bigger fish to fry.

[Kurt V.]

18. +1

[Sophia4]

28. Good idea!

[Hortensis]

33. Yes. There are also plenty of other right-wing evils to

try to wake up people to the enormous threat from the right. Can't expand Medicare if some key component has been declared unconstitutional by our newly packed extreme-right SCOTUS, after all.

And, of course, updates on this vicious right-wing atrocity are a moral duty:

463 Migrant Parents May Have Been Deported Without Their Kids



http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/463-migrant-parents-may-have-been-deported-without-kids.html

[dalton99a]

5. This is an important episode.

[Mrs. Overall]

6. This was an excellent show. Please listen to it.

[Johnny2X2X]

7. It's an uphill battle

To spread facts takes time and research, and it's less eye catching because it's boring.

The other side simply repeats a lie or blurts out one, and their goal isn't necessarily to win the argument, most of the time they just want to muddy the waters.

The end result is horrifying and we're way way past the point of danger. This ends in genocide, that's what's on the line here. Nuclear holocaust is not off the table either.

[Squinch]

13. Its heading in that direction, certainly.

[lunatica]

31. Whether we believe it's that imminent or not

We must never shut our minds to the possibility that genocide is possible. It CAN happen here. It happened to the Native Americans. Slavery was a fact in this country. Putting the Japanese in internment camps was a fact. We must never forget these things or we’ll repeat them.

[Johnny2X2X]

35. Immigrants

They are holding immigrants in secret prisons right now. Many of these holding facilities have not been able to be visited even by members of Congress.

Remember this, they will find mass graves. History is a guide and whenever in history a group is held in secret as the leader of the power that is holding them calls them things like animals and an infestation, mass killings have occurred. Trump green lighted any and all abuses his guards can commit when he dehumanized them. This will not occur at some point in the future, this has already occurred and is likely still occurring on some small scale at least. They are holding thousands of human beings in secret, it's a fact that many hundreds of them can no longer be accounted for, where did they go?

[Squinch]

41. Immigrant CHILDREN. My heart breaks every time I think of it.

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. Bookmarking

[uponit7771]

9. The bit about the general is a cliffhanger & alarming

[chillfactor]

10. Thank you for posting.....

I usually am a faithful watcher of Rachel's program but I was not feeling very good last night so I was in bed early and missed her program...what a night to go to bed early. So, thank you again for posting this so I could catch up on her program.

[Squinch]

12. I can't watch at night. It winds me up too much. So I watched this morning.

One unthinkable crisis after another.

[barbtries]

11. i'm not surprised

but i can still be shocked and often am shocked at the depths of republicans. feckless traitorous motherfuckers should be prosecuted, impeached, imprisoned, disgraced, exiled, impoverished, tarred and feathered. enemies of democracy and they have almost all the power

[wiggs]

14. Going to come down to numbers. Clearly, his base counts lying and revisionist

history and fake numbers and 'alternative facts' as winning. Shooting someone on the streets of new york is winning.

Are there enough people who identify with this kind of 'winning' to keep him and GOP afloat? There was in 2016. Pointing out how radical it is to modify official transcripts may rally the dem base and win independents, which is good, but is it enough?

What actually counts with his base is showing how much of a loser he actually is:

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/historian-explains-donald-trump-worst-things-american-history-piled-together

[Squinch]

15. And, sadly, we have to win by a margin that can't be reversed

by a few thousand flipped votes in each state.

[brush]

26. And sadly we have to deal with people allegedly on our side...

constantly attacking the Democratic Party and primarying Democratic incumbents when the specter of a Russian takeover is staring us in the face if we don't stick together and go all in for party unity with our votes.

There's a much bigger picture than trying to swap out a sitting Democrat winner for another Democrat, or Democratic Socialist who has yet proven him or herself able to win a general election.

[murielm99]

30. I'm glad you said that. n/t

[Guilded Lilly]

16. Being informed can be painful and frightening and most certainly...

Send the blood pressure to a scary high.
Rachel is the voice that informs, questions and warns. Will it be enough to sway the Stupid, ever?
I doubt it. They will eternally remain the intellectual dregs of humanity.

I cherish her, respect her and am in awe of her intelligence ...and am also sickeningly scared at what she dedicatedly informs us could so easily go down for our country if enough of us don’t use/keep our one weapon, our vote, in numbers too huge to hack or manipulate.

Saving this link for repeated sharing!

[dchill]

17. K&R.

[triron]

19. Yep.

[iluvtennis]

21. Orwell's 1984 is here under Trump....

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command

He's telling the American ppl not to believe what their eyes and ears heard during the Helsinki summit and now the White House has altered their version of the factual video to suit their narrative. Talk about propaganda.

[Squinch]

23. He's even quoting that, almost verbatim.

[iluvtennis]

25. Yep, how sick is that. Praying this country survives this shitshow.

[Achilleaze]

27. k and r

[Gothmog]

29. Rachel did a good job last night

[Martin Eden]

32. Bookmarked for later

Thanks.

[usaf-vet]

34. Ok I know I'm not going to make DU friends with this post.....

But I can't listen to her podcast anymore.

She appears to like to hear herself talk. Last night with her three "SPECIAL" guest she spent more time talking than any single guest. Stuck at the end of the the show after telling us she was doing something different tonight.

At least 3 if not 4 times she named the guests. All potentially valuable airtime repeating names.

And one final annoyance for me what is with the school girl giggle. NOTHING is funny about the state of our democracy.

I now wait to hear Lawrence O'Donald's show "The Last Word" as he always follows up on her topic for the night.

IMO she used to have a great informative show. It seems to be less and less so as time goes on.

[bettyellen]

37. She hates the panel format, so got hung up explaining why she assembled one for this show

It’s almost taboo for her, the only other time I saw that was the kids from The Florida high school massacre- and again she said it was a huge exception for her. I agree with her that most shows suck because of their reliance on panels. But I loved the show, her questions were incisive and there was a lot of context and detail I’d not seen anywhere else.

[Squinch]

38. Kay.

[lunatica]

39. She's become one of the most reliable

shows there are. The measurement I use is the facts. I absolutely believe her when she says something. Very few political news shows do that but a few on MSNBC do and hers is among them.

And you don’t like her because you say she giggles? Well OK then!

[oasis]

36. Kick for max exposure. This is too important to miss. nt

[smirkymonkey]

40. Bookmarking for later viewing.

Thank you!