Minyard & Minyard Do a Podcast - A View From the Left‪.‬ Ken & Rick Minyard

Ken is traveling for the next several weeks, and is sending us reports from the road.  We follow his early progress in this episode, while discussing the much anticipated start to the first of many criminal trials of Donald Trump.

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Music by David Horton

Ken and Rick have decidedly differing views on how AG Merrick Garland has handled the Trump investigation.  We debate.  We also explore how Evangelical Christians have destroyed their credibility with their slavish devotion to Trump. Lawrence O'Donnell had a monologue for the ages this past week in anticipation of the trial starting in Manhattan, while Trump's attorneys show just how competent they are.  All this and more...

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Music by David Horton

Last week, we explored the great American Tradition of Pitch Men, and made the argument that Trump is the greatest of all time.  His grift has gotten him to the highest office in the land and convinced 70 million of our fellow voters to be convinced that he's the one to save us.  Well, in this episode, we feature one more that certainly should have been included last week.  Alex Jones.  

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Dating back 200 years or more, with the 'Snake Oil Salesmen', and others hawking their wares door-to-door or at County Fairs or boardwalks, America enjoys a long tradition of pitch men.  We explore some of the best in the past 40 years or so, and ask where the line is between pitch men and grifter.  There is no doubt that there is one who stands out as the best in history.

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In a wild several days including Trump obtaining both another delay in one case, and a three week warning before a Jury is set to be seated in another...we share some of the Elon Musk interview with Don Lemon that ultimately got Lemon fired on his first day on the job at the app formerly known as Twitter.  Was it the questions about Musk's tolerance of Nazi's and white nationalists?  Or perhaps it was the challenges to Musk's assertions that the old Twitter was a bastion for leftists.  Or maybe the pressure that Lemon offered on Musk's use of Ketamine.  We discuss.

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Music by David Horton

There is no disputing that America is at a place that we've not been since the 1860's.  We really are two separate nations.  Our differences appear to be irreconcilable. Therefore, instead of taking up arms and killing our fellow citizens over politics and whether we should convert from a Democratic Republic to an Authoritarian form of government, why not negotiate a civil separation and create the Red States of America and the Blue States of America?  Each state can hold referendums on which side they'd like to align themselves with.  We can negotiate all of the various aspects of future cooperation and revenue agreements among the two new countries, elect respective head's of state, representatives and such.  Each state could enact it's own border policies, taxation policies and welfare policies.  Interstate travel would be negotiated, civil liberties would have to be agreed to in advance, but Blue States would be responsible for their affairs, and likewise for the Red States.  A joint defense pact would be negotiated as well.  This way, we can avoid the obvious bloodshed that would arise if we do it the old fashioned way.  We discuss this and much more.

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Music by David Horton