Episode 10- Cork Barrel Legislation

Donald Trump Jr. ruined all of our appetites by posting a picture of himself with an eerie melted candle named Ted Cruz and a distorted Obama cookie. His failson counterpart Wyatt Koch also took to Instagram to discuss what it means to be bold, and to inflict his tacky clothing line on all of us. Sorry folks, but we’re talking politics today. Doug Jones and Ralph Northam revealed themselves to be sniveling swine, selling out their voter bases seemingly overnight. We’ll talk about the failures of the centrist Democrat and rip on a truly heinous article written by Bill Scher on that topic. Lastly, Bob corker stole over a million dollars from taxpayers for his pass through companies. Our prayers go out to him and his family. In the pop culture corner we’re talking Star Wars, again, just like everybody else. But we will keep it funky and pick apart the overt #resistance allegory in the LAST JEDI. Spoilers may be dropped, but they will be funny, so listen anyway if you haven’t seen the film and you aren’t rabidly avoiding plot points a week after the film came out. In the same vein as star wars’s evil First Order, our story this week focuses on totalitarian evil. Sam will tell you all about how his first visit to the seat of US imperial power, the WHITE HOUSE, ended up in a life lesson about the state’s love of the use of force. Show Notes: Trump Jr. cookie photo http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/365551-restaurant-owner-rips-trump-jr-over-obama-cookie Wyatt Koch https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/ridiculous-video-emerges-of-wealthy-koch-heir-and-the-internet-is-dying-of-laughter/ Link to Chappaquiddick movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5270948/ David Roth’s tweet about Wyatt Koch https://twitter.com/david_j_roth/status/943349982006038530 Felix Biederman Chuck Schumer https://twitter.com/ByYourLogic/status/943362866677256195 SLIM 1-VOTE DEMOCRAT LEAD IN VIRGINIA’S HOUSE (AKA “WE DID IT”) https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/democrat-wins-va-house-seat-in-recount-by-single-vote-creating-50-50-tie-in-legislature/2017/12/19/3ff227ae-e43e-11e7-ab50-621fe0588340_story.html?utm_term=.bc2a0c20dd35 RALPH NORTHAM LOVES BIPARTISANSHIP https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/gov-elect-northam-rode-a-democratic-wave-but-now-hes-preaching-bipartisanship/2017/12/16/689e1074-e1b3-11e7-8679-a9728984779c_story.html?utm_term=.be61dc416b56 https://www.thenation.com/article/will-ralph-northam-break-his-campaign-pledge-to-expand-medicaid/ DOUG JONES THINKS TAX BILL IS OK AND TRUMP SHOULDN’T BE PUNISHED https://rewire.news/article/2017/12/20/long-take-southern-white-democrat-elected-black-voters-shift-right-less-week/ PATHETIC OP ED DEFENDING BORING CANDIDATES LIKE DOUG JONES https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/20/how-to-beat-trump-2020-elections-generic-democrat-216121 BOB CORKER AND THE TAX BILL https://splinternews.com/corker-insists-he-knew-nothing-about-the-tax-bill-provi-1821450884 http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/15/politics/bob-corker-donald-trump-timeline-relationship/index.html ALIENS https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/18/insider/secret-pentagon-ufo-program.html SAM’S LAST JEDI ARTICLE https://medium.com/@samwagstaff/inter-generational-wars-unpacking-the-overt-resistance-allegory-in-the-last-jedi-cf9e4b07b9ef