Show Notes
[03:00] Impeachment Is the End of the Beginning (8 minutes)
U.S. President Donald Trump was acquitted yesterday by the Senate, finally bringing the impeachment sham that started when he was elected to its inevitable end. Now that the bar for impeachment has been brought so low, we look back at the many “impeachable” acts of President Trump’s predecessor.
[10:25] Political Earthquake in Germany (40 minutes)
The political turmoil in one German state is a harbinger of things to come for the whole nation. Yesterday, in the state of Thuringia, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union reached out to the far-right Altnernative für Deutschland to build a workable government. To this point, all major political parties in Germany had shunned the AfD. That taboo has now been smashed! One German newspaper called the CDU’s move a “disgrace for Germany.” In this segment, I talk about how quickly the far right is rising in Germany.
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