Trump's "demanding that the people of Puerto Rico vote for him. None of the 3 million Americans who live on the island can vote in a US presidential election. How can the president of the United States not know this?” Mehdi has a righteous rant:
"I think this past Spring the scales dropped from many peoples' eyes. We can all see that, you know, this is a reckoning that this country has been putting off for hundreds of years." @pramsey342 has choice thoughts for right-wing critics of BLM.
.@pramsey342: "There's a lot of things about Spider-Man that really speak to me and deeply and the ability to tell the story anew through Miles Morales just kicked it up to another level for me."
“Is it possible to get through with the facts?” Amid disinformation and disenfranchisement by GOP operatives, Mehdi asks @bpopken whether the electorate can get the real story.
“If Barrett is confirmed, fully one-third of the Supreme Court bench that might decide the 2020 election was working for George W. Bush in some shape or form during Bush v. Gore in 2000.”
"This is a power-grab of unprecedented proportions and it has to be answered in some way." Former Democratic senator @russfeingold doesn’t mince words.
"There's not even a question about it. I would actually be incredibly concerned about that patient's health and their state of cognition." @kavitapmd worries about Trump's insistence on holding public events while still in his COVID "ten-day window."
“TikTok's whole thing for a while was lip-syncing to pop songs and dance videos. What made you think, in the middle of a pandemic, in the final year of the Trump term, "Let me do that, but let me do it to this crazy president?"
@sarahcpr: “Because I can’t dance.”
Michigan is home to a large Arab-American population that's been targeted by law enforcement since 9/11, even though far-right extremism has claimed more lives in the past decade. "Why the double standard?" Mehdi asks. @MIAttyGen answers: "I mean, I think it's pretty obvious."
Mehdi traces the right-wing extremist movement from Ruby Ridge to Waco to Oklahoma City to the Trump era: “The violent far-right has anointed him their patron saint.”
Thank you all for joining us for our first week of shows. Tonight we want to close out the week with a good impression.
@sarahcpr joins @mehdirhasan live TONIGHT
Streaming at 7 PM ET on @peacockTV#TheChoice
Last night, @mehdirhasan had a very important personal announcement… and a lot of thoughts on what it means to be an American at this moment in history.
Legend has it Trump ran for president after getting roasted by Obama at the 2011 WHCD. @JuddApatow, who wrote some of Obama’s jokes for that night, laughs at that theory, but “if you wanna make a Jewish man *more* guilty, you know, pile it on.”