Ep#219: Pack your bags, Bitches!

Follow-up: Sober Ian reads Jewish bedtime story @4:20 Election check-in @7:17 First Senate call @9:47 Keith Raniere, head of the NXIVM cult, is sentenced to 120 years in prison @11:27 Tensions are boiling between France and some Muslim-majority nations over free expression and “blasphemy.” @23:55 President Macron on Saturday: “I understand that one can be shocked by cartoons, but I will never accept that one can justify violence. Our freedoms, our rights, I consider it our vocation to protect them.” Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan wants to begin a campaign with other nations to curtail blasphemy in Western countries. The governor of Punjab says the UN needs to “introduce strict legislation against disrespect to religious beliefs.” A teacher in Belgium is suspended for showing a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad “with genitals exposed, while on all fours.” Yeesh. In Bangladesh, at least ten households with Hindu residents were torched and vandalized by a mob after one man expressed support of France and secularism in a Facebook post. Trump & Cronies: WHITE HOUSE FALSELY DECLARES PANDEMIC OVER @26:10 Trump did not actually sign anything into law that says the U.S. is now officially a Christian nation. @27:05 We’re Getting Your Husbands Back To Work “You know, our doctors get more money if somebody dies from COVID. You know that, right?” 2020: Glenn Beck says “we are fighting Satan himself,” @28:55 General election update @31:38 Which Senate seats do we need to watch? @33:16 Mitch McConnell v Amy McGrath (KY) Lindsey Graham v Jaime Harrison (SC) Martha McSally v Mark Kelly (AR) Susan Collins v Sara Gideon (ME) Cory Gardner v John Hickenlooper (CO) Thom Tillis v Cal Cunningham (NC) Joni Ernst v Theresa Greenfield (IA) John Cornyn v MJ Hegar (TX) David Perdue v Jon Ossoff (GA) Steve Daines v Steve Bullock (MT) Doug Jones (D) v Tommy Tuberville (AL) Barbara Bollier (D) v Roger Marshall (R) (KA) Gary Peters (D) v John James (R) (MI) Could Trump go quietly? @38:33 FORECAST: