TMI 08/21/2020 – Red Flags, Mama Ain’t Happy, and Courting Climate Justice

Twelve years ago, we were jubilantly celebrating the Democratic  Party’s nomination of Barack Obama for the office of President of the  United States. What was widely ignored was the red flag that had already  popped up, warning that his administration wasn’t going to be the  progressive dream we’d been led to believe: Joe Biden. By choosing the  Senator from Delaware as his VP, we could have seen that it was all  headed sharply to the right. Now, with Joe Biden in his late 70’s and  leading the Democratic Presidential ticket, we look for what the future  might entail, and… we have Kamala Harris, a notoriously centrist  Attorney General being placed next in line for the top office. We  discuss THIS red flag, and what it might mean for the future. Then, we discuss how the horrors of the climate crisis aren’t even  getting major national coverage, as Iowa suffers hurricane-strength  winds, the Atlantic Hurricane season is on record pace and California  has its strongest tornado in history – MADE OF FIRE. Mama Nature ain’t  happy, and there soon won’t be ANYBODY happy. Finally, we talk about how the tremendous financial burden all of  this climate-crisis-induced destruction is being put on the doorstep of  the worst culprits: Big Oil. All this and more on TMI for Friday, August  21st, 2020, airing 5pm Central on 91.7FM WSUM in Madison, and streamng  at wsum.org EVERYWHERE. Get your dose of the Cure for the Common Media.