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Full audio version is here with the music we played: http://www.spreaker.com/…/btn-news-gene… Connect With BTN: Weekly podcasts on Tuesday's and Thursdays from 7pm til whenever we finish - https://www.spreaker.com/user/btnpodcast Click Follow to be updated with streams http://btnpodcast.weebly.com/ https://www.youtube.com/…/UCtFsiAh0TUax…Like and Subscribe https://www.facebook.com/BesidesTheNorm/ - Like https://twitter.com/BTNPod - Follow [email protected] - For our our chat show and Scottish music submissions
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His donors, who he claimed wouldn't exist. His cabinet and a lot of his supporters (being not huge fans of Muslims) are all for a war with Iran. He's already pledged to "rip up the Iran deal". He hasn't mentioned pulling the last of the troops out of Afghanistan. He's said nothing about peace in Libya, Syria, Iraq. He's pro-Israel. That's a lot of arrows pointing at indiscriminate killing of a lot of innocent people. And unlike the Apathy in response to Obamas drone strike campaign, Trump will have support of his. At this stage, you're looking at war with Iran, which is guaranteed to be a bigger shit show than Iraq and Afghanistan. You have a Chinese military official saying "A war ‘within the president’s term’ or ‘war breaking out tonight’ are not just slogans, they are becoming a practical reality.". You're looking at no end to the current, on-going wars. Torture openly coming back, the purposeful killing of innocent civilians in an attempt at psychological warfare with terrorists. And on top of that, zero attempts at battling climate change. This is no longer Trump being "more of the same". More of the same is dead. It's more of the same right now and Trump hasn't even almost started yet. It's a dangerous time and dismissal of criticism of Trump as nothing more than SJW's complaining is making it even worse. Donald Trump is a petulant child with mental health problems and the anger management skills of Chris Benoit during roid rage. He's no longer something to be laughed at. He's something to be opposed, fiercely. |
AuthorsThe Besides The Norm podcast was started by Scuba (Steven Duncan) and Monk (Craig Duncan) in 2015. The idea was a continuation of a previous podcast they did by the name of "Desert Island Dicks" which they enjoyed doing but saw no future in the name. So for this endeavour a few things have changed, with the purchasing of our own equipment and new ideas. Podcast's will feature Craig and Steven's own irreverent humour aswell as throwing in some unusual guests along the way. Archives
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