Silversteins' Show: The Podcast

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California hit a milestone for Covid infections and registered its first death of a minor, a teenager from the Central Valley.

Microsoft might buy TikTok, as the Trump Adminstration wants the app’s parent company to divest from the platform.

The Boston Bomber will not be sentenced to death, as a court overturned the ruling this week. Which brings us to discuss the meaning of terrorism and how that term is applied. The Boston Bomber was a terrorist, he used unlawful violent acts to further, with the help of his brother, a political agenda that opposed our American freedoms.  We, in the Silverstein household believe that terrorism is the word to use any time and individual or group inflicts harm on a person or people with the intent of promoting their political agenda. What this brings up is, can someone perform these heinous acts subconsciously? And if so, do we have a history of domestic terrorism against people of color in this country? If that is the case, why are we not, as a whole, outraged by it? At the very least, Trump is definitely promoting his political agenda through the acts of federal agents being placed throughout the country as a means to prevent individuals from expressing their first amendment right.

This and more, right here.

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Let’s make sure we understand the origin of viral hashtags, particularly if we want to be effective activists for any cause (yes, we are talking about the #womensupportingwomen thing)

Herman Cain passed this morning as a result of Covid19. Trump sent his condolences at a press briefing today, but is that enough when Herman Cain might have caught the virus at the Tulsa rally?

Trump seems to want more time as the leader of the free world and pinned a tweet on his feed in which suggests we postpone the November election due to the difficulties Covid poses on in-person voting.

Jair Bolsonaro probably gave Covid to his wife, who tested positive this week for the virus.

Countries that had seemed to control the virus are seeing cases creep back up again.

Stella Immanuel has a supporter outside of the Trump boys and it’s…Madonna.

This and more right here.

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The Marlins got the the virus and now MLB has to think things through.

The EPA’s internal watchdog is investigating the Trump Administration’s rollback of Obama-era emissions restrictions, asking the Trump administration to provide the formulas used to calculate the benefits of undoing a thing that was meant to protect lives and the environment.

After some deliberation and procrastination, congress might be giving us, the People, more money to keep us afloat as we all do our best to stay our asses home.

Turns out working for Ellen might have more downsides than just constantly being worried someone will pop out of a box to scare you and now WarnerMedia is looking into complaints from employees.

This and more right here.

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This is Episode 90, y'all!!!

I’m am vastly opposed to any ideology that seeks to dismiss inherent societal toxins by only affirming an alternative reality where those toxicities don’t exist. While I do believe in the power of positive thinking and the need to eradicate negative beliefs that don’t serve the highest self, it’s often those very notions that provide a misdirect when dismantling the abhorrently poisonous personal and societal norms we are now as a society combating. In order for change to occur, we must acknowledge, accept, and deal with what is opposing that change. Using faith or hope as a vehicle to ignore or pretend issues don’t exist is not only a privilege we can no longer accept, but it also dangerously opposes progression. That is the path to embracing ignorance.

In my past, I too have personally used these very devices of escapism to avoid personal accountability and growth. I too have disregarded my own toxic masculinity when it showed up as control issues, and violent abusive language and behavior, by masking it and conveniently focusing on the active ways I displayed love and peace. And now, while I CONTINUE to accept responsibility and practice remorse for how I inappropriately showed up in past relationships with strangers, family, friends and romantically, I also believe that it is impossible for anyone to grow up in this world without somehow absorbing and then exerting the abusive norms of our culture. No matter who or where you are, we all have work to do.

AOC eloquently expressed this sentiment when calling out YoHo about his abusive hatespeech.

Costco employees express this sentiment when they deny  entry to those who refuse to wear a mask.

The BLM movement is expressing this sentiment when we demand police reform.

LAPD is attempting to embrace change with a $150 Million budget cut, but have yet to ask the question about who are they serving and what they are protecting.

With pressure from the Trump administration, the CDC walked back earlier statements and suggested guidelines along with a preamble about the importance of opening schools in the fall.

The environment still needs our help. We got a lot of work to do. Every where. This and more, right here.

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As Nine California Teachers attempt to defend their beliefs about allowing their children to go back school, their inherent dismissal about the real severity of COVID-19 brings attention to other real severities we has a country have to address fully.

- We still aren’t handling the Mental Health Crisis in the country nor how students with special needs are regressing without their daily educational routine.

- We still aren’t dealing with the disparity of wealth and how some parents have to go to work and therefore are unable to homeschool their children, or even stay home to just care for them.

- We still aren’t dealing with the fact that for a lot of families, school was how children received breakfast and lunch.

In order for us to progress, these systemic issues need to be addressed, all while dealing with the harsh realities that we are still amidst a pandemic that people are still refusing to take seriously.

Additionally, as we dismantle systemic racism, we still live in a culture where we’ve normalized racism to such an extent that #Biden is calling #Trump our first racist president, effortlessly omitting our past racist presidents, such as Reagan, Nixon, Roosevelt, Lyndon B, and of course Washington. Even though the “trend” was to own slaves back then, it was still RACIST! We need to accept the ugly facts of our history if we are ever going to coexsist in a transformative future.

If you’re prejudiced against Jews, but are chanting “Black Lives Matter”, you’re a hypocrite. (Says the Black Jew)

Also. Trump is a moron, despite Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

This and more right here.

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Aaaaaaaaaaand NOW #Trump is saying wear masks.

The Trump administration wants to defund Covid-19 testing and contact tracing but will not stand for anyone who says they want to defund the police... and is even mad when someone does NOT say it.