'BradCast' 12/20/2022 (Guest: Salon's Heather Digby Parton on 2022 and looking ahead to 2023)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0\\xa0 A look back at 2022 and forward to 2023, with one of our favorite guests.\\xa0 But first, a necessary debunking of the disprovable claims made by erratic new Twitter CEO Elon Musk, which he used to justify suspending the accounts of legitimate journalists who violated no rules. Musk's self-serving declarations and mercurial, chaotic management of the social media giant appear to have fooled some folks on the Left's 'Contrarian Industrial Complex'. In a perfectly insane end to 2022, a majority of Twitter users voted for Musk to step down as CEO in his own online poll. Award-winning Salon columnist and Hullabaloo's OG blogger HEATHER DIGBY PARTON joins us to discuss what the hell happened in 2022, and offers a look ahead to what is likely to be a bumpy 2023. Parton delves into the House January 6 Committee's final public hearing, its criminal referrals of Donald Trump to the Justice Department over his attempts to steal the 2020 election, and the many criminal and civil investigations into Trump set to unfold in coming months. Parton also discusses Republicans' imminent take-over of the U.S. House amid internal power struggles with their far-right members and their promises to deliver investigations and retribution for their political adversaries, and also tries to make sense of Musk's Twitter madness. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'"