Walter Rhein Podcast

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The United States of America has become a country of perpetual campaigning. That's probably been the case for the last decade. Throughout the summer, I've been subjected to ad after ad attempting to represent the Republican tax cut for billionaires as something that will somehow “help” the working class. It won’t. In fact, it will kill us. Hospitals are being closed down. Teachers are being threat...

50% off coupon, thanks everyone! Whether it's white supremacists and neo-nazis on the internet, or Republican politicians on the television, it seems like every day I'm confronted by a wave of deceitful and condescending arguments. These jerks let out a sorrowful sigh, shake their heads, and then mutter, “Why can't you ever show any gratitude for all the advantages and privileges you've been given...

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Recently I've been asking everyone I know if they are carrying proof of citizenship. “Of course,” they say, “I have a driver's license.” “Ah,” I reply, “that is a legal document, but you don't have to be a citizen to get one. In fact, a driver's license doesn't even prove that you have permission to be here. All it shows is that you had permission at the time the driver's license was issued—presum...

Hello Everyone! I posted the above picture as a note a few weeks ago, but maybe some of you missed it. The story is that there’s a woman who works the drive through at Burger King who once gave my dog a piece of bacon. Ever since that day, whenever we pull up to the window, he sticks his head out to demand his piece of bacon. Anyone who doesn’t think dogs can communicate is fooling themselves. He’...

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The fight continues thanks to your generous support! Lately I've had a feeling that the sleeping giant has begun to rouse. I feel it in the air. I sense it in the responses I get to my articles and my comments. The things that would have been rejected out of hand, are finding an audience now. I sense that the spark of human decency is coming back to life. It's as if our communities can no longer p...

Thanks for the TIPS! We all have to navigate the complexities of an unjust and uncertain world. Words are capable of capturing truth, but malicious rhetoric can also be fabricated with the ultimate goal of leading the public astray. When you work with words long enough, you become familiar with the malicious slight-of-hand that can be utilized to create the illusion of a rational sounding argument...

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Your support keeps me in the fight and is greatly appreciated! Hello Everyone! I wanted to try something a little different this week. I thought it might be fun to provide you with a listing of all my articles so that you can peruse them like you would a Sunday newspaper. I realize I overwhelm your inboxes with content. My objective is to respond to the tidal waves of lies and misinformation that’...

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Hello Everyone! These movie talks are starting to feel like a day at the spa. Once a week, Ben Ulansey and I get together and try to deliberately not talk about politics (which is impossible… but we do pretty good). The nice thing about talking about movies is that it allows for a distraction. I’ve been on a lot of lives with Nick where we discuss our frustration with what’s going on in the USA to...

Here’s a 50% off coupon so you can help me fight fascism! Thanks in advance! If there's one thing the last few months have taught us, it's that we can't afford to sit around and assume that everything's going to work out for the best. We have to be diligent about everything. No details are too small. No transgressions should be ignored. We can't afford to pretend that crimes didn't happen just bec...

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Help me as I try to answer all the Republican grooming/indoctrination/hate rhetoric It’s time that we stopped dancing around the issue and started stating the facts. Republicans want mass shootings. Republicans want to murder our children. It’s all part of their insatiable quest for power. Republicans want our children ignorant. They want our children poor. They want our children hungry. They want...

Thanks for the TIPS, they mean everything! We had just returned home from orientation. My daughters bubbled with excitement over all their classes. As my foot hit the step leading up to the door, I was hit by a revelation. It was something I’d been on the verge of understanding for quite some time. Then it finally happened. Reason rears up to slap you in the face. You recognize you have to relinqu...

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Help me spread the truths Republicans want to burn —There are other discount codes at the end of this article I've always been skeptical of the idea of religious confession. While I appreciate the importance of being able to confide in somebody you trust, I'd never tell my secrets to a priest. Priests get all their power from cultivating shame. Walking into a confession booth feels like feeding an...

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Help me spread the truths Republicans want to burn. I grew up in an unincorporated town in Northern Wisconsin. My school district served many small communities within a large geographic area. Every morning we took a 45 minute bus ride to a metropolis of 2,000 people. It was the nearest town with facilities that came the closest to meeting the state’s basic educational standards. I grew up surround...

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Help me spread the truths Republicans want to burn. A line of metal doors fastened with padlocks stretched down the hallway of my high school. They never warned us against unhooking the heavy chunks of metal and throwing them at each other. You could have killed somebody. Maybe they didn’t want to give us the idea. Hurled locks wasn’t something I worried about, but I feared death in other ways. Th...

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