Heard Tell w/Andrew Donaldson for 13 April, 2022

Social Media Responsibility, Boris Johnson Fined, Biden Says “G” word, History of GOP w/ Avi Woolf

Heard Tell for Wednesday, April 13th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on who is responsible for what is said, done, and trends on social media, and how the current debates over social media usage is really just a remix on how to regulate human behavior we’ve been having since there were more than two humans. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has to pay the piper, or in this case a Metropolitan Police fine for breaking his own governments COVID restrictions with parties, we’ll update the story we’ve been following from Over Yonder. Also, President Biden isn’t mincing words when it comes to the latest war crime accusations against Vladimir Putin and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, not only calling it a “genocide” but doubling down on why he used that term, we’ll discuss it. Guest Avi Woolf has been writing in Ordinary Times about the contention that the populist, isolation swing in the GOP in the Trump era was a return to a long-standing way of thinking, but Avi goes further and deeper, walking us through the history, ideology, and policies of the GOP since the 1920s…