Badlands Daily: 5/22/26 - Ebola Fearmongering, Cuba Playbook, Reconciliation Collapse
CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week with a Friday show that covers fearmongering, geopolitics, and a reconciliation bill meltdown. The Hantavirus narrative did not catch on, so Ebola is back: a passenger from the DRC accidentally boards a flight to Detroit, gets diverted to Montreal, and Marco Rubio confirms the US is funding 50 clinics in the DRC while keeping the disease out of the country. Chris Paul frames the whole sequence as a political pressure campaign designed to give impeachment-minded media another angle on Trump. CannCon continues watching the Venezuela playbook unfold in…
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