2023 Archives

Our media and politicians need to figure out that it’s not a slur to call a fascist a fascist. It’s merely descriptive. Ron DeSantis appears to have succeeded in his attempt to bully the College Board into stripping Black Lives Matter, discussion of gay Black thought leaders (perhaps like James Baldwin, whose mother was born enslaved?), and multiple well-known Black authors from their African American Studies Advance Placement course.

So here we are in 2023 and the real beliefs and plans of the Founding generation — slaveholders and abolitionists alike — have dissolved into a blur of BS, Qanon, and fundamentalist religion. Yesterday “Paul from Woodenville, WA” called into the show and asked, perhaps rhetorically, what the end goal of the GOP was for America. “What kind of a nation are they trying to create here?” he said. The answer is straightforward. Today’s radical Republicans are trying to turn America into a Christianized version of something like Pakistan.

Now we learn Barr apparently went so far as to cover up Trump’s involvement with Putin, providing opportunities for Trump to extort Ukraine and pass classified documents along to Russian Intelligence. The Manchurian Candidate was apparently more than just a movie. A Russian agent in the employ of one of Putin’s oligarchs was paid millions to run Trump’s campaign and was passing secret campaign information to Russian intelligence that they used to target specific groups of American voters via Facebook and Twitter. When this treachery was referred to the FBI, the lead agent there was later, it turns out according to The New York Times, also in the employ of Putin’s oligarchs.

The Best of the Rest of the News. — Tyre Nichols: We've Seen Too Many People Murdered By American Police. — Can the debt ceiling be abolished or will the GOP dig in on slashing Social Security & Medicare? — Bill Barr was the most corrupt Attorney General in modern American history, both when he helped George HW Bush avoid prosecution for Iran/Contra in 1992 and when he helped cover up Trump's multiple connections to Russia and that nation's help for him in the 2016 election. — How is the manufactured outrage going for Fox-So-Called-News? — Hispanic voters are the target of a new multi-million dollar effort to swing that voting block to the right. — How is Chevron getting away with a $75 billion stock buyback after price-gouging Americans & slamming the climate crisis? — Fascism Alert! Major corporations are backing book banning politicians. — Students are suing Ron DeSanctimonious over AP African American studies. — Crazy Alert! You'd think George Santos would be more careful now that everybody in the country has figured out that he lies almost as often as Donald Trump, but…no.