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• 06.02.2021

  Ep. 6.2.21: Celebrating Memorial Day

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   We look at how our leaders are celebrating Memorial Day. One political party commemorates our fallen soldiers by trying to build and preserve what they gave their lives for; the other political party continues...

  
• 05.24.2021

  Ep. 5.23.31: Leading from [the] Behind

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   The Republican party demonstrates anew that it has no leaders; the dog is completely led by the woeful tail it has created over the past four decades.  So who, exactly, is it that Democrats...

  
• 05.10.2021

  Ep. 5.9.21: Eulogy for Reality

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   The republican party and the events of the last weeks prompts Dave to begin preparing his eulogy for reality, which is already dead to tens of millions in this country.  The big remaining question...

  
• 04.26.2021

  Ep. 4.25.21: Retire the Pledge of Allegiance!

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   We address the big story of some justice for George Floyd;  the conviction of the police murderer of George Floyd is a watershed event in America.  But it, the reaction to it, and other...

  
• 04.12.2021

  Ep. 4.12.21: The Myth of Compromise

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   Democratic Senator Joe Manchin says Biden should work to compromise with Republicans. Maybe if he agrees to give up his job they will let him keep his head!  But Biden goes through the motions...

  
• 04.04.2021

  Ep. 4.4.21: Biden's New New Deal

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   Perhaps the two most crucial things this country needs to do is fix our broken democracy and fix our broken country. We talked about Biden's and the Democrats' efforts to address voting rights last...

  
• 03.26.2021

  Ep 3.26.21: Fighting for Our Lives

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   The US has a real President proposing great things for America. Lest we get too hopeful from that, we are being reminded that he is fighting on our behalf against almost half of our...

  
• 03.10.2021

  Ep 3.9.21: A Big F*@king Deal!

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   The Senate passes President Biden's Covid Relief Bill, which figures to imminently become law.  In what is being hailed as the most ambitious anti-poverty legislation in decades, the Democrats signal that they can unite...

  
• 02.28.2021

  Ep. 2.27.21: Conservatism in Flames

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   Reality has never been kind to conservative doctrine, but these last few weeks would have put a stake into its heart...if it ever had one. We look at some of the big events of the...

  
• 02.19.2021

  Ep 2.18.21: America Under Assault Again! By Clean Energy!

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   Winter storms that are the product of climate change devastate Texas and much of the US.  Republicans finally agree that the US is under assault; not by angry mobs, not by climate change, but...

  
• 02.08.2021

  Ep. 2.8.21: Right-Wing Lie Machine

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   Corporate America will act only for its own benefit, without regard to its impact on society; the McKinsey settlement reminds us of that.  A functioning society, has the ability to rein-in its behavior and...

  
• 02.01.2021

  Ep. 1.31.21: Back to the Future; It's still Trump's Criminal Org

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   In our second show of the Biden era, we try to maintain our hopefulness, but it is already really hard to do.  Dave talks about how Biden is trying to do the right thing,...

  
• 02.01.2021

  Ep. 1.23.21: "Democracy Has Prevailed"; President Joe Biden Inaugurated

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   Our long national nightmare is over, for now, but the threat lives on. What it means when a presidential inaugural has to point out that "democracy has prevailed", and when those words present too...

  
• 01.16.2021

  Ep. 1.15.21: Impeachment: The Sequel

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   Donald Trump becomes the first President in US history to be impeached. He still seems as likely to survive his term as the US does, but this time he may not avoid accountability.  Dave discusses...

  
• 01.07.2021

  Ep. 1.7.21: America Under Attack

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   On a day on which the Democrats take over the US Senate and Joe Biden's election is to be certified, the only story is the attack on America...instigated by the President of the United...

  
• 01.01.2021

  Ep.12.31.20: Good Riddance, 2020

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   Dave reviews the year 2020, a year we will be happy to have behind us.  But does 2021 promise to be so much better?  Where we stand regarding the two plagues of 2020: COVID...

  
• 12.23.2020

  Ep. 12.23.20: Immoral Hazard

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   We continue our conversation of moral hazard, or how the rich avoid the consequences of their own bad actions, in the context of the latest efforts by Trump to sabotage America.   Dave discusses moral hazard...

  
• 12.16.2020

  Ep. 12.15.20: Salvation is...nowhere near; despite the Electoral College vote and a COVID vaccine

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   The Electoral College vote gives Joe Biden the presidency, after the Supreme Court refused to give it to trump.  It's now official, even Moscow Mitch says so, but does anybody think this is over? ...

  
• 12.06.2020

  Ep. 12.5.20: Dems Play the Weed Card!

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   Dems seek to give us legal weed as the GOP continues to seek to give us more reasons to need it.  The Democratic House bill to legalize weed is a great political move to...

  
• 11.29.2020

  Ep. 11.29.20: FNR Founder Damian Hardeen

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   We devote a special episode this week to an interview with FNR founder Damian Hardeen.  This is our way of celebrating the holiday (the impending end of the trump nightmare), since Damian created FNR...

  
• 11.25.2020

  Ep. 11.25.20: Let the Healing Begin!

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   We celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday with enthusiasm, as we finally breathe easier that the next President of the United States will be the guy Americans actually voted for a few weeks ago.  The transition to...

  
• 11.17.2020

  Ep. 11.17.20: America Under Attack

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   Lest we be inclined to celebrate our stay of execution, Biden's win, America finds itself under assault from two enemies.  The first is Covid, the second is the President of the United States and...

  
• 11.10.2020

  Ep. 11.9.20: WE SURVIVE! (For Now.) The 2020 Election

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   The country has elected Joe Biden...barely.  We celebrate our survival, and try to forget for a few moments that we remain on life support.  Dave discusses the good, the bad, and the ugly of this...

  
• 11.03.2020

  Ep. 11.2.20: Not Much at Stake...other than the fate of Civilization

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   One day before the most fateful election in US history, and perhaps in world history, Dave opines on what is at stake.   Including Covid, of course.   *Also available on Spotify, iTunes, and Stitcher...and now Audible!-Please SUBSCRIBE   THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE...

  
• 10.24.2020

  Ep. 10.23.20: Civil Cold War

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   Dave looks to add substance to another presidential debate that had precious little on its own.  A debate that has value only to those awakening from a years-long slumber who are blissfully unaware of...

  
• 10.16.2020

  Ep.10.15.20: Flies Drawn to Shit

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   Dave discusses the VP debate, ramming through a Supreme Court apparatchik, the latest in COVID, and, through it all, the inability of decent people to grasp how profound is the evil of the republican...

  
• 10.07.2020

  Ep 10.6.20: Humiliation! Part 2: Death but no Trump Taxes

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   The momentous week of Trump humiliations continues.  Dave updates the conversation regarding Trump's COVID diagnosis and its aftermath.  Having repeatedly downplayed the disease to the result of tens of thousands of unnecessary American deaths,...

  
• 10.04.2020

  Ep. 10.3.20: Humiliation! (Part 1: Trump gets COVID and "shut up, man!")

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   It was a momentous week in news, as Trump repeatedly (again) humiliated himself and the US.  Too much to explore in one episode, today Dave talks about how Trump gets the COVID he thought...

  
• 09.24.2020

  Ep. 9.23.20: R.I.P. RBG

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   Death and life are in the news this week as iconic Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passes away, official US COVID death passes 200,000, and evidence of extraterrestrial life may be discovered around...

  
• 09.13.2020

  Ep. 9.13.20: Murder, not Incompetence; Trump talks to Bob Woodward

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   President Trump takes his case for greatest all-time mass murderer of Americans to another level by admitting intent to Bob Woodward.  In another example of explosive yet completely unsurprising revelations about our President, Trump...

  
• 09.08.2020

  Ep. 9.8.20: Trump Murders Tom Terrific

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   President Trump burnishes his case for greatest mass murderer of Americans by killing baseball legend Tom Seaver...now among the tens of thousands of COVID victims attributable to Killer Trump.  We also mourn baseball legend...

  
• 08.30.2020

  Ep. 8.29.20: Crooks, Charlatans and Rubes: The GOP Shows Its Contempt for its Base

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   The Republican National Convention shows again how much contempt Donald Trump and the GOP have for their own base. While the narrative maintains that Democrats do not respect GOP voters, it is their own...

  
• 08.21.2020

  Ep. 8.20.20: Un-Conventional: The Great Divide Part 2

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   An unconventional Democratic convention surpasses expectations, despite being all about unity.  So Dems are all about unity, while the Republicans continue to be all about dividing (and wrecking).  Dave continues his discussion on the...

  
• 08.13.2020

  Ep. 8.13.20: Grand Canyon Divide (part 1)

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   Joe Biden chooses Kamala Harris as his Vice-Presidential running mate. Dave comments on the choice and uses it to explore how recent events continue to reflect the stark divide in this country between a...

  
• 08.10.2020

  Ep. 8.9.20: Courting Disaster

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   Dave discusses the end-of-term US Supreme Court decisions, along with some other momentous federal court decisions. Despite some near misses and a couple of decisions worthy of celebration, this term is a tragic reminder...

  
• 07.30.2020

  Ep. 7.29.20: A Very Stable Fascist

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   Trump says he passed a very difficult cognitive test, possibly demonstrating he is not excessively brain damaged, and thus is his argument for remaining President. Then he goes about unleashing his Gestapo on American...

  
• 07.22.2020

  Ep. 7.21.20: Extremism and Dvisiveness

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   The death of civil rights icon and long-time US Congressman John Lewis gives us chance anew to discuss what it means to be extremist in America today. Republicans further embarrassed themselves when two GOP...

  
• 07.17.2020

  Ep. 7.16.20: Dave Solves the COVID Crisis

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   To get even trump supporters on board with beating COVID, Dave suggests doing the unimaginable; making republicans accountable! Let's make people who don't follow guidelines personally liable for the injuries that result. (in fact,...

  
• 07.08.2020

  Ep. 7.8.20: July 4: Trump's celebration of secession

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:     Happy July 4 everybody! For most of us, a celebration of US independence; for our president, a celebration of secession and the US Civil War. In a bitterly racist and divisive speech at Mount...

  
• 07.01.2020

  Ep. 7.1.20: The Undisputed Champion of Killing Americans!

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   Dave switches gears a bit from our prior show on hope to talk about how Republicans elevate the interests of those who kill humans above the interest of actual humans. We take a few...

  
• 06.26.2020

  Ep. 6.25.20: A Crazy Little Thing Called Hope

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:     Dave talks about how recent events have given him something he has had little cause to feel over the waking nightmare of the Trump years: reason for hope. Like for someone seeing light at...

  
• 06.17.2020

  Ep. 6.17.20: Hooray for Supreme Court Road Kill! The Supreme Court fails to get in the way of LGBTQ rights.

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   We discuss a great way to celebrate Pride Month, as the US Supreme Court issues a shocking and dramatic decision that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act bars discrimination on the basis...

  
• 06.09.2020

  Ep. 6.9.20: Breaking Down the Blue Wall; mass protests start to crack police supremacy...and possibly Trump's cult

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   Peaceful worldwide pro-justice protests continue. Could this be different from protests past and lead to real systemic change? There are reasons to hope. Protests begin to force change, but need to break down the...

  
• 06.01.2020

  Ep. 5.31.20: The Civil War Begins? worldwide protests against White Supremacy mark the battle lines of 2020

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   Protests erupt around the world following the police killing of George Floyd, just the latest (or is it?) unjustified police killing of a black person. Even as ultraconservatives  infiltrate the ranks of the protesters...

  
• 05.24.2020

  Ep 5.24.20: Hydochloroquine Rots the Brain: And Trump Shows Us The Proof

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   Trump uses hydrochloroquine, which might lead us to conclude it rots the brain. Further contravening his own administration, he won't wear masks; no need to listen to experts when you don't care how you...

  
• 05.18.2020

  Ep. 5.17.20: Above The Law; trump follows the totalitarian playbook

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:     Moving further down the totalitarian road, Trump indicates the law is not something he needs to be burdened by. The Justice Department throws in the towel in a game it has already won, by...

  
• 05.05.2020

  Ep. 5.5.20: Injecting the Clorox (for cultists who don't like Kool-Aid)

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: We discuss that the "leader of the free world" suggested injecting disinfectants as a possible solution to a deadly global pandemic.  (Then we discuss the fact that we really had to write that sentence.) ...

  
• 04.26.2020

  Ep. 4.25.20: Adding Insult to Injury; Watching corporate coronavirus-themed ads is like watching a Trump press briefing

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   Adding insult to injury, corporations start running coronavirus-themed ads. Hearing bullshit from selfish, greedy entities with no concern for the welfare of anyone but themselves and who, in many cases, are responsible for exacerbating...

  
• 04.13.2020

  Ep 4.13.20: The War on Democracy; the GOP response to Coronavirus, voting, and other threats to America.

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   We continue our discussions of what the coronavirus and our pathetic response to it should teach us about the issues that will be at stake in the 2020 election. The first is all about the...

  
• 04.09.2020

  Ep. 4.9.20: Bernie's Presidential Bid Ends; His Movement Lives On

  THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion:   We talk about the impact Bernie Sanders has had on the Democratic party and the need to fight to keep the movement going. Sanders showed it is possible to inspire people and a political...