Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein

Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein

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  • Hunter Biden Smokes Crack and Buys Guns.

    Sure, Hunter Biden is a little sketchy, but would the average drug addict who lied on a federal form be prosecuted with such verve? We think not. 



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    • 5 min
  • Mitt Romney is a Dirty Moderate

    Mitt has bid adieu to the Washington clown show and is seemingly officially out of whatever the Mormon version of fucks are.  



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    • 6 min
  • The latest MAGA target: PEPFAR


    This year marks the 20th anniversary of George W. Bush’s transformative program to combat H.I.V. and AIDS in Africa, the Caribbean and elsewhere. The left’s villain of yesteryear, who was (somewhat) rehabilitated in the Trump era,  and rightly maligned for the disaster that was the invasion of Iraq, Bush also waged a noble war against an epidemic. This ongoing battle is now two decades old, and it has saved 25 million lives. 

    But nothing is sacred in the MAGA tainted GOP. Even the life changing achievement of one of this era’s most conservative presidents is apparently now on the chopping block and threatening to be defunded, woefully swept up in the maelstrom of the “own the libs,” anti-“woke” culture wars.

    Bush’s initiative, which is called the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR has funded antiretroviral medicines for people with AIDS and provided substantial resources to prevent the spread of the virus among newborn babies. It’s been a heroic success by any reasonable metric. Except if you are a MAGA flame thrower.

    For those among today’s far right saber rattlers, it is believed that the Biden administration has a secret plan to use PEPFAR to promote abortions overseas. Yes, a law which was originally midwifed by evangelical Christians and devout Catholics, and championed by the deeply pro-life George W. Bush is now a clandestine pro -abortion plot. 

    But this is where we are folks. Have a listen to Adam’s takedown of this deeply misguided but also life threatening fuckwaddery. 



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    • 18 min
  • A conversation with former (D) now (R) Rep. Mesha Mainor of Georgia

    Could the future of the GOP be black and female? Democrat turned Republican, Mesha Mainor, a Georgia state legislator serving the 56th District is  showing that it very well could be.  Her recent political revolt against her Democratic colleagues is an valiant attempt to deviate away from partisan orthodoxy while also retaining her core values. Her RICO filing against Democratic DA darling, Fani Wllis who is the black female prosecutor orchestrating the Trump and cronies indictment in Georgia's Fulton County sure adds an interesting layer and whether we agree on everything or not (definitely not), we can agree on the fact that Rep. Mainor is a force and someone to keep a close on as the Republican party sort out wtf to do re:Trump.  As Rep. Mainor settles in to her brand spanking new (R) and her historic role as the first black female Republican in the Georgia House, she took the time to join us on the show to explain why she chose to jump off the (D) ship; and answers persuasively.  


    You know you want to do a deep dive now...www.meshamainor.com






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    • 1 hr 1 min
  • GOP: Glib Overhyped Petulant

    Listen to Adam's take on last nights debate and Tucker's interview with you know who.


    Clif Notes version:

    Haley has no shot at the nomination, but if she did, she'd be viable with independents. Christie is anti-Trump in a MAGA party. DeSantis had the dazzle of an armoire. He's just so bad at politics. Pence is irrelevant. Vivek is a fraud. In the end, Trump looms large. #GOPdebates



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    • 21 min
  • The devil went down to Georgia

     “I should not be here,” Ruby Freeman told the January 6  committee in her May 2022 deposition. “I signed up as an election worker because I believe in our democracy. I signed up to support my daughter, Shaye, whose entire professional career has been devoted to making sure that Fulton County elections are fair and that every vote is counted.”  

    Like many of the GOP witnesses who testified before the Jan 6 committee , Fulton County’s indictment of Donald Trump and 18 associates  also included an array familiar names from Trumpworld: Former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani , Fake Elector Schemer John Eastman, to name a few. 

    As you may recall, two little known election workers , a mother and daughter named Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss , also testified to the Jan 6 committee about Trump’s alleged criminality in Georgia. Consequently, they faced vicious intimidation and violent death threats for simply doing the people’s work. Shaye Moss’s harrowing testimony about the way in which she was targeted and bullied by both Trump and Giuliani was both painful to watch but also essential viewing. Along with her mother, they together bore witness to the worst of us, but yet they stood defiantly against the nefarious MAGA forces who tried to overturn a free and fair election.

    While the nearly 100 page Fulton County indictment is a sweeping RICO indictment which details the allegedly expansive scheme to nullify the 2020 election in favor of Trump, Ru



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    • 22 min
  • DM Guest- Conservative Scholar Jon Shields

    You don’t have to be a Republican to be continually aghast at the descent of the GOP into a haven for cranks, white nationalists, conspiracy theorists , performance artists 

    and liars.

    We have a two party system in this country, and the collapse of the Republican Party into a Trump led cult, spells more than just trouble for our representative democracy which is only strengthened by an opposition party that challenges a particular set of precepts, offers alternative policies, and gives voters a choice. This, in and of itself, is a safeguard against any abuse of power, not to mention being an important bulwark against the forces of tyranny and despotism. 

    Jon Shields, a professor of political science at Claremont College , who has long studied the American right, joins Adam on the podcast this week to muse philosophically on the true meaning of conservatism. Shields is the rare scholar who understands and believes in the noble intellectual tradition that is conservatism and he laments the rise of the Trump led GOP which actively erodes democratic norms, and has total contempt for the rule of law. 

    Democrats and many on the left might enjoy the Republican demise, but this is no cause for celebration. The moral and ideological collapse of the party of Lincoln, is bad not just for the electoral prospects of the GOP, as Shields reminds us,  but deeply unhealthy for the long term state of our democratic republic itself.



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    • 1 hr 14 min
  • Buckeyes Say Bullshit


    There’s an old saying in politics: As Ohio goes, so goes the nation. 
    Up until 2020, Ohio was a bellwether state in presidential elections voting for the winner every election cycle since 1960 except when John F. Kennedy won the general election, but Richard Nixon carried the state.

    Donald Trump won Ohio twice, but 2020 was the first year where Buckeyes voted Republican even as Democrat Joe Biden was elected to the presidency.

    Tuesday’s vote against Issue 1 , a ballot initiative spearheaded by Ohio’s deep red state legislature, would have raised the threshold to amend the state constitution from a simple majority of 50 % + 1 to 60%. But Ohioans resoundingly rejected this attack on democracy by a margin of 57.01% to 42.99%. 

    By roughly the same margin, Ohio voters support abortion rights, according to polls,  and a pending ballot initiative, which would enshrine a woman’s right to choose into the state constitution is set to be on Ohio voters’s ballots this November. 

    This is the real reason this stealth attack on democracy ended up on a ballot in the dog days of August. The GOP wagered that a low turnout and a confusing, if deeply unsettling new law would make it all the more difficult for reproductive rights to be sanctioned by the Ohio electorate in a state which has passed more and more onerous restrictions limiting abortion rights since the Dobbs decision overturned Roe v Wade in June of 2022. 

    But the GOP was wrong. And the people spoke. Will they do the same again in November? And will Ohio mirror the several other red states whose voters have rejected attempts by right wing forces to deprive women of their bodily autonomy? Tuesday’s vote suggests yes, but the fight for democracy never sleeps.”



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    • 20 min
  • Eisenhower was a Commie! *and other MAGA type nonsense from the John Birch Society

    This is not America’s first manipulative fascist rodeo. Our grand experiment has been peppered with religious and MAGA type freaks throughout its 247 years. When a large group of independent thinkers, adventurers, natives, freedom seekers, religious zealots, and young, scrappy and hungry individuals come together in one pot and create a beautiful stew of a nation there are bound to be some interesting concoctions and even a few stinkers. 

    The John Birch Society was a powerful machine fueled by hate, white privilege, manipulation, and good old fashioned religion as a weapon, along with a slew of “deep state” conspiracy theories like Jewish bankers were controlling the world and Dwight D. Eisenhower was a dedicated Communist agent LOL. 

    Sound familiar? We see you Moms for “Liberty”.

    Author, GW professor and historian Matthew Dallek has written a new book called “Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right” which expertly shows how the GOP allowed a small, but organized band of conspiracy theorists, racists, anti-semites and paranoiacs to lay the groundwork for the party of Lincoln to become the party of MAGA and Trump. In this wide ranging conversation, Matthew Dallek joins Dirty Moderate to spill the sad, but important hi



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    • 1 hr 1 min
  • Third time’s the charm...

    The events leading up to Jan 6th have resulted in Trump's third indictment for, among other charges, conspiracy to defraud the United States. The only guardrails that we have against another assault on our democracy aren't the courts, but the ballot box. Trump must be soundly defeated in 2024 . It's the only way he will never get near the presidency again. It's America or Trump; you can't have both.



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    • 23 min

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