#1723 Scam Nation: Trumpism is the Art of Screwing You Over in Every Way Possible
Air Date: 7-16-2025
It increasingly feels like we are completely past the era of legitimate differences in political philosophy and policy preferences. Now that the Republican governing style has been completely consumed by Trumpism, we've entered the era of scam politics which fits nicely with Trump's traditional retail scams, capitalism's continual reinvention of financial scams, and the new age of crypto scams.
Read more#1722 Imbalance of Powers: The Supreme Court and Executive Branch Collude for Unchecked Power Grab
Air Date: 7-12-2025
The idea of the founders was to separate and balance the powers of the federal government and that, as Madison wrote, ambition would counteract ambition. The problem we face now is that the ambition of the Supreme Court is to give as much power as possible to the executive branch because, ironically, they seem to be nostalgic for a king.
Read more#1721 The Evolution of the Military Industrial Complex: Now with AI!
Air Date: 7-9-2025
It's an old joke that "military intelligence" is a good example of an oxymoron so I just asked an AI chatbot to finish a joke about what a military becomes when they implement artificial intelligence. It said, "an oxymoron squared - or as the generals call it, "strategically enhanced stupidity with a confidence interval of 95%" which is not funny but still managed to be pretty on point regarding the dangers of overconfidence that inevitably follows from the implementation of new technology.
Read more#1376 Tell Stories, Not Myths: America is a Force But Not Always For Good (Throwback)
Original Air Date 10-21-20
Today we take a look at some of the many zany foreign misadventures the United States has had over the past 100 years. And by "zany misadventures" I mean the naked pursuit of capitalism at any cost, the support of military coups and other undemocratic overthrows of foreign governments and wars for oil and resources in an unabashed attempt to keep America wealthy and the rest of the world less so - all while maintaining an anti-imperial, pro-democracy, pro-freedom, live-and-let-live poker face.
Read more#1720 Building an Organized Left, the Eternal Oxymoron
Air Date: 7-2-2025
A disorganized Left rife with infighting and disagreements about the paths forward is nothing new, and it won't be coming to an end anytime soon. So, the best we can do is understand the political dynamics in detail, frustrating as they are, and get to work.
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