Just Buy Less Coffee, Answering the Deeper Questions of American Politics

Dominion's lawsuit against Fox News heats up and threatens to wreck Republican state TV; more is revealed about how truly corrupt Clarance Thomas is, and how far gone the legitimacy of the Supreme Court has become; an incel on a racist Discord server leaks Pentagon documents to make himself look cool, and he's called a hero by the MAGA traitors; and a black kid is shot for knocking on the wrong door, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

JBLC gives a deep dive update on the ongoing COVID19 pandemic with a particular focus on the outbreak in China that's infected 1 billion people after the loosening of their draconian lock down policies; then we compare responses in other nations and look at the rise of RSV and lament the emergence of super gonorrhea, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

On this Thursday deep dive edition of our show, JBLC takes a look at the history of other battles for Speaker of the House, finds that the worst ones occurred in the period leading up to the civil war, and discusses the history of slavery politics that led to division in our nation unseen again until now, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

JBLC interviews Nicole Tatgenhorst, aka @MommaHorseTales, one of our favorite TikTokers, on parenting in a pandemic, forced birth laws and the war on women, and the moral failure of the Christian Church to rein in the worst impulses of conservatism. All for less than the price of a cup of coffee.

Cathy and Troy break down the fire hose of lies on the internet surrounding the federal government's response to hurricane Helene. MAGA has successfully weaponized messaging around disaster relief to play on anger and frustration for votes, and yes scapegoat migrants yet again.
No FEMA is not taking people's property. No survivors are not only receiving $750 dollars while we give billions to Ukraine or to house migrants. No people are not being denied resources. No FEMA is not out of money. No Biden did not take money out of FEMA's disaster relief budget to help migrants.
Trump is the only President to divert funds away from disaster relief to the border. He's also the only President to deny federal aid to a state, when he said no to California in 2018 during wildfire season.
Two former Trump aides told Politico that decision was in fact political. He only changed his mind when he was told there were more Trump voters in Orange County, CA than the entire state of Iowa.
And, Cathy read and annotated all 165 pages of the released January 6th Trump indictment that Judge Tanya Chutkan made public at Jack Smith's request. And it's horrifying.
Cathy and Troy give their historian perspective on just how much of a threat Donald Trump is to the Republic, how it compares to the scandals of Nixon, Reagan, and George W. Bush, and why, one month out from the election, Americans need to know the forces that want to rip away their democracy are actively at work setting up for round two.
All for less than the price of a cup of coffee...
Go HERE, to see FEMA's response to all the lies being circulated on social media and by Donald Trump.
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