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

Episode 156: #Musk #Coup #TariffTreason Feb 04, 2025

Cathy and Troy react to the stunning developments in D.C. as an unknown cadre of Elon Musk cronies sieze control of the U.S. Treasury, take over payment servers controlling trillions of dollars of U.S. assets, and shut down global aid fund USAID. This is a coup of the richest man on earth being given permission to infiltrate and corrupt the United States government at will.

Trump's tariff wars kick off in earnest as Canada hardens the border and looks to Europe for their future, having seen enough of what it means to partner with the United States. At the last minute Trump delays tariffs with Mexico, demonstrating what it means to rule by chaos.

And after firing the FAA director and trimming down air traffic control even beyond critically low levels, planes are starting to fall out of the sky.

American society has begun to crumble. Where will all this lead.

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Episode 155: #DeportationDistraction #MuskHeilFive #KnowYourRights Jan 27, 2025

The Trump presidency is officially here and less than one week in we are already seeing the exact effects that were forecast of a fascist government coming home to the United States.
Immigrant communities brace for the effects of Trump's ice raids that are also sweeping up American citizens, making the U.S. a "show me your papers" society. But are the mass deportations a distraction for the next move? Private concentration work camps for people that can't be deported?
Trade wars begin in earnest with other nations, as Trump's America even makes Russia look like a sensible alternative.
Meanwhile the world's richest man and Trump's co-president Elon Musk stirs up controversy by throwing up a nazi salute. But it's not an isolated incident, as Musk is actively campaigning for the AfD in Germany, the ideological descendent of the nazi party.
Know your rights and protect yourselves.
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Episode 154: #FireStorm #Lies #California #FuneralForDemocracy Jan 13, 2025

Cathy and Troy debunk the firestorm of lies surrounding the horrendous and heartbreaking wildfires in Los Angeles. Never missing an opportunity to spread division, Donald Trump and his army of miserable right-wing influencers push dangerous lies disparaging public officials, including fire fighters, and mock the suffering of Californians. Shame on them.
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Political personalities on full display at Jimmy Carter's funeral, with all former presidents and first ladies, along with Kamala and Dougie, forced to endure the stinky presence of Donald and Melania Trump. Its amazing that he actually showed up. Obama gets heat for sharing a moment of brevity with the soon to be 47th. While George W. Bush, Kamala, and Karen Pence blot out the sun with the amount of shade.
And TikTok prepares to shut off the lights in the United States, barring a last minute save from SCOTUS, Biden, or even Trump. Tune in to see where you can find us after the clock app falls. We hope you had the time of your lives...
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Episode 153: #Eulogy #Legacy #Luigi #Empire Jan 06, 2025

Cathy and Troy remember the legacy of Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, who is often tarnished by Republicans because he was defeated by Ronald Reagan, but it was Carter who restored dignity to the White House and attempted to re-build an America based on compassion, civil rights, and public service, while Reagan built a United States of rampant consumerism, greed, corruption, and the destruction of the middle class.
CEO avenger Luigi Mangioni heads to trial with a high powered Manhattan Attorney and pleads not guilty. Will he be acquitted? Whatever you think of his methods, Luigi has ushered in a new era of class consiousness and dread for CEO's who have delared war on working people for decades.
And Donald Trump threatens imperial expansion into Greenland, Panama, Canada and Mexico while the U.S. media sane washes his plans as akin to the Loiusiana Purchase. Are we heading into WW3 at the hands of the man whose supporters said was the only one who could bring world peace?
Cathy and Troy break down real world war of 5 (6? 7?) kings, with a potential alliance brewing between the U.S. and Putin's Russia, against Europe, Asia and Latin America tying their fortunes to China.
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Episode 152: #ClaimDenied #FAFO #SyrianFreedom Dec 09, 2024

Cathy and Troy discuss the stunning events in Syria over the weekend, with the brutal Assad regime falling after 13 years of civil war, and the Syrian people finally liberated in a sequence of events tied to other geopolitical earthquakes, like a challenge to the pro-Russia government in Georgia, and a military coup put down in South Korea.
People all over the world are fighting back against authoritarianism. Will that come home to the U.S.?
And a faceless John Doe becomes an unexpected celebrity after gunning down the CEO of a health insurance company famous for denying needed healthcare access to its customers. Is it right to celebrate the death of really bad people?
Is this the tipping point for French Revolution 2.0, as billionaire oligarchs prepare to take over the U.S. government, and a whole generation raised on gun violence and active shooter drills prepares to push back in the exact way society taught them how to.
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Special Episode: Cathy Thanksgiving Message Nov 30, 2024

Cathy hammers home the realities that we all must face as children of the United States of America following the election of Donald Trump, and especially those of us in the millennial generation whose lives continue to be defined by the events of September 2001.
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Episode 151: #Catastrophe #WhatHappened #Kakistocracy Nov 18, 2024

Cathy and Troy react to the news that Donald Trump, convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and noted fraud and probable traitor, will once again be President of the United States. The reason? An uneducated electorate finally swallowed our democracy.
And his first acts as president-elect are a nightmare. A Russian spy for Director of National Intelligence? Sure. A pedophilic sex trafficker to head the Justice Department? Why not. An anti-vaxxer as head of Department of Health? Great idea.
Buckle up brothers and sisters.
The only bright side is Trump is already projecting such a terrible presidency it will hopefully finally divide Republicans, and Dems with no power can sit back with popcorn as the MAGA movement tears itself apart.
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Episode 150: #ElectionDay #Kamala #OctoberSurprise #PuertoRico #IowaShock Nov 04, 2024

Cathy and Troy LIST the roughly 8 or 9 October surprises that rocked the Trump campaign just over the last week, with possibly the most significant being losing Puerto Ricans and other Latino voters after an offensive comment made at a Trump rally by a shock comedian calling Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage. Then culminating in the release of new Epstein tapes that reveal a WHOLE lot of ick about Donald Trump only days away from the election.
The Trump campaign has completely collapsed, Trump is sundowning, and Kamala has been dominating at the absolute best time. All of this revealed in late breaking polls that show the race may not even be close after all, with late deciding voters breaking in double digits for Harris, and a STUNNING poll coming out of Iowa, where one of the most accurate pollsters in the nation has Kamala up by three points in that state.
If Kamala is leading in ruby red Iowa, that spells absolute doom for Donald Trump in places like Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona.
The Election is here. Get out and vote. Let's bring it home people, and show Trump and MAGA the door once and for all.
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Special Episode: #GenZ #DylanHellebrand #MaxwellFrost #Florida Oct 24, 2024

Cathy interviews Dylan Hellebrand, a former student, and a delegate to the DNC and staffer in the office of Congressman Maxwell Frost, about how young people can get involved in politics and make an impact quickly, the state of the race in Florida, predictions for the race nationally, and more, in this special bonus episode.
We may have a new Gen Z correspondent!
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Episode 149: #CognitiveDecline #OutFoxed #BaierDown #Kamalot Oct 21, 2024

Cathy and Troy discuss Kamala Harris' brutal takedown of Bret Baier during an obviously set up ambush interview on Fox News. Despite being designed to make her look bad, Kamala came away looking stronger than ever.
Donald Trump has completely gone bye bye. His campaign team cites exhaustion after he cancels event after event. But one Town Hall stands out, as Trump refuses to take questions from the crowd and instead slowly sways on stage to music for 40 minutes, while a dumbfounded crowd wonders wtf is going on?
Now imagine the media coverage if Biden had swayed silently on stage to music for 40 minutes without speaking. We literally had to invent a term: "sanewashing" to describe how the media treats Donald Trump, and its pathetic, because if Trump wins journalists will die.
And we put on our tinfoil hats to delve into conspiracies around the potential invoking of the 25th Amendment, which provides a method to rapidly remove a president over incompetence, if Trump becomes President, as the 2024 election draws near.
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Episode 148: #CoupPart2 #HurricaneOfLies #Asheville Oct 07, 2024

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.
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Episode 147: #ONEMONTHTOGO #ElectoralDysfunction #BigBoard Oct 03, 2024

Cathy is joined by friend of the show Ryan, the Just Buy Less Coffee version of Steve Kornacki, our electoral big board correspondent, to discuss the math on getting Kamala Harris to 270 electoral votes in what will be one of the closest elections in U.S. history...if the polls are right...which they probably aren't.
But how will we know if the polls are wrong in Trump's favor or Kamala's? Ryan and Cathy lay out some predictive signs for early in the evening on election night that will give clues as to whether it's time to break out the champagne, or put away the champagne and break out the whiskey.
Pennsylvania: all eyes on you for a new birth of freedom.
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Episode 146: #Terrorism #NoAccountability #FedUp Sep 19, 2024

Cathy and Troy break down the second assassination attempt of Donald Trump. Do the words of the man and party create an atmosphere of ongoing political violence and terrorism?
Especially when the Haitian community in Springfield is currently being terrorized by MAGA lies with no accountability, and Arab Americans testifying before Congress experience hate in a committee hearing on hate crime?
Speaking of terrorism, Israel just matched terror with terror by engaging in one of the most horrifying and audacious attacks in history.
And the Federal Reserve slashes interest rates for the first time in 4 years, signifying finally a soft landing for inflation without a corresponding recession. Economics teacher Cathy breaks down what this means for the pocketbooks of Americans.
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Episode 145: #MasterDebater #SwiftWork #Kamalot Sep 12, 2024

Cathy and Troy are back and Troy is broadcasting from Spain, as Kamala Harris makes Swift work of Donald Trump in the 2nd presidential debate. We break down the highlights and lowlights and breathe a sigh of relief to once again have a candidate that can form a coherent sentence. She looked damn Presidential too.
Then Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala, rounding out one of the worst possible nights for Donald Trump.
And we reflect on the solemn anniversary of 9/11, and the infuriating tie to January 6th, as Trump supporters achieved what Al Qaeda never could: an attack on the U.S. capitol.
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Episode 144: #DNC #Kamala #Obamas #TheDemocracy Aug 24, 2024

Cathy flies solo for this brief interlude episode, while Troy moves to Europe, and discusses the Democratic National Convention, the acceptance speech of Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee, the legendary oratory of the Obamas, and four of the greatest days of television for political junkies in history. It was political Coachella and Cathy is here for it.
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Episode 143: #SlurredLines #TrumpedUpPersonality #BallzToTheWalz #PaulCox Aug 13, 2024

Cathy and Troy break down Trump's complete collapse since the ascension of Kamala Harris to Democratic nominee. Trump's handlers have officially lost control as they beg him to stay on message. Trump gives bizarre press conferences, racist conspiracy-laden rallies, and most recently a disastrous appearance on Twitter Spaces with Elon Musk, where Trump slurred his words for over an hour.
Did he lose his dentures? Or is the once future American dictator in the middle of a complete free-fall of physical and mental health?
Meanwhile Kamala Harris and Tim Walz draw massive crowds and bring enthusiasm not seen since another historic presidential candidacy in 2008.
And we are joined by Paul Cox, a union leader from central Florida, to talk Florida politics, the realities of being a unionized worker in a "right-to-work" state, the progressive pro-union politics of Harris and Walz, and how unions are on the front lines mobilizing to stop the ultimate billionaire stooge, anti-worker scab Donald Trump from returning to the White House.
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Episode 142: #ProsecutorAndCoach #VsFelonAndCouch #HarrisWalz Aug 06, 2024

Cathy and Troy discuss the dark horse pick of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be Kamala Harris' running mate. As usual, Cathy called it. Walz is a midwestern governor so charming he even got AOC and Joe Manchin to agree he was a great pick.
Progressive on policy, Walz was the first governor to codify abortion rights after the fall of Roe. He instituted a free school lunch program in Minnesota, along with paid family leave, capped insulin costs, and expanded backround checks and red flag laws for guns sales. As a congressman, he even donated everything he received from the NRA to charity after the Parkland school shooting.
The ticket is set. Trump needs to be shitting his pants...oh wait.
Plus we discuss the other contenders including popular Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro who was the favorite, and why at the end of the day Walz was the best option.
Meanwhile Trump tells a room full of black people that Kamala Harris isn't black.
So, that's how the race is going.
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Episode 141: #BidenFarewell #Kamalot #NotGoingBack #OneLastTime Jul 25, 2024

Cathy and Troy break down the historic news that President Joe Biden will not be seeking re-election, passing the torch to the next generation by endorsing Kamala Harris for President.
Biden will now go down in history as one of the greatest presidents for his selfless move to save democracy when a path to beating Donald Trump became more and more unclear.
Biden gives a mini farewell address that has George Washington farewell vibes. He can now retire into elder statesman status, and become the most senior figure in the Democratic Party. He also can just be President for the next few months without having to run for President, ending one of the most effective presidential terms in history.
Now the focus shifts to Harris, who would be the first female and female person of color president in American history. As Trump and the GOP shit all over themselves trying to hit Harris with race and gender attacks, Harris shines in massive early fundraising and messaging as she wins support of all her rivals and of the Democratic base.
And Cathy deep dives the potential Harris vice presidential pick as we explore the extradinary talent waiting on the bench for the Democrats. Who will be the vice president to the first woman president in history? Let us know your thoughts.
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Episode 140: #AssassinationPolitics #TrumpVeep #ConspiracyofDunces Jul 16, 2024

Cathy and Troy discuss the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and the politics of violence and conspiracy.
Trump pledges unity, then defines unity as American loyalty to Trumpism, and his own absolute immunity.
Then he chooses J.D. Vance to be his vice president, a MAGA extremist who opposes no-fault divorce, supports a national abortion ban, and who is even more pro-Russia than Trump.
Judge Aileen Cannon throws out Trump's Mar-a-Lago stolen documents case in an obvious play to be the next Trump Supreme Court nomination.
And Cathy deep dives the history of Presidential assassinations and attempts, from Andrew Jackson to Donald Trump.
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Episode 139: #Trump'sProject2025Problem #RidinWithBiden? #EuroEuphoria Jul 10, 2024

Cathy and Troy continue our discussion of Biden potentially stepping down from the nomination and handing it off to Kamala Harris. Many more donors and key players have chimed in, including Nancy Pelosi and George Clooney, the latter signifying that Biden may have lost Hollywood, a key source of deep-pocketed donors that Democrats need to compete.
While the choice remains with Biden, and we support the Democratic nominee against Trump whomever it may be, the time is running out to make a decision.
Meanwhile, Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation wants us all to know that fascism is coming to the United States in a "bloodless revolution" and there isn't a God damn thing we can do about it.
AOC files impeachment articles against Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito.
The right-wing gets donkey punched in the UK and French elections. Could this be a bellwhether for the U.S. in the fall?
And Cathy deep dives how elections work in these nations with a focus on the different parties and processes, and the lessons and warnings we can take away from what just happened across the pond.
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Episode 138: #PresidentialSwap #KamalaAndACracker #ImmunityResponse Jul 03, 2024

Cathy and Troy break down the disastrous debate performance from Joe Biden last week, and discuss the growing calls for him to step into elder statesman mode and back another candidate. Biden has accomplished so much in four years. How will the next few weeks affect his legacy?
Is it now time for Kamala Harris to step up and be the first woman of color President in history? What will take to make that happen, and can she beat back the onslaught of fascism?
And the Supreme Court rolls out the red carpet to make Donald Trump a king by declaring that Presidents cannot be prosecuted for official acts. This means if Trump wins he will be above the law, with a fundamentalist religious cult Supreme Court that has positioned itself to remove the independence of the judiciary.
And Cathy deep dives how we got here: tracing the history of Presidential immunity back to Nixon, when it was just a theory, to Clinton, where the justices declared that Presidents can be sued, to Trump as dictator in waiting.
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Episode 137: #PresidentialThreeWay #MasterDebater #TheSWord Jun 25, 2024

Cathy and Troy break down the consequences of Trump's proposed economic plan: cut taxes for the rich, deport immigrant workers, and skyrocket the costs of consumer goods by spiking import tariffs, which economists say would lead to a recession in the U.S. by next year, while increasing inflation - leading to the S word: Stagflation, a combination of slow growth and high prices that we saw in the 1970's.
The Trump campaign is preparing for a disastrous debate performance against President Biden this week by pre-suggesting that Biden will be on drugs, and only able to form a coherent thought when jacked up on performance enhancers and anti-depressants. Every accusation is a confession with cocaine addled diaper Don.
Conspiracy network InfoWars is finally shut down by Alex Jones' bankruptcy trustee, ending a nightmare of American culture that destroyed hundreds of lives.
And Cathy leads a deep dive discussion of the biggest Presidential debates of the modern era in preparation for the nightmare Trump Biden debate coming this week. Kennedy was TV ready while Nixon had the flu; Reagan dumbed down the Presidency to make it cool; and Clinton came out on top in a Presidential 3-way...
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Episode 136: #Trump'sWhiteBoySummer #Groyper #Tariffying Jun 18, 2024

Cathy and Troy break down the recent Supreme Court decisions: to lift the ban on bump stocks, a device that turns a semi-automatic rifle into a machine gun, and to allow the continued use of the abortion pill.
The Trump presidential immunity case ruling is imminent, with two members of SCOTUS, Alito and Thomas, firmly entrenched within the Trump insurrectionist movement.
Trump attempts another sham grassroots event, attending a service at black church in Detroit, and literally everyone in the crowd is white. The only black people in the room were the same Maga operatives who travel everywhere with Trump pretending to be adoring fans to build the narrative of black support.
Trump then attended a Turning Point USA event where a "white boy summer" flag was unveiled, a slogan used by neo-nazi Nick Fuentes' group, the Groypers. Trump held a fake event at a black church in the morning, then partied with white supremacists in the evening, and still wants to pretend he isn't a racist.
And Cathy gives a deep dive into Trump's plan to replace income tax with import tariffs, a dumpster fire idea that will put all the burden of funding the federal government on the poor by skyrocketing the price of goods.
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Episode 135: #MAGAInHeat #LetThemEatCake #SettlingTheSenate Jun 11, 2024

Cathy and Troy discuss Trump's "let them eat cake" moment as he tells his supporters standing in triple digit heat to see him speak that he doesn't care about their safety, only their votes.
Speaking of let them eat cake, the European Union elections in France go full fascist, as the far-right, nazi-sympathizing party of Marine Le Pen destroys the centrist party of President Emmanuel Macron, setting up a showdown for control of the French parliament in elections this summer.
Is fascism coming to France?
And we deep dive potential reforms to U.S. Senate to save the body and American democracy as a whole by looking at how upper houses work in other countries and what we can learn from them, as the world barrels toward 3 crucial elections this year in the U.S., U.K., and France that will decide the future of global democracy.
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Episode 134: #ConvictedFelonTrump #Bibi'sBidenBurn #GenerationTrauma Jun 04, 2024

Cathy and Troy break down the developing ceasefire proposal put forth by President Biden to end the conflict in Gaza. The deal includes a withdrawal of Israeli forces and the rebuild of Gaza, along with a return of displaced Palestinians to their homes.
Is this the beginning of an end to the genocide and the start of a new era of Palestinian statehood? Bibi Netanyahu's right-wing coalition is adamantly opposed to it, but the Israeli people want it...and so does Hamas. Will Bibi's political opponents in the parliament back him on the deal if he loses the support of his right-wing base?
Donald Trump is convicted by a jury of falsifying business records to cover up a scheme to launder hush-money payments to porn stars. And he is still the Republican nominee for President. Will the nation elect its first felon to the White House? What does that mean for the U.S and for the world?
And Cathy brings us a deep-dive on generational responses to the Trump conviction.
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Episode 133: #MasterDebater #ButkerBlowsIt #BadBuiltButchBody #SaudiSaviors May 21, 2024

Cathy and Troy break down the verbal melee in Congress in the middle of the House Oversight Committee meeting, when Marjorie Taylor Greene decided to talk trash...then Jasmine Crockett made her eat it. But really isn't this what the House of Representatives was designed for?
Biden agrees to debates with Trump...because Trump is an idiot and didn't realize you don't have to challenge your presidential rival to a debate, those are scheduled for the fall right before the election. But Biden calls Trump's bluff and now we get another round of the absolute horror show that is the Trump/Biden debate. Awesome.
Biden works on a deal with the Saudis to bring them into the fold on Israel in exchange for a ceasefire agreement. Will Israel agree to it?
The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and the leader of Hamas while the President of Iran dies in a helicopter crash.
And Kansas City Chiefs Kicker Harrison Butker decides to step in shit, lecturing college graduate women about how much better their life would be if they just gave up their careers and committed to making babies. Will Taylor Swift respond to her boyfriend's jackass teammate?
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Episode 132: #FederalPregnancyRegistry #WhatComesNext? #AnyoneButHamas #WomensRights May 14, 2024

Cathy and Troy analyze Biden's decision to withhold offensive weapons from Israel after Benjamin Netanyahu crosses Biden's red line and attacks Rafah, and an investigation reveals U.S. weapons have been used to commit war crimes. Now all eyes on Tel Aviv and Washington as the world turns against Bibi, and Biden now has to decide if he will fully abandon the brutal Israeli response against the Gaza Palestinians.
While campus protests accelerate in the name of establishing an Arab Palestinian single state, i.e. ending the state of Israel. But what will that mean if the only government lined up to take control of such a state is Hamas? A far right, Islamic fundamentalist, anti-gay, anti-woman, anti-Jewish regime, with 8 million Jews living in Israel. What is the plan? And where is the secular democratic leadership that can demand rights for the Palestinians without forcing a mass removal of the Jews, and the expansion of extremist sectarian fascism?
And creepy Alabama Senator Katie Britt introduces a bill to create a federal registry of pregnant people. Trump tries to claim his rally hit 100,000 attendees on a boardwalk in New Jersey with a capacity of 25,000, and the local media repeats the lie. And Cathy pontificates on the potential of a larger Russian invasion of Europe in the first ever edition of the segment: Cathy smokes the tea leaves.
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Episode 131: #Ceasefire #Legacy #NoemMoreLies May 07, 2024

Cathy and Troy break down the looming attack from the Israeli Defense Forces on the city of Rafah, the last vestige of security for the people of Gaza, what the choices are for Biden now, and how this moment more than any other will define his legacy.
Hamas agrees to a tentative ceasefire proposal written by Egypt to release hostages in exchange for a brief cessation of hostilities, but how will Bibi and the hardliners in the Israeli government respond?
Protests grow on college campuses. Some are met with horrific racism, as in the case of Ole Miss. While some occupy buildings and become radicalized , and still others broker negotiations to achieve their goals from the universities.
Cathy and Troy break down the history of college campus protests and draw parallels with the campus demonstrations of the late 1960's.
And dog killer Kristi Noem wins Troy's lie of the week. And it's a complete disaster.
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Episode 130: #SupremeCoercion #TheGreatestGas #NoemMorePuppies Apr 30, 2024

Cathy and Troy break down Donald Trump's recent court cases, where the disgraced former president faces fraud charges for secretly paying off a porn star to keep quiet about their affair while his wife was pregnant, calling it a campaign expense, and paying a guy named Pecker to hide the story from the tabloids.
Oh and he keeps falling asleep during the trial and farting himself awake, grossing out his own lawyers.
And he's the nominee of the Republican party to be the most powerful person on earth.
Slap yourself. This is reality.
Pro-Palestine protests get more intense on campus, as Bibi Netanyahu begs Biden to exempt his top lieutenants from the International Criminal Court, and the United States sanctions Israeli troops for attacking non-combatant Palestinians in the West Bank.
The Supreme Court hears two key cases: one where Trump's lawyers argued that Presidents are allowed to commit crimes with impunity; and another where the state of Idaho argued that federal laws mandating that emergency room doctors save women's lives shouldn't apply to states that criminalize abortion.
We break down the responses from the Justices and predict which way the cases will go.
And South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem publishes a book wherin she happily describes murdering her own pets, and tries to use it as a platform to launch her into the role of Trump's Vice President.
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Episode 129: #WW3 #IranToThePolls #IsraelNotSafer Apr 16, 2024

Cathy and Troy break down the Iran attack on Israel and the beginning of World War 3...or is it? Iran's attack was a very prescribed response designed to appease the hardline elements in their government, and resulted in only one injury and no deaths. Cathy and Troy examine the next possible moves for Israel and the U.S. with one thing certain: Israel is not safer as a result of Bibi Netanyahu's genocidal war on the Palestinians.
And, we respond to far-left attacks on our character for our refusal to sit out the election, and ask what the plan is on the far-left, considering they don't even have a candidate to challenge Biden, let alone one that can get 270 electoral votes. The nation and the world has so much to lose with the election of Donald Trump, but the far-left care more about themselves than they do about actually helping the Palestinians.
And a fake hug in a Chick-Fil-A wins Troy's lie of the week.
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Episode 128: #ArizonaRising #19thCenturyLaws #SwingerStates #AbortTheGOP Apr 09, 2024

Cathy and Troy break down the new total abortion ban in Arizona, a law written in 1864 before Arizona became a state, and decades before women had the right to vote. The law has been on the books for more than a century but was unenforceable while Roe v. Wade was the law of the land. Thanks to Trump and the Federalist Society taking control of the U.S. Supreme Court, now Arizona women are subjected to 19th century law, and 19th century medicine.
Arizona joins Florida as two major swing states that will now have abortion on the ballot for the Presidential election in November, greatly increasing the chances of a Democratic victory on the national level.
Israeli Defense Forces pull troops back from southern Gaza a week after Biden called Bibi Netanyahu and read him the riot act over international food aid workers being killed in an air strike by the IDF. Bibi is now in a really bad spot as he's on the verge of losing American support if he pushes any further in Gaza, but if he doesn't he will lose his fascist right-flank supporters in the Israeli Parliament.
And Obama's pollster discusses the reality of polls in the 2024 election and how despite what legacy media is saying, Trump is in no better a position than Biden according to the Polls. The Never Trump movement is holding strong with Nikki Haley getting tens of thousands of votes in primaries despite dropping out of the race.
All for less than the price of a cup of coffee...
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Episode 127: #EasterisTRANSformational #Faketroversy #DiversityBuildsBridges #TourofHell Apr 01, 2024

Cathy and Troy are joined by special guest, MeidasTouch contributor CoachD_Speaks, to celebrate Trans Day of Visibility, a day put into hyper public awareness by fake Republican outrage that it landed on the same day as Easter.
Republicans lied and said Biden scheduled Trans Day of Visibility on Easter out of disrespect for Christians, but Trans Day of Visibility is always March 31st, and has been since 2009. The date of Easter changes, and they simply landed on the same day this year.
We guarantee Biden didn't actually know Trans Day of Visibility was even a thing until Republicans made it huge.
Speaking of huge, a giant container ship slapped in the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore and collapsed it, killing 6. Rather than spark a conversation about our critically underfunded infrastructure, racist Republicans decided, inexplicably, to make it into their latest salvo in the war against diversity.
And Texas Republicans get caught in a meeting with a group called Abolish Abortion Texas, whose explicit mission is to impose the death penalty on women and girls who get abortions, or receive IDF treatments, with no exception for rape or incest.
All for less than than the price of a cup of coffee....
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Special Guest Episode: Cathy Inverviews Campus Change Makers Mar 29, 2024

Cathy interviews Sarah Hoffer, Change Party Senator at the University of Florida and Jayden Currence, Director of Communications for the UCF College Democrats, to discuss how politics is playing out on their respective campuses and offer advice for other young people and students looking for ways to get involved.

Episode 126: #CeasefireIsolation #MotionToPlacate #What'sRonnaWithNBC? Mar 25, 2024

Cathy and Troy break down the UN Ceasefire Resolution that passed the Security Council without a U.S. veto, leading Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cancel his visit to the United States next month, likely signaling a decay of U.S./Israel relations. This was definitely the right move in the face of Israeli genocide of Palestinians, but will an increasingly isolated Bibi prove to be even more dangerous?
A terrorist attack in Moscow kills 140 people. Putin recognizes that ISIS K is responsible but is still trying to spin the horrifying loss of civilian life as somehow the fault of Ukraine.
House Republicans finally pass a funding bill to keep the government open to the end of the year, and as a reward for bipartisan compromise, House Speaker Mike Johnson now faces losing his job after Marjorie Taylor Green files a motion to vacate the Speakership. Here we go again with more House Speaker chaos? Or will House Dems save Johnson's job, and if so, what will he owe them?
In the midst of Speaker drama, Ken Buck and Mike Gallagher, two old-school Republicans, suddenly quit Congress as a middle-finger to the MAGA takeover of the Party. Republicans now hold the House majority by a single vote.
Chuck Todd finally shows up to work, telling off his bosses at NBC to their faces for hiring ex RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel as full-time contributor.
And Cathy puts on her tin foil hat and jumps right in to Royal family conspiracy theories surrounding the condition of Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales.
All for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 125: #TrumpTowerGaza #RussiaPutinItsPlace #EvilBastards Mar 19, 2024

Cathy and Troy analyze the Presidential election in Russia, where Vladimir Putin won with 87% of the vote, to look at what actually stealing an election looks like. Pro-democracy activist and Putin opposition leader Alexei Navalny was killed in a Russian prison in February. Putin will now be dictator of Russia until 2030, at least.
The U.S. House passed its effective TikTok ban; a law that TikTok must divest from its Chinese parent company ByteDance, and be purchased by an American company or investor group. As the Chinese economy collapses, could this be a bluff to hurt ByteDance stock and further harm China, the biggest U.S. competitor for global superiority? Or will Biden actually sign this law and allow the U.S. government to assist in a hostile corporate takeover of the biggest brand in the world? One thing is for certain: TikTok is too big to be banned.
And Trump son-in-law and former Director of Middle East Policy Jared Kushner discusses a plan to move out Gaza residents to build valuable beach front property in the Gaza strip. If Trump wins re-election, will construction begin immediately on Trump Tower Gaza?
All for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 124: #BaneOfTheUnion #WTFWasThat #NotSoSuperTuesday #TikTokIndeed Mar 11, 2024

JBLC breaks down the looming Congressional ban on TikTok, what is motivating it, and if it will actually happen. TikTok is a source of community for many youth and especially those affected in their formative years by COVID shutdowns. Many youth use TikTok as their main outlet of self-expression and connection. The U.S. Congress probably has more pressing things to deal with than to scapegoat an app on behalf of competing business interests.
But then again, Trump may try to buy it...
And a huge week of news as the State of the Union and Super Tuesday occured last week. We analyze Biden's speech as he shames the devil that is the MAGA Republicans into utter submission. We also discuss Biden's gaffe during the speech that overshadowed its success with many people.
MAGA freshman Senator Katie Britt of Alabama gives a bizzare, unwatchable response speech that was so bad everyone but Trump hated it. She's probably going to be Trump's VP by the way. One section of Britt's speech was so misleading it earns recognition as Lie of the Week.
And the general election is here at last with Super Tuesday primaries booting out Nikki Haley and Dean Phillips. What will Nikki Haley do now? Will she finally form the third party for sane conservatives? Or will fold and endorse Trump, and return limping into the MAGA-sphere. Probably the latter.
All for less than the price of a cup of coffee...
PLUS: a subscriber-only deep dive continuing our series on U.S. Presidents. This time we break down what we feel are the best Presidents of the 20th and 21st century. It was harder than it sounds.
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Episode 123: #FlaccidInsurrections #HaleyWins #AirDroppingTheBall Mar 04, 2024

JBLC breaks down the passage of a bill in France to enshrine the right to an abortion in their constitution, a move inspired by the loss of reproductive freedom in the United States;
Nikki Haley wins the DC primary on the way to a complete surprise rout of Donald Trump...probably not, but we take a look at the upcoming Super Tuesday primary elections, can Haley make a last stand against the insurrectionist and save the soul of the Republican Party?;
Speaking of insurrection, the Supreme Court rules that states can't remove Donald Trump from the ballot for violating the 14th amendment insurrection clause. We explain why this actually was the right call, and also why we need a constitutional convention now more than ever;
Also, Kamala Harris takes the lead on the conflict in Gaza from the U.S. perspective and calls for a 6 week ceasefire. Netanyahu opposition leader Benny Ganz is invited to the White House and the dicussion is kept secret. Is Biden prepping for force out Bibi?
And Chaya Raichek, the creator of LibsOfTikTok wins liar of the week. She's a right-wing terrorist who foments trans genocide for money.
All for less than the price of a cup of coffee...
PLUS: Inspired by the recent Presidential historian poll which ranked Trump worst President of all time, Cathy and Troy create their own lists of worst Presidents with analysis in a Patreon exclusive Deep Dive.
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Episode 122: #SCOTUSImmunityReponse #MoveMitchGetOutTheWay #EmbryonicStupidity Feb 29, 2024

Cathy and Troy give a eulogy for the career of Mitch McConnell, who announced this week that he would be stepping down from his 2 decade role of Senate Republican Leader, a career marked by putting party ahead of country, weaponizing the filibuster, and corrupting all three branches of government, only to be turned on by MAGA. Bye Mitch. You earned your place in political infamy.
The Supreme Court is taking up Trump's claims of Presidential Immunity, the concept that Presidents, and in Trump's case ex-Presidents, are allowed to break the law. The best case scenario is that SCOTUS is simply making a move to delay Trump's Jan 6 and classified documents trials.
Worst case scenario, the Court paves the way for Donald Trump, and any President, to be above the law. This is the Court where Trump picked 3 justices, and another, Clarence Thomas, was directly involved in the Jan 6 coup through his wife and other political allies.
The results are in from the Michigan primaries and some Democrats just can't commit to Joey Biden in the middle of the GAZA genocide. Cathy and Troy put on campaign manager hats and discuss the primary results from both parties, who had a good night, and which side is actually more uncommitted to their candidate.
And the Christian nationalism crusade continues as men who think In Vitro Fertilization is abortion make moves to ban the procedure nationwide. We break down how the "life begins at conception" argument is so flawed with an epic Cathy rant.
All for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 121: #Navalny #PutinBrutality #DeadLast #LyingSackofCrap Feb 19, 2024

JBLC looks at the death of Russian pro-democracy leader Alexei Navalny, Putin's chief rival, in a Russian prison camp; a political assassination the same week that Trump announced to the world that he would let Putin do "whatever the hell he wants", as MAGA suddenly turns against Russia saying that Trump is the only leader who can stand up to Putin.
Will this serve to dislodge Ukraine aid from Congress as the world is reminded of the brutality of Putin's regime?
All this as Russian propaganda ratchets up in the U.S. ahead of the election. Tucker Carlson goes to Russia and films a blatant pro-Putin gaslighting segment, stating that quality of life is better in Russia than in the United States.
We dismantle Carlson's lies in our first "Lie of the Week" segment.
Trump is ordered to pay $450 million dollars and banned from doing business in NY for three years in his NY Civil Fraud case, after a clown show of a trial where he attacked the judge and defamed the judge's clerk, all after forgetting to request a Jury.
And the Presidential greatness survey is released and Donald Trump is ranked DEAD LAST, 45 out of 45, failing to edge out famous drunks and traitors. He's in the company he deserves. While Obama jumps to 7, and Biden enters the survey at 14.
All for less than the price of a cup of coffee...
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Episode 120: #CognitiveDecline #SuperNasty #HittingBottoms Feb 12, 2024

Cathy and Troy delve into the world of cognitive politics as a Trump appointed special prosecutor throws gasoline on the mental fitness debate between Biden and Trump. Should Biden drop out and make way for a candidate with less baggage? Will Trump be in prison by the election?
Plus MAGA implodes in Congress over border negotiations, and right-wing heads explode over Taylor Swift and the Superbowl.
All for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 119: #BorderlineInsane #NotinOurName #LittleDemocracy #Special Guest: Monique Worrell Feb 05, 2024

JBLC analyzes the situation at the U.S. border with a look at both the MAGA response, which took the form of a failed convoy of true believers heading down to the border to stop the migrant invasion, only to learn that the trip was part of a con artist grifting operation; to Republicans in Congress sabotaging their own border bill to make Joe Biden look bad, and keep the border in a crisis to help Donald Trump get elected.
Cathy and Troy unload on Israel and Gaza with cathartic rage at the fact that U.S. is fighting in the middle east...AGAIN; discuss the tragic Biden legacy as a supporter of genocide, but swallow the hard pill than Biden is the better option for the Palestinians when faced with the prospect of a Trump presidency...and Bibi Netanyahu knows it too; and speculate on the future of a Palestinian state, and the role of the U.S in the world in the face of increased skepticism and global dismissal of U.S legitimacy as a defender of democracy.
And we speak with special guest Monique Worrell, a Florida prosecutor suspended by Ron DeSantis over her investigation into racist corruption at a local police agency. DeSantis used Worrell during his Presidential campaign as an example of how he was cleaning house of "Soros-funded woke prosecutors."
But now DeSantis has been embarrassed out of any possibility of reaching the Presidency, Worrell is running for re-election in a jurisdiction where she won 67% of the vote the last time...and she's seeking justice against DeSantis.
All for less than the price of a cup of coffee...
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Episode 118: #PrimaryPickle #SecondPlaceFirstLoser #LittleDeepFakes #ArtificialIntegrity Jan 29, 2024

JBLC breaks down the New Hampshire primary results as Trump has performance issues revealing cracks in the MAGA foundation and a problem with Republican enthusiasm, as Nikki Haley's campaign survives another round and Biden wins the state on a write in campaign;
Ron DeSantis, who promised to never back down, backs down, showing yet again why Casey DeSantis can't have nice things;
Texas politicizes a border crisis and stirs the brew of civil war, while Biden once again is the only adult in the room;
Deepfaked nude pictures of Taylor Swift finally prove that John Connor was right about AI;
And Fox's disinformation about Biden's mental health just gets lazy, as we show the full version of a deceptive clip that went viral;
All for less than the price of a cup of coffee...
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Deep Dives return for our Patreon subscribers as Cathy continues her discussion of the War Powers Act, this time delving into the Iraq war debacle that provided the backdrop of our political formative years in the early 2000's.
Join us on a crushing trip down memory lane deep into our latent millennial subconscious, as the still-destabilized middle east once again blows up in war.
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Episode 117: #BigCaucus #LittleD #Syphilis #EuropeanVacation #SCOTUSProblems Jan 22, 2024

JBLC analyzes the results of the Iowa Caucus and the bizarre messaging from multiple corners of Trump's inevitability after only winning a tiny election in a ruby red state;
We lament DeSantis' truly horrible campaign while we wait for him to drop out during our recording, and in typical DeSantis fashion he screws it up and announces 2 hours after we had finished that he was dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump. DeSantis, once the only viable Republican alternative to Donald Trump, had one of the least effective dumpster fire campaigns in history;
So now eyes turn to Nikki Haley, the lone anti-Trump horse in the race. Will she revive the anti-Trump coalition DeSantis had and managed to bludgeon to death with mediocrity? Or fold in the face of unrelenting MAGA fascist pressure for her betrayal of the dear leader. The answer may lie in her performance in New Hampshire Tuesday...
And Europe comes to terms with the reality of a 21st century without an alliance with the United States, as Trump eeks closer to power and a shift away from NATO and toward the world's authoritarian powers;
And does Trump have syphilis? What in god's name in on his hands? We explore the possibilities.
All for less than the price of a cup of coffee...
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Episode 116: #WarCrimes #TrumpLied #SexualCongress Jan 15, 2024

JBLC revisits the genocide in Gaza and speculates about the future of the Israeli state in the face of worldwide condemnation and a historic charge of war crimes before the Hague;
Trump goes on a Fox Town Hall and perpetuates the lie that he's a candidate of peace, despite his term being marked by escalations of U.S. wars all over the world, a destabilized middle east and United States, and mass global atrocities;
Roger Stone threatens to assassinate two members of Congress;
Iowa prepares to brave threatening weather to show off their caucus, while Ron Desantis and Nikki Haley grudge match for MAGA silver medal;
And the Hunter Biden contempt hearing in Congress goes off the rails, AGAIN, as Marge Green shows off her prize collection of images of Hunter's penis, Jamie Raskin's head nearly explodes at the Republican audacity, James Comer pulls a hammy stretching the rules to accommodate the insanity of his party, and Jared Moskowitz shames the GOP to their face;
All for less that the price of a cup of coffee...
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A subscriber only deep dive on the history and consequences of the War Powers Act that grants U.S. Presidents the authority to use the military without Congressional authorization for a short time...in theory.
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Episode 115: #EpsteinList #ByeWayne #FreeStateOfFlorida #GoodEconomics Jan 08, 2024

JBLC breaks down the release of the Epstein files, who's on the list, and the garbage right weaponizing the horrors of sex trafficking against their opponents with false accusations;
Biden gives more weapons to the Israelis while the civilian death toll mounts;
NRA boss Wayne LaPierre resigns leaving behind a wake of corruption and death and the cancer of gun violence in America;
Trump prepares to fight his removal from state ballots as abortion rights advocates in Florida get enough signatures for an abortion rights referendum, putting Florida back in play in the 2024 election;
And the economy is booming, can you tell?; we discuss the effect it will have, on Biden/Trump as we prep for the election year,
all for less than the price of a coffee...

Episode 114: #RoeSecrets #KinkInTheSenate #RudyCocktails #ImpeachmentGhosts Dec 18, 2023

JBLC breaks down the fake impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, where MAGA Republicans admit they have no evidence to impeach, they just want to help Donald Trump's election;
Rudy Guiliani gets the shit kicked out of him in court after ruining the lives of two election workers;
Behind the scenes secrets are revealed about the chaos in the Supreme Court leading up to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, as right-wing men on the court conspired to destroy reproductive freedom while the other justices tried desperately to stop them;
Another abortion case heads to SCOTUS with the fate of the abortion pill in the balance;
And we make Cathy blush with a discussion of Senate chamber sex with the revelation of a sex tape filmed in a hearing room;
PLUS, JBLC DEEP DIVES RETURN with Cathy's discussion of the Democratic civil war in 1968, in a PATREON EXCLUSIVE:
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Episode 113: #LifeOfTheMother #Ukraine #Gaza #Disinformation Dec 12, 2023

JBLC breaks down the Kate Cox case in Texas: a woman who was denied an abortion despite serious health complications due to a fatal nonviable pregnancy, who then had to flee the state for healthcare while waiting for a court to rule on her case after she sued;
Ukraine looks for more aid and runs headlong into the beast that is Russia-supporting MAGA Republicans, but gets bailed out at the last minute by Joe Biden;
Israel races against the clock to demonstrate success in their war against Hamas with the world watching Netanyahu's war criminal behavior;
And disinformation runs free on Elon Musk's Twitter as a disgraceful fake video is shared dishonoring U.S. military cadets;
All for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 112: #NewsomDesantis #Debate #Trump #Gaza Dec 05, 2023

JBLC breaks down the good old fashioned ass whoopin California Governor Gavin Newsom gave to Florida Governor and failing presidential candidate Ron Desantis in a bizarre primtime interview on Fox...the perfect gift for Cathy's birthday;
MAGA Republicans use psyop tactics to try and manipulate black and muslim voters;
Liz Cheney warns the end is nigh for American Democracy if Trump is re-elected;
Speaker Mike Johnson proves it by promising to obstruct justice to protect Jan 6 insurrectionists;
And the casualty count climbs in Gaza as Israeli attempts to limit civilian casualties fall apart, and the political walls start to close in around Bibi Netanyahu;
all for less than price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 111: #GAZA #Trump #Mockery #Ireland #Riot Nov 28, 2023

JBLC breaks down Hamas releasing hostages and negotiating a ceasefire with Israel;
MTG's book flops harder than a Evertonian soccer player;
Melania attends Rosalynne Carter's funeral and sits next to Michelle Obama. It was weird;
George Santos is about to be kicked out of Congress;
Young voters turn on Biden over Gaza;
and right-wingers riot in Ireland what they say was a migrant stabbing children, but the attacker was an Irish citizen, and the hero who stopped him was an immigrant;
All for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 110: #Congress #Beatdown #Trump #Nazis Nov 20, 2023

JBLC breaks down the calamity in Congress as Republican members literally come to blows and a U.S. Senator uses a committee hearing to try and pick a fight with a union leader;
The situation intensifies in Gaza, as Israel continues to bomb civilians, while Osama Bin Laden's letter to America resurfaces on TikTok;
and Donald Trump compares his political enemies to "Vermin" in a throw back to Hitler in Germany, promising to send people to camps, in a full on admission of the hellish future MAGA has in store for the United States if Trump takes power;
all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 109: #Gaza #War #Polls #Election Night Nov 07, 2023

JBLC breaks down election night in an off-year with abortion rights on the ballot in several states;
The war in Gaza heats up as the world calls for a ceasefire;
The new Speaker of the House is a Christo-fascist weirdo who shares a porn-monitoring app with his son;
and the polling industrial complex continues to wage a war on democracy with garbage polls pushing an inevitable Trump victory;
all for less than a cup of coffee...

Episode 108: #Israel #Palestine #Heartbroken Oct 16, 2023

JBLC breaks down the horrific events on the ground in the Israel/Hamas war. Any movement that targets children, on either side, is illegitimate.
We stand therefore with both the people of Israel and Palestine in the face of death of so many innocents, and not with either Hamas or the Israeli government.
At the same time, disgusting islamophobia is spreading once again here in the U.S. which has already resulted in the death of a 6 year old Palestinian American child who was stabbed 28 times.
Also in other news, the MAGA traitor Jim Jordon is on the brink of taking control of the House of Representatives.
...all for less than the price of a cup of coffee.

Episode 107: #GOP #Chaos #Governance #Failure Oct 03, 2023

JBLC breaks down the vacation of former Speaker McCarthy, and the vacation he will now be taking as a result,
the weakest Speaker in U.S. history, all McCarthy had to do was the slightest bit of negotiation with Democrats to save his job. Instead he went on Sunday news shows and tried to blame Democrats for the near government shutdown caused by his caucus.
McCarthy would rather lose his job than be bi-partisan.
And Trump circles the drain mentally, continuing to threaten his perceived enemies, including Judge Engoran's law clerk, which led to a gag order that could result in a 30 day jail sentence if Trump says posts anything about Engoran or his staff,
and the polling industry continues to shit the bed, predicting Trump will win young voters by 20%.
All for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 106: #Bobo #GagOrder #Freaky #PressFail Sep 19, 2023

JBLC Breaks down the disastrous Meet The Press interview with Donald Trump; Kristen Welker, along with all of legacy media, is putting ratings ahead of democracy,
Bobo engages in heavy petting during Beetlejuice, who knew that Beetlejuice the musical was so hot?
The UAW goes on strike and tells Trump to fuck himself,
Mitt Romney quits government,
and Congress barrels toward a shutdown while MAGA cheers,
all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 105: #Florida #Nazis #Trump #HateSpeech Sep 05, 2023

JBLC breaks down the rise in hate speech in America, both on social media where Elon Musk leads a anti-semitic movement against the Anti Defamation League,
and on the streets of Florida where it is safer to be a nazi than it is to be a trans youth,
plus Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio is sentenced for January 6th,
Gloria Johnson destroys Marsha Blackburn in a new campaign ad,
Trump releases a psychotic video blog series,
and Mitch McConnell back to work after second medical scare,
all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Just Buy Less Coffee Episode 104: #Mugshots #Shootings #Evil #America Aug 29, 2023

JBLC breaks down the Trump surrender and mugshot, the most famous presidential portrait in history and the image of pure evil;
The GOP debate features three of the worst candidates in history and Trump isn't even on the stage;
Tucker Carlson interviews Trump and things got weird; Tucker desperate to get Trump's thoughts on Epstein's death, Trump wants to pontificate on water pressure.
And Yevgony Prigozhin's plane gets a Putin diversion,
All for less than the price of a cup of coffee...
Ron Filipkowski's article on the Fulton County, Georgia Trump Indictment:
https://www.meidastouch.com/news/geogia-trump-indictment

Episode 103: #Trump #Indictment #Judgement #Florida Aug 17, 2023

JBLC breaks down the 4th (5th) Trump indictment in Fulton County;
a federal court rules against the abortion pill, making the nightmarish hellscape that is the United States for reproductive freedom just that much darker;
unsealed Twitter court transcripts reveal how hard Elon Musk wants Trump to be his daddy;
devastating fires in Maui gets the garbage really angry about the exact wrong thing;
Desantis debate prep leaks and proves our theory that Desantis thinks the only way he can win is if Trump goes to prison;
and Cathy gives us an update on teaching in Florida as another school year begins in Desantisstan,
all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...
Here's the link to Ron Filipkowski's article about the Trump RICO Indictment:
https://www.meidastouch.com/news/geogia-trump-indictment

Episode 101: #Ireland #Freedom #Tiocfaidh ár lá Aug 03, 2023

On the public portion of our 100th episode Patreon exclusive live, JBLC deep dives Troy's trip to Ireland and reveals the history of a once horrifically oppressed people who have built a thriving progressive nation for themselves, while U.S. democracy backslides, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...
THANK YOU FOR 100!

Episode 100: #BadBitch #Barbie #AlienLife #Trump #Fascism Aug 01, 2023

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR 100 EPISODES!!!
JBLC breaks down the Barbie movie phenomenon and its effect on vaginal drying right wing dudes;
the government confirms aliens exist, and no one cares;
Musk rebrands Twitter, which is always a sign things are going well;
Desantis tweets nazi images and then deletes them;
Israeli democracy commits suicide;
fascists in Italy make LGBT second class citizens in a genocidal move;
and Trump prepares to be arrested...again, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 99: #RightWing #Fundamentalism #Church #State Jul 13, 2023

JBLC continues our conversation about the Duggar family and their connection to a political network of right-wing evangelical fascists who have worked to destroy our liberal democracy for 50 years, and got away with it while the rest of us weren't paying attention.
PLUS , special guest comedian Devin Siebold joins to talk about the Bored Teacher comedy tour, featuring former teachers turned comedians lamenting about the state of education in the U.S., all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...
https://www.boredteachers.com/

Episode 98: #CorruptSCOTUS #Fascism #Elon #Twitter #Loser Jul 11, 2023

JBLC runs through the recent SCOTUS decisions which are outright assaults on liberal democracy in the U.S. from a corrupt illegitimate court; MTG gets booted from the House Freedom Caucus for not being extreme enough; and Elon Musk gets into a dick measuring contest with Mark Zuckerberg, and loses, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 97: #Democracy #SCOTUS #TrumpConfession #RussiaCollapsing Jun 27, 2023

JBLS breaks down the Moore v. Harper SCOTUS decision, which saw the biggest threat to our democracy in our entire history defeated...barely; a failed coup in Russia destroys the legitimacy of Putin and opens the door to regime change; Trump admits to federal crimes on tape; and RFJ Jr. shows the world what an actual asshole he is, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 96: #RightWing #Movement #Duggars #Fundamentalism Jun 15, 2023

JBLC examines the story of the Duggars, the reality TV show family hiding dark secrets of physical and sexual abuse, and how their religious experience defines the right-wing evangelical Christian movement in the United States that has been organized around destroying liberal democracy for four decades, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 95: #Trump #Arrest #MAGA #Terrorism Jun 14, 2023

JBLC breaks down the Trump arrest and arraignment after being charged with violations of the espionage act, and examines the disgusting violent rhetoric that followed the indictment from MAGA terrorists, including some members of Congress, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 94: #Fascism #Signs #Spain #Germany #USA Jun 08, 2023

JBLC continues our deep dive on the historical rise of fascism as we watch it happen in real time in the U.S., with a look at Franco's unique rule of Spain and how it was a precursor the rise of Hitler, then discusses the nazi movement in Germany and how its eerily reminiscent of what we are seeing in the U.S., all for less than a cup of coffee...

Episode 93: #Trump #Indictment #Pride Jun 06, 2023

JBLC breaks down indictment-watch as Jack Smith concludes his espionage investigation into Donald Trump; Trump's pool mysteriously floods and destroys surveillance equipment; the debt ceiling agreement passes and MAGA turns on McCarthy and MTG, while Lauren Boebert misses the vote and then lies about it; Fascists mobilize against pride month; and dueling documentaries show our fractured reality, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 92: #Fascism #History #Repeats #Buffoons Jun 01, 2023

JBLC begins a series highlighting the history of fascism as we watch it rise again in the U.S., starting with profiles of Benito Mussolini and British fascist Oswald Mosley, comparing them to Ron Desantis and Donald Trump, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 91: #MAGA #Terrorism #FailureToLaunch #LaughingStock May 30, 2023

JBLC breaks down the desastrous Desantis campaign launch on Twitter; MTG gets laughed out of the chamber when she asks for decorum; Target folds to MAGA terrorist tactics; and the insurrection caucus threatens to fire Kevin McCarthy to force economic apocalypse, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee....

Episode 90: #Abortion #Rights #Update #ReproductiveFreedom #Mrs.Troy May 25, 2023

Troy's wife joins the show to give an update on the erosion of abortion rights and bodily autonomy in the U.S., one year after the corrupt Supreme Court Dobbs ruling that killed Roe v. Wade, and reveals horrifying data she's collected as a PhD student studying healthcare access. Join us as we show why no one, not even people in blue states, are safe from this disastrous ruling, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee....

Episode 89: #GOP #Clowns #Trump #Defamation May 23, 2023

JBLC breaks down the clusterfuck of a debt ceiling debate as MAGA Republicans hold the nation hostage; Tim Scott has a Howard Dean moment the second he announces his run for President; Ron Desantis preps to make his DOA campaign official; and E. Jean Carroll sues Trump, again, over his statements at the CNN Town Hall, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 75: #CultBehavior #Trump #Waco May 19, 2023

JBLC analyzes the siege of the Branch Davidian cult in Waco Texas which resulted in the deaths of dozens of people; as Donald Trump holds a rally in Waco on the 30th anniversary of the stand-off, seeming to commemorate the anti-government, pedophilic cult in a bizarre reveal of the cult-like nature of MAGA, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 88: #Trump #QAnon #CNN #CancelFlorida May 16, 2023

JBLC breaks down the disastrous CNN Trump Town Hall; Trump finally admits to his loyalty to the QAnon cult when he calls into their batshit crazy summit; the Biden whistleblower scandal falls apart so Republicans immediately shift to the Durham scandal, which also immediately falls apart; and Ron Desantis cancels diversity equity and inclusion programs in Florida colleges, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 87: #Israel #Palestine #History #TrumpTownHall May 11, 2023

JBLC takes a hard look at the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict and Europe's role in creating this tragedy, and what lessons if any we can learn from the manufacturing of a conflict; and Troy is joined by author Wyatt Evans to discuss his book Shattered, which deals with themes of intimate partner violence, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 86: #Coronation #DebtLimits #FloridaImmigration May 09, 2023

JBLC breaks down the recent coronations, gives an update on Trump's trials, warns of the impact of the debt ceiling being reach and explains all the ins and outs of Florida's new immigration bill, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 85: #Constitution #1st Amendment #Democracy #Fascism May 04, 2023

JBLC deep dives the first amendment, showcasing the landmark Supreme Court cases that define exactly what freedom of speech is, and shows exactly why Democracy is so difficult, and why the strong most hold to it while the weak fight to throw it away, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 84: #Desantis #Loser #DarkBrandon #SCOTUSCorruption May 02, 2023

JBLC breaks down Ron Desantis' worst week ever; Dark Brandon destroys Fox and Republicans at the White House Correspondents Dinner; indicted felon Donald Trump goes to Scotland while his legal defense falls apart; Democrats gear up to investigate the most corrupt Supreme Court in History; and a gunman kills 5 people in Texas because they asked him to put his gun away, because the United States isn't a safe nation; all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 83: #China #Civilizations #Empire #Communism Apr 27, 2023

JBLC continues our look at the rise of Asia as a the premiere global economic powerhouse, with China leading the way, what that means for the US in the next century, and how the Asian and Middle Eastern countries view their role in the world, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 82: #Tucker #FoxNews #Lies #Karma Apr 25, 2023

JBLC Breaks down Fox News firing Tucker Carlson, what we think the next steps are for Tuck, and who's next to get the axe at Fox; Trump says Democrats are executing babies after birth; SCOTUS keeps the abortion pill legal...for now; Tennessee and Triangle of Terror continue to wage war on human rights; and Ron Desantis appears to have a stroke during a press conference, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 81: #China #USA #Conflict #NewEmpires Apr 20, 2023

JBLC deep dives the economies of the global south and how post-Vietnam South East Asia came together to help themselves absent of western help. Emerging as the leader in this rise of new economic powers is China, who has been quietly investing massive amounts of money in developing economies, earning their support and alliance, while the U.S. fritters away it's influence every day, setting the world up for massive power shift in the next 2 decades, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 80: #FoxNews #LeakedDocuments #SCOTUS #Corruption Apr 18, 2023

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...

Episode 79: #Constitution #Federalism #StatesRights #HumanRights Apr 13, 2023

JBLC deep dives the concept of Federalism and how it's true intent: the power of the federal government to protect citizens from oppression by states, has been bastardized to mean a complicit federal government in aiding state oppression of citizens, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 78: #Tennessee3 #PowerToThePeople #TransRights Apr 11, 2023

JBLC reacts to the Louisville shooting and the spread of garbage right-wing talking points that follow; celebrates the activism in Tennessee that's fighting against NRA funded politicians, which has given rise to powerful young voices for change; criticizes Biden for his recent Title IX policy affecting trans rights; Disney punks Ron Desantis hard; a federal judge bans the abortion pill, in the latest move to kill bodily autonomy in the United States in a case that could have far reaching implications; and Democrats in North Carolina and Louisiana suddenly become Republicans in a Trojan Horse tactic, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 77: #Trump #Scandal #Presidents #TheWorst Apr 06, 2023

After the arrest of Donald Trump, JBLC deep dives the history of presidential scandals and shows that every president with a major scandal had ONE major scandal; while Trump did everything those guys did, and more, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 76: #Trump #Arrest #MTG #Tennessee Apr 04, 2023

JBLC breaks down the Trump arrest in Manhattan; Marjorie Taylor Greene gets run out of Manhattan on a rail after a disastrous 60 Minutes interview; Gen Z students in Tennessee take over the Tennessee State Capitol to shut down gun violence; and Irene goes to a Marianne Williamson rally, so you don't have to, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 75: #CultBehavior #Trump #Waco Mar 30, 2023

JBLC analyzes the siege of the Branch Davidian cult in Waco Texas which resulted in the deaths of dozens of people; as Donald Trump holds a rally in Waco on the 30th anniversary of the stand-off, seeming to commemorate the anti-government, pedophilic cult in a bizarre reveal of the cult-like nature of MAGA, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 74: #Enough #Guns #Cult #Waco Mar 28, 2023

JBLC rants on the sickness of a society that values weapons over children; the Trump rally in Waco once again reveals the Republican party to be a criminal treasonous organization; while the crack down on TikTok stalls in the face of Gen Z outrage, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 73: #HappyArrestmas! #It'sOver #Trump #Live Mar 23, 2023

On this special two-part live edition of Just Buy Less Coffee, we discuss the looming Trump indictment and speculate what the next steps will be for him and his followers; the farce that is the Congressional investigation into TikTok; the movement for democracy in Israel; the 20th anniversary of the Iraq invasion; and for the second part of the show Irene deep dives the warning signs of genocide, and reveals just far along the United States is down that path...all for less than the price of a cup of coffee.
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Episode 72: #TooBigtoFail #DisasterCapitalism #Socialism Mar 16, 2023

JBLC deep dives the Silicon Valley Bank failure from a historical standpoint of the last 50 years of bank deregulation, and argues that private institutions that are "too big to fail" should be nationalized as public goods, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 71: #BankFailure #BrokenCapitalism #TennesseeTerror #NannaBobo Mar 14, 2023

JBLC is back with all new episodes. On this episode we break down the return of 2008 style panic with the SVB bank failure after Trump broke what was fixed, Biden's opening of drilling in Alaska, the anti-trans fascism in Red States leading to a rise in hate crimes, and the need for comprehensive sex education as it finds its way into Congress with Lauren Boebert becoming a grandma at age 36, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

#Constitution #Fascism #Crisis #KamaSutra Mar 09, 2023

New episodes will resume next week! While JBLC continues to take break, take a look back at the time we did a deep dive into the constitutional amendments in an attempt to define exactly what our constitution protects us from, as fascists mobilize to take those protections away; Irene and Troy got owned on a constitutional quiz,; Cathy and Troy nerded out on The West Wing; and Irene discovered the Kama Sutra, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

#Christianity #DeepDive #Deconstruction Mar 07, 2023

While JBLC continues to take a much needed break, we revisit our in-depth conversation on how the Christian faith of our youth let us down, building our world views we have today.

#Reagan #Ideologies #WhyItsBroken Mar 02, 2023

As JBLC continues to take a much needed break, we revisit our deep dive conversation on the political ideologies of the United States, and why Ronald Reagan was the beginning of the end of everything good in our society, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

#WalterMasterson #January6 #QAnon #Insurrection Feb 28, 2023

JBLC is taking a few days off so we thought it best to rerun some of our greatest hits. Check out this interview we did with the great Walter Masterson in April of last year. Walter is a comedian who infiltrates MAGA and Q-Anon rallies posing as a reporter to troll them. Join us as he tells some of his best stories, including that time he found himself on the steps of the capitol in Washington D.C during the January 6th insurrection. Join us as we remember this conversation which is more important now than ever as the fascist media machine prepares to spin what happened on that day with their new access to 40K unseen hours of Jan. 6 footage, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 70: #GOPFascism #RickScott #TheEndofDemocracy Feb 23, 2023

On this deep dive episode, JBLC reads and analyzes the Republican platform written by Florida Senator Rick Scott, wherein their nightmarish vision for a fascist America is explicitly stated. Join us as we scream into the void while watching Republicans finally say the quiet parts out loud, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 69 (Giggity): #BideninUkraine #FoxLiars #MarjorieTreasonGreene Feb 21, 2023

On this very special 69th episode, JBLC breaks down the historic Biden visit to Ukraine, the outward treason of Marjorie Taylor Greene as she calls for national divorce, the exposed lies at Fox News surrounding the 2020 election fraud claims, and the unsettling fact that Kevin McCarthy just gave 40K hours of unseen Jan 6 footage to Tucker Carlson and what that means for the next insurrection, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 68: #TransRights #HumanRights #EastPalestine Feb 16, 2023

On this Thursday deep dive, JBLC takes a look at the issues of trans rights in America, and opens up a dialogue about what gender identity really means, why it matters, and why trans rights are human rights, and reporter-in-the-field John Russell gives us his report on the East Palestine train disaster from his unique perspective as a local and one of the first to cover it, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 67: #StateOfTheUnion #EastPalestine #Disaster Feb 14, 2023

JBLC breaks down the Biden State of the Union address and the chess move that made asshats out of Congressional Republicans, the lunatic fringe response to his speech from the party whose mascot is Marjorie Taylor Greene and Sarah Huckabee Sanders in a battle of "Normal vs. Crazy", takes a first look at the horrific tragedy of the chemical train derailment in East Palestine Ohio that we intend to continue to cover as it unfolds, and looks up at the arrival of UFO's and the full on alien invasion that we are living through, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 66: #Christianity #Faith #Deconstruction #DeepDive Feb 09, 2023

On this deep dive episode, JBLC explores the deconstruction of our religious upbringings in the hopes of coming to terms with our spirituality as adults, while cathartically reflecting on the abusive aspects of our past. Join us for a beautiful discussion of what it means to be in the world AND OF the world while fighting for the world, all for less than the price of cup of coffee...

Episode 65: #99RedBalloons #GOPDeathCult #Jobs #Israel Feb 07, 2023

JBLC blows through the hot air surrounding the Chinese spy balloon panic, examines the outstanding January jobs report and what it actually means for workers, looks at the dangerous environment in Congress with the Republican majority removing safety protocols and encouraging their members to arm up as they remove muslim house members from the committees, and breaks down the ongoing conflict in Palestine as a hard right Israeli government refuses to seek a peaceful solution, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 64: #Woke #Fascism #Communism #RedScare Feb 02, 2023

JBLC takes a deep dive into the history of fascist witch hunts in the United States from the 1920's red scare all the way to the demonization of wokeness today, and reveals just how dangerous this type of rhetoric and philosophy is in the Desantis era, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 63: #PoliceBrutality #Violence #Sinema #FloridaFascism Jan 31, 2023

JBLC takes a look at the horrific killing of Tyre Nichols and examines the need to demilitarize the police particularly in communities of color; discusses the disrespect of Dr. Biden's PhD on the right; examines the extraordinary unfolding political situation in Peru; the ongoing assault on education and freedom in Florida; and takes a first look at the 2024 Senate races, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 62: #COVID19 #China #SuperGonorrhea #DeepDive Jan 27, 2023

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...

Episode 61: #FloridaFascism #FuckDesantis #FairTax #TaylorSwift #Apocalypse Jan 25, 2023

Two days late but still on point, JBLC breaks the news discussing the chaos in the U.S. House under the "leadership" of spineless coward Kevin McCarthy including the introduction of the Fair Tax: the most apocalyptic law ever introduced in the United States, runs down the racism of Ron Desantis as he bans AP Black History from Florida Schools, and brings it home with another warm and snuggly episode of 10 Minute Apocalypse with Irene, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...
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Episode 60: #MLK #Legacy #Reagan #Racism Jan 19, 2023

This MLK Jr. week, JBLC takes a deep dive into the right wing attempt to hijack King's legacy to justify their racism; we look at the racist history of Ronald Reagan who despised King and ironically was the President who signed his holiday into existence; the differences in methods between MLK Jr. and Malcolm X; and Kings's enduring legacy of the pursuit of justice, needed now more than ever, all for less than the cup of coffee...

Episode 59: #BidenIsn'tPerfect #WhoKnew? #DaddyBiden #SantosSuperSpy Jan 17, 2023

JBLC breaks down the first scandal of the Biden Presidency as we learn that Biden shockingly....isn't...the greatest President ever; take a look at the stark differences between what Trump did with classified documents and what Biden did with them; and still come to the conclusion that Trump should be in jail, but also understand that Biden should too if he broke the law; plus we investigate Super Spy George Santos and speculate on his true identity; and discuss the right wing attempt to steal Martin Luther King Junior's legacy, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee....

Episode 58: #CivilWar #SpeakerWoes #GavelYourNuts #DeepDive Jan 12, 2023

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...

Episode 57: #SpeakerWho? #HouseofChaos #BrazilCoup #DaddyJeffries Jan 10, 2023

JBLC breaks down the agonizing rise of Speaker McCarthy, one of the weakest Speakers in U.S. History, who finally got the job after 15 ballots with a literal fight breaking out on the floor in the 14th, we look at the differences between the collapsing Republican party and the unified messaging of the Democrats under Leader Jeffries, and stare into the void at the Brazilian remake of the Jan 6 insurrection as Brazilian fascists take inspiration from Trump MAGA in their attack on the Brazilian Capitol, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 56: #Economy #PizzaParty #PunchInTheFace Jan 05, 2023

On the first Respectful Thursday Deep Dive episode of the new year, JBLC tackles the bipolar economic theories that drive U.S. monetary and fiscal policy, with Democrats standing strong for John Meynard Keynes, and Republicans simping for Milton Friedman, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 55: #SmallDickEnergy #RepublicanChaos #McCarthy Jan 03, 2023

JBLC returns from the holidays with a live look-in at the actual dumpster fire of the Republican Party as the basic and ceremonial process of electing a Speaker for the GOP House Majority completely goes up in flames on the first day of Congress, Greta Thunberg literally ends Andrew Tate's Career with a Tweet, Maxwell Frost is forced to couch surf as a sitting member of Congress, and Southwest Airlines shits the bed 30K feet in the air, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 54: #Constitution #Fascism #Crisis #KamaSutra Dec 15, 2022

JBLC takes a deep dive into the constitutional amendments in an attempt to define exactly what our constitution protects us from as fascists mobilize to take those protections away, Irene and Troy get owned on a constitutional quiz, Cathy and Troy nerd out on The West Wing, and Irene discovers the Kama Sutra, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 53: #BoycottTesla #WarnockWins #SinemaQuits Dec 13, 2022

JBLC breaks down the Warnock victory in Georgia over the worst candidate in history, the incredible bravery of Kyrsten Sinema to break up with a Democratic Party that left her years ago, the right wing need for a safe space over Brittney Griner's release, Marjorie Taylor Greene's obsession with butt plugs, and Elon Musk's transformation from asshole to much larger asshole, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 52: #DeepDive #Constitution #Hamilton Dec 08, 2022

On this edition of our Thursday show, JBLC gets a little thirsty as we discuss the origins of the constitution and its purpose in our society, and how Alexander Hamilton was its biggest champion, for better or worse, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 51: #TrumpTreason #SCOTUSCorruption #RailroadStrike Dec 06, 2022

JBLC breaks down Trump's call to terminate the constitution, the continuing disgrace that is the Trump packed Supreme Court, the declaration of civil war against the United States by MAGA fascist domestic terrorists, and a brutal (kind of) debate ensues between Cathy and Irene over the railroad worker deal to avert a strike during the holidays, all for less that the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 50: #DeepDive #Ideologies #Reagan Dec 01, 2022

In our 50th episode (tear), JBLC takes a deep dive into political ideologies in the United States, and once again demonstrates how Ronald Reagan ruined everything, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 49: #TrumpDinnerwithNazis #GarbageRight #ApocolypseUpdate Nov 29, 2022

JBLC breaks down the real Dinner with Schmucks as Donald Trump hosts nazi Nick Fuentes and failed rapper Kanye West for dinner at Mar A Lago, runs down the horrific reactions to the Colorado Springs shooting among the right wing who celebrated it, and we go off the deep end for a 10 minute apocalypse with Irene, exploring the protests in Iran and China and check in on Ukraine, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 48: #DeepDive #Congress #Filibuster #Shitshow Nov 24, 2022

On a special Thanksgiving edition of Respectful Thursday, JBLC continues the deep dive into Congress with an examination of the Filibuster, what it is, why it is, and how we can make it go away (or should we???), as we prepare to enter Biden's first session with a divided Congress, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 47: #TrumpTreason #ColoradoShooting #SCOTUSCorruption Nov 22, 2022

JBLC breaks down Trump's 3rd Presidential announcement and his looming indictment from special prosecutor Jack Smith a literal war crimes and government corruption specialist, the corruption of the conservative members of the Supreme Court as Alito is revealed as the source of ANOTHER leak, and vents our rage at the mass shooting in Colorado, a result of filthy anti-LGBTQ lies from the right and yet again an overabundance of guns among people that shouldn't have them, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 46: #Congress #DeepDive #HowABillBecomesALaw Nov 17, 2022

On our first "Respectful Thursday", JBLC begins our series of deep dive topics. This episode highlights the process of a bill becoming a law in Congress, in honor of the shitshow that is our legislative branch. Our political scientist Cathy breaks down just how hard it is to actually get anything done in Washington, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 45: #MidTermsUpdate #GOPCivilWar #TwitterChaos Nov 15, 2022

JBLC breaks down the most recent election results from the 2022 U.S. midterm elections and predicts who will control Congress, what will happen to Donald Trump in the post-MAGA Republican Party, who the new Republican daddy will be, and discusses the hellscape at Twitter finally going too far as American corporations and politicians get drawn in to Musk's ineptitude to such an extent that Congress may intervene to regulate the internet, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 44: #Midterms #Analysis #DemsWin Nov 09, 2022

JBLC breaks down the midterm elections which saw Democrats resisting the Red Wave and making a historic stand against Fascism in the United States. Join us as we break down each major race while discussing the failure of American polling and media to deliver accurate predictions as the election defied all expectations, and we explore generational politics as Gen Z shows up in record numbers to punch Republicans in the face, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 43: #MidTermElections #PelosiAttack #TwitterHellScape Nov 01, 2022

JBLC gives our predictions for the midterm elections in the US on November 8th and reminds us all of the importance of our right to vote and that we need to fight for it, examines the pure evil of MAGA fascism whose political violence has become commonplace in American life with the attack on our 3rd in command Nancy Pelosi and her family, and laments the loss of Twitter as it moves into private ownership of Elon Musk and as a result becomes a hellscape of racism and disinformation, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 42: #PrimeMinisterJoke #MAGAFascism #WaterWars Oct 25, 2022

JBLC breaks down the resignation of Conservative Prime Minister Liz Truss after only 44 days on the job and the promise from right-wing economists that she would save the British economy, discusses MAGA fascist voter intimidation tactics taking place in Arizona and other swing states, and is joined by Teal Lehto, AKA WesternWaterGirl, to discuss the disappearing Colorado River and what that means for the future of the southwest United States, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

NPR Article on Imperial Valley water hoarding: https://www.npr.org/2022/10/04/1126240060/meet-the-california-farmers-awash-in-colorado-river-water-even-in-a-drought

Reporting voter intimidation: https://azsos.gov/elections/about-elections/guidance-voting-location-conduct

Episode 41: #Jan6Insurrection #RepublicanRacism #RussiaUkraine Oct 18, 2022

JBLC breaks down the latest Jan 6 Committee hearing which saw the committee voting unanimously to subpoena Trump to testify, discusses the one billion, with a B, judgement against Alex Jones for defamation against the families of school shooting victims, and gets an update on the Russia Ukraine conflict and heightened tensions in China from our foreign affairs correspondent Irene, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 40: #AntiSemitism #SocialMedia #InStudio Oct 11, 2022

In our final in-person, in-studio episode, JBLC got nostalgic about the creation of the Podcast, discussed how we got started on TikTok and the toxic nature of social media and human discourse, and played an eye-opening interview Irene had with Zara Zahavah, a Jewish educational creator, about the continuing realities of anti-semitism in the United States as we all reel from the disgusting comments from Kanye West, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 39: #Florida #Fascism #TrumpDeathThreat #Iran Oct 04, 2022

JBLC discusses the Florida hurricane, the fascist takeover of Italy and pro-democracy vote in Brazil, Trump's death threat against Mitch McConnell, and takes a deep dive into the women's movement in Iran, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 38: #LeighMcGowan #PoliticsGirl #TrumpTreason Sep 27, 2022

JBLC welcomes Leigh McGowan, host of the award winning Politics Girl Podcast on the Meidas Touch Network, aka @BreakfastRant on TikTok and Instagram, and discusses the worst legal week of Trump's life, nerds out on US politics, and what it means to be a American who loves their nation in this incredibly difficult time for our democracy, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 37: #DesantisHumanTrafficking #UkraineWar #CrimsonProtector Sep 20, 2022

JBLC discusses the horrific human trafficking of asylum seekers by Governors Ron Desantis and Greg Abbott to score political points with the far right, Foreign Affairs Correspondent Irene gives us an update on the Russia/Ukraine conflict and the increasingly unstable geopolitical situation in Asia, and guest Dr. Jeffrey Kranzler discusses racism and bullying in school through his YA graphic novel, The Crimson Protector, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...
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Episode 36: #TheQueen #TrumpTreason #LandBack Sep 13, 2022

JBLC gets a little irreverent over the passing of Queen Elizabeth the 2nd, gives an update on Trump's legal woes as he circles the drain, and takes a deep dive into indigenous issues looking at the Land Back movement and several court cases that could have serious impact on the future of native sovereignty, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 35: #Elections #ApprovalVoting #RankedChoice Sep 06, 2022

JBLC nerds out on the science part of political science with guest Aaron Hamlin, Executive Director of the Center for Election Science, in a discussion of alternative voting methods like Ranked Choice Voting and Approval Voting, a new system that allows voters to cast votes for as many candidates as they want, and Cathy discusses the need to keep our voting system fresh with a historical perspective, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 34: #TrumpTreason #StudentLoans #DarkBrandon #TeachersOnStrike Aug 30, 2022

JBLC breaks down the latest shocking revelations from the Mar A Lago search affidavit, Biden keeping a campaign promise to cancel student loan debt and becoming a memelord, and talks to Reporter in the Field, John Russell, about a recent teacher strike and the power of union solidarity, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 33: #TideTurning #MidTerms #LizCheney #Florida Aug 23, 2022

JBLC discusses the newest poll that has Biden's approval rating rebounding, that "threats to democracy" is the biggest concern of voters, runs down Liz Cheney's defeat and the potential of the rise of an anti-Trump conservative party, and nose dives into Florida politics through the point of view of a Florida teacher in the midst of the Ron Desantis war on education, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 32: #TrumpTreason #MarALago #Economy Aug 16, 2022

JBLC talks executed search warrant at Trump's home at Mar A Lago, what that means for Trump's future and the future of the nation, looks at the rise of Monkeypox and the return of Polio to our apocalypse bingo cards, and talks inflation vs. recession in the economy. All for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 31: #ProChoiceKansas #AlexJones #China/Taiwan Aug 09, 2022

JBLC examines the historic Kansas vote to keep abortion legal in their ruby red state, the Alex Jones civil suit, the charging of officers in the Breonna Taylor case, and takes a deep dive into China/Taiwan as Nancy Pelosi keeps us all abreast of the political situation in Asia, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 30: #RaeMatthews #Protest #Ireland #Abortion Aug 02, 2022

It's a family show as JBLC is joined by special guest Rae Matthews, Troy's wife and a PhD student specializing in history and methods of political protest, to discuss the history of abortion rights in Ireland, a nation that went from extreme repression to liberalization in the same period the U.S. went in the opposite direction, and discusses methods of obstruction to fight back against anti-abortion laws that go beyond traditional protests, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 29: #NationalAbortionFederation, #MelissaFowler #ReproductiveFreedom Jul 26, 2022

JBLC is joined by Melissa Fowler, Chief Program Officer at the National Abortion Federation, the largest professional association of abortion providers in North America, to discuss the impact of the SCOTUS decision on the people on the frontlines of reproductive healthcare, the rise in violence against clinics and right-wing subversion tactics, and the mission of NAF to pay for travel and abortion access to women who need it, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...
To get information about safe, legal abortion services near you and for financial and travel assistance to access these services, call the toll free NAF hotline: 1-800-772-9100

Episode 28: #JBSmileyJr #Governor #Tennessee Jul 19, 2022

JBLC is joined by JB Smiley Jr., member of the Memphis City Council and Democratic candidate for Governor of Tennessee, to discuss the rising progressive movement in the South, why Democrats need to stop expecting civility and compromise from the GOP and instead go on the offensive, and what he will do to protect voting rights and reproductive freedom in Tennessee when he is elected Governor, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 27: #BrianaVenskus #BSpot #Activism Jul 12, 2022

Briana Venskus, star of such series as Walking Dead and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., joins JBLC to talk about the overwhelming toll of social media and digital information on our national discourse, queer activism and being a woman in Hollywood during the Me Too movement, and how well crafted popular entertainment can be the bridge to both advocacy for justice and bringing people together towards a common ideal, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 26: #RoevWade #SCOTUS #Tragedy Jul 05, 2022

JBLC breaks down the official SCOTUS decision overturning 50 years of reproductive freedom in the U.S., what that means for women (and men) in red states, our backslide into fascism, and some of the other extremist SCOTUS rulings from our most regressive and political Supreme Court in a century, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 25: #VoteKateTurner #Kentucky #Democrat Jun 28, 2022

JBLC welcomes Kate Turner, Democratic nominee for Kentucky State Representative for District 33, to discuss the importance of state races to the future of democracy in the United States, why Democrats need to get more involved at the state level, and give an update on the January 6th hearings, all for less than the price of cup of coffee.

Episode 24: #SCOTUS #4thAmendment #PatriotAct Jun 28, 2022

In our second in-person studio episode, JBLC discusses the shocking Supreme Court ruling that allows Customs and Border Patrol agents to waive 4th amendment due process procedures, such as obtaining a search warrant, when it deems a search near the border may be necessary for national security, a quiet return of the Patriot Act surveillance state in the U.S., all for less than the price of a cup of coffee.

Episode 23: #Jan6 #Terrorism #InStudio Jun 28, 2022

JBLC kicks off SEASON 2 with a discussion of the House January 6 Committee hearings, our predictions for its outcomes, and what the coup means for the future of our republic, in a special studio recording in the middle of our JBLC retreat at Lake Tahoe, where we met in-person for the first time, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee.

Episode 22: #Dr.PaulZeitz #Optimism #America2.0 May 23, 2022

In our Season 1 Finale, JBLC goes out on an intensely optimistic note with our guest, Dr. Paul Zeitz, an epidemiologist who helped lead the US emergency AIDS relief program in Africa under 2 presidents, ultimately saving 40 million lives.
Paul relives his own life experiences that drove him to adopt a philosophy of intense optimism in all situations, which gives him the strength to tackle serious world issues. His next challenge: America 2.0, a citizen movement to demand a constitutional convention to build a United States fit for the 21st century. All for less than the price of a cup of coffee.
See everyone soon for Season 2 of Just Buy Less Coffee, Answering the Deeper Questions of American Politics. Thanks for listening.

Episode 21: #Racism #FoxNews #Ukraine May 17, 2022

Join us as we discuss mass shootings in America, the racism caused by Fox News and embraced as mainstream by an increasingly extremist Republican Party, solutions to deal with the dangers of white supremacists in the police force, a lighting round update on the war in Ukraine and the global geopolitical situation, and we even end on a positive and hopeful note. All for less than the price of a cup of coffee.

Episode 20: #BrianAlexanderMorgan #Music #SWV May 13, 2022

This week we had Brian Alexander Morgan join the conversation, a grammy nominated song writer and music producer who has produced records for Drake, Nas, Usher, Martha Wash, Kanye, and Aloe Blacc along with his partner DJ Khalil. We discuss how streaming has affected the music industry, the dangerous impact of misinformation on our Republic, how organized religion affects our perception of truth, and how white allies can stand up for the BIPOC community, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee.

Episode 19: #LukeManzo #Pillars #ClimateChange May 10, 2022

JBLC interviews Luke Manzo, CEO and Founder of PillarsofUs.com, a crowdfunding site that shifts the power of lobbying back to the people for the purpose of taking back Congress. We discuss the growing climate crisis and the steps needed to mitigate climate disaster over the coming years. All for less than the price of a cup of coffee.
To support our climate action cause, visit: https://pillarsofus.com/gogreen/

Episode 18: #NicoleTatgenhorst #RoeVWade #SCOTUS May 06, 2022

Friend of the show, Nicole Tatgenhorst aka @mommahorsetales, joins the knuckleheads as we discuss the overturning of Roe v. Wade, what this means for 170 million women in the United States, the history of radical right wing maneuvering that lead to this decision, and what we can do now to fight to preserve our rights in a dying republic. Join us for a pure outpouring of rage at the state of our nation. All for less than the price of a cup of coffee.

Episode 17: #RichardGreene #PublicSpeaking #Midterms May 03, 2022

JBLC interviews Richard Greene, a master public speaking coach who has mentored presidents, prime ministers, and princesses, and gets his take on how Democrats can win the midterms and take back control of this nation in the face of unrelenting right wing assaults on our liberty, in our last pre-Roe-overturned interview. All for less than the price of a cup of coffee.

Episode 16: #KristenHavlik #Disney #ForProfitAdoption Apr 29, 2022

JBLC interviews former Elizabeth Warren staffer Kristen Havlik, and nerds out about the 2022 midterms and the fact that the Dems may not be in as much trouble as everyone says, discusses the DeSantis/Disney Feud from an Orlando insider POV, and explores the criminal world of the for-profit forced birth adoption industry. All for less than the price of a cup of coffee.

Episode 15: #Elon #Bias #CRT Apr 26, 2022

JBLC discusses the Elon Musk purchase of Twitter and reveals what the media is truly biased towards, and the fake CRT controversy claims its first high profile victim, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee.

Episode 14: #NicoleTatgenhorst #Parenting #Pandemic Apr 22, 2022

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.

Episode 13: #HeyJohnRussell #Amazon #KBJ Apr 19, 2022

JBLC Reporter in the Field, John Russell returns to the program to discuss the recent unionization vote among Amazon workers in Staten Island, how important the labor movement is to the future of the American middle class, and the historic Kentanji Brown Jackson confirmation to the Supreme Court. All for less than the price of a cup of coffee.

Episode 12: #WalterMasterson #QAnon #Jan6 Apr 12, 2022

JBLC interviews the great Walter Masterson, a comedian who infiltrates Q Anon and antivaxx rallies, and gets some incredible inside stories on the Canadian trucker convoy, and January 6th from the steps of the capitol, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee.

Episode 11: #RachelBenzoni #Democrat #Elections Apr 08, 2022

JBLC interviews Rachel Benzoni, former congressional aide and candidate for Nebraska State Representative, on the realities of running for office in the U.S. in 2022, how progressive candidates can win in conservative areas, and how there are still good people fighting for us in DC, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee.

Episode 10: #LGBTQ #Rights #StateLaws Apr 02, 2022

JBLC breaks down the new anti-trans, anti reproductive freedom laws recently passed in 20 states, and examines the meaning of freedom and liberty in conservative America. All for less than the price of a cup of coffee.

Episode 9: #Dr.GabrielCruz #CRT #KBJ Mar 25, 2022

JBLC interviews Dr. Gabriel Cruz, a professor of Critical Race Theory, just in time for the nomination hearings of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to join the Supreme Court, where CRT has had a dubious racist presence. Join us as we unravel the talking points that get white people frightened that obscure grad level courses are coming for their children. All for less than the price of a cup of coffee.
For more information and to donate to support the Ukrainian refugees please visit:
Unicefusa.org
https://www.wfpusa.org/emergency/ukraine
https://www.donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/ukraine/donate

Episode 8: #Ukraine #GasPrices #Trump Mar 19, 2022

Debunking right wing talking points on high gas prices, Zelensky spanks Germany on his world tour, Trump is sued for campaign finance violations, and Elon Musk and Vladimir Putin fist fight on the moon for control of Ukraine, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee.
For more information and to donate to help Ukrainian refugees please visit the sites below:
Unicefusa.org
https://www.wfpusa.org/emergency/ukraine
https://www.donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/ukraine/donate

Episode 7: #Irene #Russia #Ukraine Mar 12, 2022

JBLC Foreign Affairs Correspondent Irene Poulton and the knuckleheads discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the heroism of the Ukrainian people, the isolation of Putin, how Russian society works, the purpose of NATO, and more, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee. For more information and to donate to help Ukrainian refugees please visit the sites below:

Unicefusa.org

https://www.wfpusa.org/emergency/ukraine

https://www.donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/ukraine/donate

Episode 6: #Irene #Russia #GenZ Feb 18, 2022

JBLC Foreign Affairs Correspondent Irene Poulton gives us a rundown on the Russia/Ukraine situation as we prep for ww3. Join us for some good old fashioned family nihilism and dread! All for less than a cup of coffee.

Episode 5: #TomPowellJr. #Stoner #Filibuster Feb 04, 2022

Special guest Tom Powell Jr! Kyrsten Sinema and the filibuster. Debunking antivaxx BS. The state of education in the US. And the weaponization of community guidelines on Tik Tok. All for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Episode 4: #HeyJohnRussell #LaborMovement Jan 17, 2022

Reporter in the field John Russell gives an update on the growing labor movement in the US.