A Republic, If You Can Keep It

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God Save Us From the King (Guest: Political scientist Matt Grossman)
Trump isnt even hiding it anymore. He is the self-proclaimed King of the United States and anyone who questions him will be banished to Gitmo. His Majesty and court jester Musk continue the flood of
Just Who Elected “Big Balls”? (Guests: Pollster Bernie Porn, Law Professor Sam Bagenstos)
Anne Telnaes - Edward "Big Balls" Coristine, State Department Senior Adviser - Big Balls is 19-year-old high school graduate Edward Coristine, who now works as a senior adviser in the State Depart
Who Needs Congress When You’ve Got Elon? (Guest: Lauren Gibbons/Michigan Bridge)
David Horsey - Seattle Times - The Musk coup is moving forward with minimal signs of effective opposition. Congressional Republicans are rolling over complacently while the Musk teenage Ninjas storm f
Blame It on Biden (Guest: MIRS Politics Guru Kyle Melinn)
Gary Varvel - Creators - Donald Trump made a lot of campaign promises, big and small. Many of them are pure fantasy and destined to fail. Remember Trumps 2016 promise to replace Obamacare with someth
Perpetual Festivus (Guest: House Democratic Leader Ranjeev Puri)
Festivus is the make-believe holiday invented on the Seinfeld show. Festivus "creator" Frank Constanza proclaims that Festivus observances include the "airing of grievances" and "feats of strength." D
A Tale of Two Speeches
This week's podcast... The editors of the Washington Post (owned by Jeff Bezos) refused to run this cartoon by Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes. She resigned. See her work now at www.annt
Saint and Sinner (Guest: Emme Zanotti – Equality Michigan)
Mike Luckovich - Atlanta Journal Constitution - This week offers a stunningly sad contrast in America. We recorded on Thursday, just hours after the funeral of a good and humble man, President Jimmy C
Return to Chaos
Sequels are all the rage for Hollywood, and the same is true in Washington D.C. - Were two weeks away from the official launch of the Trump-Musk administration and even before inauguration, chaos an
President-Elect Elon Musk
Matt Davies - NY Newsday - The two biggest stories in our opening list are Trumps campaign of intimidating the media, which seems to be working and the apparent ascension of the worlds richest man
Reverse Mortgages Are Next
Michael Ramirez:Las Vegas Review-Journal On our agenda this week... The best is yet to come ... at least for newly anointed U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle. The now-spurned former financ