02/04/26 Show 297 : Welcome To The Complicity Olympics

Last Friday's National Shutdown here in the USA raised a number of question that may or may not be answered in this week's program.  For starters, it is a (slight) shame none of the organizers saw fit to credit retired MLB veteran Derek Bell who popularized the phrase "Operation Shutdown" some 24 years ago.  While there's little in Bell's resume to indicate he'd be an effective ally for this particular movement, it would only have been POLITE to reach out to him> On a somewhat grander scale, last week's conversations had me wondering (seriously) can any of us go FIVE FUCKING MINUTES without being in some way, shape of form, complicit in the destruction, degradation and dehumanization of the oppressed (and soon-to-be oppressed)?  This very missive is being posted on multiple platforms that engage in the above literally every moment of the day. You're almost certainly reading it on a device that was assembled under the most harsh conditions (to put it in words you might understand, "much, much words than working at Kim's Underground").  You're probably saying, "there is no way the host of this show has anything profound or helpful to say on this matter", and you could be correct, however you'll not know for sure until you've heard all 131 minutes (at least once, perhaps several times).