Episodes
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Episode 173: Just because a plan or policy is solving a problem is no reason to keep it
Republican legislators ignored proof of success once again and passed a law limiting how much communities can lower the effects of algae blooms and red tide.
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Episode 172: Got questions about the Governor's itinerary.?
Better ask now before the legislature makes even asking against the law.
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Episode 171: Ignoring the history of African Americans is nothing new
A Pensacola man once known as Mr. History heading the Klan in that part of Florida in the early part of the last century. Guess who seemingly did not exist according to his telling of the past.
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Episode 170: Florida legislators protest the allegation they are a rubber stamp for the Governor
They insist they have their own bad ideas.
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Episode 169: Manatee County commissioners are concerned about adult indoctrination
The county board is considering taking over book procurement of public libraries because as commissioner Vanessa Baugh says there in just not enough oversight and so forth.
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Episode 168: The fight against "woke leftism" just got serious in Florida
Ron DeSantis with the help of his friends at the right-wing not-thinking-very-much tank the Claremont Institute has given his blessing to a man who believes feminism is dire threat to the nation, and that is one of his more rational beliefs.
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Episode 167: You say tomato, Governor DeSantis says leftist indoctrination
Apparently, it isn't about restricting speech, it is about which speech.
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Episode 166: Are gas stoves really that important?
For some folks any whisper of imposing safety on the populus is an Unamerican power grab. Where were these guys when it was decided that drinking and driving, smoking cigarettes and not wearing seatbelts were bad ideas?
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Episode 165: Florida has a drug problem
Unfortunately, the Governor and his medical major domo are targeting the wrong drug.
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Episode 164: Now helping right past wrongs is anti-white
So now not only was rigging the system to benefit white people okay: any effort to fix the damage is prejudice.
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Episode 163: The fate of the democracy rests on yet another SCOTUS decision
How the court rules on a North Carolina gerrymandering case could have dangerous nationwide implications.
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Episode 162: Kevin McCarthy may need to find help in all the wrong places
Trying to get the voted needed for the House speakership may push the Republican to reach out to Democrats.
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Episode 161: Looks like the orange menace may be gone
But will the dangerous undemocratic precedents he set remain?
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Episode 160: Statistics show the real cost of liberating Floridians from the onus of pandemic responsibility
No masks, no vaccine mandates might have helped some businesses or limited the inconvenience to the most selfish among us, but it was apparently at the cost a lot of seniors' lives. Thank you, Gov. DeSantis for keeping us free!
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Episode 159: Voters need to consider more about a candidate than a single debate performance
Democratic Pennsylvania Senate candidate recovering from a stroke he suffered in May was not as slick as his debate stage opponent. Instead of judging him on that glimpse, voters need to consider the full measure of the man.
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Episode 158: The election police showed their true purpose with the first arrests
Election integrity has nothing to do with the mission of the election police who might as well wear the white robes of their Jim Crow era predecessors when they intimidate Black voters.
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Episode 157: For Republicans, Hershel Walker is just their kind of guy
Hypocrisy, scandal, lame takes on everything are not disqualifying if you are a proven sycophant. Not knowing is kind of a plus for people who only need you to do as you are told.
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Episode 156: National regime media is distorting the news to agree with their agenda? Really.
The Governor of our fair state has come up with a threat more dangerous than weather -- a thing he calls, "the national regime media" who he claims are rooting for the worst to happen to the state and manipulating the news to fit their agenda. Once again, I ask, really?
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Episode 155: Policing elections more about low hanging fruit than election integrity
DeSantis' election police force are adept at rounding up the usual suspects; those that the state set up for arrest. Real election criminals are tougher to get, but then they are letting the right ones vote.
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Episode 154: How far will Gov. DeSantis go to satisfy his uninformed base
DeSantis and is crew are giving a whole new meaning to being a contrarian opposing any and all proven ways to solve any problem. Now investing in funds that reward companies for being for cutting fossil fuel use, supporting women's healthcare, and promoting voting rights is just not right.
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Episode 153: Should another Civil War begin, it will not take cannon balls or forts
Considering the "culture war" hot button issues, it most likely will start at something as innocuous as a drag show or maybe even a school committee meeting
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Episode 152: Can't tell one signature from another? No problem, you can still be part of Florida's election police.
Supervisors of Elections across the state are bracing for the potential chaos a little known section of the so-called voting reform bill that will allow anyone to challenge a signature on a mail-in ballots, even signatures already deemed legit by election workers.
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Episode 151: Local Republicans just not crazy enough
MAGA stalwarts living in Sarasota are making their presence felt by the local party.
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Episode 150: Cutting one's nose off to spite your face is never a good idea
But for Republicans horrified at any dilution of their perceived need for a white majority in the country, cutting even the legal immigration needed to keep the wheels of the economy turning is necessary.
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Episode 148: Do you really want an anti-vaxer running the hospital?
Running under the banner of "medical freedom", four self-identified Christian conservatives are trying to take over the board of Sarasota Memorial Hospital. I ask, freedom from what? Being cured.
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Episode 147: Historical record has a nasty habit of biting one's backside
Republicans who failed to vote to impeach the former president for his role in the January 6 insurrection are pivoting support to VP Pence who was nearly murdered at the behest of his former boss.
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Episode 146: Overturning Roe was just the beginning
A new case coming before the Supreme Court gives them the opportunity to overturn the democracy.
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Episode 145: Wheels of justice may turn slowly
In spite of the need to be sure of a person's guilt, the recent arrest of a 101-year-old concentration camp guard shows eventually the piper is paid.
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Episode 144: Denying systemic racism is systemic racism
Tarpon Springs commissioners take offense at the acknowledgement that a traffic safety plan takes into account the different challenges faced by lower income communities compared to more affluent ones
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Episode 143: Early signs portend a crazy election season
If a recent move by a New Mexico county is any indication, the counting of ballots and accepting results without pointless and unsubstantiated allegations of fraud will be a miracle this year.
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Episode 142: The "pink slime" of news is coming to a pseudo newspaper near you
The latest way purveyor of dis and mis information are trying to sneak their evil content into your news feed is by masquerading as a local newspaper.
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Episode 141: There was a time when workers were valued
Then came Jack Welch who taught the business world nothing mattered more than profit.
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Episode 140: CPAC tips its true intentions holding event in Hungary
Power and more of it is the main objection of right-wing so-called conservatives who are taking advice on how to dismantle a democracy from Hungarian authoritarian Viktor Orban.
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Episode 139: Election season has begun. Will it be the last one with a real choice?
Early sign show the Orange menace of Palm Beach may not be the legendary kingmaker he is in his own mind.
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Episode 138: Is it a disinformation bureau or an expose disinformation bureau?
No the best choice of names considering the now loaded meaning of the word "disinformation" but not really a First Amendment issue no matter what some may say.
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Episode 137: The mystery of CRT in the math books
Reasons why particular math textbooks have been banned are sketchy at best.
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Episode 136: It's great to be a billionaire
Now that Elon Musk owns Twitter, the question is what will he do with it.
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Episode 135: No shortage of made-up problems in Florida
The Governor and his education department claim about half the math textbooks submitted to Florida schools contain indoctrinating elements of critical race theory, but they have yet to point one out.
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Episode 135: Republicans are exhuming a long dead and buried trope about LGBTQ+ people
Assuming gay people are pedophile has long been debunked, but according to the governor's anyone opposing "don't say gay" must want to legalize grooming children to be gay or insinuate worse.
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Episode 134: Republican bad boys cannot unnerve SCOTUS nominee Jackson
Try as they might, Senators Tom Cotton, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham were unable to prompt a Brett Kavanaugh melt down from Jackson who was clearly the adult in the room.
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Episode 133: With all those books being banned, what will students be reading?
Board of education nominee once suggested giving elementary school students history books written by Rush Limbaugh. I am sure he offered and balanced and true view of our past -- not!
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Episode 132: Republicans are obsessed with voter fraud -- mainly committing it
If Republican are so concerned about election integrity why don't they just ask their constituency to stop trying to cheat.
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Episode 30: Disregarding the unwritten rules will have consequences
Ginni Thomas, wife SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas, expanded her advocacy of so-called conservative position, to actively lobbying former White House. But do her activities taint the claim of impartiality by her husband?
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Episode 29: What are Republican legislators really up to in Florida
They claim efforts to regulate classroom goings-on in public schools is about parent's rights, but frrom 30,000 ft. the long game seems to be more nefarious.
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Episode 28: The definition of reality changes in Tallahassee
Governor Ron DeSantis and Republicans controlling the legislature have a strange take on what is really the problem these days.
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Episode 27: Ted Cruz says everyone expect Black women should be outraged over Biden's SCOTUS intensions
Hard to argue than there are more white people than Black women in the country. Is that really why it has taken this long for someone to consider them for the Supreme Court? Look again, Ted.
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Episode 26: Mass formation hypnosis reason for getting vaccinated?
Not really Eric. Hypnosis is more likely behind people disregarding their health and survivability by not getting the shot.
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Episode 25: Everyone knows many founding fathers owned slaves
But not everyone knows how many lawmakers through 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries had at one time in their lives owned another human being. It goes a long way to explaining the genesis of systemic racism.
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