The Fire You Can't Put Out

TFYCPO #162 (2016.06.05)

Fear Is Your Only God: Authoritarian temptation/ Cross of iron/ End of the Republic/ Nuclear threat/ A Savage influence/ Armed fairy tales/ Gun nuts/ The Conservative mind/ Commencement speeches against hate/ Unconsciousness reactions/ Normalizing violence/ The shift/ The purple line/ Red and Blue against oligarchy. Dear Jon: 8 months have passed/ An indictment of the profit-driven Media/ Jon and Bernard hold a mirror to America, and Americans recoil/ Ending our adversarial tactics, in an attempt to unite

TFYCPO #161 (2016.05.22)

Second Class Citizens: A virulent sexist/ The FNC defense/ Leslie Gold/ Priorities USA PAC/ Rape PAC/ Vetoing pay equity/ PPP and Trump/ Women hate Trump/ Defending domestic violence/ Ivy Park slavery/ Jud McMillan/ Anti Choice laws, and their consequences/ Self inducing, and other tragedies/ Anna Yocca/ NPR and Troy Newman/ Blaming the assault victims/ Japan's "comfort women"/ Acceptance of atrocities, only encourages further violence/ Tampons as a public good/ Women's rights are human rights. Final Thought: Violence Breeds Violence

TFYCPO #160 (2016.05.15)

The Faded Line: The DLC, AL From, and the Clintons/ The Democratic right turn/ Blurring the political lines/ Hillary campaigns for Bush donors and Wall Street money/ Classic doublespeak/ Forced to the left/ A contested convention/ A battle on the floor for Progressive values/ The speech vs the speeches/ The transcripts could end her bid/ The middle class vs the leisure class/ The hypocrisy of transparency/ Echoes of FDR/ Google bans predatory loan ads/ While the DNC and the DLC fight to protect predatory lenders/ WasserGate/ Fighting the grass roots/ Tight polls spell disaster/ The last stand of the Progressive Party

TFYCPO #159 (2016.05.08)

Hail Emperor: The meltdown/ GOP 1861-2016/ Normalizing absurdity/ The full scale rejection of modern Conservatism/ Hailing the ascension of Emperor Trump/ Extremism/ "America First"/ Dog whistle language/ Philadelphia, Mississippi/ The Suffolk County murder/ The California protests/ Echoes of George Wallace/ Fulfilling the Turner Diaries/ The Savage role in the Emperor's rise/ The Philippine election/ A mirror of Trump/ Rodrigo Dutarte/ The real PC police/ Libel laws/  Eradicating the first Amendment/ The Bill Boggarts warning/ The new face of the GOP. The "N" Word: The Wilmore fallout/ Oppressive language/ Unlearning hate speech/ We can't have a conversation about a word, When we can't even say it

TFYCPO #158 (2016.05.01)

In A World Of Human Wreckage: Americans against the war/ The world against the war/ Tulsi Gabbard/ The media promoted the war, and is promoting it again/ Hillary's Iraq/  Malcolm Nance/ Patriotism for sale/ The NIE report/ Ineffective and brutal tortures/ Leaving our veterans behind/ War criminals/ No WMDs/ The 28 pages/ Blair's apology, Hillary's apology/ Absent antiwar voices/ American manufactured terror/ America is now the enemy/ Six trillion dollars/ Forgetting the lessons/ Screaming in to the wind, again/ Killing is our business/ Only war Hawks remain

TFYCPO #157 (2016.04.26)

The Threat of Peace and Equality: The Pope vs Citizens United/Blasting unbridled capitalism/ Dung of the Devil/ The Vatican invite/ Sanders speech to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences/ Walls and bridges/ The Conservative media vs the Pope/ The Hotel Du Pont incident/ The Patriotic Millionaires/ Facts about inequality/ The hypocrisy of helping the poor/ Bernie marches with Verizon workers/ While Hillary gives a paid speech to their Board/ The top 0.1%/ A universal basic income/ A new New Deal/ The trickle down myth/ An un-Christian Nation/We have the means, what we lack is the will

TFYCPO #156 (2016.04.18)

When A Winning Streak Means You're Unelectable: 8 of the last 9 contests/ 27,000 in NY, and 3 cities in 12 hours/ The road from 3%/ The next front: NY/ "NY values" takes center stage/ From a Bronx Crowd, to a Bronx protest/ The media Obsession/ The Sunday show slant/  The days of the loss leader/ The dumb fight over qualifications/ The problem with profit/ They're with her. Rigged, For Her Pleasure/ The DNC vs The "rabble"/ 33 states, sell their Super Delegates/ A corrupt system/ Trump weighs in on the corrupt system/ Then he corrupts it further/ Trouble for Hillary on the trail/ Fear of the American electorate

TFYCPO #155 (2016.04.10)

TFYCPO #155 (2016.04.10) - Voter Suppression In Wisconsin, And America: A Wisconsin win/ Sanders v Walker/ BallotPedia and Propublica facts/ Glenn Grothman tells the truth/ Literacy tests/ A poll tax/ Myths and facts/ Todd Allbaugh/ Backroom deals/ Giddy about disenfranchisement/ It's not about fraud/Paul Weyrich/ They don't care what you think/ They don't want you voting/ The threat of Democracy. Children Of The GOP: Political exertion/ Never Trump/ The Kasich strategy/ The Kochs pick Paul Ryan/ The Ryan for President movement/ The childish antics/ The reasoning skills of a 5 year old/ Leave the spouses out of it, unless they're Democrats/ Batsh#t crazy/ Frank Luntz/ Welcoming the GOP voters, who have no one to vote for

TFYCPO #154 (2016.04.03)

Making America Hate Again: The Sikh casualties/ The Graham death prediction/ Nazis and burkas/ The Muslim murders/ The tripling of hate crimes/ The Muslim patrols/  Cruz, Trump, and the Klan agree/ The list of crimes immediately following San Bernardino/ Confronting the Cruz hate/ White, Christian, terrorism/ 7 times more likely/ The denial of white terrorism/ DiBlasio and Bratton respond/ The failed Muslim patrols/ Getting to the root of American fear/ The southern secessionists, the "Indomnitables"/ The internet negates the wall/  Frank Hyman and the southern white Con/ History with Tim Wise/ Some of us are working towards a positive solution, and a more cohesive country/ Some of us are not/ The Bernie dreamers/ Maajid Nawaz and the Quilliam Foundation/ How do we really make America great...

TFYCPO #153 (2016.03.27)

The Strict Constitutionalists: The passing of Scalia/ The battle in the Senate/ The Constitutional argument/ The Unconstitutional behavior/ The Wild eyed conspiracy theories/ The theories are legitimized by a Presidential Candidate/ The mourning of a hard core racist/ The search for a new racist. Article Six: No Religious Test: Open Season/ God's American warriors/ The Christian victims/ Are we electing a pastor, or a President?/ Fear of a Jewish President/ Spirituality/ Fear of an Atheist President/ We're all in this together/ Why the Church prefers the "Born Again"/ Does religion matter in politics?/ Why it shouldn't/ A Secular society/ The golden rule

TFYCPO #152 (2016.03.20)

Then They Fight You, Then You Win: The undemocratic superdelegates/ Jeff Berman, Bill Shaheen, and other lobbyist superdelegates/ Wall Street's Larry Fink is ready for Hillary, and ready to run her Treasury Dept./ Eisenhower's 91% tax rate, and the Sanders plan/ 62 people are now wealthier than 3.5 billion/ Raging economic inequality/ The US oligarchy, and the oligarch's candidate/ The Bernie Bros./ Carl Wolfson, Dan Savage, and the Dem v Dem battles/ Understanding the "Hillary Never" movement/  Primary voter bullying/ It's the primaries, dream as big as you want...

TFYCPO #151 (2016.03.13)

The Disintegration Of The GOP:Kindness, charity, and a kill list/ The brutalism of Ted Cruz/ The life span disparity/ "Trickle Down" begins to crumble/ The continued job loss, from trade deals/ Conservative race economics/ The moderate Conservatives speak out/ Fear of an all white party/ Bombast, and irresponsible journalism/ Making money on the way up, and down/ Les Moonves/ Death, and renewal in the American body politics

TFYCPO #150 (2016.03.06)

Hate In America Part II: Religious Freedom, Articulate Racism, And An All White Party...The dog whistle language of "religious freedom"/ Pastor Swanson and Pastor Bickle/ God's Jew hunter/ Hate in State Houses/ Birtherism is racist/ The black and white of racial politics/ Articulate racism/ Longing for the plantation economy/ The Republicans and the Democrats have failed black America/ Don't pander for votes, Work for psolutions/ Bernie Sanders in1992, post Rodney King/ Trump, the Klan, and an all white Army

TFYCPO #149 (2016.02.29)

Hate In America, Part I: Your Ringleader and GOP Nominee... The new year in hate/ Misogyny and racism on the campaign trail/ GOP Latinos/ Murmuring, "stop him"/ The return of torture politics/ Godwin's law/ Trump's Sturmabteilung/ Grooming the Brownshirts/ Violent rhetoric/ Preaching nativism/ NH, SC, Nevada, and beyond/ the KKK Robocalls/ Screaming, "STOP HIM!"/ The poorly educated rise/ Trump accepts a job with Daesh

TFYCPO #148 (2016.02.21)

Segregated Drinking Fountains: The continued poisoning/ The President responds/ The Flint EPA/ High water bills for unusable water/ Civil outrage/ Calls for resignation/ Still a hero to the right, It's "Austerity Man"! Race Relations, and Policing In America: Tone deaf O'Reilly/ Fox calls blacks "Stupid"/ Officer Glenowitz/ Blaming BLM/ Trump vs Bernie on policing/ A rigged justice system/ Robert E. Lee/ MLK Day/ Racist voting laws/ From being a "non-racist" to being an "anti-racist"

TFYCPO #147 (2016.02.16)

Hillary In The Hot Seat: The speeches/ Two views on Wall St./ Warren on First Lady Clinton vs Senator Clinton/ Getting burned by the banks/ Berning them back/ Two views on health care/ 2004 on the Senate floor/ The Hillary hate machine/ New Hampshire changes the game/ Here comes the kitchen sink. Final Thought: The true history of the civil war, slavery, and the Confederate flag

TFYCPO #146 (2016.02.09)

The Battle For The Heart & Soul: National Socialism vs. Democratic Socialism/ Patriotic millionaires/ Sexism and the primary fight/ Convergence theory/ Socialism for the wealthy/ An ex-Libertarian makes the case for Bernie/ The fallacy of being fiscally conservative and socially liberal/ Poverty, domestic violence, disenfranchisement, racist policing, drug policy, free trade, and deregulation

TFYCPO #145 (2016.02.01)

America Post King v Burwell: Patient dumping/ Hillary goes negative/ The Single Payer fight/ Private healthcare as terrorism/ Priebus prefers Clinton/ The 1993 GOP mandate/ The Cruz kill list/ Idaho faith healing is killing. Bullet Riddled Freedom: The washing machine murders/ Sponge filled syringes/ Guns in Texas mental hospitals/ Preschool homicide/ Crocodile tears for murdered children/ Deplorable right-wing reaction/ A society's effort, A father's grief/ The profit in a panicked society

TFYCPO #144 (2016.01.24)

Bern Notice: Bernie on Wal-Mart and welfare for the wealthy/ The fight for $15/ The anti-democratic, super-secretive, House Freedom Caucus/ Tax cuts, Lifting the export ban/ and another Con bailout. Dark Money: Losing it/ Super PACs break the law/ The FEC Xmas gift/ The petulant children of the Trump campaign/ An anti-intellectual constituency. Final Thought: A Terror Attack In Flint, MI