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The Ron Show

Welcome to the Ron Show - Atlanta"s only progressive audio platform airing five days a week on Georgia Now, M-F 4-6pm (replaying 8-10am the next weekday). Host Ron Roberts covers Atlanta, metro Atlanta, Georgia and national politics from a pretty unique lens ... he"s just your run-of-the-mill Georgia-born gay progressive cat-dad realtor & talk show host. Dime a dozen, right?

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00:46:31

Colton's conniption, Kemp's tort mania & Democrats...

The Ron Show ·

2025/01/18

It's easy to not notice the routine 'state of the state' address Georgia Governor Brian Kemp gave, and the response from state Democrats'- by Senate minority leader Harold Jones Jr., when a MAGA hissy goes down in the hallway just outside the House chamber before the joint session.Naturally, that tantrum - and subsequent arrest - of state Senator Colton Moore got all the media oxygen and social media buzz. I mean, who doesn't love seeing a MAGA peacock get knocked down a peg or

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00:44:30

Biden's farewell & GA and TX data says immigrants...

The Ron Show ·

2025/01/16

President Joe Biden's final address from the Oval Office was - of coruse - bittersweet, but also came with warnings similar to Dwight D. Eisenhower's "industrial complex" foreshadowing, only for Biden, it was attached to oligarchs and "big tech." Doing a little "open tab" cleanup, I realized I hadn't gotten around to sharing this (too late now) narrative buster: as is the case in Texas, in Georgia, migrants are committing fewer crimes than Americans. Even

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00:44:30

Weathering the storm: Georgia's trans community &...

The Ron Show ·

2025/01/16

With just five days before the inauguration of a second Donald Trump term, the trans community in Georgia (and throughout the U.S.) has had to weather a storm of antir-trans sentiment; some of it put to use by the Trump campaign. We check in with Jeff Graham, executive director for Georgia Equality, to get a sense what their activism can accomplish with a decidely-conservative state legislature and GOP governor likely angling to solidify his conservative bonafides ahead of a potential Senate or

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00:44:31

Why do Repubs bully trans people? "It works." /...

The Ron Show ·

2025/01/14

Jay Bookman wrote a blistering-yet-sobering piece last week for the Georgia Recorder where he spells it out plainly: Republicans pick on the trans community because 'it works," writing "Because transgender Americans are an unpopular, powerless and almost friendless subgroup, which makes them the perfect target for politicians willing to leverage that unpopularity into votes." See, legislating for all Americans to ensure diversity & inclusion is really hard, whereas throughout American history,

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00:44:29

Repubs aren't letting California crisis "go to waste"

The Ron Show ·

2025/01/14

Clearly, the blame for California's current, deadly (perhaps worst-ever) wildfire lies at the feet of (checks notes) Governor Gavin Newsom, L.A. mayor Karen Bass and D.E.I. and not wild climate shifts, (aka 'hydroclimate whiplash') parched dry vegetation and hurricane-force winds fomenting a wildfire out of New Year's Eve fireworks. Oh, or 20th century sprawl and a water system not designed to fight wildfires (but whose is?) It's not as if we've been warned about the sort of dystopian scene many

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00:43:30

“A complicated place;' a NW Georgia family prepares...

The Ron Show ·

2025/01/10

A mid-December article in the New York Times focused on a Rome, Georgia family soon to be ripped apart by a looming second Trump presidency and the promies of mass deportations. Jaime Cachua has lived in the U.S. all but the first ten months of his life, and yet because he wasn't born here and because three-plus decades of politicial futility in Washington has led to no permanent solution for DACA recipients, he's all but certain to be returning to a Mexico he has very little awaiting him. His

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00:44:30

Meta bows to MAGA & Donald's latest display of 'crazy'

The Ron Show ·

2025/01/09

Mark Zuckerberg announced earlier this week that Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads) is getting out of the "fact-checking" business - just eight years after allowing itself to be a useful tool for Russian and pro-Trump disinformation left unchecked. Noteworthy that they're rolling this out "only" in the United States (to start with, anyway, he says ...) and on the heels of Donald Trump's t̶h̶r̶e̶a̶t̶e̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ t̶o̶ i̶m̶p̶r̶i̶s̶o̶n̶ h̶i̶m̶ f̶o̶r̶ l̶i̶f̶e̶ re-election. Speaking of disinformation,

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00:44:59

Election integrity & privacy: how and why Georgia...

The Ron Show ·

2025/01/07

Friend of the show, Marilyn Marks - executive director of the Coalition for Good Governance - joined me for a wall-to-wall conversation on election integrity in the state of Georgia.First, on the day President Carter left Georgia to be eulogized in the nation's capitol, Marilyn shared a story from Carter's political launch when he overcame a party "boss" ballot-stuffing on behalf of Carter's state senate opponent. Pretty funny (now) story, actually. She also deftly pointed out Carter's pro-consumer

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00:44:31

Four years ago today has been (but cannot be) forgotten

The Ron Show ·

2025/01/06

I wanted to share the touching tributes from President Jimmy Carter's friends and loved ones today, and told myself that's what I'd do, yesterday. Then I awoke today realizing the date - January 6th - and I couldn't do it. We're 23-plus years removed from 9/11 and it feels as if too many of us lost as much track of January 6, 2021 in just four years as we have that fateful day nearly a quarter century ago. Well, Congress affirmed the election results today, essentially allowing a four-year

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00:44:29

Trump's "too-soon" Truth takes are a taste of what's...

The Ron Show ·

2025/01/04

In the wake of the terror attack on New Orleans' famed Bourbon Street, President-elect Donald Trump made the (il)logical leap to tie the Biden administration's border actions to the carnage. Nevermind that it took mere hours for investigators to learn the murderous thug was an American-born former Army veteran who grew up Baptist but converted to Islam before being radicalized. Did Donald Trump do the responsible thing and retract his Truth social post? Nah. He doubled-down on it. That's a

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00:45:30

A sportswriter's account of horror on NOLA &...

The Ron Show ·

2025/01/02

Today we're just coming to grips with the horror levied on dozens of revelers on Bourbon Street in the early hours of New Year's Day, and I found it notable that Ken Suguira, a sports writer with the Atlanta Journal Constitution penned - in my mind - one of the more poingant pieces of journalism from the scene. There to cover the University of Georgai's football game, he was, instead, thrust into action reporting on a terror attack. In Georgia's Cobb County - a decidedly (now) "blue" county has a

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00:44:31

"The last word" on Jimmy Carter & what Politico saw...

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/31

The New York Times released an 11-minute video with never-before-seen footage of a conversation between President Jimmy Carter and the Times in 2006. A rather solid summation of Carter's perilous four-year, one-term presidency and the decision he made to contiue pursuing his ideals, domestically and globally, after leaving office. Let's eavesdrop a little. Politico's politics editor David Ciders cleaned out his 2024 campaign notebook that's pretty insightful, with some notable quotes and quips from

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00:44:31

Remembering Jimmy Carter: the best of intentions

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/30

When I'd heard of the passing of President Jimmy Carter, I knew right away the two conversations I wanted to have - and I'm grateful both guests had the time for me. Georgia WIN List executive director Melita Easters was a reporter on the ground in Plains, Georgia the night a triumphant Carter returned as "President-elect" and brings a wealth of anecdotes, background and insights into Carter's life before, during and after his presidency. Author, historian and professor of sociology, Mal Hyman,

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00:44:30

Fani's fumble & Trump's second term has begun

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/21

Atlanta Journal Constitution opinion writer Bill Torpey minced few words; in fact, he may have over-flowered a bit. Nonetheless, his summarizing the aftermath of a Georgia Appeals Court ruling that Fani Willis and the Fultono County DA's office has to cough up the Trump election interference case lays bare all that Willis and Nathan Wade did to potentially ruin (my opinion) the most rock-solid case agains the convicted felon about to re-take the White House.Meanwhile, while the latst "governent

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00:44:29

GA's 'bait-and-switch' school voucher scheme &...

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/20

Friend of the show Jay Bookman penned a piece chonicling how unpopular taxpayer funded private school vouchers are with conservatives and liberals - red and blue states. He also deftly explained what's happening in Georgia as a program set to aid maybe 6% of the state's student population attend a private school - with 1% of its education budget - suddenly appears to be available to nearly 20% of the state's students - at a much higher taxpayer cost - due to an interpretation by an unelected board

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00:44:30

Reviewing Bill & Jane's 'random' podcast: Maher's...

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/18

Bill Maher's made a quite comfortable living pointing out how Fox News & right wing talk radio has manipulated a bloc of voters - in his brand of comedic political satire from "Politically Incorrect" to "Real Time" to ... well, now, this era where he doesn't sound all that awfully different than Joe Rogan, honestly. Rogan, of course, is also a white male whose political views are actually very closely aligned to Maher's - and Maher's recent guest, Jane Fonda. Jane and Bill sat down for his

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00:44:30

A study in (some) contrast: moderates, progressives &...

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/18

As I'd mentioned Monday, I did a lot of reading over the weekend, and was struck by two pieces that offered two Democratic congressional reps offering differing rationales for why Democrats lost control of Washington. What's funny is, they almost actually sound the same, despite one being a blue collar district moderate, the other the new chair of the Progressive caucus.

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00:44:31

Joe's legacy & Kamala's future

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/17

As humans, we're all curious as to what the future holds for us, individually and societally, and it's natural to wonder how we'll be remembered when we walk off into the sunset, too. Such is the case for outgoing President Joe Biden, who's making the rounds reminding audiences what his administration inherited and overcame, what they accomplished, and what they're leaving for an incoming administration (at least outwardly) hell-bent on undoing their work. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris,

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00:44:31

The MAGA who cried "wolf" & of course Trump lied...

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/14

A Georgia House race decided by 48 votes may actually have been fouled up by a county elections office sending 60 or so voters the wrong ballots. The problem is, the losing canddiate - a MAGA Republican - "cried wolf" in ways reminiscent of 2020 nonsense that no one took her claims seriously. It also didn't help she couldn't substantiate any of her claims. What happens next is anyone's guess, but state law seems clear: an expensive run-off for 40,000 voters over less than a hundred voters getting

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00:44:30

Hegseth's bigotry was there all along

The Ron Show ·

2024/12/12

Donald Trump's choice to head the Department of Defense - Pete Hegseth - is as qualified for that role as I am to be a grocery chain CEO. I worked in grocery retail a few years while in high school and college; why not?What Pete IS qualified for, however, is the label "anti-gay bigot." Like Donald; like Pete, though. Trump's attack ad targeting trans support form VP Kalama Harris - though steeped in disinformation - worked.. So here we are - with gender-affirming care now being denied to veterans'

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