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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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00:44:29

Post-election: What we need is a true liberal media...

The Ron Show ·

2024/11/06

So we awaken to what's pretty much "worst case scenario" this election cycle, and while we can (and will, later) nitpick how things went wrong, I thought it first useful to have a discussion about some hard truths we on the left need to start discussing - and openly.The first? The Constitution, for all its revery, is a deeply flawed document and folks like Elie Mystal (he calls it 'trash') are brave enough to say so; maybe more of us should, too. King Williams, author of "The Breakdown with King

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00:44:30

Maher's right: economically, America IS great;...

The Ron Show ·

2024/11/05

I've strayed from routinely watching "Real Time with Bill Maher," for a couple reasons: one, I just can't keep paying for all these streaming services (the show now re-airs on CNN, though) and he's too tone-deaf on trans issues for my taste. That said, on the economy, he was spitting facts on his last "new rule" prior to Election Day. The gist? The economy doesn't need saving; it's been saved. MAGA's have an alternate reality fog they won't see through and (I agree here) Democrats have been timid to

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01:00:30

Will duped MAGA ever get mad at the dupers duping them?

The Ron Show ·

2024/11/04

Caught '60 Minutes' last night as they spent 13-plus minutes detailing all the many and varied ways states like Georgia have exhaustively responded to election denialism. The consensus: it's nearly impossible to steal a Presidential election. Well, duh. Still, over the weekend, a handful of Georgia counties opened their doors to let absentee ballot-holders hand in those ballots - what with Louis DeJoy having wrecked the US Postal Service - much to the chagrin of various county GOP folks, the

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00:44:29

Early vote notes, Trump's bad criminal border data &...

The Ron Show ·

2024/11/01

There's reason for optimism the outcome on Tuesday night (we hope that early) may swing in Kamala Harris' favor if polling that's now including "early voted" responses are any indication. In that subset, Harris leads Trump by 19-29 points depending on the poll, and in all but one swing state by solid or even gaudy margins, too. Remember, too, that MAGA voters have come to embrace early voting more this cycle, meaning their closing these gaps on Election Day become muted. We'll see. From the

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00:44:30

'Garbage' rubbish, crudity & January 6th: Trump's...

The Ron Show ·

2024/11/01

After the toxic spew that spouted from the podium Sunday at Madison Square Garden, of COURSE MAGA is going to clutch their pearls over a mis-interpretation of Joe Biden's characterization. To the point that Donald waddled (what's with his right leg?) up into a garbage truck for a photo op. There was the mainstream media to both lap it up and equivocate (falsely) of course. Spare me, and thanks to the Lincoln Project for their swift assemblage of clips where Donald's said "as bad or worse" about

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00:43:30

Review: Kamala's 'closing argument'

The Ron Show ·

2024/10/31

The location and backdrop were perfect. The speech was spot-on, too. Today I review VP Kamala Harris' "closing argument" speech at the Ellipse between the White House and Washington Monument - the same park her opponent stirred up an angry mob on January 6, 2021.

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00:44:30

"... an advent calendar of racism"

The Ron Show ·

2024/10/30

Tim Onion, CEO at "The Onion," tweeted "the October surprise is an advent calendar of racism." Pretty well sums up the final few days of the month, no?To close out the month we had the breathtaking parade of white nationalism and "bro-tastic" (not my term; that came from hyper-partisan Megyn Kelly) speeches from Madison Square Garden. The response from Puerto Rican voices was loud, swift and severe. Then, a day later, enter Ryan Girdusky on the set of CNN's "NewsNight with Abby Phillip." the

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00:44:30

The 'quiet part out loud' at MSG & editorial...

The Ron Show ·

2024/10/28

There was a LOT of "quiet part out loud" fodder served up at Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden rally yesterday - a not-so-subtle homage to the 1939 Nazi rally at the venue's predecessor in New York City. Many are honing in on the racist swipes made by a previously little-known comedian - so awful even the Trump campaign seeks to distance itself from them (did they review when loading his notes on the teleprompter?). I began with Tucker Carlson, though, what with his mocking Kamala Harris' being

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00:44:31

'The Boss' and the audit that destroyed a right wing...

The Ron Show ·

2024/10/25

Seeing Bruce Springsteen perform is something I've wanted to do since "Born in the USA" was blaring on the radio when I was a kid - or from my cassette player. Well, I missed him on his mini-tour with VP Kamala Harris yesterday in Clarkston, but I got to listen to it on the drive back from South Carolina, so it'll have to do. I have some of his music & statements to review.So it turns out the right wing trope about "illegal voters" is much ado about nearly nothing. Or 9 total, in Georgia, and

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"... the general definition of 'fascist,' for sure"

The Ron Show ·

2024/10/25

Former Trump chief-of-staff John Kelly was finally triggered to go "on the record" after the former President crossed one of two red lines with Kelly - the "enemy within" quips weaving in use of military force. In speaking with the New York Times, Kelly surprised no one with what he said; that he said it, on record, while being recorded willingly, is historic.

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00:44:29

Music & Mal: on the road with a grassroots southern...

The Ron Show ·

2024/10/23

I'm spending a few days in coastal South Carolina where my friend Mal Hyman is working overtime on the "retail political trail" - having to get out to shake hands and meet people on-one-on as opposed to taking PAC money to flood TV and radio airwaves. It's a noble endeavor, but because of the size of his district, a gargantuan task that could be better alleviated by eliminating gerrymandering and uncapping The House, which he and I discuss a bit. Today, though, we mostly just get a sense of his

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00:44:31

Vote-flip flap, a new poll, Palmer's putter & "The...

The Ron Show ·

2024/10/23

You better believe the litigious folks at Dominion Voting are watching and listening to everything 2020 election-deniers like Marjorie Taylor Greene are saying. She just can't help herself. New AJC/UGA polling data's out, and along with what we're seeing from GeorgiaVotes.com, there's an emerging story about who the new voters are: young and likely Hispanic and/or Asian. How weird is it that right wing radio host Charlie Sykes emceed a Kamala Harris rally Monday? You know, the one with Liz Cheney,

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00:44:31

Kammie's ATL weekend & the 'critical race' convo at...

The Ron Show ·

2024/10/21

After doing (what I presume may be my daily) review of GeorgiaVotes.com early voting data, I connected with Donnell Suggs, editor-in-chief at The Atlanta Voice. He had wall-to-wall coverage of VP Kamala Harris' visit to metro Atlanta this weekend. We discuss her events, the "black men leaving the party for Trump" trope, highlight his latest piece "It's late October; do you know where your polling place is?" and a few other touchy subjects (not including his Mets' being bounced last night). I'm a

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00:44:32

Thank immigrants for 'fraud' & Kamala's billionaire...

The Ron Show ·

2024/10/20

First, a look at a nifty website - GeorgiaVotes.com - giving us up-to-date early voter data by various demographics and comparing to 2020 data, too. JD Vance has been mouthing off about Social Sbyecurity and Medicare fraud by "illegal immigrants," but the fact is, they're just contributing to both entitlement programs while rarely ever getting anything from it. We should be thanking those 'illegal' immigrants. Donald Trump has (super-weird) Elon Musk. Kamala Harris has Mark Cuban. When it comes to

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00:47:29

The Trump guardrail is gone; so are those nutty...

The Ron Show ·

2024/10/17

Back-to-back "bad days" in courtrooms for Georgia's MAGA-led state election board this week, with another superior court judge wiping out the board's "eleventh hour" rules-a-palooza onslaught. Fair High Action CEO Lauren Groh-Wargo joined me today to give reaction to that and the many and varied ways Republicans - the pro-Trump ilk and even just the 'good old fashioned voter suppression' kind - have sewn so much calamity around Georgia's process all on their own.Meanwhile, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance

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00:45:01

White women are bailing and "the Veep" meets 'tha God'

The Ron Show ·

2024/10/17

I've a theory: yes, abortion rights are definitely "on the ballot" and energizing women voters, but white women broke for Donald Trump 55% to 45% in 2020 - after he'd stocked the Supreme Court with anti-abortion perjurers Then came 'Dobbs,' but also his ramped up divisive rhetoric. Surely you've noticed he labels anyone not "pro-Trump" as the "enemy within," right? That he's more than intimating the use of military force on political opponents. At a Republican-stocked suburban Atlanta "town hall"

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00:44:28

John Oliver had Georgia on his mind (and throughout...

The Ron Show ·

2024/10/16

Today, Georgia's early voting window opened (more than 200,000 folks participated, shattering a previous record) while the state's election board got smote by a superior court judge. The Coalition for Good Governance seeks compromise, but fat chance that happening at this late hour.As if that wasn't enough to pore over, John Oliver's most recent episode of 'Last Week Tonight" had "Georgia on his mind" throughout. He, too, doused on the election board antics, plus immense voter challenges from just

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00:44:31

Barry, Julia & Kamala working the rally, phones &town...

The Ron Show ·

2024/10/12

Listen in as former President Barak Obama gives a scorching speech - at a Harris/Walz rally - in an effort to make sense of the senseless (in another former President Donald Trump), Julia Roberts phone banking (so effectively!) and Kamala Harris flexing her compassion and empathy at her Univision town hall.

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00:44:27

Electoral college just telling "bad guys where to...

The Ron Show ·

2024/10/10

Julia Roberts making the rounds in metro Atlanta yesterday and today, along with Sen. Raphael Warnock and Stacey Abrams, something she said in Canton last night stood out. "It is the UNITED States of America, and we've been lacking in the 'united' part for so long." The right usually responds with a dismissive "Hollywood elite liberal" swipe - but COUSIN Julia (who says we might not be related?) is also from Georgia. MOST of Hollywood isn't from Hollywood. They're from Georgia or Iowa, Texas,

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00:44:30

Irrefutable: the multi-state plot to overturn...

The Ron Show ·

2024/10/10

Tina Peters is going to prison for trying to have a hand in overturning election results. Tuesday afternoon, two organizations - Free Speech for People and the Coalition for Good Governance - held a virtual press briefing where they and experts like Georgia Tech's Dr. Rich DeMillo and Cal-Berkley's Dr. Richard Stark made the irrefutable case that there was (and still is!) a multi-state plot to overturn the 2020 election for Donald Trump - and with stolen voting system software, may succeed in doing

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