INDIGNITY MORNING PODCAST

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: You just invented a completely fake justification for lawless behavior from the president and then appealed to the authority of experts to say that it's completely fake. The reader gains nothing from the effort to reframe completely abnormal behavior as if it were normal, followed by the conclusion that the frame just doesn't fit. The president is shaking down companies for...

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Nowhere in this story about malicious and defamatory behavior by the so-called group Libs of TikTok, the account, the Times writes, “did not respond to questions regarding its post about Mr. Paris.” Is there a single mention of the name Chaya Raichik, who runs Libs of TikTok. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: The fact that Andrew Cuomo, whose own residency in New York City is extremely tenuous and recent, even by the most charitable accounts, is trying to recover his standing by pounding away on the Hamptons fundraiser circuit, could be an embarrassing front page story in its own right. It just emphasizes that the anti-Mamdani movement, such as it is, basically represents the des...

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: The Times describes Trump's deployment of federal agents and National Guard troops in Washington, DC as “an actualization of one of his most tried and true political arguments. Democrats, often black Democrats, have let lawlessness run rampant in the cities and states they were elected to run.” Now, is that an actualization of the argument? Or is it an invitation to treat th...

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: “Sustained a traumatic head injury amid an Israeli shell explosion” is a fairly convoluted way of saying that Israeli forces shot a 14 year old boy with an artillery shell. And now the Free Press reports that he is completely paralyzed, so it only makes sense that he would be malnourished if you accept the premise that getting adequate nutrition to paralyzed children is an i...

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Once the Times has developed a rooting interest in the news, it loses all sense of proportion. Cuomo and Adams are both actually scandalous figures who are totally unfit for office. But rather than documenting that, the Times is obsessed with trying to prove that the squeaky clean Mamdani must also somehow be disqualified. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://w...

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: If Donald Trump were taking Fred Trump's words literally, if Fred Trump had meant his words to be taken literally, the federal government would be sending out the National Guard with paint rollers and power washers. They'd be building housing for the homeless people so they're not living messy lives out on the street. But when Donald Trump says a place is dirty, what he mean...

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: We're really getting back to the kind of presidential time wasting that came with the outbreak of the COVID pandemic, “during the 78-minute news conference, during which he was flanked by several members of his cabinet, Mr. Trump took the lectern in the White House briefing room and said he also intended to clear out the Capitol's homeless population without saying how offic...

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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: If I were writing a news story about the president going to the Federal Reserve to put public pressure on the chairman and having the chairman point out with cameras rolling that the president's complaint was essentially a fabrication I would make that the top of the story, an official who the president is trying to push out, despite lacking the legal authority to do so open...

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: In addition to being possibly the biggest superstar of professional wrestling, Hogan was also a racist and a fraud artist whose major legacy was his willingness to commit perjury as the plaintiff serving as the front person for Peter Thiel's successful campaign to abuse the legal system and the power differential, that comes with a reactionary billionaire class, to destroy G...

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: These are Steve Bannon's own guests, telling him on his program that they're still upset about the Epstein question, and then Bannon turns around and tells the Times and everyone else that the movement is rallying around the president and the Times prints it. That's literally the opposite of NEWS ANALYSIS. It's a press release from the permanent campaign. Please visit, read,...

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: “Zoran Mamdani,” the Times writes, “is unleashing a full-scale charm offensive of private meetings, phone calls, and public promises aimed at wooing top party leaders, donors, and activists,” and runs through a list of the meetings that he's taken with influence groups and elected officials. But underneath that, it's a story about the lack of sophistication on the side that...

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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Basically, if you can imagine the stupidest and most destructive ways to either spend more money or not spend money, the bill is going to hit all of them. Despite the fact that nobody but a handful of lunatics really wants this to happen, it's on its way to happening. The easy interpretation of this is that the country is in the hands of a malevolent dictator, and it is, but...

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Senate Republicans chose to embrace a fake accounting maneuver in which the $3.8 trillion expense of extending Donald Trump's 2017 tax cuts, past their expiration date, doesn't count as an expense since the tax cuts are in effect right now. This directly contradicts the accounting that was used to pass those tax cuts in the first place. Please visit, read, and support INDIGN...

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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Nowhere in the paper is the news that 128 Democrats in the House of Representatives joined the Republicans to prevent Texas Representative Al Green from getting the House to vote on impeaching Donald Trump for his congressionally unauthorized attack on Iran. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: A big morning for newsworthy cuss words from the executive branch. I guess the job here on this podcast is to try to make sense of the news, but I gotta confess, I’m whipped. I know the potential smoldering fuse of World War III is a heck of a thing to throw up one's hands about, but it seems pretty clear that the people doing the war also have no idea what's really going on...

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: the Times has a five-byline story narrating the process by which Donald Trump chose to send the bombers, and it essentially is not a story about military strategy at all. It was simply a child-minded and senescent president balancing his whims against the lobbying of his advisors and largely what he saw on television before deciding to do what seemed like the biggest most dr...

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: “I don't reach out to persuade you,” Huckabee says, “only to encourage you. I believe you will hear from heaven. And that voice is far more important than mine or anyone else’s.” And that is how the United States’s current administration is approaching a military crisis precipitated by a nuclear-armed ally. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net...

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: “Today, the "Times writes, "while most Americans do not support political violence, a growing share have said in surveys that they view rival partisans as a threat to the country or even as inhuman. Mr. Trump,” the Times continues, “has had a hand in that. Since his 2016 candidacy, he has signaled at least his tacit approval of violence against his political opponents. He en...

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EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Last term, people told him he couldn't have that military parade and that he couldn't send the troops to shoot protesters. But this time around, he's gotten rid of those people and with them the limits on his ability to play around with deadly force to make himself feel powerful. If you can't grasp that simple fact, you need not to be presenting yourself as an expert on defe...

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: This, it turns out, is how a violent fascist takeover manifests itself operating in the uncanny nexus between completely made up pretexts and complaints and genuine power and violence. Kristi Noem and Pete Hegseth go on TV, done up like Bratz dolls of themselves and make flamboyantly idiotic and fantastic claims about reality, while somebody's real head bangs into a real cur...