Just Buy Less Coffee, Answering the Deeper Questions of American Politics

JBLC breaks down the passage of a bill in France to enshrine the right to an abortion in their constitution, a move inspired by the loss of reproductive freedom in the United States; Nikki Haley wins the DC primary on the way to a complete surprise rout of Donald Trump...probably not, but we take a look at the upcoming Super Tuesday primary elections, can Haley make a last stand against the insurr...

Cathy and Troy give a eulogy for the career of Mitch McConnell, who announced this week that he would be stepping down from his 2 decade role of Senate Republican Leader, a career marked by putting party ahead of country, weaponizing the filibuster, and corrupting all three branches of government, only to be turned on by MAGA. Bye Mitch. You earned your place in political infamy.  The Supreme Cour...

JBLC looks at the death of Russian pro-democracy leader Alexei Navalny, Putin's chief rival, in a Russian prison camp; a political assassination the same week that Trump announced to the world that he would let Putin do "whatever the hell he wants", as MAGA suddenly turns against Russia saying that Trump is the only leader who can stand up to Putin.  Will this serve to dislodge Ukra...

Cathy and Troy delve into the world of cognitive politics as a Trump appointed special prosecutor throws gasoline on the mental fitness debate between Biden and Trump. Should Biden drop out and make way for a candidate with less baggage? Will Trump be in prison by the election? Plus MAGA implodes in Congress over border negotiations, and right-wing heads explode over Taylor Swift and the Superbowl...

JBLC analyzes the situation at the U.S. border with a look at both the MAGA response, which took the form of a failed convoy of true believers heading down to the border to stop the migrant invasion, only to learn that the trip was part of a con artist  grifting operation; to Republicans in Congress sabotaging their own border bill to make Joe Biden look bad, and keep the border in a crisis to hel...

JBLC breaks down the New Hampshire primary results as Trump has performance issues revealing cracks in the MAGA foundation and a problem with Republican enthusiasm, as Nikki Haley's campaign survives another round and Biden wins the state on a write in campaign;  Ron DeSantis, who promised to never back down, backs down, showing yet again why Casey DeSantis can't have nice things;  Texas...

JBLC analyzes the results of the Iowa Caucus and the bizarre messaging from multiple corners of Trump's inevitability after only winning a tiny election in a ruby red state;  We lament DeSantis' truly horrible campaign while we wait for him to drop out during our recording, and in typical DeSantis fashion he screws it up and announces 2 hours after we had finished that he was dropping ou...

JBLC revisits the genocide in Gaza and speculates about the future of the Israeli state in the face of worldwide condemnation and a historic charge of war crimes before the Hague;  Trump goes on a Fox Town Hall and perpetuates the lie that he's a candidate of peace, despite his term being marked by escalations of U.S. wars all over the world, a destabilized middle east and United States, and...

JBLC breaks down the release of the Epstein files, who's on the list, and the garbage right weaponizing the horrors of sex trafficking against their opponents with false accusations;  Biden gives more weapons to the Israelis while the civilian death toll mounts;  NRA boss Wayne LaPierre resigns leaving behind a wake of corruption and death and the cancer of gun violence in America; Trump prep...

JBLC breaks down the fake impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, where MAGA Republicans admit they have no evidence to impeach, they just want to help Donald Trump's election;  Rudy Guiliani gets the shit kicked out of him in court after ruining the lives of two election workers;  Behind the scenes secrets are revealed about the chaos in the Supreme Court leading up to the overturning of Roe v....

JBLC breaks down the Kate Cox case in Texas: a woman who was denied an abortion despite serious health complications due to a fatal nonviable pregnancy, who then had to flee the state for healthcare while waiting for a court to rule on her case after she sued;  Ukraine looks for more aid and runs headlong into the beast that is Russia-supporting MAGA Republicans, but gets bailed out at the last mi...

JBLC breaks down the good old fashioned ass whoopin California Governor Gavin Newsom gave to Florida Governor and failing presidential candidate Ron Desantis in a bizarre primtime interview on Fox...the perfect gift for Cathy's birthday; MAGA Republicans use psyop tactics to try and manipulate black and muslim voters;  Liz Cheney warns the end is nigh for American Democracy if Trump is re-ele...

JBLC breaks down Hamas releasing hostages and negotiating a ceasefire with Israel;  MTG's book flops harder than a Evertonian soccer player;  Melania attends Rosalynne Carter's funeral and sits next to Michelle Obama. It was weird;  George Santos is about to be kicked out of Congress;  Young voters turn on Biden over Gaza;  and right-wingers riot in Ireland what they say was a migrant st...

JBLC breaks down the calamity in Congress as Republican members literally come to blows and a U.S. Senator uses a committee hearing to try and pick a fight with a union leader;  The situation intensifies in Gaza, as Israel continues to bomb civilians, while Osama Bin Laden's letter to America resurfaces on TikTok;  and Donald Trump compares his political enemies to "Vermin" in a thr...

JBLC breaks down election night in an off-year with abortion rights on the ballot in several states;  The war in Gaza heats up as the world calls for a ceasefire;  The new Speaker of the House is a Christo-fascist weirdo who shares a porn-monitoring app with his son;  and the polling industrial complex continues to wage a war on democracy with garbage polls pushing an inevitable Trump victory;  al...

JBLC breaks down the horrific events on the ground in the Israel/Hamas war. Any movement that targets children, on either side, is illegitimate.  We stand therefore with both the people of Israel and Palestine in the face of death of so many innocents, and not with either Hamas or the Israeli government. At the same time, disgusting islamophobia is spreading once again here in the U.S. which has a...

JBLC breaks down the vacation of former Speaker McCarthy, and the vacation he will now be taking as a result,  the weakest Speaker in U.S. history, all McCarthy had to do was the slightest bit of negotiation with Democrats to save his job. Instead he went on Sunday news shows and tried to blame Democrats for the near government shutdown caused by his caucus. McCarthy would rather lose his job than...

JBLC Breaks down the disastrous Meet The Press interview with Donald Trump; Kristen Welker, along with all of legacy media, is putting ratings ahead of democracy,  Bobo engages in heavy petting during Beetlejuice, who knew that Beetlejuice the musical was so hot? The UAW goes on strike and tells Trump to fuck himself,  Mitt Romney quits government,  and Congress barrels toward a shutdown while MAG...

JBLC breaks down the rise in hate speech in America, both on social media where Elon Musk leads a anti-semitic movement against the Anti Defamation League, and on the streets of Florida where it is safer to be a nazi than it is to be a trans youth,  plus Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio is sentenced for January 6th,  Gloria Johnson destroys Marsha Blackburn in a new campaign ad,  Trump releases a p...

JBLC breaks down the Trump surrender and mugshot, the most famous presidential portrait in history and the image of pure evil;  The GOP debate features three of the worst candidates in history and Trump isn't even on the stage;  Tucker Carlson interviews Trump and things got weird; Tucker desperate to get Trump's thoughts on Epstein's death, Trump wants to pontificate on water press...

JBLC breaks down the 4th (5th) Trump indictment in Fulton County;  a federal court rules against the abortion pill, making the nightmarish hellscape that is the United States for reproductive freedom just that much darker;  unsealed Twitter court transcripts reveal how hard Elon Musk wants Trump to be his daddy;  devastating fires in Maui gets the garbage really angry about the exact wrong thing; ...

On the public portion of our 100th episode Patreon exclusive live, JBLC deep dives Troy's trip to Ireland and reveals the history of a once horrifically oppressed people who have built a thriving progressive nation for themselves, while U.S. democracy backslides, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee... THANK YOU FOR 100!

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR 100 EPISODES!!! JBLC breaks down the Barbie movie phenomenon and its effect on vaginal drying right wing dudes;  the government confirms aliens exist, and no one cares;  Musk rebrands Twitter, which is always a sign things are going well;  Desantis tweets nazi images and then deletes them;  Israeli democracy commits suicide;  fascists in Italy make LGBT second class citizens...

JBLC continues our conversation about the Duggar family and their connection to a political network of right-wing evangelical fascists who have worked to destroy our liberal democracy for 50 years, and got away with it while the rest of us weren't paying attention. PLUS , special guest comedian Devin Siebold joins to talk about the Bored Teacher comedy tour, featuring former teachers turned c...

JBLC runs through the recent SCOTUS decisions which are outright assaults on liberal democracy in the U.S. from a corrupt illegitimate court; MTG gets booted from the House Freedom Caucus for not being extreme enough; and Elon Musk gets into a dick measuring contest with Mark Zuckerberg, and loses, all for less than the price of a cup of coffee...