The Benjamin Dixon Show

Episode 770 | -- Election day in the UK. This is the first salvo in the resurgence of the global Left. -- Michelle Obama says she has the same values as GW Bush. Really? -- We like to think America is a meritocracy. If that was the case, there is a list of people in the American limelight that we'd otherwise never have heard of.

Episode 769 | -- Rise and Grind, Progressive Army!-- Have your episode with a cup of coffee and let's sit down and discuss. -- A new Quinnipiac poll shows that 52% of Democrats under 35 support Bernie Sanders. The future is Progressive! -- Donald Trump is slated to use an executive order to designate Judaism as a nationality. This is in efforts to crush the BDS movement. Of course, we don't expect...

Episode 768 | The Horowitz report and the subsequent competing interpretations is the perfect muse for us to understand why there may be no hope for America or humanity. LOL. Sorry to be so dramatic, but we are at the point where the people are demanding that our leaders and our media LIE to them. We're in trouble. -- Nancy Pelosi is impeaching Donald Trump and simultaneously working out a trade d...

Episode 767 | -- AOC showed us that we don't have to engage in corporate America's race to the bottom. It's time these businesses start paying their fair share! -- Donald Trump went on an antisemtic rant. Here's the gag: no one is going to say anything about it. -- Youtuber, Jimmy Dore, decided he and his wife wanted to interrogate Kamala Harris' blackness. The caucacity. -- Finally, everywhere we...

Episode 766 | -- Mayor Peter thinks the Democrats don't "worry enough" about the deficit. Nevermind the fact that every Democratic president has lowered the deficit after inheriting it from their Republican predecessors. Lawrence O'Donnell from MSNBC was not having it. Neither was I. -- A police shooting yesterday in Miami claimed the lives of four people including a UPS driver who was a hostage a...

Episode 765 | -- Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi has called for the chairman of the committee leading the impeachment proceedings to draft articles of impeachment. Trump responded. Are we living in two different realities where half of America can see the direct need for impeachment and the other half swears there is nothing there? -- Rand Paul wants you to use your retirement to pay off studen...

Episode 764 | -- Two prosecutors in the race. Only one got labeled a cop. The other hasn't been touched by this narrative. Why this matters and what we should learn from this. -- Tulsi Gabbard has 5 points in New Hampshire. Sanders is down by only 3. Time for Tulsi to drop out and endorse Senator Sanders. -- A brief note to young, Black progressives. It's just my experience and I want to share it...

Episode 763 | -- Kamala Harris' team just announced that she is out of the running as she no longer has the funds necessary to compete for the presidency. This is breaking news. -- The Middle-Class Squeeze is a real thing, and people need to understand that even if you're making $250,000 a year, you have more in common with minimum wage earners than people living off capital gains. -- The UK is fa...

Episode 762 | Mayor Pete is pushing hard against providing college for the rich kids of CEOs. This is a disingenuous argument that creates a means-tested program destined to collapse in the future. It is also an argument that leaves the families that make between $100,000 to $150,000 a year without free college. -- The way Pete is able to make this argument is the same way Democrats and Republican...

Episode 761 | Republicans are masters of projecting onto "the Left" the very things they are doing. But since the election of Donald Trump, we've seen an escalation in this tactic to the level that we can best describe as "weaponized projection." Let's discuss this tactic and its implications. -- Welcome to the show Malaika Jabali. She currently writes for The Guardian and has bylines in Essence,...

Episode 760 | Politico is reporting that former President Barack Obama has made it clear that if Bernie Sanders runs away with the primaries, he would consider intervening to stop him from securing the win. We covered this possibility last week as another outlet discussed this possibility. But let's discuss this from the perspective of how incompetent the establishment is in terms of fighting off...

Episode 759 | Michael Bloomberg has committed to spending between $500 million and $1 Billion to run for president. If you're wondering why he wouldn't spend this on progressive causes, realize that this is 100% about stopping Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders from instituting their various wealth taxes. Under Elizabeth Warren alone, Bloomberg will have to fork over $3.1 billion next year alone....

Episode 758 | Biden is not ready for the mainstage. He doesn't respond well under pressure. Listen to this clip of him telling a protestor that they should vote for Trump. That's right... Donald Trump. Donald Trump calls into Fox and Friends and basically admits to obstruction of justice. If only Republicans weren't on the wrong side of history. The contrarian left is bolstering Tulsi and this may...

Episode 757 | Let's breakdown the high points of the debate from last night. Also, the impeachment proceedings just got VERY interesting. And finally, Barack Obama is getting ready to wade into the primaries. This will backfire tremendously.

Episode 756 | Amazon made $11.2 Billion in profits in 2018 and will be paying $0 in taxes. I PAY MORE IN TAXES THAN AMAZON. You likely do as well. Let's discuss how they are extracting this obscene amount of wealth from our society but not contributing anything to its maintenance or development. Chick Fil-a is promising -- again -- to stop being bigots. Popeye's got em shook. But if they would jus...

Episode 755 Neal Carter of Nu View Consulting joined me to cover all of the day's news including Colin Kaepernick's workout for the NFL that went sideways. I start the show off with a discussion on Medicare for All and the new Gallup poll that states that 34 million Americans have lost a family member because of the lack of medical coverage. MedicareForAll is a TANGIBLE! Neal and I discussed Kanye...

Episode 754 Deval Patrick has already messed up. He thinks we need to be more humble when it comes to Medicare for All. The impeachment proceedings aren't exciting enough for America? Well, that's part of the reason we got Trump in the first place. Dave Rubin has always been a bootlicker, but now he's given Donald Trump, Jr. permission to call him the F-word. Check out this 11-year-old who sounds...

Episode 753 Former Massachusetts governor, Deval Patrick, has entered the presidential race. After serving as governor, Patrick went to work for Bain Capital -- yes, that Bain Capital. I like Patrick on a personal level -- but politically speaking, Patrick represents the last generation of Democrats who bought into the notion that whatever was good for business was good for America. Not only is th...

Episode 752 | I had a chance to sit with my good friend, @Mediastudied, at a coffee shop to discuss politics and some religion. We covered the politics and possibilities of Trump's impeachment, how Stephen Miller could be both Jewish and a White Nationalist, Ben Shapiro's evolution, and rebellion against our parents. See you tomorrow!

Episode 751 | Polling data shows that Bernie Sanders is in third place in the first four primaries/caucuses. Biden has a commanding lead still despite clearly being the worst pick imaginable. Democrats have a problem. They cannot win without the Black vote OVERPERFORMING. Yet, Black voters have not been motivated to overperform since Obama. So the problem is, White voters are extremely divided and...

Episode 750 | Donald Trump and the Republican Party have been consistently throwing millions of dollars into getting the Black vote. They won't win the Black vote. But if they can convince just enough voters of something that isn't particularly untrue -- that the Democrats aren't doing anything for us -- then it may be enough to give them victory in 2020. Finally, the military coup in Bolivia is t...

Episode 749 | Michael Bloomberg enters the presidential race, and he is the last hope for the monied-interests in the Democratic Party. But it is too little too late. This generation of Americans understands the game and we're giving the middle finger to BILLIONAIRES. Tulsi Gabbard returns to the premiere white supremacist media platform, Breitbart. This time, her visit was to fearmonger over "ope...

Episode 748 Ayanna Pressley has endorsed Elizabeth Warren along with 100 Black women organizes, activists, and influencers. Let's discuss. When it comes to how radical Americans can be, the wealthy should take Bernie Sanders up on his rather considerate offer. Finally, the best response to Republican treachery is a movement big enough that they couldn't possibly deny it.

Episode 747 Democrats win big last night, but what's next? Will this new batch of Dems be prepared to take on Republicans and actually do something to help society? Or will they triangulate? Kamala Harris announced a plan that would make schools equipped to keep children until 6 PM. The idea is meant to assist working parents. Here's a better idea: Let's shorten the workday. Finally, I just think...

Episode 746 | Mayor Pete has a problem in the Black community and it's not homophobia. The Amazing Atheist and Kyle Kulinski have issues with identity politics. But they clearly see the problem with the way America treats their identity. Finally, capitalism just sucks.