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Cliff Schecter joins the Tuesday show. Who is Cliff? Cliff versus Cleta Mitchell circa 2006. Does aggressive push-back work any more? Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski's meeting with Trump at Mar-a-lago. The clock is ticking on the bromance between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Boris Epshteyn is already feuding with Elon. Bob is nuking his Twitter account. Donald Trump pledges to declare a nationa...

How are we holding up? We lost 30 Patreon subscribers and 220 Apple Podcast followers. Please support independent media! Bluesky is an excellent large scale support group. The Onion bought Alex Jones's Infowars. The ACLU's full page ad in the NYT. Donald Trump's cabinet nominees are a McDonaldland of Scooby Doo villains. Elon Musk's DOGE project. Pete Hegseth's disgusting lack of hygiene. Tom Homa...

JoJo doesn't have any effs left, so she's fighting back hard against the incoming gaggle of incompetent stupids. We talked about her approach to protecting democracy, what we can expect from the new Trump administration, John Thune's Senate leadership, and Fritos for your tomato soup. You can find her on Substack @JoJoFromJerz and all the various social media platforms including Bluesky . Meantime...

We bid farewell to the great Buzz Burbank, who's been our Tuesday co-host since 2017. Our 31 year history together, starting with Bob's internship for Buzz at WJFK in Washington, DC. How we teamed up in the newsroom. Buzz's radio career. How we reunited around politics and the news. Supporting independent news media. What's next for social media. Cliff Schecter steps in as our Tuesday co-host star...

No Ultimate Edition or Shadow Docket today -- just one long, uninterrupted talk between Bob, Jody, and David about the incoming disaster. We all need to be the friend who jumps in the hole. We recap some highlights from Sexy Liberal LA. And most importantly we get our first big laughs since Election Night Nightmare. With Jody Hamilton , David Ferguson , music by C.C. Grace , and more. See Privacy...

Buzz and Bob react to the catastrophic election results. How do we move forward? How do we hold fast to our American values? How do we cope with the nightmare scenario? The suspicious turnout numbers. Our friends in Ukraine and in the LGBTQ community. The exit polls and the Gen Z vote. And more. With Buzz Burbank . Music by Kyiv, Ukraine's Pasha Black . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/priv...

Our Election Day podcast is in the eye of the hurricane -- or water dump. Bob's Sexy Liberal weekend in Los Angeles and his encounters with many celebrities like Mark Hamill and Robert Englund. The stakes of the election and where we go from here. Bob opens up about Joe Rogan's endorsement of Donald Trump. Donald's friends in Russia up the ante with anti-American terrorism. Hello, people of the fu...

This election will decide the character of the United States for the next 100 years. More horrendous fallout from red state abortion bans. Christopher Bouzy's new map. The voter enthusiasm gap. The New York Times article about the gaming of the polls by Republicans. Fortune report on the Polymarket scam. The new Harris-Walz ad narrated by Julia Roberts. MAGA trying to control women. WSJ report on...

Tom Ortenberg is the founder of Briarcliff Entertainment, which is distributing the new movie about Donald Trump and Roy Cohn called "The Apprentice." It premieres this Friday November 1 wherever you rent your streaming movies – Prime, Apple, etc. As I've discussed on the show, it's not necessarily a political indictment of Donald, but it gives us a feel for how he became the monster we all know –...

One week to go! Donald's fascist rally at Madison Square Garden. Imagine if Donald Trump loses this election because of one racist hack comic. Jon Stewart praises Hinchcliffe. Marc Maron's response to anti-woke comics and Joe Rogan. Donald's secret plan with Mike Johnson. The polls are completely unreliable. How to navigate the numbers in the final week. Jeff Bezos kills The Washington Post's endo...

Why voting today made Bob verklempt. The bogus polls leave us with a sense of uncertainty. The CNN town hall with Kamala Harris and the self-satirical CNN panel after the fact. Jake Tapper's monologue about the false equivalence between coverage of Harris and coverage of Donald. Donald's former top generals all agree: he's a fascist and the most dangerous person ever. "Hitler did some good things....

It's less than two weeks from the election, so it's time for some professional analysis from political scientist Rachel Bitecofer. You might know her from her Substack called The Cycle , and from such podcasts as this one. We talked about the stakes and the odds of the election, plus we geeked out over some numbers – and Rachel even gave us a bit of a prediction. Plus, we somehow worked Phil Colli...

Donald Trump is using the McDonald's stunt and the 60 Minute attacks to make sure the news media isn't focused on his enemy within threat and his refusal to show up on 60 Minutes. MAGA is so proud of the McDonald's photo op. Former Trump official Dan Coats says Putin is blackmailing Donald. Jim Mattis agrees with Mark Milley. Where are Donald's medical records? The Arnold Palmer story is silly sea...

Kamala Harris Godzilla-stomped Monchhichi Bret Baier on Fox News. Donald on the enemy from within. Donald bungled his way through his Univision town hall. Bob Woodward reports that Joe Biden stopped Putin from using tactical nukes in Ukraine. Donald tried to silence Stormy Daniels again. Anand Giridharadas on the threat of another Donald Trump presidency and how we take democracy for granted. Grea...

Cliff Schecter returns to the show today while tanked up on cold medications, but that didn't stop him from relentlessly destroying Republicans, the news media, the pollsters, and Donald Trump himself. Our original guest had to drop out, also due to a cold. We've rescheduled Tom Ortenberg, the distributor of The Apprentice movie about Donald Trump, next week. Don't forget to subscribe to Cliff's Y...

Buzz survived Milton. Good news from Judge Merchan and Judge Chutkan. Kamala going on Fox News and possibly Joe Rogan's podcast. Odds versus Stakes. Competence and stability. Donald pledges to use the military against his political opponents. New revelations from Bob Woodward's book. The competence of the Biden administration. How Biden talked Putin out of using battlefield nukes. The Cuban Missil...

Update on Hurricane Milton. Buzz is safe and sound. Elon is gouging hurricane victims with Starlink. Elon and Tucker laughing about how no one's tried to assassinate the president or the vice president. Early voting numbers continue to roll in. This election is looking more and more like 2022. Donald is losing Nikki Haley Republican voters. Suburban voters now support Harris by a significant margi...

Aaron Bos-Lun is the deputy executive director of Men4Choice, an activist group that works to activate, educate, and mobilize male-identifying allies into the fight for reproductive freedom. No matter where you live – red state, blue state, or purple state – you can volunteer to help get the word out about the stakes of this election, which couldn't be more dire. Men4Choice.org . Meantime, make su...

Buzz is preparing for Hurricane Milton. The climate crisis will make monster hurricanes more frequent and deadly. For the thousandth time, it was Donald Trump who raided FEMA funds to spend on building cages for children. Donald went full fascist, accusing immigrants of having bad genes. Revelations from Bob Woodward's new book. Donald donated scarce COVID tests to Putin -- for his personal use. S...

David and the BioLab chemical fire in Georgia. David and Jody react to the VP debate. JD Vance is Clint Webb. The bombshell Jack Smith immunity filing. The timing and existence of this filing is entirely Donald's fault -- blowback for his obvious attempts to obstruct and delay the prosecution. Donald Trump is the most unpatriotic American leader in history. The NY Times is betraying democracy. Don...

The vice presidential debate between Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance is in the can, so Buzz and Bob reconvened to discuss what happened -- the latest post-debate polling, all the lies, what qualifies as “style” in these things, and so much more. And of course, we talked about the historic moment when Vance refused to say whether Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. tick around for this one. Meanti...

The aftermath of Hurricane Helene and how Donald Trump will make the worst parts of the climate crisis happen. Jessica Tarlov on President Biden's response. CNN's Kristen Holmes sanewashed Donald's disruptive visit to NC. Taking the temperature of the election, the polls, and swing voters. Rasmussen caught colluding with the Trump campaign. Tonight's VP debate and fact-checking. Donald Trump calle...

David prepares for Hurricane Helene. Check your sump pump! NYC Mayor Eric Adams indicted on massive bribery scheme involving straw donors and the Turkish government. Bret Stephens, Nate Silver, and the WSJ thought Eric Adams was a rising star in Democratic politics. Haitian activist group in Springfield, Ohio file criminal charges against Donald Trump and JD Vance. Donald's latest grift. Donald's...

My partner on Trek Politics has a new book out titled Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir . And in case you're just joining us, Mary L. Trump is Donald Trump's niece, she's also a psychologist, an accomplished author, a Mom, and I'm so proud to call her my friend. In her latest book Mary wrote about how Fred Trump Sr. and his son Donald impacted both the life of Mary's Dad, Fred Jr. aka Fredd...

Hurricane Helene is heading for Florida...slowly. How is Buzz preparing? Mark Robinson's campaign staff quit after CNN reported he identified as a Nazi, supported slavery, peeped in women's locker rooms, and more. Donald and his campaign hasn't disavowed Robinson. Donald is in trouble in NC. What's wrong with the New York Times poll? A word about Bret Stephens on Real Time. All the latest poll num...