The Politicrat

Omar Moore makes the case to vote out Mitch McConnell as Republican Senate majority leader (hint: Georgia). Also: The Stimulus Debacle. Plus: Speaker Pelosi (who doesn’t want to bring Medicare For All to the House floor for a vote early next year) must go as Speaker if the Democrats are to retain House control after 2022. Omar explains why. And: When should reporters ever stop asking critical ques...

Omar Moore talks to Christina Patterson, the English journalist, broadcaster, columnist, author, analyst and podcaster about the COVID-19 pandemic in England under UK prime minister Boris Johnson. Patterson also discusses life, loss and humanity. Her most recent book “The Art Of Not Falling Apart” is also a focus of discussion, as is a book to be released in 2022. Lots more is discussed. December...

Omar Moore looks at how the U.S. corporate cable news media softens the general public into acceptance of corporatists as political leaders (and vice versa), as well as the revolving door of some media pundit/analysts to government cabinet positions and back. The pernicious trend has gone on ever since the scrapping of the Fairness Doctrine by Ronald Reagan’s FCC in 1987 and Bill Clinton’s deregul...

Exactly one year ago today on Wednesday, December 18, 2019 the U.S. House of Representatives impeached Donald J. Trump on two Articles: Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress. Omar Moore looks back at that day, and forward to today, as Trump has 33 days left in the White House before President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris sweep him aside. This episode also features au...

Omar Moore examines the decades long indoctrination of Americans (and many other societies) by police television dramas (and films) juxtaposed against actual reality. The question is, what lens do you primarily view the police through: TV/movies or the centuries of real-life police killings of Black people including in 2020, ala Breonna Taylor and George Floyd? December 17, 2020. Featured in this...

Tom Cruise, producer, actor and stuntman, is doing a better job fighting Covid-19 in England than UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is. Perhaps the Conservatives should consider Cruise for a party leadership challenge. An impossible mission? Omar Moore on the calamity running amok in England, and what leaders of other countries within the UK and Europe are doing in comparison to what Johnson is Engl...

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are officially President-elect and Vice President-elect thanks to the electoral college (which should be abolished.) Now that things are officially official, what is the next move for the 81 million-plus voters who voted for Biden-Harris? An earthquake movement of the masses? The answer, is provided during this episode—when a literal earthquake happens. Omar Moore takes...

Today is the first day of early in-person voting in Georgia for the two U.S. senate runoff races. Omar Moore on the importance and power Georgia voters have to shape the state and the country with their vote in these two vitally important races. Vote today! December 14, 2020 Featured in this episode: Georgia—time to vote: https://peachvote.com Senator Kelly Loeffler’s suspect $18 million trades: h...

Do you like crowds? Do you get strength, empowerment and energy from them? Or trepidation? Is there safety in numbers, or reason to believe the opposite, that terror could result? Omar Moore explores the history of crowds, both good and ill, and draws on some noteworthy examples of crowds and their manifeststions, including “Disco Demolition Night” in Chicago at Comiskey Park on July 12, 1979. Dec...

December 12 is a significant and oft-infamous date in history. In 1941 it was infamous because of Hitler’s vile, terrifying and genocidal pronouncements against Jewish people. In 1987 the date saw the dawn of a new political activist movement. In 2000 it meant an unforgivable, disturbing and coup-enabling U.S. Supreme Court decision (Bush v. Gore). And exactly one year ago today the date saw a Bor...

Omar Moore talks to Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney about the pandemic feature TOTALLY UNDER CONTROL, one of his three documentary films released in 2020. Also: remembering Brandon Bernard (who was executed by the state of Indiana) and the late, great Dame Barbara Windsor, the UK entertainer. Both of them died on Thursday. December 11, 2020. IMPORTANT— Please phonebank *now...

The credibility of the news as that news is reported in some areas of the corporate news media (specifically on 24-hour news cable television) is at stake and grave risk, as Omar Moore sees it. The credibility of leaders and leadership among politicians (how much credibility did they have anyway?) is also part of this episode, as are what things we must do to arrest a worrying, troubling erosion o...

Omar Moore talks to Leonora LaPeter Anton, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at the Tampa Bay Times, about her story “Death At Freedom Square”, which focuses on a mass coronavirus outbreak at a Seminole, Florida nursing home, the lives needlessly lost and the institutional indifference to those lives and to the well-being of those working there. To those who have not lost someone to CO...

Omar Moore talks to Nigel Nelson, Political Editor of the U.K. newspapers Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, about the status of the Labour Party over the last 12 months since the December 12, 2019 U.K. general election that saw Labour humiliated by the Conservative Party in the biggest loss of Parliamentary seats since 1935. Nelson, Britain’s longest-serving political editor, explores where the Lab...

Omar Moore talks to Emmy and Murrow-award-winning journalist Rose Scott of the NPR (National Public Radio) affiliate WABE in Atlanta, Georgia. Scott is host and executive producer of the weekday radio show “Closer Look With Rose Scott” on WABE. The discussion is about the two (or 1.5) debates in Georgia on Sunday. (Note: Some of the audio is a tad choppy.) The conversation is interspersed by audio...

Omar Moore on what will surely be another Republican attempt at a coup in 2022 and 2024. Plus: The cult of Trump corrupts, corrodes and pollutes. And: Senator Martha McSally, part of the humiliation express. Also: Speaker Nancy Pelosi not sounding great messaging at her most recent press conference on Friday. Extra: House Democrats must be more definitive or face a whopping 2022 defeat. What we mu...

Omar Moore and historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat in conversation about Ruth’s new book “Strongmen: Mussolini To The Present”. The book chronicles over a century of the world’s “strongmen“ authoritarian dictators (up to and including Donald Trump). The power of these men over those they rule is rooted in numerous facets including toxic masculinity, virility, violence and corruption. Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a prof...

Omar Moore plays audio clips from the first joint interview of president-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris since their landslide election victory three weeks ago. There are just 47 days left until they are inaugurated next month. December 4, 2020. IMPORTANT— Please phonebank *now* for: Jon Ossoff for Georgia US Senate: https://electjon.com AND Rev. Raphael Warnock for Georgia...

Omar Moore on jobs, masks and lives. (And not in that order.) Can people meet these challenges, or have people just become complacent and fatigued during this coronavirus pandemic? December 3, 2020. IMPORTANT— Please phonebank *now* for: Jon Ossoff for Georgia US Senate: https://electjon.com AND Rev. Raphael Warnock for Georgia US Senate: https://votewarnock.com VOTE EARLY! Voting by mail is going...

Omar Moore on the escalating violent and dangerous political rhetoric and death threats to politicians and everyday people in the U.S. and why much of it should not be solely tied to Donald Trump. December 2, 2020. IMPORTANT— Please phonebank *now* for: Jon Ossoff for Georgia US Senate: https://electjon.com AND Rev. Raphael Warnock for Georgia US Senate: https://votewarnock.com VOTE EARLY! Voting...

Our Collective Duty To Care. Omar Moore on why this human responsibility is more important than ever. Plus: Arizona, Wisconsin certify president-elect Joe Biden’s win. Boris Johnson’s tier restriction vote (spoiler alert: makes it over the line.) December 1, 2020. On this World AIDS Day and Giving Tuesday: Elton John AIDS Foundation: https://ejaf.org IMPORTANT— Please phonebank *now* for: Jon Osso...

University of California (Hastings College Of Law) Professor of Law Dorit Reiss talks to Omar Moore about potential vaccines in this coronavirus pandemic, and legal, racial and public policy efficacy of vaccine administering and distribution in the United States. November 30, 2020. Prof Dorit Reiss on Twitter: https://twitter.com/doritmi Editorial by Prof. Dorit Reiss: The law and vaccine resistan...

If you want to see a stimulus bill passed that helps people all over the US get back on their feet economically then help Georgia out and get Georgians to vote for Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock for the U.S. senate. Omar Moore on the importance of the two Georgia U.S. senate runoffs happening on January 5, 2021. And: Remembering Dave Prowse, who played the Green Cross Code Man in U.K. road and cro...

What is U.S. President Barack Obama’s legacy? His defining achievements? His hits and his misses? Omar Moore explores these questions, including on foreign policy, racism, domestic policy and the “deification” of Obama that happens in some of the U.S. corporate news media. November 28, 2020. Featured in this episode: President Obama’s farewell address, January 10, 2017: https://bit.ly/3fWHJQZ Pres...

Miscarriage. Or, more precisely and jarringly put: losing a child. Meghan Markle, Duchess Of Sussex, wrote this week about losing her child in July 2020. Chrissy Teigen has also spoken about losing her child. Both have been unfairly criticized for their courage and sharing their stories, which have been empowering and inspiring to women in the same situation. Omar Moore on miscarriage, Markle, Tei...