The Rick Smith Show

Of all the things we have lost in the last several years, the loss of reliable information may be the thing that affects us the most. Right wing media is so dominant today that legacy media of all kinds is simply quitting on us and bending the knee rather than tell us true things that powerful people may not like. Everyone feels the pressure, and most can't stand up to it. So we get what we ha...

Americans aren't very happy with Democrats today, and frankly, they have good reason. After Democratic Senators helped Trump pass a CR to avoid a government shutdown, their constituents are calling for heads to roll. And Chuck Schumer, the minority leader in the Senate, is the first head they want. We discuss this and more with Brent Booker of LiUNA, and Craig Harrington of Media Matters. Don’...

Well, it looks like Chuck Schumer has gone and done something no one thought possible - he's stealing headlines from Trump. And all it took was complete subservience to the GOP thieves stealing our futures. We discuss this and more with Phil Glover of AFGE and Dave Madland of The Center for American Progress. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV:  www.freespeech.org Find us on: ·    ...

Trump and his kind are taking a wrecking ball to the US economy. The market is dropping by huge numbers each day, and the response from this administration is to fire lifelong public servants by the tens of thousands, and pretend the loss of these family sustaining jobs will have no effect on the larger economy. They're wrong; they don't care that they're wrong, and just like in every...

During the campaign, Trump and every GOP member running for office swore up and down that the GOP had no plans to cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. They lied, and it is nothing new. They lie about these things in every election, and in every election ,they never seem to have to pay a price for their lies, current or past. We discuss this and more with Economics Professor Matias Vernengo...

It's only been a few weeks, but our American freedoms are taking a beating, and if we're going to get out of this, we're going to need something from Democrats that has been lacking for the last half-century or so ... leadership. Our guests today are Scott Paul from The Alliance for American Manufacturing and Lori Wallach of The Economic Liberties Project. Don’t miss our daily TV show...

As workers all over the country wait to be fired from their jobs, Trump has decided that it would be a great idea to remove collective bargaining rights from 50,000 union TSA workers, many of whom probably voted for him and will not understand how they voted away their own futures. But such is life in the Trump chaos bubble that we all now live in. To help us work through some of the crazy, we&#39...

To tariff or not to tariff - that is the question. Trump, upon learning just how destructive his tariffs will be, is now "pausing" them as markets crash and prices skyrocket. It's typical Trump chaos, and it isn't going to stop anytime soon. We discuss this and more with Katie Harris of The Bluegreen Alliance and Will Rice of Americans for Tax Fairness. Don’t miss our daily TV show...

Trump's speech to Congress was a firehose of lies ... so of course it polled well. And Democrats chose a silly and disjointed response to it that left most of non-fascist America scratching our heads. We discuss this and more with Scott Paul of The Alliance for American Manufacturing and Professor Ken Mash. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV:  www.freespeech.org Find us on: ·      ...

As predicted, Trump used his SOTU speech to try to pin his wheelbarrow of stupid mistakes on Joe Biden as the US economy starts to nosedive. It's almost impossible to believe that an economy so healthy could go so wrong so quickly, but no one bankrupts businesses like Trump bankrupts businesses, so tanking the largest economy in the world is just more of the same. Sara Estep from The Center fo...

With the stock market tanking and the Russians running the White House, President Trump is set to address Congress in what will certainly be the most bonkers State of the Union speech ... maybe ever. Our guests Sarah Burris of raw Story and Dr. Anthony Estreet will help us work through the Trump agenda and what it's doing to American working families. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speec...

Anyone who saw that Oval Office hatchet job last week knows that we don't want to talk about it ... but we absolutely have to talk about it. To help us do so, we invited Trygve Olsen from The Lincoln Project, and veteran and longtime friend of the show Rich Ojeda, host of "Ojeda Live." Join us as we discuss the most disgraceful day in the history of US foreign policy and how it will li...

After saying they wouldn't Social Security, they're now cutting Social Security. After saying they would never cut Medicare, they're cutting Medicare. And after they said they would never ever cut Medicaid ... and the list keeps growing. And days after calling the Ukrainian President a dictator, Trump just told the press "I would never do that" when asked about it. It's alm...

In the history of American politics, there has never been a politician more immune to his own lies than Donald Trump. It's almost as if his minions feed on the lies, even when, perhaps especially when those lies harm them directly. It's a phenomenon never before seen in America, and frankly, we don't know what to make of it. We will discuss this and more with Jimmy Williams, President...

While Elon Musk and his team of teenage virgins is busy destroying our government, they're telling some pretty massive lies about their "progress." Many times now, they have lied, and lied big, about the amount of money they have "saved" us. What does this mean? Well, it means the $5000 check they promised is never going to come, and it means the lies are going to keep coming a...

During the campaign, Democrats warned the American people over and over again that Trump had not plane to make their lives better, or bring down prices, and that if he was elected, he would slash necessary programs to fund tax cuts for the rich. Now that he's president, Trump is gutting Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security to fund - you guessed it - tax cuts for the rich. And the working cla...

After Elon Musk took the stage at CPAC swinging a chainsaw around and slurring his words badly, everyone simply gave him a pass. While the guy digging into every one of our national secrets likes to parade around in public completely wasted while firing career civil servants by the boatload - it doesn't exactly inspire confidence among America's working class. We discuss this and more with...

When Teamsters President Sean O'Brien spoke at the RNC ahead of the 2024 election & praised Trump, he was hoping to be in a position to shape the administration's position on labor. And what did he get for his trouble? He got a fat sack of nothing, and now Trump and his goons are preparing to gut worker protections across the board. And O'Brien is now certain to become just another...

We begin the show with a discussion of our broken healthcare system and just how much more broken it is going to become in the next four years. Then we speak to climate expert Jenny Rowland-Shea of the Center for American Progress about Trump's attempts to roll back Biden's progress on climate policy, and then we are joined by Veteran Rich Ojeda to discuss recent and upcoming cuts to the V...

Trump and his goons are dismantling our government as quickly as they can, and Democrats can't seem to find a way to stop them. There may not be a way to stop them. And the economy is starting to buckle as a result. We speak with Scott Paul of The Alliance for American Manufacturing about the coming economic troubles, and we also speak to former GOP Congressman Bob Ney about how Congress could...

President Musk, who no one voted for, is now tearing through your IRS file, accessing every little detail of your financial life and weaponizing the parts that can hurt you. And an American population that would never allow such a thing 20 years ago is now just sitting back and watching it all happen. We discuss this and more with Reporter Sarah Burris of Raw Story. Don’t miss our daily TV show on...

On today's show, we welcome two of our favorite journalists - Will Bunch, National Opinion Columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Labor Reporter Michael Sainato of The Guardian. They're going to help us get through a wild week of events in and around the new and incredibly corrupt Trump Administration. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV:  www.freespeech.org Find us on: ·  ...

While the corrupt Trump Administration is busy doing corrupt things for corrupt ends, it's beginning to look like Democrats may just start fighting back. California Congressman Ro Khanna joins us to discuss what this fight might look like, and how we might just be able to keep Trump and his minions from acting on the worst of their impulses. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV:  www...

Politicians have always been celebrities in some way, but the rise of Trumpism has elevated that celebrity status to cult worship, which is not something Americans typically embrace. We need to get back to treating our politics like we used to, as a means to get what all Americans need. And the evils of Trumpism have convinced many of us to look for saviors instead of seeing politicians for what t...

Well ... there just no good way to say this. America is falling apart, our government is being dismantled, and your personal information is probably in the hands of a 19 year-old Musk disciple with no security clearance who uses the online handle "Big Balls". That last sentence may just be the most depressing thing we've ever written, but it's true. Jeff Hauser of The Revolving Doo...