The Ron Show

Here in Georgia⁠ and ⁠in Washington, too⁠, Republicans are openly stating their willingness to take a "Big Brother" / "big government" approach (to hell with states' rights, but just this once) to disassembling our justice system at the local, state and federal level - all at the behest of one convicted felon. Can you guess who that felon is? He has a lot of sway. Any guesses? The "law and order"...

Atlanta went through a wild news cycle Tuesday, with a mass shooting downtown and a deadly bus hijacking (by a man who was on the scene at the downtown mass shooting, no less) and Atlanta PD chief Darin Schierbaum deftly pointed out ⁠the downtown shooter should never have had a gun - because he's a convicted felon⁠. Unrelated, but now-convicted felon Donald Trump will also have to forfeit any gun(...

If Sean Hannity's floating "trial balloon" theories with the words "some people are saying ..." you can best believe where there's smoke, there's fire. All the more reason to believe Donald Trump's trying to waffle on the agreed upon June 27th debate here in Atlanta. Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro, incidentally, ⁠went 'scorched earth"⁠ on Trump's continuing predilection for trashing ("sh*t-tal...

It's been more than a week since a wide swath of the city of Atlanta lacked adequate (if any) water service, but the pundits on local FOX-TV affiliate's ⁠"The Georgia Gang"⁠ weighed in on their most recent record episode after the calamity. Cathy Woodard being a former city council president made for some clarity (and more questions, too) but conservative pundit Brian Robinson made a few points (s...

The Dr. Phil (and ⁠obviously filtered and edited⁠) interview of a convicted felon, the former President, Donald Trump, was predictably awful. Imagine 50-plus minutes of a man clearly in need of a psychologist, spewing lie after lie, laced with hyperbole and other half-truths, while the 'doctor" fails diagnose the chronically lying narcissist. You just come away convinced they're both facades; or a...

Whelp; a three-judge Georgia appeals court panel has put the brakes on the Georgia v. Trump election interference case until October, essentially cementing that the most evidence-laden and damning case against the already-convicted felon won't be tried this calendar year. Sure it'd be easy to berate Fani Willis & Nathan Wade some more, but I've done that plenty. Instead, let's listen in on a local...

We hold our breath now and keep our fingers crossed the last of the "Atlanta water crisis" leaks have been addressed and there aren't more major breaks to come. The thing is, when we're ⁠replacing pipe laid in 1883⁠, it's likely only a matter of time. We've put a lot of ⁠heat on Mayor Andre "in Memphis" Dickens⁠, but why on earth has Georgia's governor said ⁠not word one⁠ about the state's largest...

Now that we're (hopefully) in the final hours of "Aquapocalypse" (or are we going with "Watergeddeon?"), city council had the chance yesterday to grill its watershed commissioner, Al Wiggins, Jr., yesterday, and for the most part, the engagement was polite - with a lot of deserved commendation for the department's employees' putting in the work. That said, communications was the key gripe, and it...

Author columnist and longtime journalist George Chidi of ⁠The Atlanta Objective⁠ joined me today to discuss - at length - the weekend calamity that was the "Atlanta water crisis." George was on many of the scenes over the weekend ⁠giving first-hand accounts⁠ of water main breaks. Meanwhile, questions arise as to why Mayor Andre Dickens knew of the break and still ⁠got on a plane headed to Memphis...

My friend and columnist Issac Bailey penned an op/ed - ⁠'Donald Trump - A Loser Once Again - Is Finally Held Accountable,' ⁠which I thought was worthy of some air time, too. His reaction was far more "hinged" than the bevy of unhinged responses from Fox News "personalities" like Jeanine Pirro, Jesse Watters and the Fox News pearl-clutches. Also, pols like Tim Scott were lining up to hyperventilate...

We live in "the upside down" - a world where a Democrat (Senator Jon Ossoff) ⁠goes to the US-Mexico border⁠ to call out the other party for its inaction on immigration policy and a world where the "law & order party" is led by a convicted felon defended breathlessly by most of the members of said party. Rep. Lucy McBath was asked if she's much interest or given much thought to running for governor...

I happen to think having ⁠Atlantan Chase Oliver on the presidential ballot⁠ as the ⁠Libertarian party candidate⁠ this November takes Georgia off the table for Biden/Harris. Hear why I believe the actions of Mayor Andre Dickens and the majority on Atlanta's city council have cost the President a key chunk of the state's grassroots liberal activists' support. I spoke with ⁠Mishael White⁠, aiming to...

Seth Taylor, a Fulton County Democratic Party captain and 2024 DNC delegate ⁠"outed" 11th Congressional district Democratic Party nominee Katy Stamper as a "GOP plant."⁠ If she isn't, she's at the very least ⁠an anti-trans "secure the border" moderate⁠. Then again, she lives in Cherokee County, where a school board vice chair is also openly anti-trans and nothing was done about that ,so ... While...

This conversation originally aired July of 2023, after I'd read a ⁠piece in the Washington Post⁠ about a Hartwell, Georgia baptist preacher who was bucking the Southern Baptist Convention (the church has since left that organization) and welcoming all who sought to worship there. He's (several times now) offered prayer at Hartwell's annual pride celebration, and welcomes with a message of acceptan...

All my years in radio broadcasting taught me that low-yield responses made for garbage data to make decisions off of, so maybe Tuesday's super-low turnout means "disregard it," but I'm joined today by Andrew Heaton, political strategist with Sagamore Hill Consulting, to discuss what to (and not to) make of the results anyway. I got a little heat for opting to "shrug off" Harrison Butker and my out...

Count me among those who have doubts Georgia's Tuesday primary results are much of a "bellwether" for expectations in November. For the most part, incumbents prevailed, save for a couple here or there who fell to primary opponents. One, in particular, Rep. Teri Anulewicz, lost to a Democratic Socialist millennial named Gabriel Sanchez. ⁠Hear some of his lingo⁠ and you may come away thinking "wow;...

President Joe Biden chose to make a ⁠weekend of it in the ATL ⁠- extending his visit by swooping in a day earlier (with that artery-clogging motorcade, no less) to hobnob with voters at a handful of Saturday events before his Morehouse commencement speech. Before giving you that audio, I also want to share the quips of local conservative pundit Janelle King - a black conservative with her own podc...

'Atlanta Voice' ⁠editor-in-chief Donnell Suggs joined me today to weigh in on the mindset of the black male vote, after I'd asked him (via text) if he'd read a piece in the AJC today that asked that question (by of course ⁠sitting in a barber shop⁠ to find out). Incidentally, we're learning now that POTUS plans to ⁠meet with black voters⁠ prior to his commencement visit. While we were on, we discu...

While Harrison Butker's misogynistic, anti-gay commencement address is still fresh in our minds, it's noteworthy (as ⁠Page Six noted⁠) that his mother is a highly-respected and accomplished Emory physicist, and not a homemaker. The first presidential debate is set - and to be held in Atlanta at CNN. ⁠Who needs a whole messy convention, anyway, right?⁠ Jay Bookman (wisely) asked: ⁠"Why can governor...

By now you've heard at least excerpts of Kansas City Chiefs' kicker Harrison Butker as he gave a ⁠commencement address at Benedictine College⁠ in Kansas earlier this week. Today I rebut a lot of his dated, hetero-white-man-centric mindset, point-by-point.

While Donald Trump catches up on his naps in court and cable TV news fixates on that theater, there's still plenty to glean from the latest ⁠New York Times/Sienna College poll⁠ of registered voters. With ⁠Georgia showing a 49-39 margin⁠ for the indicted, embattled former President, I wanted to dive in and take a deep swim, so that's literally all I did today. So ... ⁠how accurate are political pol...

Emory's commencement ceremonies came & went today ⁠without much fanfare ⁠- which by most Emory students' accounts, would've been the case on the school's campus had police not been utilized to squelch protests weeks ago. It's worth mentioning (so I do), by the way, that independent ⁠studies show that 97% of American pro-Palestinian protests were peaceful⁠ - and half the ones where police stormed i...

When Joe Biden p⁠ushed the 'pause button' on the shipment of 2000 lb bombs⁠, Republicans freaked out and Benjamin Netanyahu says 'we'll go it alone if we have to" - as if 1. Ronald Reagan didn't ⁠similarly withhold military aid to Israel⁠ and 2. Netanyahu didn't JUST get billions from Biden & the U.S. so "is he really going it alone?" Question: what do MAGA Republicans, the CCP and Russia all have...

Whelp; the Georgia 2020 election interference case ⁠is effectively gummed up⁠, thanks to the unforced error thrust upon the Fulton district attorney's office by the intimacy between Fani Willis and Nathan Wade. While there's no point blowing off steam over it, I kinda do; I also go over ⁠the potential ramifications.⁠ Also, why is ⁠Wade talking to the media? ⁠Dude! Also why is Stormy Daniels' even...

First, apologies on the upload delay; Spotify had podcasters move their podcast logins to their personal Spotify logins and that took some doing. A Georgia Tech professor determined that at least ⁠$1.2 billion in home equity has been "lost" in Atlanta⁠ as private equity swooped in to snap up homes in historic (and historically black, usually) neighborhoods. Cities, counties, states and Washington...