The Ron Show

MSNBC has been hemorrhaging audience share since election night, which isn't altogether surprising except - now that liberals and progressives are re-evaluating how their messaging should travel and be delivered, this may be a permanent dip. Well, it can't help that "Morning Joe" hosts Joe Scarborough and Mike Brzezinski ⁠shlepped to Mar-A-Lago⁠ to "kiss the ring" last weekend, and admitted as muc...

Whole lot of 'ugly' coming out folks after Donald Trump's election win. Locally, ⁠people have been getting racist text messages⁠. Then there's two of his Cabinet picks - both with prior sexual assault claims dogging them. The ⁠anti-woke Pentagon pick i⁠s pretty noteworthy, no? Then, no big deal, but the ⁠nation's future top attorney is sweating a House Ethics panel report.⁠ Totally fine. ⁠Birds of...

I'll be honest; I had a guest lined up today and a late cancellation (no worries! We're re-booking) so today was a lot of me "winging it," but I'm not unhappy with the result. Your opinion may vary. :) Instead, the over-arching theme for this episode: "the American voter doesn't want to hear the truth." We can't handle reasons why student loan forgiveness triggers white working class voters - even...

Gerrymandering Georgia's map ⁠"played out just like Georgia Republicans intended"⁠ - as the Atlanta Journal Constitution deftly points out. The term isn't a sexy one, but as much as American voters hate government and "Congress" in particular, when can we have a discussion on eliminating what makes them so unpopular? Pete Hegseth is Donald Trump's pick for defense secretary, much to the shock to t...

Jon Stewart began ⁠Monday's The Daily Show with some clarity⁠: Democrats didn't run on 'woke' ideology; they had it affixed to them by Republicans while actually running ads that sounded quite the opposite. I'll add: running from marginalized communities (like trans people) is a show of weakness & to expect loyalty from such community afterwards Is political folly. ⁠Kentucky Governor (D) Andy Besh...

Yesterday I channeled my mental and physical energies into re-arranging my bedroom and closet. I had to take my mind off the nation's descent into depravity for another four-year reign, somehow, and while I'm happy with the results, I awoke today knowing I needed to "keep going" - doing my part to help us regroup and refine and retool for 2026 and beyond. I came across ⁠Dr. Jack Zibluk's⁠ ⁠op/ed i...

Having spent the weekend trying to lift my spirits (no assist from the Georgia Bulldogs or Atlanta Falcons, I should add ...) netted mixed results, and I'm unable to shake social media just yet. Because of that, I noticed a few trends from likeminded folks that bother me a bit, so I answer to four reactions I'm seeing in hopes of pulling players back into the huddle, so to speak, so we can get bac...

Nationally and locally (here in Georgia), liberals and progressives are starting to slowly come out of their depression caves to assess the damage and figure out who to blame. ⁠Georgia Democrats want change in the party⁠, and say they've ⁠"never seen a more dysfunctional organization."⁠ I've never been shy in vocalizing my issues with the state party, either; they're difficult to collaborate with,...

Darrel and I have known each other for about three decades now; we met when he served in the Air Force and was stationed in Augusta, Ga. We've been roommates here and there and best friends all that time. He's one of the most knowledgeable progressives not "in the system," so I made him hold onto his thoughts until I could rig up two mics in the kitchen we were having coffee talking in. This is ou...

So we awaken to what's pretty much "worst case scenario" this election cycle, and while we can (and will, later) nitpick how things went wrong, I thought it first useful to have a discussion about some hard truths we on the left need to start discussing - and openly. The first? The Constitution, for all its revery, is a deeply flawed document and folks like Elie Mystal (⁠he calls it 'trash'⁠) are...

I've strayed from routinely watching "Real Time with Bill Maher," for a couple reasons: one, I just can't keep paying for all these streaming services (the show now re-airs on CNN, though) and he's too tone-deaf on trans issues for my taste. That said, on the economy, he was spitting facts on his ⁠last "new rule" prior to Election Day. The gist? The economy doesn't need saving; it's been saved⁠. M...

Over the weekend, a handful of Georgia counties opened their doors to let absentee ballot-holders hand in those ballots - what with Louis DeJoy having wrecked the US Postal Service - ⁠much to the chagrin of various county GOP folks, the Georgia GOP and the Trump family-infiltrated Republican National Committee.⁠ They sued; and lost. They're incapable of reading state law (so they'll surely seek to...

There's reason for optimism the outcome on Tuesday night (we hope that early) may swing in Kamala Harris' favor if ⁠polling that's now including "early voted" responses⁠ are any indication. In that subset, Harris leads Trump by 19-29 points depending on the poll, and in all but one swing state by solid or even gaudy margins, too. Remember, too, that MAGA voters have come to embrace early voting mo...

After the toxic spew that spouted from the podium Sunday at Madison Square Garden, of COURSE MAGA is going to clutch their pearls over a mis-interpretation of Joe Biden's characterization. To the point that ⁠Donald waddled (what's with his right leg?) up into a garbage truck ⁠for a photo op. There was the ⁠mainstream media to both lap it up and equivocate (falsely) ⁠of course. Spare me, and thanks...

The location and backdrop were perfect. The speech was spot-on, too. Today I review ⁠VP Kamala Harris' "closing argument" speech⁠ at the Ellipse between the White House and Washington Monument - the same park her opponent stirred up an angry mob on January 6, 2021.

Tim Onion, CEO at "The Onion," tweeted ⁠"the October surprise is an advent calendar of racism."⁠ Pretty well sums up the final few days of the month, no? To close out the month we had the breathtaking parade of white nationalism and "bro-tastic" (not my term; that came from ⁠hyper-partisan Megyn Kelly⁠) speeches from Madison Square Garden. The response from Puerto Rican voices was ⁠loud, swift and...

FULL CITATIONS IN SHOW NOTES AT ronshowATL.com There was a LOT of "quiet part out loud" fodder served up at Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden rally yesterday - a not-so-subtle homage to the 1939 Nazi rally at the venue's predecessor in New York City. Many are honing in on the ⁠racist swipes made by a previously little-known comedian⁠ - so awful even the ⁠Trump campaign seeks to distance itself⁠...

Seeing Bruce Springsteen perform is something I've wanted to do since "Born in the USA" was blaring on the radio when I was a kid - or from my cassette player. Well, I missed him on his mini-tour ⁠with VP Kamala Harris yesterday in Clarkston⁠, but I got to ⁠listen to it on the drive⁠ back from South Carolina, so it'll have to do. I have some of his music & statements to review. So it turns out the...

Former Trump chief-of-staff John Kelly was finally triggered to go "on the record" after the former President crossed one of two red lines with Kelly - the "enemy within" quips weaving in use of military force. In ⁠speaking with the New York Times⁠, Kelly surprised no one with what he said; that he said it, on record, while being recorded willingly, is historic.

I'm spending a few days in coastal South Carolina where my friend ⁠Mal Hyman⁠ is working overtime on the "retail political trail" - having to get out to shake hands and meet people on-one-on as opposed to taking PAC money to flood TV and radio airwaves. It's a noble endeavor, but because of the size of his district, a gargantuan task that could be better alleviated by eliminating gerrymandering an...

You better believe the litigious folks at Dominion Voting are ⁠watching and listening⁠ to everything 2020 election-deniers like ⁠Marjorie Taylor Greene are saying. ⁠She just ⁠can't help herself⁠. New ⁠AJC/UGA polling ⁠data's out, and along with what we're seeing from ⁠GeorgiaVotes.com⁠, there's an emerging story about who the new voters are: young and likely Hispanic and/or Asian. How weird is it...

After doing (what I presume may be my daily) review of GeorgiaVotes.com early voting data, I connected with Donnell Suggs, editor-in-chief at The Atlanta Voice. He had wall-to-wall coverage of VP Kamala Harris' visit to metro Atlanta this weekend. We discuss her events, the "black men leaving the party for Trump" trope, highlight his latest piece ⁠"It's late October; do you know where your polling...

First, a look at a nifty website - ⁠GeorgiaVotes.com⁠ - giving us up-to-date early voter data by various demographics and comparing to 2020 data, too. JD Vance has been ⁠mouthing off about Social Sbyecurity and Medicare fraud⁠ by "illegal immigrants," but the fact is, they're just ⁠contributing to both entitlement programs while rarely ever getting anything from it⁠. We should be thanking those 'i...

Back-to-back "bad days" in courtrooms for Georgia's MAGA-led state election board this week, with ⁠another superior court judge wiping out⁠ the board's "eleventh hour" rules-a-palooza onslaught. ⁠Fair High Action⁠ CEO Lauren Groh-Wargo joined me today to give reaction to that and the many and varied ways Republicans - the pro-Trump ilk and even just the 'good old fashioned voter suppression' kind...

I've a theory: yes, abortion rights are definitely "on the ballot" and energizing women voters, but white women broke for Donald Trump 55% to 45% in 2020 - after he'd stocked the Supreme Court with anti-abortion perjurers Then came 'Dobbs,' but also his ramped up divisive rhetoric. Surely you've noticed he labels anyone not "pro-Trump" as the "enemy within," right? That he's more than intimating t...