The Ron Show

While the conservative right delights in Target's quarterly earnings numbers and Bud LIght's slumping sales , it's not the LGBTQIA+ getting popped in work trucks trying to meet a 14-year old girl for some "adult fun" in Cobb County. Also "get work, go broke" isn't a permanent fad , nor is it even true now. I'm begging my friends and listeners on the left: do...

Fani ain't playing, and the grand jury handed over indictments for Donald Trump and 18 co-conspirators . Hear Fani's presser, catch some of the peripheral damage done, then let's focus on the wildly disparate news coverage from last night, too. While CNN and MSNBC did their best to "report" with hints of anti-Trump reaction, Fox News was out in far-right field . Media Matters...

So the Stop Cop City folks say they already have 80,000+ signatures to get a referendum on the ballot, but will keep collecting until next Monday. Former state & federal prosecutor and legal volunteer Alex Joseph joined me to discuss. It's Trump-a-palooza at the Fulton County courthouse as we await indictments, but in the meanwhile, a "who's who" of witnesses marched in to te...

Today Attorney General Merrick Garland did what many right wing pundits and pols INSISTED he needed to do, and today many of those right wing blowhards are ... angry? Make. It. Make. Sense. Incidentally, I awoke today to a fantastic, balanced look at the whole "Hunter Biden inquiry" from The New York Times' daily newsletter, "The Morning." I review it today. Hey, while we&#...

A MAGA-fied whackjob spent weeks all but promising to take out President Biden by sniper attack (even displaying the weaponry he'd use) gets taken out by authorities, and you'd think right wing pundits viewed him as some sort of misunderstood war hero , a victim of authoritarian overreach - a la Philando Castile or something. Even Glenn Beck is whining that the FBI over-reacted . Wait, the...

COVID rates are on the rise locally and regionally , and the CDC notes there's a new omicron variant likely pushing the numbers. Of course we'll ignore this. Tomorrow morning, Cobb County teacher Katie Rinderle begins facing the music - all for reading a harmless little book titled "My Shadow Is Purple" - after a fifth grade student bought it at a school book fair and her class v...

The COVID shadow, that "Purple Shadow" & shedding light on Alabama ⁠ COVID rates are on the rise locally and regionally ⁠ , and the ⁠  CDC notes there's a new omicron variant  ⁠ likely pushing the numbers. Of course we'll ignore this. Tomorrow morning,  ⁠ Cobb County teacher Katie Rinderle begins facing the music ⁠  - all for reading a harmless little book titled  ⁠ "My...

A recent (current, maybe?) health scare on my part has me furious with corporate healthcare and I'm left wondering: when are we going to say "enough is enough" with the over-corporatizing of every facet of our economy? Atlanta Voice editor-in-chief Donnell Suggs is my guest today, discussing the latest from Donald Trump MORE than inferring that Fulton County DA Fani Willis has had (o...

After a little headline-surfing ( we gotta talk Montgomery brawl , after all ...), I got to sit down with my good friend David Alexander , president and co-founder of local upscale barber chain, American Haircuts . He's also an actor - having played in several television shows and notable movies the last twelve years - everything from 'Hillbilly Elegy' to 'House of Cards' and &...

Brad Raffensperger has his swagger, again; he spoke earlier this week to the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce and had some choice words for reporters, afterwards, about the legitimacy of 2020. First, on the indictments he said he felt "sorrowful," but not sorry, to be sure. He also stood his ground (as he did on the "perfect beautiful" phone call) on the merits of the outcome, and...

David Brooks, New York Times' opinion writer - notably centerish-right in being so - wrote an interesting piece yesterday. In it he posited that - perhaps while the world wonders just how the Trump voter continues to be loyal to him - it may be that - in the mind of such a voter - the political establishment and the prevalence of a "meritocracy" for the better-off has soured them on...

I'm desperate to talk about ANYthing other than the LATEST in a long long line of indictments against you-know-who, so good news! A west Georgia highway makes the top 50 list of "most dangerous," and I'm quite familiar with it. Of course we'll cover the latest indictments, too, and MARVEL at the sad, pathetic & bootlicking reactions from the right.

Naturally JUST as today's show ends, another batch of Trump indictments hit the fan. Go figure. Speaking of the gilded one, we're seeing signs of that looming batch from Fulton County DA Fani Willis coming (I say by August 18th) as two key eyewitnesses to "fake elector" gatherings are subpoenaed just as we get head-to-head polling showing Donald and POTUS Joe neck-and-neck at 43%...

Truthfully, if it weren't for all the enabling done by the vast majority of Republicans lacking in spine and/or stones, the number of "not good" days Donald would have had would have been a lot fewer, but here we are. Today, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney CLOWNED on the former President's last-ditch effort to upend the probe. Read the nine-page rebuke HERE. Me...

Of course it's hot; this is the summer, after all, but we're experiencing record-shattering heat across the northern hemisphere and the costs to human lives, wildlife, agriculture and. yes, the economy are mounting. Here, again, we see the vast difference between a party that's working to tackle an issue, head-on, vs a party preferring to pretend a problem doesn't exist because to...

HUGE legal win for the "Stop Cop City" movement , and on to discuss the implications is former state & federal prosecutor, local attorney & "Cop City Vote" volunteer Alex Joseph. Then, this should be a BIGGER bombshell than the news media is giving it the attention needed: a "freedom of information act" (FOIA) request from a fake journalist for a fake news org...

I've said it before, now Morgan Stanley has come to agree : "Bidenomics" has been good for the American economy - and we agree it'll be good in its future, too. Hear their (and my) revelation on that. Today, I spoke with Morrow, Ga., councilwoman Van Tran, a Vietnamese American who sees a need in her diverse city for ballot instructions in multiple languages. She should know, jus...

Another win for organized labor (and the economy) as Teamsters and UPS come to an agreement. Let's point out the benefits OF unions, shall we? Wasn't a drag queen, gay or trans person arrested after a nearly half-century cold case was solved with a metro Atlanta arrest; it was an 83- year old former protestant pastor . There won't be a mad rush by lawmakers to address that scourge, tho...

After a week off to re-charge the batteries a bit, I'm back to dive in on all he things you were already bickering with others about. Jason Aldean's quite mediocre (but #1) song & controversial music video, to UGA v the AJC, the city of Atlanta and sate attorney general teaming up to bully the "Stop Cop City" referendum, and a very-rude Morrow City Councilperson. Local defens...

Yesterday in his third hour, syndicated conservative talk show host Erick Erickson - from his Macon studio to outlets across the eastern US - lobbed insults galore at Atlanta and railed on (pardon the pun) the Atlanta streetcar extension project tying to the Beltline (as it was designed to do, all along ...) By all means, hear 13 minutes and 40 seconds of absolute insanity HERE (entitled S12 EP116...

As the Department of Justice announces their intent to investigate the Fulton County Jail a fter a September 2022 death of a mentally ill man in its custody, we learn earlier this week a 19-year old woman held on misdemeanor (you read that right) charges since late May died in custody and under Fulton Sheriff's Department watch. In other news, another lawsuit slapped on UGA i n the wake of the...

June inflationary data (and months before it) suggest all that hand-wringing from the right about "government spending" and a looming recession were nonsense - something I said all along. The Braves showed out at the All Star Game last night, but what's up with MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred backtracking on his 2021 All Star Game stance? Jeff Graham is my guest, from Georgia Equality ....

Rep. Mesha Mainor switches parties ⁠, but as much as she insists it's because the party left her and not the other way around. I've some of her ⁠past statements⁠ that tell me she's not exactly going to be a fit in the GOP, either but hey ... good luck. ⁠ Trump wants to delay fending off the federal indictments⁠ until after the 2024 election because he's the leading GOP nominee curr...

In Hartwell, a rural Georgia lake community, pastor Grant Myerholtz convenes a growing "Baptist" congregation in an unusual way (for a baptist church, anyway): he chooses inclusivity. In an era where churches big and small are seeing declines in attendance, his Mt Hebron Baptist Church has grown from a dozen to more than a hundred. Featured over the weekend in a Washington Post piece , G...

Sort of a one-off, today: "How To Fix America." I had sort of just scribbled some notes on a steno pad earlier this week with some ideas to improve how our political process better serves "we, he people," and today's 44 minutes just flowed right out of my mouth. Hear some ideas I have on "how to Fix America." Uncap The House ( why are we at 435, anyway? ) Adjust t...