Tribunus Plebis Podcast

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RIP) passes away opening a seat for yet another Conservative justice and a right-wing Supreme Court for the rest of my life. Dems continue to stumble. And for our Big Idea segment I dive into systemic problems and the faults inherent in relying on individualistic solutions to solve those problems rather than systemic solutions.

Happy Labor Day, everybody! This is an episode I have wanted to do for a long time and I hope all of you will listen and learn a lot about Mother Jones and a little bit about the early labor movements in the United States! Mother Jones, born Mary Harris in Cork, Ireland is one of this countries great labor heroes and her life and accomplishments are sadly ignored in our broader history and culture...

In this episode we touch on some news and updates on two of our previous subjects - attacks on the Post Office and Social Security. I even took a few minutes to dump on the evil Chamber of Commerce before discussing the real damage that Trump is doing to American workers and the recent and upcoming Supreme Court decisions which are making everything even worse. That is followed up with my thoughts...

These attacks on the United States Postal Service go far beyond just a neoliberal, sociopathic drive to destroy. The real goal here is for Trump to disenfranchise as many voters in blue and swing states as he possibly can and get re-elected. Currently this is his most likely track to another 4 years in the white house because he has failed in virtually every single policy, negotiation, and action...

The United States Postal Service is under attack and we must do what we can to save this essential service and even expand it, both in its traditional role and even further to include postal banking amongst its services. Ranked Choice voting is probably the simplest and easiest to implement intra-system change that has a legitimate shot in being used in this country to fundamentally alter the powe...

Most of the Feds begin to pull out of Portland, Oregon as citizens unite to defy tyranny and chalk up a victory in the streets. The Republicans continue to push their evil agenda and the Democrats cosign everything along the way. Oh, and the media continues to fail us. Join us for another week in America...

Rest In Peace Michael Brooks. Peace to your family and friends, Federal Agents, under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security go full tyranny on US soil as they kidnap peaceful protestors. Dems mildly protest and then vote to pass Trump's DHS funding. That's all you need to know about who the Democrats are. The Harper's Letter is not what it seems. It is a Trojan Horse meant to smuggle...

Nancy Pelosi golf claps - Nancy Pelosi tears piece of paper - MSNBC has a collective orgasm at the news of the latest performative bullshit. #Resistance! Things like this, the tearing of a speech, or the calculated filing of weak impeachment charges, send the media into orgasmic exultations of glee or even contempt on the conservative side of things. But what they don’t do is actually change anyth...

Every time we bend our morality to our political ideology, we lose. We lose our honest righteousness but more importantly we lose a little bit of our humanity. Disturbingly, there is increasing evidence that political ideology is shaping our morals and not the other way around. Doubly disturbing is the reality that political ideology is more firm, harder to alter, and is easier to use to self-defi...

The police are the problem. Sorry, I know that is hard for a lot of people to hear in America. But I think it is absolutely true. People watch a police officer straight out murder a man in the street, in broad daylight, while he knows he’s being filmed, and then they watch that officer walk free for four full days. So they protest. They protest against a lynching of a black man. They protest racis...

In the end I don’t think all cops are racist, in fact it is almost impossible for that to be true. But what I do believe is that when you enforce, through the threat and reality of state sanctioned violence, racist laws via racist policing policies, then the results of those actions is racism. Regardless of your heart. If you target blacks because of precinct policy, that’s racist. It's just racis...

In episode 2 we discuss the failures of the stimulus packages as well as the lefts self-harming critique of the PPP. As well as the awfulness of Pelosi's so-called 'HEROES' bill, and the corruption that pushes stuff like this onto the citizens. Bonus content: A brief character assassination of Steve Mnuchin.

We failed ourselves by using "#bluenomatterwho" as a rallying cry and by simply not understanding our power and how to leverage it.  The Democratic Party manufactured our consent and we still don't see it. Tribunus Plebis