“The elites are out to get you and your hard-earned pay.” “We’re spending too much on protecting foreign nations and not enough defending our own borders against immigrant invaders.” “China is taking your job and will soon take over your phone.” We are consistently fed this type of “rightwing populism” –– sticking up for the working man against an array of villains: coastal elites, liberal media and foreign boogeymen - but replete with seamy audience flattery, xenophobic and anti-Semitic dogwhistles and confusing, ever-shifting definitions of what exactly constitutes “the elite” and “the media.”

With the rise and eventual presidency of Donald Trump there’s been no shortage of pontificating and reporting about the appeal of “rightwing populism” but one aspect worth dissecting is the way in which wealthy Republican-funded media deliberately seeks to win over confused and sometimes lefty media consumers with a clever mix of faux class warfare, vague appeals to post-partisanship and piggybacking off legitimate discontent with the Democratic party to sow nihilism and suppress voter turnout.

From Jacksonian "Producerism" to Trump’s fake anti-imperialism to the shameless grifts of today’s billionaire-backed hucksters like JD Vance, the right has long tried to soap box about the beleaguered working man and rail against the mysterious - often urban, black, brown or Jewish - authors of his pain and suffering.

In this episode, Part Two of our two-part episode on right-wing populism, we dissect three more tropes of "right-wing populism," detailing the ways the Republican messaging apparatuses seek to rebrand their stale platform every 10 years with a new, tweaked version of warmed over John Bircherism.

Our guest is Poor People's Campaign co-chair Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis.

Ep 148: The GOP’s ‘Rightwing Populism’ Rebrand (Part II) - Messaging Wars in 'White America'

Brace and Liz from TrueAnon join us to share some updates from their coverage of the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell. We discuss the strategies of the prosecution and defense, new revelations & evidence revealed in the proceedings, and the testimony from victims.

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Bonus: G Max Update feat. TrueAnon

Preview of our new D&D fantasy adventure series.

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We wash ashore on the banks of the Dnieper with Radio War Nerd’s Mark Ames (twitter.com/markamesexiled) for a Special War in Ukraine????? Two Parter. In this second half we get up to speed on the current “crisis,” walk through the expansion of NATO, the rise of Putin, and try to figure out just what the hell the US thinks it’s playing at.

Episode 206: Ukraine (with Ames) Part 2

We continue to look at the domestic media response to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. This time, we’re talking about “the left” and how some of their “half-baked” ideas about foreign conflict lack serious intellectual rigor and nimbleness, curtesy of an article by “fully baked” author Eric Levitz. 

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612 - Half Baked (3/21/22)

Will talks to president of the Amazon Labor Union Chris Smalls about the successful effort to unionize the JFK8 Amazon fulfillment center on Staten Island.

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UNLOCKED: Will interviews Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls

Part one of the Empire and the Deep State series that Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton is co-hosting with historian Aaron Good, of the American Exception podcast. We discuss the origins of the US empire and deep state, why US foreign policy remain unchanged across administrations, and why  democracy has declined with the rise of the US global dominance.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=i1FlXcwhsp4

American Exception website: https://americanexception.com

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Origins of the US empire and deep state (with historian Aaron Good)

Our good friends Liz and Brace of TrueAnon stop by to help us send off The Year of the Smile. We discuss their mini-series on Synanon, a substance rehabilitation program turned violent cult, and how it relates to all sorts of American phenomenon: from 1950’s acid tests to the modern Troubled Teen Industry. We also discuss the state of our collapsing tech/media infrastructure, the Epstein case, and why the government should begin issuing quests to citizens.

Check out TrueAnon’s excellent miniseries The Game starting here: https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/the-game-part-1-dopefiend,
and the rest on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TrueAnonPod

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690 - Recovery Side Quest feat. TrueAnon (12/19/22)

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