Trillbillies coverage of Election Day 2020

Also please welcome our newest Trillbilly member, Aaron Thorpe, who we couldn't bus up to Kentucky for this episode but who was on our most recent Patreon episode and will be on our upcoming episodes: @posadist_trapgd on Twitter if you'd like to say hello

And please check out Tarence's article at Verso: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4905-a-view-from-trump-country

And finally you can support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Episode 171: Thank You, Kentucky

Ding ding ding!!! We’re joined by ultra psycho weight champion David Bixenspan (twitter.com/davidbix) who shines new light on the buried tale of pedophilia and lies at the heart of the WWE—and a coverup that went straight to the top. We also dig into the McMahon family and gape at ghosts of wrestling past. 

Article on Phillips and the Ring Boys: businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/wwe-cofounder-linda-mcmahon-who-runs-trumps-biggest-super-pac-once-hired-a-suspected-child-molester-on-the-condition-that-he-stop-chasing-after-kids-he-didnt-/amp_articleshow/78938854.cms

Dave’s podcast: 
http://babyfacevheel.substack.com/

WWE & QAnon: 
vice.com/en/article/5dzx88/wwe-referee-wrestler-turned-mayor-fundraise-for-qanon-adjacent-charity

Vince McMahon groping case: 
deadspin.com/witness-vince-mcmahon-stared-down-groping-accuser-for-1822642014

Episode 116: The Ring Leader

We head to Davos for the World Economic Forum—and are smiling, our mouths filled with bugs, our eyes blank and our noses flared, sniffing the winds of change—we are ready to Build Back Better

Episode 118: To Live And Die In Davos Pt. 1

President-elect Joe Biden has promised what he calls a return to "decency" and "unity," and American media has broadly characterized his victory over Donald Trump as, in the words of New York Times columnist Charles Blow, "The Third Term of the Obama Presidency." Many of the same holdovers — Samantha Power, Antony Blinken, Michèle Flournoy, Bob McDonald, Jake Sullivan, Susan Rice, Sally Yates, John Kerry and many in the revolving think tank, consulting outfits, marketing firms, undersecretary advisor world are expected to be back into the White House come January 20, 2021.

While they have many obvious superficial differences, the Obama and Biden White Houses will more or less borrow from the same playbook: slick, marketing-focused, technocratic, centrist, hawkish maintainers of the neoliberal status quo. As such, many lessons can be learned from the media’s coverage of the Obama White house and what mistakes not to repeat again.

From Obama’s prosecution of foreign occupations to directing dirty wars, supporting the destruction of Yemen to running a drone strike regime, pushing austerity dogma to continue the brutal war on drugs, inhumane immigration enforcement to many routine cruel and violent policies — because they lacked the partisan hook and sadistic fervor of Trump — were largely ignored, downplayed, or soft pedaled by U.S. media from 2009 to the beginning of 2017.

This is Part I of a two-part episode breaking down these "media mistakes" - major areas where the American press failed to hold the most powerful person in the world to account. We explore how the Obama era may provide a blueprint of what we may expect under the upcoming Biden administration and how activists can get ahead of these failures before they inevitably manifest.

Our guest is Peter Hart, National Communications Manager for Food & Water Watch.

Ep. 125: Obama-Era Media Failures We Shouldn't Rehash Under Biden (Part I)

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477 Teaser - It Has To Be ME

We have on Tom Fowler (twitter.com/tombfowler) to talk about the Spy Cops Inquiry in the UK, and about the scandal from the Met Police infiltrating themselves into the lives of activists in order to ruin them -- and his own experience with a famous undercover.

Check out: spycops.info

powerbase.info/index.php/UndercoverResearch_Portal

UNLOCKED -- Episode 122: Spycops Undercover

We say goodbye to 2020 with the episode everyone has been waiting for: Is the Yeti Real? Also, what is up with the Grinch? Happy Holidays everyone, what a fucking year it’s been.

Episode 126: Merry Cryptids

Amber here with a quick plug for Labor Campaign for Single Payer, an organization of unions who are bringing more unions into the fight to win Medicare for All.

Support links below:
https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/donate-to-labor-campaign-for-single-payer?source=website&
While you're at it, also please give a pitch for our January 23-24 virtual strategy conference: https://www.laborforsinglepayer.org/medicare-for-all-strategy-conference/

Plug for Labor Campaign for Single Payer

Tanya's back, and the government's on fire

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Episode 180: Bay of Chuds

A wake for @realDonaldTrump, one of the greatest posters of all time. Also, more fallout from the Capitol Hill riot, social media crack downs, pit bull moms & Hot Soup.

488 - PermabannedPresident45 (1/11/21)

With deposed President Donald Jonald Trump pardoning the Biden 4, we take a walk down memory lane to discuss the Nisour Square massacre, the history of Blackwater, private military contracting, and the Iraq war.

Episode 129: Blood Men Pt. 1

TrueAnon is a podcast about your enemies made by your friends. Join unlicensed private investigators Liz Franczak, Brace Belden, and Yung Chomsky for a show that will drive you insane. Every other episode is a Patreon exclusive: patreon.com/TrueAnonPod