Welcome to TrueAnon Presents: The Lamest Show on Earth, a three-part mini series on the phenomenon that is Tesla Motors and the carnival barker at the center of its show: Elon Musk. We’ve often said that Jeffrey Epstein offers us a lens through which to view larger networks of power and influence and ways to ascertain how they operate and impact the world. The story of Tesla Motors offers us the same opportunity: how a nerdy dot-com gold chaser hacked the self-satisfied neoliberal green political regime and orchestrated a cacophonous symphony of thirsty social media marketeers, auto industry executives, captured and bought off media, and the bull market ride of the century. At the center of all of this is the pied piper of the redditmen, our very own epic bacon PT Barnum — Elon Musk — who rightly understands that branding really is everything and that so long as you can keep the music going the party doesn’t have to end. Now that Tesla has a gun to the head of the American economy, there’s only one question left: how long can the show go on? 

In Pt 1 we begin with the bizarre history of Elon’s family, the origin story of Tesla Motors and the weird wild birthplace of both modern conservatism and progressive neoliberalism, California. Featuring: chiropractors, Ronald Reagan, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, divorced guys, Italian nuclear physicists, tightrope performers, bearded ladies and The Coca-Cola Company.

The Lamest Show On Earth (Part 1)

In this public News Brief, we discuss a new, detailed media survey by Zach Siegel that shows how news outlets mindlessly parrot police "accidental fentanyl overdoes" misinformation.

                              

News Brief: A Quantitative Analysis of US Media's Fentanyl Panic and How It Kills

We're joined by Jay and Justin from the librarypunk podcast to discuss the Internet Archive lawsuit, what it means for free information, as well as copyright law, piracy and more library politics. But first, Anders sweats over Russian state media crackdown and Jake finds an opportunity on CraigsList.

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Lib Free or Die w/librarypunk

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We go spelunking in the mind-caves of Ryan Routh, the latest white boy to point a gun at Donald Trump

Episode 406: Raving Violent Ryan (trailer)

This week we're joined by Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis to discuss their excellent new book, Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis. We discuss a wide range of topics, from the rent relation, to the state's relationship to landlords and developers, and finally to how the struggle against rent is ultimately a part of the land struggle. 

Please purchase their book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rent

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Episode 362: The War On Tenants (w/ special guests Tracy Rosenthal & Leonardo Vilchis)

We made an honest attempt to do Ethicist: Election Edition, but it quickly devolved because of our poor grasp on ethics. 

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Episode 365: Please Don't Feed The Alligators

In our penultimate election 2024 episode, we stand in line for hours to see Trump at Madison Square Garden, talk through Elon Musk’s influence on the election cycle, and sift through the trash of the American political system. 

See also: Episode 180: Untethered (https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-180-55544982)
The Lamest Show on Earth (https://www.patreon.com/collection/522?view=expanded)

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Episode 416: The Player Hater's Ball

Our long national nightmare is finally over. Wait...

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Episode 366: This Is How I Lose

It's a holiday week so we're mailing it in with the Ethicist. Hope you all are being as lazy as we are.

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Episode 369: The Return Policy

You're all grounded

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Episode 373: No Shaq Fu For Christmas

We talk to standup comedian and Pod Damn America host Jake Flores about his personal political revolution, how his anarchist ancestor rose (no pun intended) up against Porfirio Diaz, and that time he got visited by Homeland Security for a tweet about cultural appropriation and ICE. Plus we all talk about Amsterdam, the lie that is the cliche about how something is like "riding a bike," sex work and more.

Episode 362: The War On Tenants (w/ special guests Tracy Rosenthal & Leonardo Vilchis)

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