The Ron Show8 Okt 2025

Is Bottoms on top? Will ATC's land the 'shutdown plane?'

Early polling shows name recognition is putting former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms in the drivers' seat for the Democratic Party race for Georgia's governor's office in 2026. Hear why I find this worrisome for the party, and why I have a hunch this comes down to a "Geoff Duncan vs. the field" race inevitably.

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I wasn't the first to say it, but I have another hunch: that seeing air traffic controllers not being able to fully staff towers may well be what ends the government shutdown.

It also doesn't help MAGA that Marjorie Taylor Greene is bringing her kids' plight in having to buy health insurance on their own to social media has her pitted against the White House and House Speaker Mike Johnson's posturing.

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A Chicago Presbyterian minister being shot in the face by a federal agent with a pepper ball gun isn't quite the same as what Americans saw on live TV in Selma, Alabama, but I happen to think that the more Americans see of ICE and National Guard interactions in America's city streets, the more they'll sour on Trumpism.

As Dr. Bernice King, Dr. Martin Luther King's daughter, deftly pointed out, earlier this week, the "riotous city streets" trope isn't new. It's a callback to racist tropes in the 1960s.

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Speaker Johnson couldn't have sounded more out-of-touch when pegged by a reporter to respond to the NFL tabbing Bad Bunny to perform this season's Super Bowl halftime show. But if he wants a country artist (Lee Greenwood is a pitiful panderous choice, Mike) why not Zach Bryan?

Oh, wait.

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Will this swing GA House district think 'Cleveland rocks?'

Adam Cleveland, husband, father, UGA alum, handyman-turned-lawyer is now also a politician - the Democratic nominee for state House District 48. He joined me Tuesday to explain why he felt he had to u...

16 Sep 43min

Rick Jackson's Medicaid 'pathway' lacks details; will it also lack expansion?

Ariel Hart, writing for the Georgia Recorder and States' Newsrooms, covered the rollout of GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson's healthcare coverage initiative in a piece Ron reviewed. Details ar...

15 Sep 44min

Assessing "us" 25 years after September 11, 2001

On the 25th anniversary of the horrific three-pronged terror attack on American soil, Ron assesses where the United States is, societally, diplomatically and politically. Are we any less Islamophobic ...

11 Sep 44min

Trump keeps lying (about 9/11) | Islamophobic outrage at NYC mayor shows we've learned little since that day

Years and decades from now historians and psychoanalysts will dissect the Trump era and Donald's chronic need to lie about his accomplishments and whereabouts - never mind the narcissism and predatory...

9 Sep 44min

'Insight' polling - outlier or legit?

PLUS: Rick Jackson's effective ads vs Keisha Lance Bottoms' retail style - which will win?The Rick Jackson campaign has taken a two-pronged approach in the race to be Georgia's next governor: portray ...

8 Sep 44min

This NW Georgia cattle farmer - and Congressional candidate - has beef with Trump's tariff policies

Shawn Harris, vying to unseat Republican Clay Fuller in Georgia's 14th Congressional district, is also a cattle farmer, and like many in the trade, is suffering mightily under Trump's looming beef imp...

1 Sep 44min

Ragsdale's rally rant & the aftermath: intimidating Cobb's teachers

At Cobb County's 'Back to School' faculty rally, superintendent (and Trump fan-boy) went off on a 12-plus minutes long political bender that sent dozens of Cobb educators heading for the aisles and ex...

1 Sep 44min

Trump, the Supremes and Rick Jackson all work to suppress the vote

Donald Trump's March executive order aiming to curb mail-in voting (except for when he uses it, of course) drew swift legal action from dozens of states and voter rights organizations, and to hear the...

26 Aug 44min