Part One: America's First Fascist Governor

In honor of the American oligarchs trying to form their own aristocracy, Robert and Ed Zitron look back at the court of Versailles, how it was formed as a sort of frat house pentagon that broke the brains of every subsequent generation of French nobles.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

4 Mars 1h 20min

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. The President of Argentina's Meme Coin Scandal How Trump is Changing Trans Healthcare Textbooks and Holy Books feat. Steven Moncelli & Dr. Michael Phillips Democratic Insiders Are Sharing A Warning About Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk & Neoreactionaries Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #5 You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today! http://apple.co/coolerzone Sources/Links: The President of Argentina's Meme Coin Scandal https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-77/ https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-main-stock-index-falls-after-milei-crypto-scandal-2025-02-17/ https://crimethinc.com/2024/06/17/six-months-in-a-neoliberal-dystopia-social-cannibalism-versus-mutual-aid-and-resistance-in-argentina Textbooks and Holy Books feat. Steven Moncelli & Dr. Michael Phillips Dana Goldstein, “Two States. Eight Textbooks. Two American Stories,” New York Times, January 12, 2020. Kevin M. Kruse, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (New York: Basic Books, 2015.) James W. Loewen, Lies My History Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.) Alan Nadel, Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995.) Michael Phillips, White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2011 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.) Democratic Insiders Are Sharing A Warning About Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk & Neoreactionaries https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/democratic-insiders-are-sharing-a Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #5 https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-reins-in-independent-agencies-to-restore-a-government-that-answers-to-the-american-people/ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/trump-signs-order-declaring-only-president-and-ag-can-interpret-us-law-for-executive-branch/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/reevaluating-and-realigning-united-states-foreign-aid/ https://pages.devex.com/rs/685-KBL-765/images/109160-memo.pdf?version=0 https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277336/gov.uscourts.dcd.277336.21.0_7.pdf https://www.one.org/us/what-we-do/the-issues/foreign-assistance-pause-faq/ https://mutualaidsudan.org/ https://www.state.gov/emergency-humanitarian-waiver-to-foreign-assistance-pause/ https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/USAID%20OIG%20-%20Oversight%20of%20USAID-Funded%20Humanitarian%20Assistance%20Programming%20021025.pdf https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7x87ev5jyo https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-fifth-preference-eb-5/about-the-eb-5-visa-classification https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5306990/dan-bongino-fbi-deputy-director https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/new-fbi-director-kash-patel-plans-relocate-1500-119064886 https://www.dailyuw.com/news/washington-state-congressional-candidate-set-to-lead-counterterrorism-center/article_251db152-f32f-11ef-b56b-d7ae1ea3885f.html https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/fbi-kash-patel-antifa-blm-terror-groups https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/24/neo-nazi-trump-fbi-chief See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

1 Mars 3h 21min

Bruno Bettelheim has now made it to the United States, where he executes his elaborate plan to fix "emotionally disturbed" children by making a nice concentration camp.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

27 Feb 1h 4min

Robert tells Allison Raskin about Bruno Bettelheim, a concentration camp survivor who revolutionized child mental health care by trying to create a GOOD concentration camp for small children.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

25 Feb 1h

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. Coffee Unions Spread to Peet's Defining Anarchism feat. Andrew Mutuality feat. Andrew Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #4 You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today! http://apple.co/coolerzone Sources/Links: Coffee Unions Spread to Peet's https://linktr.ee/peetslaborunion https://peetslaborunion.org @peetslaborunion https://checkout.square.site/merchant/MLR6ZV4VZRBPT/checkout/2KLSQDHYHY7D3GNP7YUX62CD Defining Anarchism feat. Andrew https://davidgraeber.org/interviews/david-graeber-on-acting-like-an-anarchist/https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/glossary/a-new-glossary/ Mutuality feat. Andrew Debt by David Graeber: https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/glossary/a-new-glossary/ Antinomies of Democracy by Shawn Wilbur: https://humaniterations.net/2016/12/28/the-distinct-radicalism-of-anarchism/ Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #4 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/world/americas/trump-migrant-deportation-panama.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/establishing-the-presidents-make-america-healthy-again-commission/ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/kennedy-lays-out-hhs-plan-00204675 https://newrepublic.com/post/191630/donald-trump-tom-homan-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-immigration https://popular.info/p/in-botched-dei-purge-osha-trashes?r=4v4dm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-list-officials-resigned-fired-musk-trump-federal-government-2025-2 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/17/doge-social-security-musk/ https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda-accidentally-fired-officials-bird-flu-rehire-rcna192716 https://www.theverge.com/news/614078/faa-air-traffic-control-spacex-elon-musk-layoff-staff-shortage https://apnews.com/article/rubio-plane-mechanical-issue-munich-conference-031928b920ff8e8d495d1590d508e1e5 https://x.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1892086856990237059 https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trump-auto-tariff-rate-will-be-around-25-2025-02-18/ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/trump-order-power-independent-agencies-00204798 https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302481/trump-independent-agenciesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

22 Feb 2h 25min

Robert explains how Tony Alamo became a jacket maker to the stars, providing Michael Jackson, Dolly Parton and others with fashion via child labor. Also, lots of sex crimes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

20 Feb 57min

Robert sits down with Samantha McVey to talk about Tony Alamo, the evangelical cult leader who enslaved children to make denim vests for the stars.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

18 Feb 59min

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. Why Trump Wants to Conquer Canada How the Federal Government Fell Constitutional Law Professor Reacts What's Happening To Gaza Under Trump: An Update with Dana El-Kurd Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #3 You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today! http://apple.co/coolerzone Sources/Links: Why Trump Wants to Conquer Canada https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0sg0782h https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-direct-action https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/07/politics/trump-expansion-ideas-what-matters/index.html https://www.businesstoday.in/world/canada/story/make-them-pay-canada-puts-trumps-first-friend-elon-musks-tesla-in-the-crosshairs-of-tariff-war-463097-2025-02-01 https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.9669319 https://www.economia.gob.mx/datamexico/en/profile/product/motor-cars-and-other-vehicles-principally-designed-cars-for-transport-of-persons?redirect=true https://www.economia.gob.mx/datamexico/en/profile/product/oils-of-petroleum-or-bituminous-minerals?redirect=true https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-country/mex/partner/usa https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/01/michigan-poised-to-take-a-big-hit-under-trump-tariffs/78099053007/ https://www.ilscompany.com/products-imported-from-mexico/ https://www.trade.gov/country-commercial-guides/mexico-automotive-industry https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/31/trumps-25percent-tariffs-this-is-whats-at-stake-for-us-auto-industry.html https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/mexico https://www.businesstoday.in/world/canada/story/make-them-pay-canada-puts-trumps-first-friend-elon-musks-tesla-in-the-crosshairs-of-tariff-war-463097-2025-02-01 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/why-buy-greenland-trump-annex-ronald-lauder-manifest-destiny/ How the Federal Government Fell https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/how-the-federal-government-fell Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #3 https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/imposing-sanctions-on-the-international-criminal-court/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/israeli-spy-chief-icc-prosecutor-war-crimes-inquiry https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2p19l24g2o https://prospect.org/economy/2025-02-11-vought-restores-cfpb-procedure-that-sustains-mortgage-markets/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/10/politics/tariffs-steel-aluminum-trump https://www.reuters.com/markets/rates-bonds/bond-traders-waver-trump-questions-us-government-debt-figures-2025-02-10/ https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/trump-says-us-might-have-less-debt-than-thought-2025-02-09/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

15 Feb 2h 58min