The Ron Show25 Sep 2025

"Ah-see-two-morons" trashing acetaminophen | Kimmel's clapback

Well, Georgia Democrats didn't snatch a state Senate seat from the GOP last night, despite their candidate - Debra Shigley - outpacing 2024 numbers, but liberals needn't dismay. Her 9-point improvement on 2024 results for her party bode well for 2026, and with the majority of the GOP seeming to be in no hurry to release the Epstein files and with the economy in malaise - and by MAGA's own admission not expecting to improve for a year or more - there should be optimism for Democrats.

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Meanwhile, Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Junior's attempt to pin autism on Tylenol - without evidence or study - is, I believe, a further decaying of trust in both by even those within their cult bubble. The Daily Show's Jordan Klepper summed up what Donnie and Bobby's case is built on and what the rest of us will have to rely on - our own research.

It was nearly two weeks ago that the Georgia Recorder's Jay Bookman actually wrote on the 'alternate reality' RFK Jr. lives in while flexing policy changes within Health and Human Services. While Jay's piece focused mostly on vaccine hesitancy, in general, it holds up well, post-"acetaminophen-gate." He closes with this sobering assessment:

"...all of us are living in their alternate reality. Now all of us are at risk when actual reality reasserts itself, as it always does eventually. We can’t know what form that challenge will take, but we do know it will come, and the charlatans and conspiracy fools that we now have in charge will prove spectacularly unfit to meet it."

------Jimmy Kimmel's return was funny, sharp, emotional and vastly more statesman-like than the thin-(orange) skinned target of his barbs could ever dream of. I scan over some of the highlights.

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Did SCOTUS signal that the MAGA fever has broken?

The Supreme Court, this week, pulled the reins on the Trump administration's intent to use the United States Postal Service - to curb mail-in voting this cycle. Good!Does this mean we're at the precip...

16 Sep 43min

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