While not exactly exposing the "crime of the century" that Trump promised *eyeroll- the Durham report, not unlike it's cousin Mueller does play a role in our favorite pastime, saving democracy, but the execution doesn't look to be a shining moment for the FBI as it’s trying to persuade Congress that it is a responsible steward of intelligence. Have you checked us out on Tik Tok? Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack ! Tell us what ...
May 17, 2023•19 min•Season 2Ep. 106
Asylum officers, Secret Service agents and troops, oh my. The end of Title 42 in a few short hours will reveal the plethora of issues not just this country, but the thousands who attempt to get here face and none of it is pretty folks. This episode shines a bright light on to the influx issue that COVID just kicked down the road. Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack ! Tell us what you think on Twitter ! Check out our YouTube chann...
May 12, 2023•25 min•Season 2Ep. 102
Neither party gives a shit about the debt. Our spending spree is a bipartisan production—both parties spend like drunken sailors. Here’s a little reality check, for those (sane) Americans who still live in a non-partisan reality. Are you subscribed to the podcast? Have you seen us on TikTok? https://www.tiktok.com/@dirtymoderatenation?lang=en Are you registered to VOTE? https://www.vote.org/ Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack ! ...
May 05, 2023•21 min•Season 2Ep. 101
While the 2024 presidential election is more than 18 months away, primaries begin in less than a year and let's face it, we who are plugged in know it's already begun. Trump's campaign is already smearing DeSantis's yet to be declared candidacy and Biden declared with the plea to let him finish the job. Public approval of Biden’s job as president has been pretty lackluster for much of his time in the Oval Office, despite the nation’s improved economy and the COVID pandemic entering a new phase u...
May 01, 2023•23 min•Season 2Ep. 100
Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, and the rest of the Fox Network lied to your fucking faces. Instead of being responsible humans and calling for calm (the calm they were certainly texting each other about OFF camera we later learned) they lied to your fucking faces. They perpetuated a mob. They endangered lives. They spun a tale of lies and nonsense. FOR RATINGS! They didn’t even believe their own bullshit! They didn’t care about anything but the success of their pathetic No News Ne...
Apr 23, 2023•17 min•Season 2Ep. 99
Jack Teixeira, 21-year-old low-ranking member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard is the third asshat in 13 years to have the ability to access and leak classified material. He faces two criminal counts: unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information and the unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material for publishing top-secret Pentagon documents on Discord. Oy. Who is asleep at the government wheel here folks? I share my thoughts below. Sta...
Apr 14, 2023•20 min•Season 2Ep. 97
Professor, political theorist, and author, Aurelian Craiutu, who has been researching the elusive virtue of moderation for over a decade sits down with Adam to discuss the complexities, richness, and virtue of our very favorite approach to politics. Despite being a complex virtue with a rich tradition and unexplored radical sides, Moderation is often presented as a simple virtue for lukewarm and indecisive minds searching for a fuzzy center between the extremes. Not surprisingly, politicians gen...
Apr 10, 2023•1 hr 8 min
Happy Indictment Day to those of you who celebrate. Popping in with my thoughts on today's historical arrest. Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack ! Tell us what you think on Twitter ! Check out our YouTube channel ! Are you registered to VOTE ?...
Apr 05, 2023•21 min0
Ben Brantley was the chief theater critic of The New York Times for more than 20 years. He wrote more than 2,500 reviews over 27 years beginning in 1993. During Adam’s first act as a Broadway Producer, Ben and Adam “passed each other in the theater aisle” so to speak. Ben reviewed some of Adam’s biggest hits and being consummate professionals, they would not engage while reviews were underway. But in between shows, and now that Ben has taken his last bow as a theater critic having retired to the...
Mar 31, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 91
News media outlets in America have their own self-serving agendas. It's no secret MSNBC leans left and yes; surprise, surprise, FOX leans right and so on. When it comes to delivering the news to the citizens of this fine nation, the current day media are most certainly spinning it through their own lens which is irresponsible, and in some instances; dangerous. For example, Ivermectin anyone? " Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic studies suggest that achieving the plasma concentrations necessary ...
Mar 24, 2023•22 min•Season 2Ep. 94
This episode we are going to talk about the total fuckery of FOX News. I'll share some of my front line observations from my time as a regular in 2019 on Trish Regan's now defunct FOX News show. It wasn't all pretty, folks, but this Dominion lawsuit? WOW... In March 2021, Dominion Voting Systems filed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News Network for the false claims the network pushed after the election. Those false claims were extensive: In the two-week period after Fox News declared Joe Biden...
Mar 17, 2023•21 min
It was announced earlier this week that the Roald Dahl Story Company, which controls the rights to the late author’s books, like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda , and The BFG in conjunction with Puffin, the books’ publisher, and a collective who campaign to make children’s literature more inclusive, intended to change the wording in these and other classics in “small and carefully considered” ways to t to ensure Dahl’s books “continue to be enjoyed by all children today.” These have a...
Feb 25, 2023•22 min•Season 2Ep. 92
So many on the MAGA right are less than enthused about Nikki Haley’s run for president. But the great irony here is that if she were the nominee ( and she won’t be,) she’d be the strongest GOP candidate to win back independents and moderates in the suburbs that Trump drove away. For in-depth coverage of the political landscape, actionable ways to make a difference, random dad jokes, endless reminders to vote, and all things “fight like hell to save democracy” related SUBSCRIBE to the show and do...
Feb 18, 2023•20 min•Season 2Ep. 91
When well-designed institutions function properly, people thrive. Few institutions have been more ingeniously designed than the U.S. federal government via the Constitution in 1787. This auspicious beginning more than two centuries ago helps explain why the U.S. remains a magnet for opportunity seekers, students, entrepreneurs, dissidents, and persecuted believers. Yet for decades now, America’s federal government has been underperforming. Social Security and Medicare face looming insolvency. Th...
Feb 14, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 89
Today’s poisonous partisan divide is perilous in at least two key ways. First, it divides a country with 330 million into categories in which a majority of them don’t fit. But second, and perhaps more importantly, the Republican/Democrat cleavage consigns issues which are full of implications, moral, political or otherwise, into reductive boxes entirely hostage to groupthink. The 2024 Presidential Election campaigns have already begun. (that wasn't a rebuttal, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, that was a ...
Feb 09, 2023•20 min•Season 2Ep. 88
The people who did not certify the 2020 election are now in the levers of power, and make no mistake, that power will be weaponized. We are only 2 years out from the presidential election. Stay awake, folks. Democracy requires your tirelessness. Autocrats count on your apathy. And don’t forget: Vote.org , Vote.org , Vote.org ! Get registered to vote if you’re not already and register everyone you know. You can even help them figure out where their nearest voting location is and when early voting...
Jan 30, 2023•20 min•Season 2Ep. 86
"Nothing Can Be Changed if it Is Not Faced." - James Baldwin America has done some very unsavory shit. We built this country and much of its industry in part on the backs of human beings that were kidnaped and forced to endure unforgivable and horrifying lives. Sorry folks, just the facts. If we can’t acknowledge that, we can never grow or change. Putting our hands over our eyes and pretending it didn’t happen (I’m looking at you, Gov. DeSantis) doesn’t make it go away. It’s insulting. And frank...
Jan 20, 2023•21 min•Season 2Ep. 85
Sometimes a document is just a document. Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack ! Tell us what you think on Twitter ! Check out our YouTube channel ! Are you registered to VOTE ?...
Jan 16, 2023•20 min•Season 2Ep. 84
The once great party of Lincoln is now a cesspool of buffoonery, lies, and incompetence, and on the eve of the anniversary of the insurrection, with our government in shambles, America weeps. Every one of these ass clowns who are holding the people’s House hostage to their rabid extremism should have their salaries docked until they promise to do what they were elected to do: serve the people. No play? Then no pay. Exhale… Does anyone remember what they are there to do? Get your shit together, C...
Jan 06, 2023•19 min•Ep. 83
Politics is always downwind of culture. And for 2022's final installment of Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate, Adam weaves the parallels between Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady" and the HBO critically-acclaimed series "The White Lotus" with the delusion of American culture. We'll be back after the holidays but until then, don’t forget: Vote.org , Vote.org , Vote.org ! Get registered to vote if you’re not already and register everyone you know. You can even help them figure out where their nearest ...
Dec 19, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 79
“Anti-” attacks are part of a rhetorical loop in American society. In this week’s “Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate,” Adam examines how horrendous attacks all over the nation are escalating by the day in the name of Anti-Semitism, anti-abortion, homophobia, racism, and more. The following are the names of the 5 victims of the Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs: Raymond Green Vance (he/him), Kelly Loving (she/her), Daniel Aston (he/him), Derrick Rump (he/him), Ashley Paugh (she/ her). And don’t forget:...
Nov 29, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 78
The American people have exclaimed loud and clear that we will not suffer election denying, insurrectionist fools! While the Republicans will hold the slimmest of margins in the House, Democrats picked up 1 seat in the Senate. But these midterms were not a win for the Democrats or the Republicans. They were a win for Democracy. And everyone's favorite Dirty Moderate supplies us with his analysis for what this means and what to expect going into 2024. For a deeper dive into Adam's analysis, read ...
Nov 18, 2022•19 min•Season 1Ep. 77
2 party system? That’s so last election… Welcome The Forward Party to the game folks. The mission statement is certainly promising: “Fighting for the American people with practical, common-sense solutions. While other political parties look to divide America into different camps, the Forward Party aims to bring them together.” Cool! Building the foundation for a representative and stable democracy? Even better. But is it realistic? Andrew Yang, former mayoral and presidential candidate and forme...
Nov 14, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Looks like the “Red Wave” is actually just a ketchup smear at Mar a Lago. We’re still waiting on the results of the Arizona and Nevada Senate races. No surprise that the Georgia Senate race is going to a run off on Dec 6. And while the Republicans are on track to control the House, their margin will be very slim. Adam goes through all that and so much more. With that in mind, don’t forget: Vote.org , Vote.org , Vote.org ! Get registered to vote if you’re not already and register everyone you kno...
Nov 10, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 75
Co-Founder of The Lincoln Project. GOP political consultant; Latino voting trends/political data/analysis, and as close as political royalty as it gets here in America, Mike Madrid was, is, and we imagine, will continue to be, ahead of the curve. Earning his GOP pedigree over thirty years, by changing the outcomes of political campaigns throughout the country. His involvement in local, state, and federal races reaped a keen and some would say, unmatched level of insight into the successful chara...
Nov 06, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 74
This episode is Dirty Moderate’s official response to election deniers. We understand a certain group of Americans cannot accept truth, reality, science, etc…but here is some anyway. You know, for the hell of it. Call us dirty moderates. America’s 2022 midterm elections are likely to bring a wave of election deniers into Congress and top state-level jobs overseeing elections in all corners of the country and that’s a huge problem, folks. This episodes guest, David Levine, is the Elections Integr...
Nov 04, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 73
Most of the 2022 GOP candidates running for senator, congressperson, governor, and the like are some or all of the following: election denier, huckster, crank, imbecile, clown, weirdo, seditionist, fascist, white nationalist, conspiracy theorist, QAnon loon, inveterate liar and/or crypto Nazi. In this week's installment of "Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate", Adam explores why many voters are apathetic or foolishly complacent this year about the state of our looming fascist disunion. With that in mind, ...
Oct 29, 2022•19 min•Season 1Ep. 72
Mehmet Oz and John Fetterman squared off last night in their only debate in the Pennsylvania Senate debate of the campaign. While Oz smirked and sleazed, Fetterman stumbled and sputtered raising serious questions about his health and capacity to serve as the next senator from the Keystone debate. Though the debate generated more heat than light, this pivotal contest, which will likely determine which party controls the senate, made for a one hour exchange which was nothing if not discomfiting. B...
Oct 26, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 71
Ethan Chorin is a former US diplomat, political analyst, environmental entrepreneur, and author of the stunning Benghazi! A New History of the Fiasco that Pushed America and its World to the Brink . From 2004 to 2006, he was one of a handful of US diplomats posted to Libya in the wake of rapprochement with Colonel Gaddafi. Six years later, as co-director of an NGO, he became a witness to the Benghazi attack and its aftermath. Despite hundreds of hours of Congressional hearings, a deep dive into ...
Oct 24, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 70
Fascist, Trumplican candidates like Mehmet Oz, Kari Lake, J.D. Vance, and Herschel Walker are simultaneously being discredited and continuing to ascend because of inflation. Inflation remains high at 8.2%. We've all heard this number. And despite knowing democracy is in peril, voters can't afford basic necessities - meats, poultry, fish and eggs are up 9% ; fruits and vegetables are up 10.4% ; electricity is up 15.5% ; utility gas service is up 33.1% ; airline fares are up 42.9% ahead of holiday...
Oct 21, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 69
