Episode 785 | -- TV star, Judge Judy, is filthy rich with a net worth of $400 million. Yesterday she endorsed the billionaire in the race, Michael Bloomberg. This is what class solidarity looks like. -- Nikki Haley thinks Democrats are bad because, as she accuses them, they "mourn" the death of Iranian general Qasim Sulemani. Democrats have actually prevaricated as much as they could to make sure everyone knows they couldn't possibly say a good thing about a man our country just assassinated. Bu...
Jan 07, 2020•34 min
Episode 784 | Trump is taking us into war based on his ego and his ignorance. Evangelicals are giving him a religious covering. Congress will now receive their notifications about war via Twitter. Folks, we're living in the worst timeline imaginable.
Jan 06, 2020•38 min
Episode 783 | -- Donald Trump ordered a drone strike that killed a top Iranian general as he left the Baghdad airport en route to meet with Shia militias in Iraq. The attack has stoked fears of armed conflict with Iran. The question now is, how will Iran respond and what will be the United States' response to their retaliation? -- War profiteers have been making billions of dollars off of non-stop war since 2001. We often mistake the faux-patriotism of "support our troops" and the "red, white an...
Jan 03, 2020•38 min
Episode 782 | -- Fundraising numbers are in and Bernie Sanders has broken records. Mayor Pete raised a lot of money with billionaires but wants to convince you that he has a grassroots campaign. Elizabeth Warren has fallen behind but still posts impressive numbers. -- A video of Joe Biden taken out of context has gone viral and now everyone is apologizing for it. At least the Left is willing to correct itself. Unfortunately, this places us all at a major disadvantage when dealing with Right-wing...
Jan 02, 2020•38 min
We're old. We're tired. And we have no life. lololololl
Jan 01, 2020•31 min
Episode 781 | -- At least twice a year, a group of white, conservative, men and the white women who love them -- plus Candace Owens -- come together to celebrate their collective victimhood and oppression at the hands of Black and Brown, gay and trans, atheist and agnostics. Because as we all know, the most marginalized group in our country are white, Christian men who somehow have the most economic and political power of all other groups combined. -- Joe Biden says that he'd be willing to pick ...
Dec 31, 2019•30 min
Episode 780 | Become a patron! www.Patreon.com/thebpdshow -- Another day, another shooting. This time a shooter took the lives of two churchgoers during communion. -- Andrew Yang's latest commercial claims he's supporting Medicare for All when his actual plans don't even support a public option. What's going on here? -- An antisemitic attack in New York has led to accusations of anti-Semitism against Bernie Sanders. Let's unpack this weird contortion of logic. -- Boots on the Ground. I'm thinkin...
Dec 30, 2019•30 min
Episode 779 | -- The Intercept exposed billionaire presidential candidate, Michael Bloomberg, for using prison labor to make phone calls for his campaign. The use of prison labor for profit is nothing new. But the fact that a billionaire running for president has been caught exploiting that labor is amazingly apropos. -- The Washington Post details a story of a struggling dairy farm family fighting to survive amid changes in demand for their product but very directly because of Donald Trump's tr...
Dec 27, 2019•30 min
Episode 778 | I'm getting over a cold and sound pretty ridiculous. Just wanted you to know. lol -- Listen, Joe Biden is going to lose to Donald Trump. Anyone telling you otherwise is being grossly irresponsible with the future of our country and our planet. -- In response to Christianity Today coming out against Donald Trump, the Christian Post (another magazine) has come out to defend Donald Trump. This has led to the resignation of their editor. Let's discuss this. -- Have a great holiday, Chr...
Dec 24, 2019•22 min
Episode 777 | -- Pete is pushing back against the wine cave issue. But Axios just released a story showing that Pete is doing exactly what everyone is concerned with: selling influence to rich donors. -- UK artist, Stormzy, just called the UK 100% racist. Ironically, some of the same people pushing back against him called the Labour party racist. Centrists, no matter where you find them, know how to weaponize calling people racist but conveniently ignore it when it's their own. -- 200:1. 200 pas...
Dec 23, 2019•30 min
Episode 776 | When we last left our heroes, young Jedi Skywalker was .... Oh, wait. That's later tonight! -- Andrew Yang is promising everyone $1000. Here's the actual cost of his plan in terms of opportunity costs as well as actual dollars you'd be losing to get this $1000. -- Christianity Today is a magazine founded by Billy Graham. The editor-in-chief has written an op-ed calling for the removal of Trump from office. Franklin Graham and Donald Trump both respond exactly the way you'd expect. ...
Dec 20, 2019•46 min
Episode 775 -- Donald Trump is now the third American president to be impeached. And while he stands no chance of being found guilty and removed from office, this was a necessary step to protect American democracy and will be an indelible stain on his legacy. -- Tulsi Gabbard is the only congressperson to not take a stand one way or the other on the impeachment of Donald Trump. This didn't play out the way she had hoped. -- The Affordable Care Act is a conservative idea that upholds everything R...
Dec 19, 2019•30 min
Episode 774 | -- New Democratic polling shows increases for Bernie Sanders. Sanders is the most popular Democrat in the field. So let's discuss why the political establishment hates the man who the people love so much. -- Donald Trump sends Nancy Pelosi an unhinged letter that should terrify every American. Yet, we've become used to his democracy-destabilizing behavior. -- Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsuch went on the most partisan network to do a promotional for his book. While on Fox News, Go...
Dec 18, 2019•34 min
Episode 773 | Insulin costs only $6 to produce, but the price of insulin is doubling yet again. Why on earth do we allow profit companies to extort the most vulnerable? This is the norm in America and we have to change our way of thinking. -- New report shows that workers, not corporations, pay a higher percentage in taxes to the gov't. This is by design and, yet, another thing that we have to change the mindset of the people over. -- Voter purges are spreading across the country again -- this t...
Dec 17, 2019•32 min
Episode 772 | I signed up for Obamacare this weekend and LORD these prices. **NOTE** Twice I mistakenly said "copays" when I meant "deductible." ** The real problem with Obamacare is that it didn't address the profit motive in the insurance industry. -- New Jersey freshman Congressman Jeff Van Drew was the pick of the Democratic Establishment and the DCCC. The establishment jumped into the primaries to prop him up and suppressed a Black woman progressive. Well, Jeff Van Drew is converting to the...
Dec 16, 2019•38 min
Episode 771 | -- Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party suffered a devastating defeat against the Conservative Party. Let's discuss what this means for the NHS, the global Left, and American politics. -- Mike Huckabee trolls America with a tweet about heading up the 2024 campaign for Donald Trump. But all things considered, we can't take this as a joke. -- Finally, the fight we're in, we may be behind. But it's the fight for all humanity and we CAN WIN!
Dec 13, 2019•29 min
Episode 770 | -- Election day in the UK. This is the first salvo in the resurgence of the global Left. -- Michelle Obama says she has the same values as GW Bush. Really? -- We like to think America is a meritocracy. If that was the case, there is a list of people in the American limelight that we'd otherwise never have heard of.
Dec 12, 2019•31 min
Episode 769 | -- Rise and Grind, Progressive Army!-- Have your episode with a cup of coffee and let's sit down and discuss. -- A new Quinnipiac poll shows that 52% of Democrats under 35 support Bernie Sanders. The future is Progressive! -- Donald Trump is slated to use an executive order to designate Judaism as a nationality. This is in efforts to crush the BDS movement. Of course, we don't expect "Free Speech Absolutists" on the Right to say anything about this because this is a part of their o...
Dec 11, 2019•31 min
Episode 768 | The Horowitz report and the subsequent competing interpretations is the perfect muse for us to understand why there may be no hope for America or humanity. LOL. Sorry to be so dramatic, but we are at the point where the people are demanding that our leaders and our media LIE to them. We're in trouble. -- Nancy Pelosi is impeaching Donald Trump and simultaneously working out a trade deal with him. What is their problem? -- Bernie Sanders is ready to cancel all student and medical de...
Dec 10, 2019•31 min
Episode 767 | -- AOC showed us that we don't have to engage in corporate America's race to the bottom. It's time these businesses start paying their fair share! -- Donald Trump went on an antisemtic rant. Here's the gag: no one is going to say anything about it. -- Youtuber, Jimmy Dore, decided he and his wife wanted to interrogate Kamala Harris' blackness. The caucacity. -- Finally, everywhere we turn Black people have our intelligence and question and our agency challenged. Enough's enough....
Dec 09, 2019•37 min
Episode 766 | -- Mayor Peter thinks the Democrats don't "worry enough" about the deficit. Nevermind the fact that every Democratic president has lowered the deficit after inheriting it from their Republican predecessors. Lawrence O'Donnell from MSNBC was not having it. Neither was I. -- A police shooting yesterday in Miami claimed the lives of four people including a UPS driver who was a hostage and an innocent bystander. Enough is enough! -- A new poll shows that 43% of Republicans think the Pr...
Dec 06, 2019•34 min
Episode 765 | -- Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi has called for the chairman of the committee leading the impeachment proceedings to draft articles of impeachment. Trump responded. Are we living in two different realities where half of America can see the direct need for impeachment and the other half swears there is nothing there? -- Rand Paul wants you to use your retirement to pay off student debt. Here's the gag: most Americans don't have a retirement. 66% of millennials don't have retire...
Dec 05, 2019•37 min
Episode 764 | -- Two prosecutors in the race. Only one got labeled a cop. The other hasn't been touched by this narrative. Why this matters and what we should learn from this. -- Tulsi Gabbard has 5 points in New Hampshire. Sanders is down by only 3. Time for Tulsi to drop out and endorse Senator Sanders. -- A brief note to young, Black progressives. It's just my experience and I want to share it with you. What I will say can be applied to any identity that doesn't control the reigns of power. B...
Dec 04, 2019•30 min
Episode 763 | -- Kamala Harris' team just announced that she is out of the running as she no longer has the funds necessary to compete for the presidency. This is breaking news. -- The Middle-Class Squeeze is a real thing, and people need to understand that even if you're making $250,000 a year, you have more in common with minimum wage earners than people living off capital gains. -- The UK is facing the grim possibility of losing the NHS system to America's vulture healthcare industry. Let's d...
Dec 03, 2019•38 min
Episode 762 | Mayor Pete is pushing hard against providing college for the rich kids of CEOs. This is a disingenuous argument that creates a means-tested program destined to collapse in the future. It is also an argument that leaves the families that make between $100,000 to $150,000 a year without free college. -- The way Pete is able to make this argument is the same way Democrats and Republicans have been able to make this argument for years: people who think they're rich but really aren't ar...
Dec 02, 2019•38 min
Episode 761 | Republicans are masters of projecting onto "the Left" the very things they are doing. But since the election of Donald Trump, we've seen an escalation in this tactic to the level that we can best describe as "weaponized projection." Let's discuss this tactic and its implications. -- Welcome to the show Malaika Jabali. She currently writes for The Guardian and has bylines in Essence, Current Affairs, and The Intercept. We discuss Barack Obama's alleged plan to intervene if Bernie Sa...
Nov 27, 2019•45 min
Episode 760 | Politico is reporting that former President Barack Obama has made it clear that if Bernie Sanders runs away with the primaries, he would consider intervening to stop him from securing the win. We covered this possibility last week as another outlet discussed this possibility. But let's discuss this from the perspective of how incompetent the establishment is in terms of fighting off fascism. -- Mayor Bloomberg says he won't take donations or a salary. But this is far from impressiv...
Nov 26, 2019•26 min
Episode 759 | Michael Bloomberg has committed to spending between $500 million and $1 Billion to run for president. If you're wondering why he wouldn't spend this on progressive causes, realize that this is 100% about stopping Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders from instituting their various wealth taxes. Under Elizabeth Warren alone, Bloomberg will have to fork over $3.1 billion next year alone. So investing $500 million is nothing compared to what he can save if he stops Warren. -- Economists...
Nov 25, 2019•36 min
Episode 758 | Biden is not ready for the mainstage. He doesn't respond well under pressure. Listen to this clip of him telling a protestor that they should vote for Trump. That's right... Donald Trump. Donald Trump calls into Fox and Friends and basically admits to obstruction of justice. If only Republicans weren't on the wrong side of history. The contrarian left is bolstering Tulsi and this may come at the expense of Bernie Sanders. Finally, socialism is spreading. The fear of socialism is wa...
Nov 22, 2019•31 min
Episode 757 | Let's breakdown the high points of the debate from last night. Also, the impeachment proceedings just got VERY interesting. And finally, Barack Obama is getting ready to wade into the primaries. This will backfire tremendously.
Nov 21, 2019•38 min
