Some More News

A great format with strong left voice Cody Johnston working against cartoonish centrist Katy Stoll. They way they use the character of straw dog Katy Stoll defending various right wing monsters in American politics like JD Vance to make Cody’s cogent arguments seem much more logical is masterful podcasting.

“Hey, let’s bring up Trump jerking those ghosts! It’s very funny when we don’t take him seriously or present his threats! We’re not personally in the vulnerable groups that he has threatened to revoke the citizenship of!” Literally a minute later: “It’s really bad that people are giving him attention by sharing the video of him walking around silently on stage for 16 straight minutes or sharing him completely losing his train of thought 3 times in a minute, that doesn’t make him look bad and actually helps him. How dare you.”

i’ve been following for years and while the smn segments have stayed high quality as ever, i just can’t take the slow decline of the even more news side anymore. half the time it’s just katy derailing every discussion of the election with personal anecdotes to jump to the defense of the nice trump-loving folk in her life at the slightest perceived provocation, then 20-40 minutes of back and forth clarification that #notallrepublicans has to go by before the show can continue. i get the demand for nuance but it goes on for so long it makes any actual dialogue impossible to follow. current events are already frustrating enough on their own without them being delivered to me via catfight.

Its not that she’s open to more perspectives now, its that I don’t even know what she’s trying to say? She struggles and stammers to make her points and I don’t know what they are. Contrarian and apologetic for no clear reason?? What is your point??