The Ron Show

Ron Roberts
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Welcome to the Ron Show - Atlanta's only progressive audio platform airing five days a week on Georgia Now, M-F 4-6pm (replaying 8-10am the next weekday). Host Ron Roberts covers Atlanta, metro Atlanta, Georgia and national politics from a pretty unique lens ... he's just your run-of-the-mill Georgia-born gay progressive cat-dad realtor & talk show host. Dime a dozen, right?

  1. 2D AGO

    Trump 'lawfare' coming for Fulton election works & volunteers now

    PLUS: Reparations for white voters? Republicans want to draw inner city voters towards their suburban 'white saviors' & Geoff Duncan's new TV ad is out The Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) has roughly 700 boxes of Fulton County's 2020 general election ballots and now they want names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of all the Fulton County election workers and volunteers from the 2020 cycle, too. Uhm, why? As Rudy Giuliani clings to life, it was just 14 months ago he was done paying two Fulton elections workers upwards of $100 million (or more) and now the DOJ wants to serve up other employees for potential MAGA "retribution? - - - As if that's not enough, MAGA podcasting nutjob Benny Johnson and The Article III Project founder/president Mike Davis are salivating at the prospect of getting white voters in Democratic-led states reparations (yes, reparations) for their being oh-so "wronged" by racially-based gerrymandering. The stones on these two white nationalist gasbags. - - - Remember all that GOP talk about black voters being on the "Democratic plantation?" Yet now they want to redraw maps to have their "white savior" representatives - who've shown no interest in doing right by inner city Americans when not representing city dwellers - represent everyone in these newly drawn districts except us. - - - It's encouraging then, that Georgia Democrats are taking some fight back to the right. Out gay Fulton County prosecutor Will Wooten is featured in a 30-second ad touting his record having helped build the election interference case against Trump as he seeks to challenge Georgia Court of Appeals Judge E. Trenton Brown III. - - - Okay, I have no opinion on cellphone bans in schools, honestly. I believe teachers when they say it makes their jobs easier, so on that front, I'm for the bans; but results show the real sales pitch - improved test scores - doesn't show itself in studies, just yet. - - - Lastly, Geoff Duncan has (finally) interested the TV ad game with a mostly cable and online ad buy, utilizing minority endorsees. The 30-second spot is good. It's effective. But it actually raised questions with me, still. Also, former gubernatorial candidate, Rep. Ruwa Romman, hasn't endorsed in that race since leaving it, but she did share her "sample ballot," with the #anybodybutGeoff hashtag and Mike Thurmond below it. On her personal Facebook, however, she did say of Duncan "I believe he’s sincere. I don’t think he’s just making up that he changed his mind. But he’s objectively the weakest candidate. We lose too many of our own for the mythical swing voter."

    45 min

  2. 3D AGO

    Economic anxieties "out yonder" foretell recession & midterm GOP bloodbath

    Economic indicators in "MAGA country" and Trump's hemorrhaging right-leaning independent voters indicate it may not matter how gerrymandered some red states are. Farm bankruptcies are climbing. Foreclosures are at a six-year high. Red states lead the way. Tariffs have done 'significant damage' to the economy. ... and yet, Georgia Republicans are still "all-in" for Trump. Baffling! Well, as CNN's Harry Enten notes, right-leaning independents are leaving the "Trump train" in droves.

    44 min

  3. 4D AGO

    On polling, ad buys, endorsements (and those not being made): Melita Easters weighs in on GA races

    PLUS: the on-and-off again (brief) mifepristone mail ban. Melita shares her thoughts on that, as well. Four days ago, I'm complaining there isn't enough polling on the Democratic gubernatorial race in Georgia, and since then we have two new polls out, and the only consistency among them (and all of them) is that former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms enjoys a still-healthy lead, but if there is to be a run-off, it's clearly between three candidates: Mike Thurmond, Jason Esteves and Geoff Duncan. On to discuss that race, who's endorsements do and don't matter, who has the budget and buys to be a factor and more, Georgia WIN List executive director Melita Easters. The notably mentioned her organization only endorsing one statewide candidate in the primary season thus far, incidentally - that of Tanya Miller for attorney general.

    43 min

  4. MAY 2

    Insider Advantage poll says Keisha clears 50% and I'm skeptical

    Plus Carolyn Bourdeau's seems to dislike her party's gerrymandering response; why? And FRIDAY FUNNIES w/Sterling Thrill New - and shocking - Democratic gubernatorial polling shows Keisha Lance Bottoms mightn't need worry about a run-off. The Insider Advantage polling of 800 likely Georgia voters (likely split in half by party affiliation but they gave us no in tabs) has Bottoms netting 52% of likely Democratic party voters with only 14% undecided - meaning if correct, there'd be no run-off. It also shows a neck-and-neck race for the GOP nod with Rick "the ick" Jackson and Burt Jones but Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger actually within striking distance and few undecideds there, too. I'm skeptical. - - - Meanwhile, Democrat and former Congresswoman Carolyn Bourdeaux didn't race to pen an op/ed when Trump coaxed mid-decade gerrymanders in red states but is now bemoaning it all now that Democrats have responded. She, Joe Manchin & Kyrsten Sinema should gather for a meal or something. PLUS: my Friday Funnies therapy sesh with good friend, comedian Sterling Thrill.

    1h 29m

  5. APR 30

    Rahul Garabadu reacts to SCOTUS gutting the VRA & the argument that MAGA leaves little else but fomented anger

    In the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court's MAGA 6-3 majority dealing what may be the final death blow to the 1965 Voting Rights' Act, civil rights attorney and Georgia state Senate candidate Rahul Garabadu joined me Thursday to discuss the reality of a newfound race to gerrymander with reckless abandon to eliminate black voting power & representation; oh and to discuss is candidacy in a hotly contested state Senate district that a Democrat will win. The question is: which one? - - - Hear me out: what if the political violence we ALL abhor is all that MAGA and the GOP leaves their political opposition? We're not there, yet, but as the race to gerrymander (already before the SCOTUS ruling and then again after), along with the many and varied ways the SAVE Act seeks to suppress voter participation further, is it not enraging that a nation with a razor-thin liberal majority electorate is ruled by a party they rarely vote in favor for and with a 2/3rds majority conservative high court? Take away the options to right that course, and what is the left left with? Conservative pundit Erick Erickson is no stranger to threats of violence on him and his family - from MAGA - but piously believes progressives need to "take a look in the mirror" on its rhetorical choices. The problem is he can't name a leftwing political leader that fans those flames. He also finger-wags at conspiracy theorists dismissing the White House correspondents' dinner near-attempt as some MAGA conspiracy. I'm not there yet, myself, but there are some curious issues with the whole setup, as Leigh McGowan, aka "Politics Girl," points out.

    1h 29m

  6. APR 29

    Reviewing the televised GA gubernatorial debates: swipes, snipes & gripes

    Both the Democratic and Republican gubernatorial debates hosted by the Atlanta Press Club on Georgia Public Broadcasting aired Monday evening, and aside from the notable difference between the two hours - substantive policy conversations vs "who can out-Trump the other" - some other notable moments were worth zeroing in on. Former state Senator Jason Esteves took the first hard swipe at the presumptive frontrunner, former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, over the death of Secoriea Turner during her term. He and Senator Derrick Jackson took aim at former GOP lieutenant governor Geoff Duncan for his role in the state of the state currently, and Mike Thurmond presented a novel approach to tax relief: reducing and/or eliminating the state's income tax - a regressive tax. On the right, it was more "Jones v. Jackson" sniping, often with surrogate assistance from attorney general Chris Carr and even secretary of state Brad Raffensperger weighing in on both. The bombshell of the night came as the billionaire Rick Jackson found himself unable to refute their being undocumented people hired on his behalf, which Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones pounced on - unable to resist using the slur "illegals," of course. With me to discuss it all is Atlanta-based political consultant Andrew Heaton.

    1h 29m

  7. APR 28

    Another round of 'dial down the rhetoric' hypocrisy, post-WHCD.

    Yet another attempt on President Donald Trump's life nearly came to be over the weekend at the same White House Correspondents' Dinner he'd previously avoided in his first term and first year of his second. Predictably (yeah it happens often enough now that we can use the word "predictably") conservative pundits, politicians and the White House mouthpieces want to focus on the "rhetoric" from the left without an ounce of self-awareness on their part. Nor is there any introspection from the man seemingly so hated by people driven to throw their lives away to try and end his as to why he's so hated. None of that; just tone-deaf finger-pointing about the era of divisiveness and nary a hint of acceptance of culpability. Predictably. A day later, Trump sat down with Norah O'Donnell for the now-infamous '60 Minutes' response interview, which brings me to John Fugelsang tweeting "live your life so you never have to insist “I’m not a pedophile” on 60 Minutes." Naturally, he snapped into "nastiness" mode, directing his ire at O'Donnell for reading the attempted assassin's "manifesto." Predictably.

    45 min

  8. APR 23

    David Scott passes; Dr. Jasmine Clark joined to commemorate

    PLUS: Senator Warnock takes more verbal whacks at RFK Jr., and new polling bolsters Bottoms' grip on the Democratic primary . Oh, and Tucker Carlson's a liar The Democratic Congressional primary in Georgia's 13th Congressional district now features an open seat, as longtime Rep. David Scott suddenly passed away earlier this week at the age of 80, bringing about yet another special election in Georgia this cycle, but also putting a pause on the primary race where many of Scott's opponents saw his age as a liability. Joining for insights into how her campaign may respond, plus provide her condolences, Georgia state representative Dr. Jasmine Clark. Also offering his condolences, Republican former Rep. Tom Price. - - - In Washington, Georgia's Reverand Senator Raphael Warnock had yet another opportunity to pelt Robert F. Kennedy Jr., with plenty of evidence that RFK is unqualified and unserious for the job as head of the Department of Health & Human Services. - - - Got a Keisha Lance Bottoms mailer, so maybe that's where her campaign funds are going? So far, it's still just Jason Esteves on the air, when Rick Jackson or Burt Jones aren't. I bring this all up (again) because even newer poling shows Bottoms' grip on the Democratic primary seems even stronger, and in run-off one-on-one's she still beats the field. While on that race, an internal Georgia Democratic party memo from chair Charlie Bailey evokes "bullishness" on Democrats winning that seat. - - - Not buying the Tucker Carlson apology shtick, but I do know he's just among the handful of rats hopping off the sinking ship. Nor am I giving room to the sudden pearl-clutching from MAGA after Virginia voters voted TO gerrymander (in response to Trump's mid-decade attempt to mitigate his midterm demise).

    1h 29m
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Welcome to the Ron Show - Atlanta's only progressive audio platform airing five days a week on Georgia Now, M-F 4-6pm (replaying 8-10am the next weekday). Host Ron Roberts covers Atlanta, metro Atlanta, Georgia and national politics from a pretty unique lens ... he's just your run-of-the-mill Georgia-born gay progressive cat-dad realtor & talk show host. Dime a dozen, right?

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  • Creator
    Ron Roberts
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    737
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Ron Roberts
  • Show Website
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