Deradicalizing AM radio one call at a time

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Monday October 23, 2023 · 1:40 PM PDT

2023/10/23 · 13:40

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(Not me, just signal boosting)

5 years in conservative talk radio as an open leftist.

Hey everyone. For the past five years, and further inspired in HUGE way by the end of season 1, I’ve been establishing and expanding a presence in local right wing talk station 94.9 News Now and Stimulating Talk. I’ve spoken as both a caller and an in studio guest on countless occasions to talk about the failures of conservatism, why I became a leftist and more specifically an anarchist, the lies about “antifa” and the cop city fight.

I’ve made a lot of friends through the station and I’ve at least locally broken the homogeneity of the most prominent conservative talk station in my state. People who would have NEVER heard about stuff from our side got the chance to decide for themselves what they actually believe. And a shocking amount of them have distanced themselves from conservatism. Some even now identify as anarchists.

I’m a major believer in this sort of activism, especially for people like me who have VERY minimal opportunities for in person activism lately.

I’m currently in round 2 group A of their king of callers competition. If I get first or second in this round I advance to the final round. The last person to win this competition ten years ago got his own show and that is a likely prize this year as well.

Several hosts on the station have already expressed a desire to have me as a host.

The conservative media apparatus spends so much time and effort on its project because it works. I think there’s a lot of value in people working to jam this apparatus and subvert it however possible.

My entry for this round is a challenge to the listeners to stand with the defenders of the Atlanta forest if they claim to dislike tyranny.

If you think this project has any merit, I implore you to head over to https://leeelci.com/king-of-callers-division-a/ and vote for Hayward Gatch

I’d also deeply appreciate anyone who would share this among their circles. Thank you!

Handsy theater lady does a transphobia (again)

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Wednesday September 27, 2023 · 2:12 PM PDT

2023/09/27 · 14:12

Rep. Lauren Boebert attacks a department of defense official for being transgender:

"This delusional man thinking he is a woman, embodies and espouses the wokism that that’s causing significant harm to our military readiness and troops’ morale!" pic.twitter.com/o1NjPcRX4p
— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) September 27, 2023

Meanwhile IRL, en.wikipedia.org/… Transgender people are significantly more likely to serve in the US military than the general US population.According to 2014 estimates from the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy, despite the ban on military service, about 21.4% of the total transgender population in the US is estimated to have served in the military.

RIP Trump Organization?

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Tuesday September 26, 2023 · 2:00 PM PDT

2023/09/26 · 14:00

www.theguardian.com/…

New York judge has ruled that Donald Trump committed fraud for years while building the real estate empire that catapulted him to fame and the White House.

Judge Arthur Engoron, ruling Tuesday in a civil lawsuit brought by Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, found that the former US president and his company deceived banks, insurers and others by massively overvaluing his assets and exaggerating his net worth on paperwork.

The decision, which comes days before the start of a non-jury trial, is the strongest repudiation yet of Trump’s carefully coiffed image as a wealthy and shrewd real estate mogul turned political powerhouse.

James sued Trump in September 2022, accusing him and the Trump Organization of lying for a decade about asset values and his net worth to get better terms on bank loans and insurance.

She has said Trump inflated his net worth by as much as $2.23bn, and by one measure as much as $3.6bn, on annual financial statements given to banks and insurers.

The attorney general has said assets whose values were inflated include Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, his penthouse apartment in Manhattan’s Trump Tower, and various office buildings and golf courses.

NEW: If I am reading this right, Judge Engoron has found that Donald Trump committed fraud and has ordered the cancellation of all of his New York business certificates and the dissolution of the Trump Organization. pic.twitter.com/k2nRcK3L37
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) September 26, 2023

RIP Wagner

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Wednesday August 23, 2023 · 10:24 AM PDT

2023/08/23 · 10:24

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Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia, with nine other people on board also dead.

So that’s that.

A bit of fighting back on the memetic front, finally

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Saturday August 05, 2023 · 1:09 PM PDT

2023/08/05 · 13:09

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The White House has announced they are putting Biden’s name on hundreds of thousands of infrastructure project signs after Republicans started taking credit for projects they voted against.

Credit where due.

DOJ follows Trump on TruthSocial, unfortunately for him.

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Friday August 04, 2023 · 7:31 PM PDT

2023/08/04 · 19:31

This is about 50 minutes old.

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Will he go to jail pending trial?

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Will he go to jail pending trial?

yes

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59 votes

no but he will be restricted from social media

140 votes

I am now a US citizen.

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Tuesday July 25, 2023 · 8:36 PM PDT

2023/07/25 · 20:36

As of Monday, I am now a US citizen. It was hard, but it got done.

This is a country worth believing in. I spent half my life on making that clear to its government, and it finally got it through its thick bureaucratic skull.

The hardest part was getting a green card on a NIW.

NH House seat flips from R to D after recount - by one vote

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Tuesday November 15, 2022 · 9:56 PM PST

2022/11/15 · 21:56

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Don’t let anyone say that your vote doesn’t count.

Judge Rules DACA Is Unlawful and Suspends Applications

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Friday July 16, 2021 · 4:30 PM PDT

2021/07/16 · 16:30

The judge said President Barack Obama exceeded his authority when he created the program, but for now people protected under it will retain the ability to stay and work in the United States.

www.nytimes.com/…

A federal judge in Texas on Friday ruled unlawful a program that has shielded hundreds of thousands of undocumented young adults from deportation, throwing into question yet again the fate of immigrants known as Dreamers.

The judge, Andrew S. Hanen of the United States District Court in Houston, said President Barack Obama exceeded his authority when he created the program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, by executive order in 2012.

But the judge wrote that current program recipients would not be immediately affected, and that the federal government should not “take any immigration, deportation or criminal action” against them that it “would not otherwise take.”

The Department of Homeland Security may continue to accept new applications and renewals for the program known as DACA, the judge ruled, but it is temporarily prohibited from approving any of them. Immigrants currently enrolled in the program, most of whom were brought to the United States as children, will for now retain the ability to stay and work in the country, though those protections could evaporate if the government is unable to rectify a series of legal shortcomings.

Today I turn 40. Not dealing with it well at all. Birthday wish in post.

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Sunday January 17, 2021 · 10:30 AM PST

2021/01/17 · 10:30

if i can ask for something for my birthday: please write a little. it can be just a paragraph. doesn't have to be about any topic, can be about what you had for breakfast if you want. but it has to be about a good thing that has happened to you recently.

go! :)

Yesterday was worse than 9/11/2001 on all metrics.

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Thursday January 07, 2021 · 7:12 AM PST

2021/01/07 · 07:12

3964 people died of a disease exacerbated by insane policies.

4 people died during an attempt to storm the Capitol.

160 years later, the Confederate battle flag was waved in triumph inside the US Congress.

All this happened due to the incompetence of a Republican president who lost the popular vote.

These are brute, verifiable facts.

We were told that on 9/11 the world had changed, we told that to ourselves and to everyone else. We must do the same now.

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Just my prediction

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Wednesday December 16, 2020 · 8:35 AM PST

2020/12/16 · 08:35

Trump will:

* Move to Florida
* Buy a house nearby Maralago as his official address to skirt residency restrictions on the club
* Declare himself president in exile, or similar
* Have some retired judge or some megapastor swear him in on Jan 20 in an alternate ceremony
* Brag about getting more views and attendance for that than the actual inauguration
* Issue proclamations from a replica oval office built in MaL
* Immediately file for a 2024 candidacy “for a third term”

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Some

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Little

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