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What happens when a bald bloviator pods with an MM romance author to save America? Listen around, and find out on this 66th episode of the Bald and Bloviating podcast, where TH Forest and Mookie Spitz play an invigorating game of political tennis.
Their intense and fun conversation swings from Reaganomics and the imminent attack on Venezuela to immigration raids and Nixon's Southern Strategy, from the Epstein Files to the bunker below the refurbished East Wing only to end where they started: acknowledging that the United States is deep in a structural crisis, and both parties helped build the mess.
TH Forest serves it up: She dismantles the myth of the “small government” right, shows how MAGA weaponized fear, and explains why working-class Americans keep voting for the people bleeding them dry. She lays out the collapse of regulation, the gutting of the CFPB, the lies pumped out by conservative media, the mental-health disaster on the streets, and the weaponized grievance machine targeting young men.
Mookie swings back, probes, and plays devil’s advocate where needed, breaking into a sweat over Biden’s failures and inflation denial to the Democrats’ messaging vacuum and their chronic inability to hold onto working-class and now even minority voters. By the last set, he's excited by TH's embrace of Gavin Newsom, a hopeful sign that progressives are starting to get practical.
Jump in! Immigration. Inequality. Crime. Corruption. Billionaires. The militarization of cities. The failure of institutions. The weaponized attention economy. Their spirited conversation is blunt, intense, and unfiltered, two Americans refusing to pretend everything is fine while the country accelerates toward groyperism while still rebounding from the Left's blunders.
The Guest
TH Forest lives in Massachusetts with her husband, sons, cats, Major Tom & Bowie, her German Shepherd, Freya, and one very loud macaw, Loki. She loves to cook, read, and listen to all genres of music (except country) and is passionate about the things that matter to her, like representation, inclusivity, and being an LGBTQ+ ally. She is also a shameless promoter of her novels and is happy to talk your ear off about them.
Listen to Mookie and TH talk about her creative journey and books on The Writers' Pod, visit her Holdorf Press for indie authors, and check out her Website & Social Channels.
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