Good news! We can strike one talking point from Fox News & other GOP propaganda outlets: Donald Trump is now a convicted felon, convicted by a jury of his peers based on evidence against him presented by New York State. While “innocent until proven guilty” stands, it no longer applies to The Donvict (sic).

The same people who excused the sociopath who opined that perhaps household disinfectant was just the thing to make a global pandemic disappear by Easter 2020 are sticking with their moron. The same people who excused the criminal for trying to force Ukraine to open a bullshit investigation into his political opponent are now howling that his targeted political opponent has weaponized the government against their orange messiah. The same people who disparaged then excused the Donvict for inciting the January 6th insurrection & for throwing the entire U.S. intelligence community under a bus while fellating his pal Vlad on global television are now parroting his lies dressed in a uniform that was surprising mainly for lacking an armband.

While we should celebrate that the rule of law won the day & the Justice system finally held a rich & powerful person accountable, particularly one who has evaded justice for decades, we need to prepare for what’s next. For the next week or so we will hear about this historic event, then the U.S. mainstream media will quickly grow tired of talking about our first & only felony-convicted former president & switch its focus the right wing echo-chamber-penned fantasy about some “Brown People Caravan” that’s on it’s way to invade & install taco trucks on every corner. Maybe a laptop will somehow be involved. You just know Fox has focus group tested this rebooted racist bullshit & is just waiting for the go-ahead from the campaign of the convicted felon to run with it.

I do hope that one major newspaper or magazine has the backbone to run the headline, “GOP Nominates Convicted Felon For President” during his coronation by the RNC this July.

All that said, today we celebrate a TON of new playlist additions today will include 🎵 by Arab Strap (Glasgow, Scotland, @ArabStrapBand), Crack Cloud (Calgary, Alberta, Canada, @Crack.Cloud), Crumb (New York, NY, @some_crumb), Crumbs (Leeds, England, @CrumbsBand), cumgirl8 (New York, NY, @CumGirl8), Death Lens (Los Angeles, CA, @DeathLensLA), Dehd (Chicago, IL, @DehdForever), Lightheaded (Long Branch, NJ, @LightHeadedBand), The Lovely Eggs (Lancaster, England, @TheLovelyEggs), Shannon & The Clams (Oakland, CA @ShanAndTheClams), & Villagers (Dublin, Ireland, @WeAreVillagers).

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480 Minutes / Episode 877