Just Buy Less Coffee, Answering the Deeper Questions of American Politics

Troy and Cathy break down the United States rapidly devolving into an apartheid state, guilty of crimes against humanity, as America's gestapo, the Department of Homeland Security, considers participating in a reality tv game show where undocumented migrants are thrown into the Hunger Games– competing in challenges in order to get the right to stay in the country. 

Meanwhile, a black nurse in Georgia dies pregnant and past the ...

Cathy and Troy break down the new American Pope, Leo XIV, after Troy called it in the last episode. Was this an absolutely stellar political move on the part of the Cardinals to put an American in power on the global stage to counter Donald Trump? 

A pro-immigration, pro-social justice Pope that can stand up to Trump and continue to exert moral American leadership on the world stage? We are here for it.

We discuss the symbolism and s...

Cathy and Troy break down the death of Pope Francis, a man of the people who brought progressive reform to the Catholic Church on issues of homosexuality and economic justice, following a decade of right-wing rule from his predecessor Pope Benedict who resigned in the middle of the church sex abuse scandal.

We discuss who the next Pope may be, and hope for a Cardinal from the Phillipines who would be the first Asian pope and could c...

Cathy and Troy break down the passage of the SAVE Act in the U.S. House, a bill designed to disenfranchise millions of legal voters by requiring proof of citizenship presented in person to register to vote in federal elections. 

The biggest targets of the bill are Americans overseas, including the military, who can't get back to register in person, and married women or any individual who has changed their name legally, since na...

Cathy and Troy break down a disastrous week for the U.S. economy after Trump's Liberation Day unveiling of tariffs on the entire world. 

The U.S. has declared economic warfare, and countries are responding in kind. In response, the markets are in free fall. This is not a normal stock correction; investors are terrified of the instability of Trump and the looming recession. 

Stock futures reveal that more drops may be coming as t...

Cathy interviews Bloomberg Economist Kathryn Anne Edwards about the coming, completely avoidable, recession. In no universe should the U.S. go from under 4% unemployment to staring down a recession in less than 100 days.

Kathryn describes how Donald Trump manufactured a recession through tariffs, and explains how useless massive tax cuts over the last 20 years have given us nothing but a broken society, national debt that's tre...

Cathy and Troy break down the horrifying prospect of Donald Trump using U.S. troops to expel Palestinians from Gaza in order to make way for hotels. He hinted at it on the campaign trail. Could Trump Tower Gaza be coming? And with it WW3 and armageddon, as a battle of literally Biblical proportions would be in store with every Muslim nation on earth arming up to expel the Americans from the holy land?

Trump signals the rule of law i...

Cathy and Troy react to the stunning developments in D.C. as an unknown cadre of Elon Musk cronies sieze control of the U.S. Treasury, take over payment servers controlling trillions of dollars of U.S. assets, and shut down global aid fund USAID. This is a coup of the richest man on earth being given permission to infiltrate and corrupt the United States government at will.

Trump's tariff wars kick off in earnest as Canada hard...

The Trump presidency is officially here and less than one week in we are already seeing the exact effects that were forecast of a fascist government coming home to the United States.

Immigrant communities brace for the effects of Trump's ice raids that are also sweeping up American citizens, making the U.S. a "show me your papers" society. But are the mass deportations a distraction for the next move? Priva...

Cathy and Troy debunk the firestorm of lies surrounding the horrendous and heartbreaking wildfires in Los Angeles. Never missing an opportunity to spread division, Donald Trump and his army of miserable right-wing influencers push dangerous lies disparaging public officials, including fire fighters, and mock the suffering of Californians. Shame on them.

To support families impacted by the fires in Los Angeles, please go he...

Cathy and Troy remember the legacy of Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, who is often tarnished by Republicans because he was defeated by Ronald Reagan, but it was Carter who restored dignity to the White House and attempted to re-build an America based on compassion, civil rights, and public service, while Reagan built a United States of rampant consumerism, greed, corruption, and the destruction of the middle clas...

Cathy and Troy discuss the stunning events in Syria over the weekend, with the brutal Assad regime falling after 13 years of civil war, and the Syrian people finally liberated in a sequence of events tied to other geopolitical earthquakes, like a challenge to the pro-Russia government in Georgia, and a military coup put down in South Korea.

People all over the world are fighting back against authoritarianism. Will that com...

Cathy and Troy react to the news that Donald Trump, convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and noted fraud and probable traitor, will once again be President of the United States. The reason? An uneducated electorate finally swallowed our democracy.

And his first acts as president-elect are a nightmare. A Russian spy for Director of National Intelligence? Sure. A pedophilic sex trafficker to head the Justice Department? Why ...

Cathy and Troy LIST the roughly 8 or 9 October surprises that rocked the Trump campaign just over the last week, with possibly the most significant being losing Puerto Ricans and other Latino voters after an offensive comment made at a Trump rally by a shock comedian calling Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage. Then culminating in the release of new Epstein tapes that reveal a WHOLE lot of ick about Donald Trump only days away...

Cathy interviews Dylan Hellebrand, a former student, and a delegate to the DNC and staffer in the office of Congressman Maxwell Frost, about how young people can get involved in politics and make an impact quickly, the state of the race in Florida, predictions for the race nationally, and more, in this special bonus episode. 

We may have a new Gen Z correspondent! 

All for less than the price of a cup of coffee...

Cathy and Troy discuss Kamala Harris' brutal takedown of Bret Baier during an obviously set up ambush interview on Fox News. Despite being designed to make her look bad, Kamala came away looking stronger than ever.

Donald Trump has completely gone bye bye. His campaign team cites exhaustion after he cancels event after event. But one Town Hall stands out, as Trump refuses to take questions from the crowd and instead ...

Cathy and Troy break down the fire hose of lies on the internet surrounding the federal government's response to hurricane Helene. MAGA has successfully weaponized messaging around disaster relief to play on anger and frustration for votes, and yes scapegoat migrants yet again.

No FEMA is not taking people's property. No survivors are not only receiving $750 dollars while we give billions to Ukraine or to house ...

Cathy is joined by friend of the show Ryan, the Just Buy Less Coffee version of Steve Kornacki, our electoral big board correspondent, to discuss the math on getting Kamala Harris to 270 electoral votes in what will be one of the closest elections in U.S. history...if the polls are right...which they probably aren't.

But how will we know if the polls are wrong in Trump's favor or Kamala's? Ryan and Cathy lay...