"Radical" Russ Belville
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🎤 Host of The RadicalRuss Show podcast, former 🌲 NORML podcaster, 📡 XM Progress host, 🖋 liberal blogger, 🎸 6-String Bass, 🪖 Natl Guard Vet, 🏈 Boise State Bronco. Born 🔴 Idaho, Love 🔵 Oregon. 🇺🇸✊🏻
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"Radical" Russ Belville
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Why "Radical" Russ Left Idaho (Have You Read the News?) - RadicalRuss.com
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"Our idea instead is to create such poverty and suffering, as well as criminalizing enough work-release prisoners, that we can employ domestic low wage servants."
JD Vance: "Democrats' idea was the way you get more prosperity is that you import more and more low wage servants."
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
"Our idea instead is to create such poverty and suffering, as well as criminalizing enough work-release prisoners, that we can employ domestic low wage servants."
Okay, that gets points for sure!
They’re calling her Megyn R. Kelly on TikTok
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Okay, that gets points for sure!
That the #1 country song is completely generated by a computer by aggregating and compiling every redneck stereotype into a simple formulaic slop meant to stir up patriarchal jingoism is unique only for the word "a computer" replacing "Nashville."
November 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
That the #1 country song is completely generated by a computer by aggregating and compiling every redneck stereotype into a simple formulaic slop meant to stir up patriarchal jingoism is unique only for the word "a computer" replacing "Nashville."
This cartoon bothers me because Indy lives and escapes the ball rolling toward him.
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This cartoon bothers me because Indy lives and escapes the ball rolling toward him.
Many of us said so at the time.
Paramount, Netflix, and Comcast are putting in bids for Warner Bros. Discovery.
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was, in the long run, a very bad idea with disastrous consequences.
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The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was, in the long run, a very bad idea with disastrous consequences.
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Exclusive | Paramount, Comcast, Netflix Prepare Bids for Warner as Deadline Approaches
Warner Bros. Discovery is holding an auction process in the hopes of having it completed by the end of the year.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Many of us said so at the time.
The "barely legal type" would be 18 years old. As in "just reached 18, the legal age of consent." Someone who is 15 is, according to experts, "a teenage child."
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The "barely legal type" would be 18 years old. As in "just reached 18, the legal age of consent." Someone who is 15 is, according to experts, "a teenage child."
At first, I thought it was a metaphor.
It's a grim testament to our political climate that a man's genuine health struggle feels like a metaphor for a body politic repeatedly failing to protect itself from its own vulnerabilities.
New Health Scare for Fetterman After Falling on His Face
The Pennsylvania Democrat was hurt in an accident near his home.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
At first, I thought it was a metaphor.
Have you met Merrick Garland? Why, that would have been seen as partisan weaponization of the Department of Justice!
Rep. Andy Harris: "My gut feeling is that if there is something in there about Donald Trump, the Biden DOJ would've released it." (Sounds like a great reason to release the files!)
November 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Have you met Merrick Garland? Why, that would have been seen as partisan weaponization of the Department of Justice!
Every time his name comes up, I think, no, not my brief former roommate and Cannabis Cup 2014 driver "Left Wing" Larry Summers, fan of THEEE Ohio State University. The other, sleazy right wing Larry Summers.
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Every time his name comes up, I think, no, not my brief former roommate and Cannabis Cup 2014 driver "Left Wing" Larry Summers, fan of THEEE Ohio State University. The other, sleazy right wing Larry Summers.
That article about how people were taught to read incorrectly? I have no frame of reference because I learned to read so young that I don't recall being taught. Like, by age 3, I think @jackiesue1947.bsky.social?
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
That article about how people were taught to read incorrectly? I have no frame of reference because I learned to read so young that I don't recall being taught. Like, by age 3, I think @jackiesue1947.bsky.social?
Someone has never sat for 45 minutes in a dirty apartment nodding approvingly at their drug dealer's shitty demo tape.
Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Someone has never sat for 45 minutes in a dirty apartment nodding approvingly at their drug dealer's shitty demo tape.
I can imagine Even Worse Case: And has been doing Russia's bidding because they have all the kompromat.
Best case: The President of the United States knew about a pedophilia ring and did nothing to stop it.
Medium case: He also used his office to protect the perpetrators.
Worst case: Because he was one of the perpetrators.
Medium case: He also used his office to protect the perpetrators.
Worst case: Because he was one of the perpetrators.
November 13, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I can imagine Even Worse Case: And has been doing Russia's bidding because they have all the kompromat.
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its funny that like 48 hours ago conservatives were trying to make a big deal outta talarico following some sex workers on social media and now its all "who cares if trump had an epstein house punch card?"
November 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
its funny that like 48 hours ago conservatives were trying to make a big deal outta talarico following some sex workers on social media and now its all "who cares if trump had an epstein house punch card?"
"The president has ended eight wars!" says Speaker Johnson, unaware of the streak of brown still remaining on his nose.
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
"The president has ended eight wars!" says Speaker Johnson, unaware of the streak of brown still remaining on his nose.
That 3X more House Dems are crossing the aisle to vote YEA than Republicans voting NAY is completely on brand.
I'll wholeheartedly support any Dem primary challenger who pledges to oust Jeffries and Schumer from leadership.
I'll wholeheartedly support any Dem primary challenger who pledges to oust Jeffries and Schumer from leadership.
November 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
That 3X more House Dems are crossing the aisle to vote YEA than Republicans voting NAY is completely on brand.
I'll wholeheartedly support any Dem primary challenger who pledges to oust Jeffries and Schumer from leadership.
I'll wholeheartedly support any Dem primary challenger who pledges to oust Jeffries and Schumer from leadership.
Buckle up!
BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨
Speaker Mike Johnson announced to reporters on Wednesday that he will put a bill compelling the Department of Justice to release all of its Jeffrey Epstein case files on the House floor next week, earlier than expected
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Speaker Mike Johnson announced to reporters on Wednesday that he will put a bill compelling the Department of Justice to release all of its Jeffrey Epstein case files on the House floor next week, earlier than expected
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Johnson says House will vote next week on whether to release Epstein files | CNN Politics
Speaker Mike Johnson announced to reporters on Wednesday that he will put a bill compelling the Department of Justice to release all of its Jeffrey Epstein case files on the House floor next week – ea...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Buckle up!
Who is the constituency clamoring for a ban on hemp, anyway? Weed is legal in Maine! Medical and recreational. This can only be from red state senators wanting to ban hemp-derived work around for illegal weed.
"Why was it necessary to ban hemp in the deal that you supported that was supposedly focused squarely on reopening the government?" seems like a pretty basic question for Susan Collins and Angus King. #MEpolitics
November 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Who is the constituency clamoring for a ban on hemp, anyway? Weed is legal in Maine! Medical and recreational. This can only be from red state senators wanting to ban hemp-derived work around for illegal weed.
They're gonna flip Boebert.
November 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
They're gonna flip Boebert.
All C.O.P.s are bastards.
The biggest problem in the Dem party are the people who attained positions of power and influence due to their connections to the Clintons, Obama, and Pelosi. This has allowed them to continually assert they know the secret to winning when all they do is accommodate and lose.
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
All C.O.P.s are bastards.
If the House does not remove the CR a line the Senate just passed, anything you ingest with any THC in it—even stuff like hemp seed or oil with no intoxicating properties—will be federally-illegal marijuana. Hemp industry would revert to the year 2004 pre-HEA v DEA.
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Hemp Industries Association v. Drug Enforcement Administration - Wikipedia
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November 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
If the House does not remove the CR a line the Senate just passed, anything you ingest with any THC in it—even stuff like hemp seed or oil with no intoxicating properties—will be federally-illegal marijuana. Hemp industry would revert to the year 2004 pre-HEA v DEA.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp_In...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp_In...
Man, won't it be something if my fifteen years working from pre- to post-legalization of marijuana was a proof of concept for tax revolt soft secession of the blue states.
Though I'll remind the author: lots of folks (ladylove included) suffered raids and loss for years to achieve legal marijuana.
Though I'll remind the author: lots of folks (ladylove included) suffered raids and loss for years to achieve legal marijuana.
November 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Man, won't it be something if my fifteen years working from pre- to post-legalization of marijuana was a proof of concept for tax revolt soft secession of the blue states.
Though I'll remind the author: lots of folks (ladylove included) suffered raids and loss for years to achieve legal marijuana.
Though I'll remind the author: lots of folks (ladylove included) suffered raids and loss for years to achieve legal marijuana.
Now we are talking!
Soft secession
Legislation creates a Federal Tax Escrow Account in the state treasury. Instead of employers forwarding collected federal taxes to Washington, they send them to the state. The state holds the money in escrow. A legislative panel reviews federal spending for constitutional compliance.
Legislation creates a Federal Tax Escrow Account in the state treasury. Instead of employers forwarding collected federal taxes to Washington, they send them to the state. The state holds the money in escrow. A legislative panel reviews federal spending for constitutional compliance.
Experts Say Blue States Can Stop Paying Federal Taxes. There’s Precedent
If we could use nullification for people to get high, why can’t we use it to protect human rights and stop fascism?
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November 12, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Now we are talking!
Not to disagree with the point, but as a cannabis consumer, "what is he smoking?" kinda offends me as a phrase for "is he out of his mind?" The only things you'd smoke that fits "he's gone mad" are PCP and meth, but those aren't where the phrase originated. It's a cannabiphobic phrase.
this is such a ridiculous way to characterize this interview. if you actually watch it, ingraham isnt "challenging" trump. she's trying to coach him so he doesnt say dumb, out of touch shit. hannity tries it with him all the time too. wtf is @brianstelter.bsky.social smoking?
"President Trump’s Fox News interviewers are sometimes so promotional and deferential that little gets challenged, and almost no news is ever made," writes Brian Stelter.
"However, Laura Ingraham was more strategic than that." | Analysis https://cnn.it/4qRaVN6
"However, Laura Ingraham was more strategic than that." | Analysis https://cnn.it/4qRaVN6
November 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Not to disagree with the point, but as a cannabis consumer, "what is he smoking?" kinda offends me as a phrase for "is he out of his mind?" The only things you'd smoke that fits "he's gone mad" are PCP and meth, but those aren't where the phrase originated. It's a cannabiphobic phrase.
The new Corvette Handicap Van.
November 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The new Corvette Handicap Van.