Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown

1 week ago | jimhightower.substack.com | Jim Hightower

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -2:09Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. How ironic: The most inefficient bureaucracy in government turns out to be Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency.”That could be humorous, except that DOGE—a creature of the right-wing Project 2025—has been devastating to millions of people. And it’s about to get worse.

1 week ago | jimhightower.substack.com | Jim Hightower

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -2:10Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. As Trump & Co. hurl horror after horror at us from the murky darkness of their extremely wasteful “war on government waste,” I think of Lily Tomlin, who said years ago: “No matter how cynical you get, it’s almost impossible to keep up.”But no need to swat frantically at their every assault.

2 weeks ago | jimhightower.substack.com | Jim Hightower

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -2:09Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Years ago, an iconic bar named “Another Raw Deal” was a regular hangout for us irreverent, free-spirited, political progressives in Austin, Texas. Even those push-button, hot-air hand dryers in its restrooms were political—printed on the big chrome button was this instruction: “Push here for a message from Sen.

2 weeks ago | jimhightower.substack.com | Jim Hightower

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -2:10Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. America’s family farmers were astonished recently to get a jolly tweet from the President of the United States: “Have fun!” exclaimed The Donald. Fun? The farm economy is in the ditch, with crop prices at depression levels and bankruptcies surging. Plus, Trump Inc. is now rigging the law to give agribusiness monopolies more power to run roughshod over farmers and rural communities.

3 weeks ago | jimhightower.substack.com | Jim Hightower

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -2:10Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Texas: What the Hell? Once again, my state’s GOP hierarchy is leading the nation in creative ways to increase corporate power over people’s rights. This time, lawmakers are rushing to protect corrupt executives from legal challenges by their own shareholders!Their law would ban rank-and-file owners of corporate giants from suing their CEOs and other top officials for financial malfeasance.