
The Bitchuation Room
A weekly caucus of progressive comics, activists and thinkers hosted by Francesca Fiorentini
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Jan 25, 2025 • 1h 15min
Anti-Abortionists Pardoned & Fetal Personhood *FRANTASTIC FRIDAY* JAN 24th
If you thought the insurrectionists were terrifying, what about the 23 extreme anti-choice activists who kept fetuses in their homes?! Francesca looks at Trump's plans for people with uteruses, and how he snuck in fetal personhood into his anti-trans Executive Order. Then, some rich people are actually good. Actor Simu Liu openly says he doesn't need a tax break under Trump's tax scheme that is a direct wealth transfer from the poor to the rich.Frantastic Fridays on The Bitchuation Room are free to watch.To see more bonus content and get access to the Wednesday Bonus Bish become a member on Youtube or a Patron:www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom.***The Bitchuation Room Podcast is available everywhere you get your podcasts. It streams LIVE every TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY at 1/4pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifio.***Support The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH* **Give the Show your feedback, by answering a quick survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=AafO2sMvE7gB&ver=standard**Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVE Music by Nick Stargu Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoom Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com *** Get 20% off SUNSET LAKE CBD with code FRANTIFA at check out. Explore all their organic, vertically-integrated craft CBD products including tinctures, gummies, smokeables, salves and more: www.sunsetlakecbd.com.

Jan 22, 2025 • 1h 45min
Executive Disorder with John Iadarola & Bill Fletcher Jr. (Ep 264)
Not 24 hours into a Trump presidency and Elon throws up a very telling gesture. John Iadarola of The Damage Report joins to discuss the billionaire-back inauguration, the impact of Trump's revoking of birthright citizenship along with Congress passing the Laken Riley Act. Plus a look at Biden versus Trump on Gaza-- one ideologically committed, the other committed to nothing but himself. Then author Bill Fletcher Jr. joins Francesca to talk about where the left goes from here, building left institutions, the role of unions, and why we need to bring back the ideas of solidarity. Featuring:John Iadarola https://www.patreon.com/johniadarolaBill Fletcher Jr., https://billfletcherjr.com/ ***The Bitchuation Room Podcast is available everywhere you get your podcasts. It streams LIVE every TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY at 1/4pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifio.***Support The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH* **Give the Show your feedback, by answering a quick survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=AafO2sMvE7gB&ver=standard**Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVE Music by Nick Stargu Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoom Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com *** Get 20% off SUNSET LAKE CBD with code FRANTIFA at check out. Explore all their organic, vertically-integrated craft CBD products including tinctures, gummies, smokeables, salves and more: www.sunsetlakecbd.com.

Jan 18, 2025 • 2h 8min
Insurance Company CORRUPTION and The Worst Confirmation Hearings EVER *FRANTASTIC FRIDAY*
It's the last Friday of the Biden Administration and Francesca is going out with a bang. First, we talk with Lois Parshley of The Lever about her latest piece on the insurance industry in California in the wake of the LA fires. Read her article here: https://www.levernews.com/we-will-all-be-paying-for-l-a-s-wildfires/Then a fitting end to a genocidal tenure, as outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken has journalist Sam Husseini hauled out of the press briefing room. And Francesca looks at Zuckerberg's new fashy glow up and how his tune has changed over the years always in favor of money.And finally, a look at some lowlights from the Trump cabinet's nomination hearings. A bunch of peaked in high school dingbat loyalists are about to join the most blackmail-able administration in history.Frantastic Fridays on The Bitchuation Room are free to watch. To see more bonus content and get access to the Wednesday Bonus Bish become a member on Youtube or a Patron:www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom.***Support The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH* **Give the Show your feedback, by answering a quick survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=AafO2sMvE7gB&ver=standard**Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVE Music by Nick Stargu Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoom Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com *** Get 20% off SUNSET LAKE CBD with code FRANTIFA at check out. Explore all their organic, vertically-integrated craft CBD products including tinctures, gummies, smokeables, salves and more: www.sunsetlakecbd.com.

Jan 15, 2025 • 1h 44min
Wildfire Conspiracies And Reinvigorating Black Male Voters with Mondale Robinson & Trae Crowder (Ep 263)
The fires still rage in California while Republicans threaten to withhold aid to the state unless it stops doing... DEI? Comedian Trae Crowder joins Francesca to break down the dumbest conspiracies about the fires other than what it really is: climate change. Then Mondale Robinson, Mayor of Enfield North Carolina and founder of Black Male Voter Project joins Francesca to talk about how Democrats keep losing Black and brown voters, the Kamala Harris loss, and why Mondale no longer contributes to The Young Turks network. Gulp! Featuring:Trae Crowder, comedian & commentatorwww.traecrowder.comMondale Robinson, Mayor of Enfield NCClickbaity Political Thirstrap***The Bitchuation Room Podcast is available everywhere you get your podcasts. It streams LIVE every TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY at 1/4pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifio.***Support The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH* **Give the Show your feedback, by answering a quick survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=AafO2sMvE7gB&ver=standard**Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVE Music by Nick Stargu Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoom Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com *** Get 20% off SUNSET LAKE CBD with code FRANTIFA at check out. Explore all their organic, vertically-integrated craft CBD products including tinctures, gummies, smokeables, salves and more: www.sunsetlakecbd.com.

Jan 11, 2025 • 1h 40min
Confronting Anti-Trans HATE *LIVE* with Laverne Cox
We welcome iconic actor Laverne Cox back on the show to discuss the news of the week and trans resistance under Trump. What's her assessment of the Harris campaign's as it pertains to trans rights? Should the first trans Congressperson Sarah McBride try and ignore the hate? And is Josh Hawley the right kind of "right-wing populist"? So many questions and one juicy ass interview. Frantastic Fridays on The Bitchuation Room are free to watch. To see more bonus content and get access to the Wednesday Bonus Bish become a member on Youtube or a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom.*** GOFUND ME FOR FRANCESCA'S SISTER-IN-LAW DISPLACED BY THE FIRES **** https://gofund.me/750b11a6* Previous interview with Laverne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBTVJpegF8o ****Come see Francesca at The Ice House in Pasadena on Wednesday January 22nd with Aida Rodriguez, Matt Lieb, James Fritz and Chloe Hilliard. https://www.showclix.com/event/the-ice-house-new-world-disorder-1-22-25-7-30-pm The Bitchuation Room Podcast is available everywhere you get your podcasts. It streams LIVE every TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY at 1/4pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifio.**Support The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH***Give the Show your feedback, by answering a quick survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=AafO2sMvE7gB&ver=standard**Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVE Music by Nick Stargu Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoom Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com.***Get 20% off SUNSET LAKE CBD with code FRANTIFA at check out. Explore all their organic, vertically-integrated craft CBD products including tinctures, gummies, smokeables, salves and more: www.sunsetlakecbd.com.

Jan 8, 2025 • 1h 33min
A Peaceful Transfer To Authoritarianism with Jordan Uhl & Will Weldon (Ep 262)
The coup is complete. Kamala Harris presides over Congress as it certifies Donald Trump's victory in the most pride-swallowing act of unrequited normalcy possible. Comedian Will Weldon and commentator Jordan Uhl join Francesca in the first show of the year to talk about an eerily normal January 6th, the MAGA civil war over H1B visas, and the legacy of Jimmy Carter. Plus a healthy dose of bitching to begin what will certainly be the dumbest year yet. Featuring: Will Weldon http://instagram.com/oldmanweldon Jordan Uhl Insurgent Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-insurgents/id1497590259The Intercept Briefinghttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intercept-briefing/id1195206601***The Bitchuation Room Podcast is available everywhere you get your podcasts. It streams LIVE every TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY at 1/4pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifio.***Support The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH* **Give the Show your feedback, by answering a quick survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=AafO2sMvE7gB&ver=standard**Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVE Music by Nick Stargu Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoom Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com *** Get 20% off SUNSET LAKE CBD with code FRANTIFA at check out. Explore all their organic, vertically-integrated craft CBD products including tinctures, gummies, smokeables, salves and more: www.sunsetlakecbd.com.

Jan 4, 2025 • 1h 13min
It's the Military, Stupid! *Frantastic Friday 1/3*
While the right rushes to blame the border for two acts of homegrown terrorism, Francesca looks at the commonality between the Vegas and New Orleans attacks: the U.S. military. Why is it that so many anti-government militias or violent religious extremists have a military background? Maybe it has something to do with the culture of the U.S. military as a kind of death cult in its own right. Then, why Josh Hawley is not the kind of right-wing populist that we should be heralding. Frantastic Fridays on The Bitchuation Room are free to watch. To see more bonus content and get access to the Wednesday Bonus Bish become a member on Youtube or a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom.***The Bitchuation Room Podcast is available everywhere you get your podcasts. It streams LIVE every TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY at 1/4pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifio.***Support The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH* **Give the Show your feedback, by answering a quick survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=AafO2sMvE7gB&ver=standard**Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVE Music by Nick Stargu Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoom Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com *** Get 20% off SUNSET LAKE CBD with code FRANTIFA at check out. Explore all their organic, vertically-integrated craft CBD products including tinctures, gummies, smokeables, salves and more: www.sunsetlakecbd.com.

Jan 2, 2025 • 1h 52min
NYE Special Show! Breaking Down Cenk Debate
The last show of 2024 from an undisclosed cabin in the woods. Francesca takes some time to look back at the intense debate with Cenk Uygur and his new approach to the right.***Come see Francesca at The Ice House in Pasadena on Wednesday January 22nd with Aida Rodriguez, Matt Lieb, James Fritz and Chloe Hilliard. https://www.showclix.com/event/the-ice-house-new-world-disorder-1-22-25-7-30-pm The Bitchuation Room Podcast is available everywhere you get your podcasts. It streams LIVE every TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY at 1/4pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifio.**Support The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH***Give the Show your feedback, by answering a quick survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=AafO2sMvE7gB&ver=standard**Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVE Music by Nick Stargu Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoom Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com***Get 20% off SUNSET LAKE CBD with code FRANTIFA at check out. Explore all their organic, vertically-integrated craft CBD products including tinctures, gummies, smokeables, salves and more: www.sunsetlakecbd.com.

Dec 28, 2024 • 2h 3min
Francesca's HEATED Debate With Cenk Uygur On Strategy Under Trump
Woooee! Things get spicy between Francesca and Cenk as they discuss Cenk's recent tour of right wing media outlets, left versus right populism, establishment vs anti-establishment, and the future of TYT as the country awaits the ascendence of God Emperor Donald Trump for a second term.***The Bitchuation Room Podcast is available everywhere you get your podcasts. It streams LIVE every TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY at 1/4pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifio.***Support The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH* **Give the Show your feedback, by answering a quick survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=AafO2sMvE7gB&ver=standard**Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVE Music by Nick Stargu Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoom Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com *** Get 20% off SUNSET LAKE CBD with code FRANTIFA at check out. Explore all their organic, vertically-integrated craft CBD products including tinctures, gummies, smokeables, salves and more: www.sunsetlakecbd.com.

Dec 19, 2024 • 6min
*TRAILER* Dems Are COOKED As Bootlicking Continues *BONUS BISH Dec 18, 2024*
The billionaire class continues to bend the knee to Trump, while Democrats are in the perpetual "bargaining" stage of the stages of grief by trying to 'find common ground' with Trump. Then MSNBC hosts finally allowed to critique Democrats?! And the NLRB finds that the Love Is Blind contestants might be rule as employees, plus Iowa's Satanist cults have their holiday parties ruined. The Bonus Bish is available for all patrons and members on YouTube and Twitch. Become part of the Frantifa: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom.