Three Rural White Guys

3RWG discusses Senator Schmitt failing in dramatic fashion, and works through all the pros and cons to the "largest steel mill in American history" being built right here in our backyard in Southeast Iowa.

This week, 3RWG wades into Red Scare 2.0 and the increasingly meaningless way words like communist, socialist, and fascist get thrown around in American politics. What do those terms actually mean? Are the Constitution and our political institutions still strong enough to keep authoritarians in check? And what does America’s declining Freedom House score say about how well those guardrails are really holding?The guys start with Cardinals baseball, Waffle House hash browns, beer “silos,” and Kellen discovering that apparently everyone in rural America except him knows what noodling is. Along the way, we revisit the Sophie Cunningham/WNBA culture-war circus, an Iowa gubernatorial candidate sharing a Fauci article that undermines his own claim, and the broader problem of politics infecting damn near everything—even a basketball game.Then the conversation turns to billionaires, activist investors, progressive taxation, economic insecurity, and why people become more willing to embrace political extremism when they feel like the system has stopped working for them.And just when the promised meme harvest is finally supposed to begin, vMix freezes and kills the video.A perfectly normal episode of Three Rural White Guys.

The guys discuss the real meaning of freedom, political purity tests, and Caitlin Clark's friends.

Trump’s latest voter-fraud push and recycled Red Scare bullshit are sold as politics, but the damage is anything but abstract. Mike and Kellen break down the SAVE Act propaganda, the difference between democratic socialism and communism, and why Democrats should reclaim local control without abandoning civil rights. Then Mike explains exactly what “nothing personal” means when anti-trans politics drives your kid out of Iowa—and the conversation widens to ICE violence, the Iran war, corruption, and a president nobody in Congress seems willing to check. Politics is personal when real families are the ones paying the price.

Breaking down Trump’s bizarre address to the nation, the pile of recycled election grievances and questionable “evidence” behind it, and the real reason for the spectacle: pressuring Congress to pass the SAVE Act. The bill could create new barriers for women, young voters, military families, rural Americans, and anyone who cannot easily produce the right paperwork—and why this looks a whole lot more like voter suppression than election security. Plus, is Trump already laying the groundwork to call the 2026 midterms illegitimate?