Decency Lost

Decency Lost is a podcast for listeners who refuse to numb themselves to the moral collapse in American Politics. Hosted by Dick Smiley Jay, the show cuts through noise, spin, tribalism, and selective outrage to confront one simple truth: a democracy can not survive when its leaders and the country has abdicated decency. 

Decency Lost in November 2024. 

This podcast is one little clue on the map to finding it again. 

Episodes

Aug 4, 2025

5 min

King Buffoon fires the nation's top jobs data official after a weak jobs report. Dick Smiley Jay breaks down the purge - and what it means for truth itself.

Aug 4, 2025

5 min

Jul 30, 2025

34 min

King Buffoon's America isn't a Christian nation-it's a theocracy of fear. From ICE to Epstein, Dick Smiley Jay exposes how faith became the mask for cruelty. 
Sorry I cut out the last segment.
 
 

Jul 30, 2025

34 min

Jul 24, 2025

21 min

What if Bryan Kohberger were Black? Or an immigrant? This episode explores how race shapes outrage, justice, and fear- from a silent killer in Idaho to King Buffoon's 2024 warnings about migrants. 
Who gets protected - and who gets projected onto. 

Jul 24, 2025

21 min

Jul 22, 2025

5 min

Victorian England preached morality, restraint, and civility- but beneath the surface lay exploitation, repression, and imperial power.  In the first of our series "History of Decency", Dick Smiley Jay unpacks how decency became a tool of control and why its legacy still echoes in today's politics.

Jul 22, 2025

5 min

Jul 21, 2025

7 min

I agree with Trump about the Redskins. But this isn't about football- its about how he's destroyed our sense of what's appropriate. 

Jul 21, 2025

7 min

Jul 20, 2025

37 min

A CEO falls, Epstein conspiracies swirl, and decency hangs by a thread. Power exposed, cruelty revealed- will we reclaim what's human before it's too late?

Jul 20, 2025

37 min

May 18, 2025

31 min

Andor speaks fiction to life. 
Right Wing Flourishes, Left Wings Die
Vlad still in charge

May 18, 2025

31 min

Apr 14, 2025

28 min

King Buffoon and I agree. 
Republicans did this. 
Hope in Paradise. 

Apr 14, 2025

28 min

Signal: Amateur

Mar 24, 2025

Mar 24, 2025

26 min

Signaling attack plans at Vlad bidding.
Social Security is easily stolen, and easily fixed.
Trust your feelings, Luke. 

Mar 24, 2025

26 min

Mar 17, 2025

29 min

The country never recovered from Bush v. Gore
Freedom of Speech, except on X
3 Deportations - no empathy
Weeks 7 of the reign of King Buffoon

Mar 17, 2025

29 min

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