The week, Dale starts by discussing Donald's Trump's long-standing, yet inexplicable, love for tariffs. Then he moves on to the surprising notion that Donald Trump realizes that the post-WWII "Rules-Based International Order" has come to an end. We've reverted to the normal international environment of Great Power diplomacy, and that's a game that Donald Trump is perfectly willing to play.

This week, we discuss the various legal strategies being used to stop Donald Trump from implementing his executive orders.

If you thought Donald Trump did a lot in the first two weeks of his second term, his third week in office showed that he's the most radical president elected since 1932.

This week, Dale and Michael discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of Donald Trump's first two weeks in office. And tariffs.

Joe Biden kicked off his last weekend as president by simply declaring the Equal Rights Amendment had been magically ratified as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution, like it was a real thing. Meanwhile, Donald Trump, after spending the last four years threatening to shut down TikTok, and even signing an executive order to do so in 2020, decided that he'd keep the app running via an executive order. There's one thing Trump hasn't changed his mind about, though: Immigration.

This week's wildfires in LA are a perfect illustration of a government system, at all levels, whose policy results are so negative that one has to ask an important question. Is our government completely incompetent, or is it actively malevolent?

This week, we discuss the big victory that Elon, Vivek, and DOGE scored against Congress, and it's duplicitous Continuing Resolution. It's an amazing first victory, especially since DOGE doesn't even officially exist yet, and Donald Trump still isn't president. On the other hand, whether victory will be as easy when they try to cut real funding, real jobs, or entitlements, is very much an open question.

In this podcast, we discuss the downfall of the Assad regime in Syria, and take a deep dive into the drone sightings mystery.

The assassination of United Healthcare's CEO has exposed a dark movement in American culture.

Seventy-eight years ago, the WWII allies, calling themselves the United Nations, created the international settlement we've lived under since then. But that settlement no longer reflects the world we live in. Trump's threat to levy 100% tariffs on the BRICs nations is a failure to recognize that the Post-WWII settlement is dying.

Donald Trump's executive department nominations have been met with varying levels of shock and disbelief in Washington, DC. In this podcast, we take a deep dive into the nominations Trump has made so far.

The 2024 Election is over, and Donald Trump looks to have taken it by a clean sweep. The wailing and gnashing of teeth on the left seems to indicate that they've learned nothing from defeat. But the more interesting question is what, if anything, Donald Trump has learned from his previous experience as president.

With two days left before the 2024 election, we try to get a sense of how things will go on Tuesday. TL;DR: We have no idea. We'll see when we do the Election Livestream on Tuesday night.

Both polling and betting averages have now switched over to favor Donald Trump to win the 2024 presidential election. We may be seeing the same sort of preference cascade that we saw with the Reagan-Carter race in 1980, where the electorate shifted strongly in the last two weeks of the campaign. Democrats, for the last weeks of the election campaign, have fallen back on their tried and true tactic of characterizing the Republican candidate as a devotee of 1930s Germany. Meanwhile, after three months into her campaign, Kamala Harris still can't explain why anyone should vote for her.

The Feds have launched a lawsuit against the state of Virginia for removing non-citizens from the Voter rolls. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris put out a new commercial, showing real men doing really manly things, in what may be the cringiest and least convincing political ad ever. Finally, the Democrats are clearly serious about gutting the 1st Amendment.

Despite assuring us that they're on top of things, reports from the scene of the devastation in North Carolina indicate that, once again, FEMA is incapable of responding to a disaster quickly or competently. Plus, we look at how changes in both parties are resulting in a massive re-alignment in American politics.

Nearly every major institution in every Western country suffers from a crisis of legitimacy. Government's won't deliver on the policies the electorate wants. The news media won't tell the factual, objective truth. Entertainment is more interested in ideology than entertaining. Education has become more indoctrination than training to seek the truth. A Golden Age is coming to an end, and the future doesn't look promising.

Once again, Donald Trump escaped an assassination attempt, with the shooter being driven off by gunfire from Secret Service, and apprehended shortly thereafter. How much does the political rhetoric around Donald Trump contribute to a climate of violence? Well, at least this will probably short-circuit what was turning into an impending 4-day news cycle about his ill-advised Taylor Swift post.

In this episode, we discuss the state of the current presidential race, including Trumps sentencing delay, the upcoming debate and much more. We conclude, however, by discussing what it means to live in, as one of our chat commenters put it, a "post-reality society." Because that's the direction in which we're heading.

The sheer amount of narrative-pushing and propaganda on display in today's media is astounding. Americans have no idea how often they're lied to by the media, as well as by every other major institution.