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Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz got into a heated debate over what US involvement in Iran should look like. Some are labeling Carlson's questions as "gotcha" questions. Meanwhile Trump faithful like Mark Levin and Marjorie Taylor Green find themselves on polar opposite sides of one another. Plus, Yael Eckstein joins Mike to discuss what is happening on the ground in Israel. Plus they talk about what the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is doing to help! Keep up with the Trump Administration when you subscribe to The Trump Report. This email brings you daily highlights from the Oval Office, right to your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe today at http://salempodcastnetwork.com/trump.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robin Biro claims the Kamala Harris rallies were packed with a lot of "razzle dazzle". Meanwhile Trump focuses on the security of this nation, a consequence of an exhaustive pace, most around him cannot match. Robin & I agree that it's not beneficial to be hiring based on race. We agree that hiring based on talent, performance and capability is key. DOJ now looking into the Mayor's actions. Did Johnson violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act?Chicago Mayor Johnson Hiring Based on Race ~ Not CapabilitiesGene Valentino on Newsmax's NewslineORIGINAL MEDIA SOURCE(S):Originally Recorded on May 20, 2025America Beyond the Noise: Season 5, Episode 588Image courtesy of: Newsmax➡️ Join the Conversation: https://GeneValentino.com➡️ WMXI Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/NewsRadio981➡️ More WMXI Interviews: https://genevalentino.com/wmxi-interviews/➡️ More GrassRoots TruthCast Episodes: https://genevalentino.com/grassroots-truthcast-with-gene-valentino/➡️ More Broadcasts with Gene as the Guest: https://genevalentino.com/america-beyond-the-noise/ ➡️ More About Gene Valentino: https://genevalentino.com/about-gene-valentino/

Last week started with the announcement that former president Joe Biden had an aggressive form of prostate cancer that had metastasized to his bone. The folks at Fox used the former president's diagnosis as even more proof that the entire Democratic Party was complicit in hiding his declining health to the American public.Meanwhile Trump continues to show signs of his own cognitive decline along with a severe personality disorder. During a commencement speech at West Point Trump claimed there were ‘no wars and no problems' during his first administration.During Trump's first term in office the U.S. was still at war in Afghanistan, Neo Nazis terrorized Charlottesville, Virginia, a global pandemic caused the death of millions, international supply chains fell apart, Americans faced shortages of food, medical equipment and other necessities, and entire industries were shutdown. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decodingfoxnews.substack.com/subscribe

We spend the whole program with Nadav Wieman, a former IDF sniper and now executive director of Breaking the Silence, an organization of Israeli veterans who expose the reality of life in the Occupied Territories and work to end the occupation. He and Ralph discuss Nadav's experience in the IDF and his work trying to turn the tide of sentiment in Israel against the ongoing genocide.Nadav Weiman is the executive director of Breaking the Silence, an organization of Israeli veterans who expose the reality of life in the Occupied Territories and work to end the occupation. Mr. Weiman served in a sniper's team in the special forces of the Nahal brigade and attained the rank of staff sergeant. He also worked as a history and literature teacher and was the legal guardian at a home for underprivileged teens in Tel Aviv.Now the soldiers that gave us testimonies told us that they came to the commander and said, "Okay, this is too much." And the commander said, "Listen, we lost too many dogs in the dog unit, so we're using Palestinians as human shields."Nadav Wieman former IDF sniper and Executive Director of Breaking the SilenceWhen the first soldier came to us in December 2023 and told us about using Palestinians as human shields, I thought it was an isolated event. But then another soldier came and another soldier and another soldier, and then we understood. It's a new protocol. It's called the Mosquito Protocol. “Mosquito,” is a code name on the radio saying, take a Palestinian man and put him in an IDF uniform, and in some cases a GoPro camera on his chest. And then soldiers were ordered to send them into tunnels to sweep the tunnels or into homes to sweep the homes.Nadav WiemanYou have another protocol called “Wasp”. The Wasp Protocol is Palestinians sweeping tunnels, but this time our Palestinians working with the IDF were brought from the West Bank. And they were told that they will get something from us, a permit or something like that.Nadav WiemanNews 5/16/251. Trump has abruptly ended the American war on the Houthi militia in Yemen, saying in a press conference, “You know, we hit them very hard. They had a great capacity to withstand punishment…You can say there's a lot of bravery there…It was amazing what they took. But we honor their commitment and their word,” per Prem Thakker. Behind the scenes, a New York Times report exposes the jaw-dropping waste that precipitated the U.S. backing down from this campaign. Some highlights include that the Houthis almost shot down an F-35 fighter jet – which run about $100 million apiece – that this campaign used so many precision munitions that Pentagon contingency planners grew “increasingly concerned about overall stocks,” and U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)'s reported metric of success was “bombs dropped,” evoking the failed campaigns in Vietnam, per the Stimson Center's Emma Ashburn. All in all, this campaign cost $1 billion over the course of just 30 days.2. In more stunning news of Pentagon profligacy, CNN reported on May 6th that a SECOND F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet fell off the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier into the Red Sea following the first lost jet by just over a week. Each of these planes bear a price tag of over $60 million, according to the Navy, just in case you were wondering where your tax dollars are going now that Trump and Musk have slashed the budget of anything resembling a social program.3. In more foreign policy news, Edan Alexander, the last remaining U.S. citizen hostage in Gaza, has been released. Alexander was born and raised in New Jersey, then moved to Israel to serve in the IDF after graduating high school in 2022. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was quoted saying “[Alexander's release] was achieved thanks to our military pressure and the political pressure exerted by President Trump. This is a winning combination.” Meanwhile Trump posted on Truth Social “Edan Alexander, American hostage thought dead, to be released by Hamas. Great news!” Despite this heraldry however, MSN reports Alexander “rebuffed” a personal meeting with Netanyahu. Counter Currents adds “In a video released by Hamas…last November, Alexander harshly criticized Netanyahu…[accusing] the Israeli leader of abandoning the…[hostages]…and urged Trump…to secure his release.” In this video, Alexander told Netanyahu, “You neglected us…We die a thousand times every day, and no one feels our pain.”4. In a similar vein, the Jerusalem Post reports, “The Trump administration's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, criticized Israel in a meeting with hostage families…[saying] ‘We want to bring the hostages home, but Israel is not willing to end the war.'” Witkoff added “Israel is prolonging [the war] despite the fact that we don't see where else we can go and that an agreement must be reached.” Further, the New Arab reports “The Trump administration has…dropped its longstanding demand for Hamas to disarm as a precondition for a Gaza ceasefire.” This willingness to call a spade a spade regarding Israel's intractable opposition to peace, or even a lasting ceasefire – coupled with a seemingly genuine willingness to realistically approach peace talks – has been a marked point of departure compared to the Biden administration, which “Never Pressured Israel for Ceasefire,” according to Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter, as reported in Drop Site News.5. Turning to some positive consumer protection news, “Ticketmaster will now show how much you'll pay for tickets — fees included — before checkout,” the Verge reports. This “All In Prices” initiative is an effort by the company to comply with the Federal Trade Commission's ban on junk fees. The FTC cracked down on Ticketmaster following the 2022 Taylor Swift Eras Tour “ticketing catastrophe.” In addition to the FTC, the Department of Justice sued Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation in 2024, accusing them of “driving up prices as a result of their alleged monopoly,” while the House passed the TICKET Act in 2024, a law that would “force ticket sellers to show full prices upfront.” The Senate is considering that bill now.6. Meanwhile, Igloo has voluntarily widened a recall of their coolers, related to “possible amputation and crushing hazards,” per ABC. The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a recall notice for a little over a million Igloo 90 Qt. Flip & Tow Rolling Coolers back in February, on the basis that “the tow handle can pinch consumers' fingertips against the cooler,” risking “fingertip amputation.” ABC reports this recall now includes “130,000 additional coolers, as well as approximately 20,000 in Canada and 5,900 in Mexico.” According to the CPSC, “since the recall was initiated in February, Igloo has received 78 reports of injuries involving the recalled coolers, including 26 reports of bone fractures, fingertip amputations or lacerations.”7. The first American Pope, Leo XIV, addressed the College of Cardinals on Sunday, in part explaining his decision to take that particular name. According to Business Insider, AI played a major role. The Pope told the college, “I chose to take the name Leo XIV…mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical 'Rerum Novarum' addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution…In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defence of human dignity, justice, and labor.” In a January 2024 message, Pope Francis said “At this time in history, which risks becoming rich in technology and poor in humanity, our reflections must begin with the human heart.”8. Turning to domestic politics, 25-year-old Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg is fighting an uphill battle to remain in his post. The activist and survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school shooting has been a target of the party hierarchs since he refused to disassociate himself from the mission of the organization he cofounded – Leaders We Deserve – which seeks to primary “asleep-at-the-wheel” Democrats. On May 10th, POLITICO reported that Hogg sought a compromise with the party, vowing that he would erect a “internal firewall,” barring him from “accessing any internal DNC information about congressional and state legislative races as long as he was supporting challengers.” The DNC flatly refused. Instead, it would seem they are trying to oust Hogg by voiding his election, claiming it violated “fairness and gender diversity,” rules, per Semafor. On May 13th, the DNC's Credentials Committee voted to nullify the results of the February election, the Hill reports. According to POLITICO, the full DNC could “opt to hold a virtual vote ahead of the meeting later this summer. Otherwise it will take the issue up during its August meeting.”9. In Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka was “arrested and detained by masked federal immigration police Friday when he joined three Democratic congressmembers set to tour a newly reopened 1,000-bed [ICE] jail run by GEO Group,” Democracy Now! reports. This is the latest installment in the power struggle between federal agents and local officials over immigration, an escalation from the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan in April. Dugan herself was indicted this week for supposedly “obstructing or impeding a proceeding,” per Wisconsin Public Radio. Alina Habba, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, tweeted, “The Mayor of Newark…committed trespass…He has willingly chosen to disregard the law…He has been taken into custody.” She added in all caps, “NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.” Chilling words.10. Finally, we pay tribute to Uruguayan revolutionary, anti-dictatorship rebel and former president José “Pepe” Mujica, who passed away this week following a protracted battle with esophageal cancer. Mujica was celebrated throughout the world during his tenure as president for his humble lifestyle; He was called ‘the world's poorest president' famously driving a beat-up old VW bug and donating the bulk of his salary. In 2013, he delivered a bombshell speech at the United Nations in wherein he decried capitalism and the environmental destruction it has wrought. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Greg Grandin eulogized Mujica, writing “He was a member of the insurgent, armed Tupamarus, and served 14 years in prison, much of it in solitary, subject to extreme torture techniques taught by US advisors… Upon his release, he helped build the Frente Amplio into one of the most successful left coalitions. He radiated humility and humanity but he knew that power was meant to be taken and used, and behind his smile was steel. He was 89.”This has been Francesco DeSantis, with In Case You Haven't Heard. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe

President Donald Trump is in Saudi Arabia this week making deals with Arab leaders. Money talks. Meanwhile Trump's tipsy turvy tariffs continue to change by the day with tariffs on China scaled back this week after U.S. and China reached a trade deal for now. Another day in the Trump White House, another day of the Trump card and the wildcard. Where it stops, nobody knows. Tune in to see what's ahead as the game keeps changing on the economy, what is going on with gold prices and what's next with the ongoing wars.             

It's official. The American Dream is dead. And it's been resurrected in Europe where, according to the FT columnist Simon Kuper, disillusioned Americans should relocate. Compared with the United States, Kuper argues, Europe offers the three key metrics of a 21st century good life: “four years more longevity, higher self-reported happiness and less than half the carbon emissions per person”. So where exactly to move? The Paris based Kuper believes that his city is the most beautiful in Europe. He's also partial to Madrid, which offers Europe's sunniest lifestyle. And even London, in spite of all its post Brexit gloom, Kuper promises, offers American exiles the promise of a better life than the miserable existence which they now have to eek out in the United States. Five Takeaways* Quality of Life.:Kuper believes European quality of life surpasses America's for the average person, with Europeans living longer, having better physical health, and experiencing less extreme political polarization.* Democratic Europe vs Aristocratic America: While the wealthy can achieve greater fortunes in America, Kuper argues that Europeans in the "bottom 99%" live longer and healthier lives than their American counterparts.* Guns, Anxiety and the Threat of Violence: Political polarization in America creates more anxiety than in Europe, partly because Americans might be armed and because religion makes people hold their views more fervently.* MAGA Madness: Kuper sees Trump as more extreme than European right-wing leaders like Italy's Meloni, who governs as "relatively pro-European" and "pro-Ukrainian."* It's not just a Trump thing. Kuper believes America's declining international credibility will persist even after Trump leaves office, as Europeans will fear another "America First" president could follow any moderate administration.Full TranscriptAndrew Keen: Hello everybody. It's Monday, April the 21st, 2025. This conversation actually might go out tomorrow on the 22nd. Nonetheless, the headlines of the Financial Times, the world's most global economic newspaper, are miserable from an American point of view. US stocks and the dollar are sinking again as Donald Trump renews his attack on the Fed chair Jay Powell. Meanwhile Trump is also attacking the universities and many other bastions of civilization at least according to the FT's political columnist Gideon Rachman. For another FT journalist, my guest today Simon Kuper has been on the show many times before. All this bad news about America suggests that for Americans it's time to move to Europe. Simon is joining us from Paris, which Paris is that in Europe Simon?Simon Kuper: I was walking around today and thinking it has probably never in its history looked as good as it does now. It really is a fabulous city, especially when the sun shines.Andrew Keen: Nice of them where I am in San Francisco.Simon Kuper: I always used to like San Francisco, but I knew it before every house costs $15 million.Andrew Keen: Well, I'm not sure that's entirely true, but maybe there's some truth. Paris isn't exactly cheap either, is it? Certainly where you live.Simon Kuper: Cheaper than San Francisco, so I did for this article that you mentioned, I did some research on house prices and certainly central Paris is one of the most expensive areas in the European Union, but still considerably cheaper than cities like New York and San Francisco. A friend of mine who lives here told me that if she moved to New York, she would move from central Paris to for the same price living in some very, very distant suburb of New York City.Andrew Keen: Your column this week, Americans, it's time to move to Europe. You obviously wrote with a degree of relish. Is this Europe's revenge on America that it's now time to reverse the brain drain from Europe to America? Now it's from America to Europe.Simon Kuper: I mean, I don't see it as revenge. I'm a generally pro-American person by inclination and I even married an American and have children who are American as well as being French and British. So when I went to the US as firstly as a child, age 10, 11, I was in sixth grade in California. I thought it was the most advanced, wonderful place in the world and the sunshine and there was nowhere nice than California. And then I went as a student in my early 20s. And again, I thought this was the early 90s. This is the country of the future. It's so much more advanced than Europe. And they have this new kind of wise technocratic government that is going to make things even better. And it was the beginning of a big American boom of the 90s when I think American quality of life reached its peak, that life expectancy was reached, that was then declined a long time after the late 90s. So my impressions in the past were always extremely good, but no longer. The last 20 years visiting the US I've never really felt this is a society where ordinary people can have as good a life as in Europe.Andrew Keen: When you say ordinary people, I mean, you're not an ordinary person. And I'm guessing most of the people you and your wife certainly isn't ordinary. She's a well known writer. In fact, she's written on France and the United States and parenthood, very well known, you are well known. What do you mean by ordinary people?Simon Kuper: Yeah, I mean, it's not entirely about me. Amazingly, I am not so egomaniac as to draw conclusions on some matters just looking at my own situation. What I wrote about the US is that if you're in the 1% in the US and you are pursuing great wealth in finance or tech and you have a genuine shot at it, you will achieve wealth that you can't really achieve in Europe. You know, the top end of the US is much higher than in Europe. Still not necessarily true that your life will be better. So even rich Americans live shorter than rich Europeans. But OK, so the 1% America really offers greater expansion opportunities than Europe does. Anywhere below that, the Europeans in the bottom 99%, let's say, they live longer than their American equivalents. They are less fat, their bodies function better because they walk more, because they're not being bombarded by processed food in the same way. Although we have political polarization here, it's not as extreme as in the US. Where I quote a European friend of mine who lives in the American South. He says he sometimes doesn't go out of his house for days at a time because he says meeting Trump supporters makes him quite anxious.Andrew Keen: Where does he live? I saw that paragraph in the piece, you said he doesn't, and I'm quoting him, a European friend of mine who lives in the American South sometimes doesn't leave his house for days on end so as to avoid running into Trump supporters. Where does he live?Simon Kuper: He lives, let me say he lives in Georgia, he lives in the state of Georgia.Andrew Keen: Well, is that Atlanta? I mean, Atlanta is a large town, lots of anti-Trump sentiment there. Whereabouts in Georgia?Simon Kuper: He doesn't live in Atlanta, but I also don't want to specify exactly where he lives because he's entitled.Andrew Keen: In case you get started, but in all seriousness, Simon, isn't this a bit exaggerated? I mean, I'm sure there are some of your friends in Paris don't go outside the fancy center because they might run into fans of Marine Le Pen. What's the difference?Simon Kuper: I think that polarization creates more anxiety in the US and is more strongly felt for a couple of reasons. One is that because people might be armed in America, that gives an edge to any kind of disagreement that isn't here in Europe. And secondly, because religion is more of a factor in American life, people hold their views more strongly, more fervently, then. So I think there's a seriousness and edge to the American polarization that isn't quite the same as here. And the third reason I think polarization is worse is movement is more extreme even than European far-right movements. So my colleague John Byrne Murdoch at the Financial Times has mapped this, that Republican views from issues from climate to the role of the state are really off the charts. There's no European party coeval to them. So for example, the far-right party in France, the Rassemblement National, doesn't deny climate change in the way that Trump does.Andrew Keen: So, how does that contextualize Le Pen or Maloney or even the Hungarian neo-authoritarians for whom a lot of Trump supporters went to Budapest to learn what he did in order to implement Trump 2.0?Simon Kuper: Yeah, I think Orban, in terms of his creating an authoritarian society where the universities have been reined in, where the courts have been rained in, in that sense is a model for Trump. His friendliness with Putin is more of a model for Trump. Meloni and Le Pen, although I do not support them in any way, are not quite there. And so Meloni in Italy is in a coalition and is governing as somebody relatively pro-European. She's pro-Ukrainian, she's pro-NATO. So although, you know, she and Trump seem to have a good relationship, she is nowhere near as extreme as Trump. And you don't see anyone in Europe who's proposing these kinds of tariffs that Trump has. So I think that the, I would call it the craziness or the extremism of MAGA, doesn't really have comparisons. I mean, Orban, because he leads a small country, he has to be a bit more savvy and aware of what, for example, Brussels will wear. So he pushes Brussels, but he also needs money from Brussels. So, he reigns himself in, whereas with Trump, it's hard to see much restraint operating.Andrew Keen: I wonder if you're leading American liberals on a little bit, Simon. You suggested it's time to come to Europe, but Americans in particular aren't welcome, so to speak, with open arms, certainly from where you're talking from in Paris. And I know a lot of Americans who have come to Europe, London, Paris, elsewhere, and really struggled to make friends. Would, for Americans who are seriously thinking of leaving Trump's America, what kind of welcome are they gonna get in Europe?Simon Kuper: I mean, it's true that I haven't seen anti-Americanism as strong as this in my, probably in my lifetime. It might have been like this during the Vietnam War, but I was a child, I don't remember. So there is enormous antipathy to, let's say, to Trumpism. So two, I had two visiting Irish people, I had lunch with them on Friday, who both work in the US, and they said, somebody shouted at them on the street, Americans go home. Which I'd never heard, honestly, in Paris. And they shouted back, we're not American, which is a defense that doesn't work if you are American. So that is not nice. But my sense of Americans who live here is that the presumption of French people is always that if you're an American who lives here, you're not a Trumpist. Just like 20 years ago, if you are an American lives here you're not a supporter of George W. Bush. So there is a great amount of awareness that there are Americans and Americans that actually the most critical response I heard to my article was from Europeans. So I got a lot of Americans saying, yeah, yeah. I agree. I want to get out of here. I heard quite a lot of Europeans say, for God's sake, don't encourage them all to come here because they'll drive up prices and so on, which you can already see elements of, and particularly in Barcelona or in Venice, basically almost nobody lives in Venice except which Americans now, but in Barcelona where.Andrew Keen: Only rich Americans in Venice, no other rich people.Simon Kuper: It has a particular appeal to no Russians. No, no one from the gulf. There must be some there must be something. They're not many Venetians.Andrew Keen: What about the historical context, Simon? In all seriousness, you know, Americans have, of course, fled the United States in the past. One thinks of James Baldwin fleeing the Jim Crow South. Could the Americans now who were leaving the universities, Tim Schneider, for example, has already fled to Canada, as Jason Stanley has as well, another scholar of fascism. Is there stuff that American intellectuals, liberals, academics can bring to Europe that you guys currently don't have? Or are intellectuals coming to Europe from the US? Is it really like shipping coal, so to speak, to Newcastle?Simon Kuper: We need them desperately. I mean, as you know, since 1933, there has been a brain drain of the best European intellectuals in enormous numbers to the United States. So in 1933, the best university system in the world was Germany. If you measure by number of Nobel prizes, one that's demolished in a month, a lot of those people end up years later, especially in the US. And so you get the new school in New York is a center. And people like Adorno end up, I think, in Los Angeles, which must be very confusing. And American universities, you get the American combination. The USP, what's it called, the unique selling point, is you have size, you have wealth, you have freedom of inquiry, which China doesn't have, and you have immigration. So you bring in the best brains. And so Europe lost its intellectuals. You have very wealthy universities, partly because of the role of donors in America. So, you know, if you're a professor at Stanford or Columbia, I think the average salary is somewhere over $300,000 for professors at the top universities. In Europe, there's nothing like that. Those people would at least have to halve their salary. And so, yeah, for Europeans, this is a unique opportunity to get some of the world's leading brains back. At cut price because they would have to take a big salary cut, but many of them are desperate to do it. I mean, if your lab has been defunded by the government, or if the government doesn't believe in your research into climate or vaccines, or just if you're in the humanities and the government is very hostile to it, or, if you write on the history of race. And that is illegal now in some southern states where I think teaching they call it structural racism or there's this American phrase about racism that is now banned in some states that the government won't fund it, then you think, well, I'll take that pay cost and go back to Europe. Because I'm talking going back, I think the first people to take the offer are going to be the many, many top Europeans who work at American universities.Andrew Keen: You mentioned at the end of Europe essay, the end of the American dream. You're quoting Trump, of course, ironically. But the essay is also about the end of the America dream, perhaps the rebirth or initial birth of the European dream. To what extent is the American dream, in your view, and you touched on this earlier, Simon, dependent on the great minds of Europe coming to America, particularly during and after the, as a response to the rise of Nazism, Hannah Arendt, for example, even people like Aldous Huxley, who came to Hollywood in the 1930s. Do you think that the American dream itself is in part dependent on European intellectuals like Arendt and Huxley, even Ayn Rand, who not necessarily the most popular figure on the left, but certainly very influential in her ideas about capitalism and freedom, who came of course from Russia.Simon Kuper: I mean, I think the average American wouldn't care if Ayn Rand or Hannah Arendt had gone to Australia instead. That's not their dream. I think their American dream has always been about the idea of social mobility and building a wealthy life for yourself and your family from nothing. Now almost all studies of social ability say that it's now very low in the US. It's lower than in most of Europe. Especially Northern Europe and Scandinavia have great social mobility. So if you're born in the lower, say, 10% or 20% in Denmark, you have a much better chance of rising to the top of society than if you were born at the bottom 10%, 20% in the US. So America is not very good for social mobility anymore. I think that the brains that helped the American economy most were people working in different forms of tech research. And especially for the federal government. So the biggest funder of science in the last 80 years or so, I mean, the Manhattan Project and on has been the US federal government, biggest in the world. And the thing is you can't eat atom bombs, but what they also produce is research that becomes hugely transformative in civilian life and in civilian industries. So GPS or famously the internet come out of research that's done within the federal government with a kind of vague defense angle. And so I think those are the brains that have made America richer. And then of course, the number of immigrants who found companies, and you see this in tech, is much higher than the number percentage of native born Americans who do. And a famous example of that is Elon Musk.Andrew Keen: Yeah, and you were on the show just before Christmas in response to your piece about Musk, Thiel and the shadow of apartheid in South Africa. So I'm guessing you don't want the Musks and Thiels. They won't be welcome in Europe, will they?Simon Kuper: I don't think they want to go. I mean, if you want to create a tech company, you want very deep capital markets. You want venture capital firms that are happy to bet a few billion on you. And a very good place to do that, the best place in the world by far, is Silicon Valley. And so a French friend of mine said he was at a reception in San Francisco, surrounded by many, many top French engineers who all work for Silicon Valley firms, and he thought, what would it take them to come back? He didn't have an answer. Now the answer might be, maybe, well, Donald Trump could persuade them to leave. But they want to keep issuing visas for those kinds of people. I mean, the thing is that what we're seeing with Chinese AI breakthroughs in what was called DeepSeek. Also in overtaking Tesla on electric cars suggests that maybe, you know, the cutting edge of innovation is moving from Silicon Valley after nearly 100 years to China. This is not my field of expertise at all. But you know the French economist Thomas Filippon has written about how the American economy has become quite undynamic because it's been taken over by monopolies. So you can't start another Google, you can start another Amazon. And you can't build a rival to Facebook because these companies control of the market and as Facebook did with WhatsApp or Instagram, they'll just buy you up. And so you get quite a much more static tech scene than 30 years ago when really, you know, inventions, great inventions are being made in Silicon Valley all the time. Now you get a few big companies that are the same for a very long period.Andrew Keen: Well, of course, you also have OpenAI, which is a startup, but that's another conversation.Simon Kuper: Yeah, the arguments in AI is that maybe China can do it better.Andrew Keen: Can be. I don't know. Well, it has, so to speak, Simon, the light bulb gone off in Europe on all this on all these issues. Mario Draghi month or two ago came out. Was it a white paper or report suggesting that Europe needed to get its innovation act together that there wasn't enough investment or capital? Are senior people within the EU like Draghi waking up to the reality of this historical opportunity to seize back economic power, not just cultural and political.Simon Kuper: I mean, Draghi doesn't have a post anymore, as far as I'm aware. I mean of course he was the brilliant governor of the European Central Bank. But that report did have a big impact, didn't it? It had a big impact. I think a lot of people thought, yeah, this is all true. We should spend enormous fortunes and borrow enormous fortunes to create a massive tech scene and build our own defense industries and so on. But they're not going to do it. It's the kind of report that you write when you don't have a position of power and you say, this is what we should do. And the people in positions of power say, oh, but it's really complicated to do it. So they don't do it, so no, they're very, there's not really, we've been massively overtaken and left behind on tech by the US and China. And there doesn't seem to be any impetus, serious impetus to build anything on that scale to invest that kind of money government led or private sector led in European tech scene. So yeah, if you're in tech. Maybe you should be going to Shanghai, but you probably should not be going to Europe. So, and this is a problem because China and the US make our future and we use their cloud servers. You know, we could build a search engine, but we can't liberate ourselves from the cloud service. Defense is a different matter where, you know, Draghi said we should become independent. And because Trump is now European governments believe Trump is hostile to us on defense, hostile to Ukraine and more broadly to Europe, there I think will be a very quick move to build a much bigger European defense sector so we don't have to buy for example American planes which they where they can switch off the operating systems if they feel like it.Andrew Keen: You live in Paris. You work for the FT, or one of the papers you work for is the FT a British paper. Where does Britain stand here? So many influential Brits, of course, went to America, particularly in the 20th century. Everyone from Alfred Hitchcock to Christopher Hitchens, all adding enormous value like Arendt and Ayn Rand. Is Britain, when you talk of Europe, are you still in the back of your mind thinking of Britain, or is it? An island somehow floating or stuck between America, the end of the American dream and the beginning of the European dream. In a way, are you suggesting that Brits should come to Europe as well?Simon Kuper: I think Britain is floating quite rapidly towards Europe because in a world where you have three military superpowers that are quite predatory and are not interested in alliances, the US, China and Russia, the smaller countries, and Britain is a smaller country and has realized since Brexit that it is a small country, the small countries just need to ally. And, you know, are you going to trust an alliance with Trump? A man who is not interested in the fates of other countries and breaks his word, or would you rather have an alliance with the Europeans who share far more of your values? And I think the Labor government in the UK has quietly decided that, I know that it has decided that on economic issues, it's always going to prioritize aligning with Europe, for example, aligning food standards with Europe so that we can sell my food. They can sell us our food without any checks because we've accepted all their standards, not with the US. So in any choice between, you know, now there's talk of a potential US-UK trade deal, do we align our standards with the US. Or Europe? It's always going to be Europe first. And on defense, you have two European defense powers that are these middle powers, France and the UK. Without the UK, there isn't really a European defense alliance. And that is what is gonna be needed now because there's a big NATO summit in June, where I think it's going to become patently obvious to everyone, the US isn't really a member of NATO anymore. And so then you're gonna move towards a post US NATO. And if the UK is not in it, well, it looks very, very weak indeed. And if UK is alone, that's quite a scary position to be in in this world. So yeah, I see a UK that is not gonna rejoin the European Union anytime soon. But is more and more going to ally itself, is already aligning itself with Europe.Andrew Keen: As the worm turned, I mean, Trump has been in power 100 days, supposedly is limited to the next four years, although he's talking about running for a third term. Can America reverse itself in your view?Simon Kuper: I think it will be very hard whatever Trump does for other countries to trust him again. And I also think that after Trump goes, which as you say may not be in 2028, but after he goes and if you get say a Biden or Obama style president who flies to Europe and says it's all over, we're friends again. Now the Europeans are going to think. But you know, it's very, very likely that in four years time, you will be replaced by another America first of some kind. So we cannot build a long term alliance with the US. So for example, we cannot do long term deals to buy Americans weapons systems, because maybe there's a president that we like, but they'll be succeeded by a president who terrifies us quite likely. So, there is now, it seems to me, instability built in for the very long term into... America has a potential ally. It's you just can't rely on this anymore. Even should Trump go.Andrew Keen: You talk about Europe as one place, which, of course, geographically it is, but lots of observers have noted the existence, it goes without saying, of many Europe's, particularly the difference between Eastern and Western Europe.Simon Kuper: I've looked at that myself, yes.Andrew Keen: And you've probably written essays on this as well. Eastern Europe is Poland, perhaps, Czech Republic, even Hungary in an odd way. They're much more like the United States, much more interested perhaps in economic wealth than in the other metrics that you write about in your essay. Is there more than one Europe, Simon? And for Americans who are thinking of coming to Europe, should it be? Warsaw, Prague, Paris, Madrid.Simon Kuper: These are all great cities, so it depends what you like. I mean, I don't know if they're more individualistic societies. I would doubt that. All European countries, I think, could be described as social democracies. So there is a welfare state that provides people with health and education in a way that you don't quite have in the United States. And then the opposite, the taxes are higher. The opportunities to get extremely wealthy are lower here. I think the big difference is that there is a part of Europe for whom Russia is an existential threat. And that's especially Poland, the Baltics, Romania. And there's a part of Europe, France, Britain, Spain, for whom Russia is really quite a long way away. So they're not that bothered about it. They're not interested in spending a lot on defense or sending troops potentially to die there because they see Russia as not their problem. I would see that as a big divide. In terms of wealth, I mean, it's equalizing. So the average Pole outside London is now, I think, as well off or better than the average Britain. So the average Pole is now as well as the average person outside London. London, of course, is still.Andrew Keen: This is the Poles in the UK or the Poles.Simon Kuper: The Poles in Poland. So the Poles who came to the UK 20 years ago did so because the UK was then much richer. That's now gone. And so a lot of Poles and even Romanians are returning because economic opportunities in Poland, especially, are just as good as in the West. So there has been a little bit of a growing together of the two halves of the continent. Where would you live? I mean, my personal experience, having spent a year in Madrid, it's the nicest city in the world. Right, it's good. Yeah, nice cities to live in, I like living in big cities, so of big cities it's the best. Spanish quality of life. If you earn more than the average Spaniard, I think the average income, including everyone wage earners, pensioners, students, is only about $20,000. So Spaniards have a problem with not having enough income. So if you're over about $20000, and in Madrid probably quite a bit more than that, then it's a wonderful life. And I think, and Spaniards live about five years longer than Americans now. They live to about age 84. It's a lovely climate, lovely people. So that would be my personal top recommendation. But if you like a great city, Paris is the greatest city in the European Union. London's a great, you know, it's kind of bustling. These are the two bustling world cities of Europe, London and Paris. I think if you can earn an American salary, maybe through working remotely and live in the Mediterranean somewhere, you have the best deal in the world because Mediterranean prices are low, Mediterranean culture, life is unbeatable. So that would be my general recommendation.Andrew Keen: Finally, Simon, being very generous with your time, I'm sure you'd much rather be outside in Paris in what you call the greatest city in the EU. You talk in the piece about three metrics that show that it's time to move to Europe, housing, education, sorry, longevity, happiness and the environment. Are there any metrics at all now to stay in the United States?Simon Kuper: I mean, if you look at people's incomes in the US they're considerably higher, of course, your purchasing power for a lot of things is less. So I think the big purchasing power advantage Americans have until the tariffs was consumer goods. So if you want to buy a great television set, it's better to do that out of an American income than out of a Spanish income, but if you want the purchasing power to send your kids to university, to get healthcare. Than to be guaranteed a decent pension, then Europe is a better place. So even though you're earning more money in the US, you can't buy a lot of stuff. If you wanna go to a nice restaurant and have a good meal, the value for money will be better in Europe. So I suppose if you wanna be extremely wealthy and you have a good shot at that because a lot people overestimate their chance of great wealth. Then America is a better bet than Europe. Beyond that, I find it hard to right now adduce reasons. I mean, it's odd because like the Brexiteers in the UK, Trump is attacking some of the things that really did make America great, such as this trading system that you can get very, very cheap goods in the United States, but also the great universities. So. I would have been much more positive about the idea of America a year ago, but even then I would've said the average person lives better over here.Andrew Keen: Well, there you have it. Simon Cooper says to Americans, it's time to move to Europe. The American dream has ended, perhaps the beginning of the European dream. Very provocative. Simon, we'll get you back on the show. Your column is always a central reading in the Financial Times. Thanks so much and enjoy Paris.Simon Kuper: Thank you, Andrew. Enjoy San Francisco. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

Despite a supposed “pause” in attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, Russian airstrikes against Ukraine continue. Meanwhile Trump's much-touted call with Putin showed no evidence of moving negotiations forward. Is a genuine ceasefire possible or is Putin displaying his ability to manipulate events yet again? Sam Greene, professor of Russian politics at King's College London and director of democratic resilience at the Centre for European Policy Analysis, talks to Gavin Esler about the peace negotiations, the Trump/Putin dynamic and what could happen next. • This episode of This Is Not A Drill is supported by Incogni, the service that keeps your private information safe, protects you from identity theft and keeps your data from being sold. There's a special offer for This Is Not A Drill listeners – go to Incogni.com/notadrill to get an exclusive 60% off your annual plan. • Support us on Patreon to keep This Is Not A Drill producing thought-provoking podcasts like this. Written and presented by Gavin Esler. Produced by Robin Leeburn. Original theme music by Paul Hartnoll – https://www.orbitalofficial.com. Executive Producer Martin Bojtos. Group Editor Andrew Harrison. This Is Not A Drill is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The UK's Secretary of State for Education, Bridget Phillipson, is going to jump on the urgent strategic industrial education matter of banning your kid from looking at Snapchat on School grounds. Meanwhile Trump's masterclass in Stock Market manipulation continues. MAGA are willing to accept some Presidential corruption now it seems ("BIDEN CRIME FAMILY!"). And MAGA relatives are laughing at their own kids' misfortune now. Here are some links i really hope you click: Patreon

Fears have set in over a potential American recession thanks to Donald Trump's on-again off-again trade wars. Just today the president doubled tariffs on Canadian metals to a whopping 50pc.Shares are dropping like flies amid the uncertainty, with Elon Musk's Tesla one of the worst hit. Meanwhile Trump is saying the economy is just in “a period of transition”.Kamal and Camilla ask if the president's strategy of short term pain for long term gain will pay off, and what impact it could have on the rest of the world. And as the Metropolitan Police launch a formal investigation into Reform MP Rupert Lowe over allegations of threats against Zia Yusuf, can the party survive this storm? And we unpack the curious political bromance between Lowe and the tech billionaire Elon Musk...Producer: Lilian Fawcett and Georgia CoanSenior Producer: John CadiganPlanning Editor: Venetia RaineyExecutive Producer: Louisa WellsSocial Media Producer: Rachel DuffyVideo Editor: Valeries BrowneStudio Director: Meghan SearleEditor: Camilla TomineyOriginal music by Goss Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode of The Qnow, Don Looney returns to the scene of the crime from his last show and the boys are too excited to see him.  First off the guys decide to discuss local web boards  and the typr of people that are on them and how they should act. What should and shouldn't be posted as well as anything else that falls into the peripheral discussion, the guys tackle it.  Next up it seems Russia is be coming best friends with the United States. After a recent yelling match at the White House with Zalensky, Donald Trump kicked the Ukrainian crew out of the White House and they left without a peace deal on the table. This shocked the rest of the world as they started to pour in with their opinions regarding NATO and Ukraine and the United States. Meanwhile Trump decided to try and make English the official national language of America.... Because that is more important than people dying in war.  Finally Donald Trump decided to release the Epstein list. To do this he grabbed a bunch of social media influencers and flew them the Washington DC so that he could hand them big white binders with all of the pages redacted. Then they went out on TV like a WWE skit and pretended that they had gotten something important. But none of the influencers could hold back so they ended up posting all the stuff they got and everybody was completely disappointed. The guys finally talk about this. All this and much more on the newest episode of The Qnow.

Inspired by Elon Musk, Charles needs Dom to provide substantial evidence as to why he should keep his job... or else. Meanwhile Trump's approval rating appears to be tanking, and certain salutes are back in fashion.Watch OPTICS on ABC iview here:https://iview.abc.net.au/show/opticsCheck out more Chaser headlines here:https://www.instagram.com/chaserwar/?hl=enClick here to not resign from your job:https://chaser.com.au/support/ You can lose the ads and get more content! Become a Chaser Report VIP member at http://apple.co/thechaser OR https://plus.acast.com/s/the-chaser-report. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Elon Musk just pulled back the curtain on $50 BILLION in taxpayer money flushed down the drain by corrupt government agencies like USAID.And here's the kicker…He and the President are talking about a DOGE dividend—a tax refund for every hardworking American. Funded exclusively by cutting the waste and pocket-lining scams of the D.C. swamp.Translation?The money stolen from you could soon be making its way back to you.Meanwhile…Trump's FBI pick Kash Patel just took a MAJOR step toward confirmation.Judge Chutkan greenlights DOGE access to federal data. The swamp is PANICKING14 state AGs just got smacked down in (friendly) DC court.And in today's “Not-So-Shocking” news...COVID pushed a whole generation of young people to the Right (shocker, right?)Check out the STACK for links from each show here: http://JustinBarclay.comKirk Elliott PHD - FREE consultation on wealth conservation - http://GoldWithJustin.comJoin Justin in the MAHA revolution - http://HealthWithJustin.comTry Cue Streaming for just $2 / day and help support the good guys https://justinbarclay.com/cueUp to 80% OFF! Use promo code JUSTIN http://MyPillow.com/JustinPatriots are making the Switch! What if we could start voting with our dollars too? http://SwitchWithJustin.comNo matter what's coming, you can be ready for your family and others. http://PrepareWithJustin.com#ad

In the face of accelerated global warming and increasingly severe consequences of climate disruption, UN projections are outdated and understating the problem, and the U.S. is going to produce and burn fossil fuels like they're going out of business. Meanwhile Trump wants to be sure Gazans aren't using condoms to float bombs over the border, and to be sure condoms and other family planning resources are not available the world over. On a positive note, a small town in Canada has adopted a “Limits to Growth” policy. Learn more about it in this episode. Please take a short survey to help us do a better job of growthbusting! https://forms.gle/fFXMEVaGRwe92Aa97   MENTIONED: Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations and the Public Well-Informed? By James Hansen et al.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00139157.2025.2434494 ReproductiveRights.Gov Vanished, So We Brought It Backhttps://www.theskimm.com/news/reproductive-rights-gov District of Tofino Council Adopts 'Limits to Growth' Policyhttps://www.westerlynews.ca/local-news/district-of-tofino-council-adopts-limits-to-growth-policy-7701330  

Incoming President Donald Trump continues to announce appointments for his administration, including several to lead health and food administration policies. Meanwhile Trump's criminal trial is officially put on hold as his plan to deport undocumented immigrants is already having an effect.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is making a push to block the ethics report on Matt Gaetz from being released. Meanwhile Trump's pick for defense secretary has said women shouldn't be in combat roles in the military. The trial of an undocumented migrant charged with the murder of a Georgia nursing student started today. Plus, a piece of ancient history was found in England. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Wow, who saw this coming? If for some reason you're not up to speed on the moves Trump made in appointments to his cabinet - Stigall breaks it all down today. From the DOD to the DOGE (that's new), heads are exploding over the aggressive and fast-paced moves coming from Mar-a-lago. Meanwhile Trump heads to D.C. today to meet with Congress and the Biden White House. And the Senate has a secret vote for their new leader. The Washington Examiner's Salena Zito joins Stigall to discuss the one hold-out Democrat who won't concede - Bob Casey of Pennsylvania. Also a look under the hood at what she thinks happened on Election Day in the Keystone State which is fascinating. And could we be talking to the next Attorney General of the United States today? Our old friend Matthew Whitaker, Trump's former acting Attorney General joins the show with his take on all the moves and if he could be next. And James Carville cries with his cat. -For more info visit the official website: https://chrisstigall.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrisstigallshow/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChrisStigallFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/chris.stigall/Listen on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/StigallPodListen on Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/StigallShowSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this special live edition of the Americano show, Freddy Gray chairs a panel discussion with The Spectator's Kate Andrews, The Telegraph's Tim Stanley and pollster James Kanagasooriam on the upcoming US election. He's then joined by Nigel Farage, MP for Clacton, leader of Reform UK, and friend of Donald Trump, to unpack how the presidential race is going for the Republican nominee.  There is just over a week to go and the race to the White House is on a knife-edge. Team Harris and Team Trump both believe it is theirs to lose. But 10 days is a very long time in politics and, if the rest of the year is any guide, it seems certain to bring plenty more surprises. Kamala looked to be on top after a unanimous victory in the presidential debate but her latest media blitz has backfired. Meanwhile Trump seems to have rediscovered his mojo. Will this election be a referendum on Trump? 

In this special live edition of the Americano show, Freddy Gray chairs a panel discussion with The Spectator's Kate Andrews, The Telegraph's Tim Stanley and pollster James Kanagasooriam on the upcoming US election. He's then joined by Nigel Farage, MP for Clacton, leader of Reform UK, and friend of Donald Trump, to unpack how the presidential race is going for the Republican nominee.  There is just over a week to go and the race to the White House is on a knife-edge. Team Harris and Team Trump both believe it is theirs to lose. But 10 days is a very long time in politics and, if the rest of the year is any guide, it seems certain to bring plenty more surprises. Kamala looked to be on top after a unanimous victory in the presidential debate but her latest media blitz has backfired. Meanwhile Trump seems to have rediscovered his mojo. Will this election be a referendum on Trump? 

It's reached the bottom of the political barrel. Desperation and despair has set in for the Harris Walz ticket. So they turn to the last and favorite attack on Trump from official Washington - led by the likes of Liz Cheney and General John Kelly. “Trump and his voters are fascist Nazis.” It didn't seem to help her fortunes last night on another disastrous CNN appearance in which she took voters questions. Meanwhile Trump enjoys his highest approval numbers in his political history and voters just aren't buying the hysteria she's selling. Lt. Col. Tony Schaffer explains what he thinks of the North Korean troop build-up in Russia and gives us a behind the scenes profile of just the kind of guy John Kelly is while serving as Trump's Chief of Staff. Now more than ever - it's key to remember anything can happen so we must stay calm and of good cheer, Stigall encourages you today.-For more info visit the official website: https://chrisstigall.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrisstigallshow/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChrisStigallFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/chris.stigall/Listen on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/StigallPodListen on Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/StigallShowSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Well, this is quite a strategy. Team Harris is clearly worried about the male vote so they've dispatched his holiness - Barack Hussein Obama to Pennsylvania to tell black men they're bad guys for not getting behind Kamala. But that's not all - the human mascot Tim Walz is headed to talk football with Michael Strayhan on ABC and a new ad with some of the lamest excuses for men we've ever seen has been released attempting to message to men that the "manly thing to do" is support Harris Walz. You have to hear how ridiculous it is! Meanwhile Trump is having fun in blue states talking policy and enjoying some laughs on stage and in podcasts. We have that audio. New polls seem to suggest Trump's on a roll at the moment. Mandy Gunasekara - formally Trump's Chief of Staff at the EPA has an important discussion with Stigall about what draining the swamp really means in her new book ""Y'all Fired." Economist Andy Puzder refutes Obama's claim that Trump just inherited a great economy from him. And what in the world is the video of Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer feeding Doritos to a lady on her knees? -For more info visit the official website: https://chrisstigall.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrisstigallshow/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChrisStigallFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/chris.stigall/Listen on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/StigallPodListen on Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/StigallShowSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cathy and Troy discuss the dark horse pick of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be Kamala Harris' running mate. As usual, Cathy called it. Walz is a midwestern governor so charming he even got AOC and Joe Manchin to agree he was a great pick. Progressive on policy, Walz was the first governor to codify abortion rights after the fall of Roe. He instituted a free school lunch program in Minnesota, along with paid family leave, capped insulin costs, and expanded backround checks and red flag laws for guns sales. As a congressman, he even donated everything he received from the NRA to charity after the Parkland school shooting. The ticket is set. Trump needs to be shitting his pants...oh wait.Plus we discuss the other contenders including popular Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro who was the favorite, and why at the end of the day Walz was the best option.Meanwhile Trump tells a room full of black people that Kamala Harris isn't black.So, that's how the race is going.All for less than the price of a cup of coffee...For more exclusive content, consider subscribing here.

10:05 – 10:15 (10 mins) Max Calfo and Lindi Williford in-studio -story about an anonymous call to the hot line about Max Calfo, a teacher, being a pervert with kids (He's not) Calfo was running against Hicks who has since resigned. 10:41 – 10:56 (15mins) Weekly: "Vic Porcelli's East Coast Report with Douglas Blair" @DouglasKBlair  Communications and Data Manager, Data Journalist See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

10:05 – 10:15 (10 mins) Max Calfo and Lindi Williford in-studio -story about an anonymous call to the hot line about Max Calfo, a teacher, being a pervert with kids (He's not) Calfo was running against Hicks who has since resigned. 10:41 – 10:56 (15mins) Weekly: "Vic Porcelli's East Coast Report with Douglas Blair" @DouglasKBlair  Communications and Data Manager, Data Journalist See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After the first presidential debate democrats are in scramble mode. Do they stick with Joe Biden or let everyone know he was never really running the country. Meanwhile Trump is immunized by the Supreme Court over J6.

Biden releases a letter to Congress. Simply put: he's not going anywhere. Meanwhile Trump dunks on Biden since Dems are calling for the president to step down. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's been a big week in US politics with Donald Trump's partial legal victory in the Supreme Court and Joe Biden's disastrous head-to-head debate with his predecessor. A debate that went so badly, Democrats have openly called for him to be replaced by a younger candidate with just 5 months to go before the election. Meanwhile Trump is highly unlikely to face trial over allegations he tried to overturn the 2020 election. The conservative-leaning Supreme Court has ruled that any president in the White House should not be held liable for any crime they may have committed in the course of their official duties. The liberal minority of judges could barely hide their contempt for their fellow justices with one declaring "with fears for our democracy, I dissent." Irish Times Washington correspondent, Keith Duggan, breaks down the ruling and analyses the likelihood of Biden withdrawing from the race.Presented by Sorcha Pollak. Produced by Aideen Finnegan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With just one week until the first presidential debate. Both campaigns are in full propaganda mode. Joe Biden is old but democrats are saying that's misleading. Meanwhile Trump is telling people to Police Their Vote and running Kamala Harris Ads.

Donald Trump had to sit in front of Stormy Daniels in a New York courtroom this week, as the former adult film star spoke in excruciating and very frank detail about her sexual encounter in 2006 with the former US president. It was a key week in the trial, ongoing since April, in which Trump is accused of hiding “hush money' payments to Daniels in 2016 in a bid to influence the presidential election. Meanwhile Trump runs the risk of being jailed for contempt of court over his outbursts – about the case, the jury and the prosecution. Irish Times Washington correspondent Keith Duggan has been at the Trump trial and he says that while what the court has heard so far has been at worst embarrassing, the prosecution has yet to land the blows that might result in a criminal conviction.Presented by Bernice Harrison. Produced by Aideen Finnegan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Truss is back babbling her nonsense in Parliament after months of failing to show up. Meanwhile Trump has shown up to Court but has immediately fallen asleep. Whos to blame? Dark Forces probs m8. Here are some links i really hope you click: Patreon

SERIES 2 EPISODE 159: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: There's nothing better than a good NAP. “Now: Trump's head slowly dropped, his eyes closed. It jerked back upward. He adjusts himself. Then, his head droops again. He straightens up, leaning back. His head drops for a third time, he shakes his shoulders. Eyes closed still. His head drops. Finally, he pops his eyes open. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, or emptied some dull opiate to the drains." Honestly: You're Trump, on Monday they literally catch you napping. How do you possibly go in there yesterday and get caught napping… at least TWICE. One video, or one rapid-shutter sequence of still pictures of “Trump's head slowly dropped, his eyes closed. It jerked back upward. He adjusts himself. Then, his head droops again” and we don't have to WATCH the rest of the trial, he'd be DONE. Looks like we'll get this started Monday. Seven jurors chosen. I had forgotten what I learned during two days in the NYC jury pool in 2013: it is surprisingly easy to find enough people who don't know anything about anything to fill up a New York jury. Meanwhile Trump tried out his new defense: He knows nothing. Billionaire businessman, greatest mind of his or any other generation, but when it comes to paying off Stormy Daniels to bury her story and illegally keep bad facts about himself away from the eyes of the electorate weeks before the election, and then turning the thing into a clear crime by trying to write it off as a business expense? He knows nothing. He doesn't know the accountant. He doesn't know the lawyer. He didn't know anything about the document. He didn't know anything about the deduction. He just signed whatever they put in front of him. Because the billionaire businessman knows NOTHING about his own business! ALSO: The picture is a rare one of Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene with her mouth shut. It's in The New Republic and above it the magazine's question is: “Russia is Buying Politicians in Europe. Is it Happening Here Too?” After Greene decided to try to fire another Speaker of the House to destabilize our government further, and her screw-up in the Mayorkas hearing, it's a question worth exploring. B-Block (24:38) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Baseball's uniform scandal is back. The pitcher is wearing the batboy's pants. The Speaker of the House had his brain trust look at his new bill first: Libs of TikTok and DC Draino and a 1/6 defendant. And I used to think the Supreme Court Justices were merely not there to do justice or defend the constitution. Now I'm not sure they're from this country, nor have more of a legal education than I do (and I took one law class 37 years ago). C-Block (33:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Just passed the quarter century anniversary of one of the most fun, most unexpected events of my career. How many people do you know who can say this: Tom Hanks, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon pulled me on to the Red Carpet at the Oscars - and they broke my cummerbund!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ann Taenes - Washington Post Trump's RNC is reuniting the band: convicted criminals Paul Manafort and Steve Bannon (and maybe now-in-jail Peter Navarro) plus world-class whackos Steven Miller and Corey Lewandowski...under the "leadership" of daughter-in-law Lara Trump. It's looking like a rerun of 2020, but better organized but without Jared or Ivanka. Just this week, we're seeing The screening for new Republican National Committee employees: do they agree that the 2020 election was stolen?  Michigan's Ronna “Don't Call Me Romney” McDaniel's NBC gig lasts half a Scaramucci after an on-air rebellion  The Zillow listings for Trump properties will have to wait as the Sneaker-and-Bible Salesman gets a $300-million reprieve from a New York appeals court Trump gets a tenuous windfall with Truth Social, but the company continues to lose money and could end up bankrupt (just like Trump casinos, Trump Airline, Trump Water, Trump University etc. etc.) Trump gets to pray about his first criminal trial, now set to begin on April 15th (which likely means fewer rounds of golf). Around Michigan: Former Governor Granholm returns to the Mitten bearing gifts: $1.5-billion to restart the Palisades nuclear plant Ottawa County may be Michigan's most conservative politically, but its voters aren't at all happy with the new ultra-right-wing mob running the county Protecting healthcare, Social Security and Medicare are back as fundamental campaign issues The most successful one-night fundraiser in political history gets launched with Biden's backup band: Bill Clinton and Barack Obama Biden's polling numbers are up in Michigan and nationally, and the campaign opens a 2nd office in Michigan. Meanwhile Trump's Michigan remains in shambles. We're joined this week by longtime Republican political consultant Stuart Stevens, now a senior adviser with the Lincoln Project. Stevens has worked at the top level of more presidential and senatorial campaigns than just about anyone. His first presidential effort: the Bob Dole campaign in 1996. His book The Big Enchilada is a chronicle of George W. Bush's 2000 campaign.  He is also a prolific writer. It Was All A Lie: How The Republican Party Became Donald Trump is his eighth book; his ninth book, The Conspiracy to End America Five Ways came out last October. He has also written extensively for dramatic television series, starting with Northern Exposure and including I'll Fly Away, K. Street, Commander in Chief and others. =========================== This episode is sponsored in part by EPIC ▪ MRA,  a full service survey research firm with expertise in: • Public Opinion Surveys • Market Research Studies • Live Telephone Surveys • On-Line and Automated Surveys • Focus Group Research • Bond Proposals - Millage Campaigns • Political Campaigns & Consulting • Ballot Proposals - Issue Advocacy Research • Community - Media Relations • Issue - Image Management • Database Development & List Management ===========================

Hey, he tried! We'll see the Cubs this season! A packed hour including Spring Training talk. Meanwhile Trump is prepping for a major appearance at the CPAC. And Mark Tauscher joins the show to discuss the new Major League Baseball uniforms and how obsessed athletes AND fans are over these kinds of things

SUPREME SCREW UP; Nice Old Man With Bad Memory; Dog Parents Parents? Karel Cast 24-18 The Supreme Court is going to forget to enforce the Constitution just because it doesn't want to get in to the Donald Trump debacle. They've let us down before, many times, and they are about to do it again. Is our Democracy really this unprotected because of these nine people? The short answer is, yes. Is Joe Biden just a nice old man with a bad memory? Well, he doesn't think so, but a special prosecutor does. Meanwhile Trump is just as old and forgetful, but is anyone challenging his competency ? Nope. Just a partisan hack special prosecutor who is NOT prosecuting. Lovely. Are pet parents parents or do they demean parents of human children when they say they are? I waddle in to the outrage in the Online Outrage of the week segments. Plus, why are some men saying online to stop enjoying themselves privately? And is it healthy? Watch on YouTube and listen wherever you get your podcast. Subscribe at YouTube.com/reallykarel @ReallyKarel is all social media and website reallykarel.com The Karel Cast is heard three times a week on all your favorite streaming services and the video can be seen on Youtube. Karel is a history-making #LGBTQ talk show host currently living in Las Vegas with his pup Ember. https://youtu.be/yE0YJvgWiVM

SUPREME SCREW UP; Nice Old Man With Bad Memory; Dog Parents Parents? Karel Cast 24-18 The Supreme Court is going to forget to enforce the Constitution just because it doesn't want to get in to the Donald Trump debacle. They've let us down before, many times, and they are about to do it again. Is our Democracy really this unprotected because of these nine people? The short answer is, yes. Is Joe Biden just a nice old man with a bad memory? Well, he doesn't think so, but a special prosecutor does. Meanwhile Trump is just as old and forgetful, but is anyone challenging his competency ? Nope. Just a partisan hack special prosecutor who is NOT prosecuting. Lovely. Are pet parents parents or do they demean parents of human children when they say they are? I waddle in to the outrage in the Online Outrage of the week segments. Plus, why are some men saying online to stop enjoying themselves privately? And is it healthy? Watch on YouTube and listen wherever you get your podcast. Subscribe at YouTube.com/reallykarel @ReallyKarel is all social media and website reallykarel.com The Karel Cast is heard three times a week on all your favorite streaming services and the video can be seen on Youtube. Karel is a history-making #LGBTQ talk show host currently living in Las Vegas with his pup Ember.

[Democracy-ish] is sponsored by BetterHelp.Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/DEMOCRACY and get on your way to being your best self.How can you lose against no one?!? Ask Nikki Haley who was recently gobsmacked by "None of These Candidates" in the Nevada Republican primary and it was truly breathtaking. Meanwhile Trump is headed to the SCOTUS to convince them the presidency isn't an officer of the country and therefore he can be on ballots even though he incited an insurrection. Waj and Danielle discuss this and so much more!Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Senior Producer: Quinton Hill Distributor: DCP Entertainment Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

War Room Democrats' Biden Problem: Can He Make It To The Finish Line? Meanwhile, Trump Gains Steam!

SEASON 2 EPISODE 11: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: “Donald Trump cannot BE president – cannot run FOR president – cannot BECOME president – cannot HOLD OFFICE – unless two thirds of Congress decides to grant him amnesty for his conduct on January 6th." That's from Will Baude, Faculty Director of the Constitutional Law Institute at the University of Chicago Law School, and member of the ultra-conservative FEDERALIST SOCIETY, and former clerk for Chief Justice Roberts. He was summarizing, for The New York Times, an article he and Professor Michael Stokes Paulsen will publish next year in the University of Pennsylvania law review. They insist that there is no doubt Trump has triggered the disqualification aspect of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, and that it should be applied automatically by State Secretaries of State. “Section 3's disqualification rule may and must be followed – applied, honored, obeyed, enforced, carried out – by anyone whose job it is to figure out whether someone is legally qualified to office.” The Federalist Society constitutional scholars say it's automatic. If you put Trump on the ballot, you are breaking the law. And as academic and theoretical and dilettantish as this all sounds, these guys think it should be made really real: “There are many ways that this could become a lawsuit presenting a vital constitutional issue that potentially the Supreme Court would want to hear and decide,” said Professor Paulsen. And Paulsen is a distinguished university chair and professor of Constitutional Law and Federal Courts at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. And Steven Calabresi, co-chairman of the Federalist Society, co-founder and co-chairman of the Federalist Society, says the Baude-Paulsen article is “a tour de force" that proves “Trump is INELIGIBLE TO BE ON the ballot, and each of the 50 state secretaries of state has an obligation to print ballots without his name on them,” unquote – or they may be SUED. There could be enough to knock Trump off the ballot in individual states. And with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) having successfully sued to remove a January 6th insurrectionist from office in New Mexico, there is a guidebook to how to literally stop Trump before he starts. Also: Jack Smith really was pushing a Rocket Docket. He wants the J6 trial to launch on January 2. Meanwhile Trump's lawyers are so stupid they think the 2021 insurrection was three-and-a-half years ago, and his apologists like Jon Turley think January 2, 2024 is 18 days before the inauguration that the rest of us seem to believe doesn't happen until a YEAR and 18 days later. B-Block (23:00) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: In Iowa, Ron DeSantis literally phones it in. Senator Tommy Tuberville - of Florida? And when it doesn't work the fascists only have one play: yell louder. So Laura Ingraham says they MUST RUN ON HAVING REPEALED ROE-V-WADE. For once I agree with her! (27:45) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Unbanned Twitter QAnon loser has a new conspiracy and a new made-up source; Florida GOP County Chair allegedly plagiarized his university Honors Thesis from Wikipedia; And when Conspiracy Theories collide: the Antivaxxer "running" for POTUS is endorsed by the guy whose father claimed he assassinated the Antivaxxer's uncle. C-Block (34:15) FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: My father so loved "I Went To Sullivant" that he literally listened as I read it to him one last time - and only when I finished did he pass away. Now THAT'S an endorsement!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

EPISODE 237: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: There arises today the distinct chance that the two Non-Trump-Employees heard on the Trump Confession Recording supplied their copy of the recording to Jack Smith, and that they will testify against him. It may be coincidence but we know this much for sure: days after they were at Bedminster in July, 2021, after a lot of publicity in newspapers and with Tucker Carlson for their new venture, the co-publishers of Mark Meadows' book all but disappeared from public view.  The recording does not exist in a vacuum. Why is everybody looking at it that way It's a tape of FIVE PEOPLE TALKING IN A ROOM. Any of whom can be called to testify ABOUT THE TAPE. And we don't really know, because nobody's really focused them, who the OTHER four people are. And we don't know what THEY think of the tape. And we don't know whether any of them are already on that list of possible witnesses Smith may call in the documents trial. The New York Post had a throwaway reference last night: “Two of the people Trump speaks to in the audio are believed to be Kate Hartson and Louise Burke, who had started All Seasons Press, a conservative publishing company…” You do not have to have a hyperactive imagination to wonder: if the Post is right and it was both of them that as Ms. Burke and Ms. Hartson left Bedminster that day two years ago next month one of them realized that they had just been shown top secrets and had it within their power to get Trump indicted for not keeping top secrets SECRET and it put the fear of God into them. Hell, Kid Rock says Trump did it with HIM and even HE was smart enough to get frightened. Did they go to the FBI? Meanwhile Trump really DID change HIS story three times yesterday. When he got burned by Bret Baier on Fox last week, Trump insisted about the document referred to in the transcript of the recording, quote “there was no document.” Yesterday he posted only that he was covered by the Presidential Records Act. Then in New Hampshire he insisted he had kind of told Baier there WAS a document. Then to reporters on his plane he said no, he never had a document, just building plans. And golf course plans. And a newspaper story about Iran. And he was showing off. All in one day. Plus Walt Nauta didn't testify because his lawyer decided he needed lots more money to take THIS case. But Rudy Giuliani reportedly pre-testified in an interview with the Special Counsel's staff. B-Block (24:32) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: SCOTUS votes 6-3 in favor of keeping democracy after all (though it's really more like 5-4). The Senator whose state's top industry is tourism tells tourists not to go there. A Bob and Ray sketch comes to life. They once imagined Chocolate-Flavored Ketchup. The National Culinary institute is introducing COLA-Flavored Ketchup - for use on HOT DOGS. (35:01) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Elon Musk deliberately or inattentively starts punishing accounts which block RW ads on Twitter. Last week The National Hockey League betrayed Pride Night. THIS week it puts its player draft in the city whose incoming owner is a noted anti-same-sex marriage and adoption ex-Governor. And yes RFK Jr shared an online stage with an anti-vaxxer who says the Covid vaccine causes you to become magnetic. But I'm the winner because I accidentally called RFK Jr "JFK Jr" and that is utterly unfair...to JFK Jr. C-Block (36:30) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Fox just changed its lineup to put its 10 PM host on at 7 because its audience is now too old to stay up to 10. This flashed me back to the day, nearly 15 years ago, when I first realized that the future of cable news was... there wasn't any. The day they let a guy who knew nothing about cable news and cared even less bully the people who ran MSNBC. His name was Tom Brokaw.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John Durham released a report outlining the investigation into former President Donald Trump and his ties with Russia ahead of the 2016 election. AP News reports: An investigation into the origins of the FBI's probe into ties between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign has finally been concluded, with prosecutor John Durham submitting a much-awaited report that found major flaws. The report, the culmination of a four-year investigation into possible misconduct by U.S. government officials, contained withering criticism of the FBI but few significant revelations. Nonetheless, it will give fodder to Trump supporters who have long denounced the Russia investigation. Meanwhile Trump opponents will likely point to the Durham team's meager court record — one guilty plea and two acquittals at trial — as proof that the probe was a politically motivated farce. NC Republicans could vote today to override Gov. Roy Coopers veto of NC abortion bill. Plus, Transformation Tuesday.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

GOP Frontrunner ARRESTED By FBI Over January 6th, Trump PRAISES Protest As US Moves Toward Civil War. Ryan Kelley has been charged and arrested in connection with the January 6th riots. Meanwhile Trump has praised January 6th in a shocking statement signaling that we are heading towards dangerous escalation in this country. Democrats are refusing to back down, the GOP is growing increasingly outraged over a lack of accountability over far left extremism and just yesterday a man was arrested for attempting to assassinate brett kavanaugh. #democrats #january6th #republicans Become A Member And Protect Our Work at http://www.timcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 1219, Miles and guest co-host Joelle Monique are joined by comedian Jono Zalay to discuss…Biden to DOJ- tf is goin on over there?, Meanwhile Trump has just sat and watched Truth Social just turn into a total shitshow, Grammys were…strange, Some stuff you SHOULDN'T store on the fridge door? And more! Biden to DOJ- tf is goin on over there? Meanwhile Trump has just sat and watched Truth Social just turn into a total shitshow Some stuff you SHOULDN'T store on the fridge door? Jono's Album - Midnight Oil: bible.recipes LISTEN: Siesta/Wake Up!!! That's What I Said by Billy Cobham See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Putin Justifying Invasion of Ukraine based on Blood and Religion Russian troops are at the Ukrainian border and invasion is imminent! Biden is trying to negotiate but doing so on weak footing. Meanwhile Trump is calling Putin a “genius” for his strategy. What in the hell is going on here? While these political leaders are consumed with tribalism, they are missing the opportunity to oppose Putin on the moral basis of our rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Justin Trudeau Emergency Orders Violating Individual Rights The truckers had a righteous cause opposing the vaccine mandate, but their “Freedom Convoy” ended up violating the liberty of Canadians to pursue their happiness. It was a mess and now Trudeau is making it worse. Trudeau's emergency powers are leading to police brutality in the streets and the seizing of financial assets with out due process or trial. How can you pursue your happiness in an environment like this? The Failed Recall of Poway Mayor Steve Vaus They never got enough signatures to get the recall on the ballot. I really wish the recall spokesperson Chris Olps could have joined me on a podcast conversation to make the case for the recall, but he never responded to requests. So, I break down all of the grievances and share my thoughts and comments. It is interesting that the primary objection of the recall proponents is the massive development in Poway. That development is an example of Poway property owners and future Poway residents pursuing their happiness. We look at tribalism here in our hometown of Poway, “The City in the Country.” #putin #ukraine #trudeau #vaus #poway Get proven and easy-to-implement strategies to build your business and pursue your happiness. Sign up now. It's FREE! https://johnrileyproject.com/ Be sure to share this video with a friend! ☆☆    STAY CONNECTED    ☆☆ SUBSCRIBE for more reactions, upcoming shows and more! ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJJSzeIW2A-AeT7gwonglMA FACEBOOK ➡ https://www.facebook.com/johnrileyproject/ TWITTER ➡ https://twitter.com/JohnRileyPoway INSTAGRAM ➡  https://www.instagram.com/johnrileypoway/ Sponsorship Inquiries https://johnrileyproject.com/sponsorship/ Donations https://johnrileyproject.com/donations/donation-form/ Music https://www.purple-planet.com References Links: Recall Vaus – Save Powayhttps://www.recallvaus.com/ Recall effort against Poway mayor falls short by 1,500 signatures, organizer saidhttps://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2022-02-23/recall-effort-against-poway-mayor-falls-short-by-1-500-signatures

Listen to our archived episodes: RadioPublic|LibSyn|YouTube Support the show: Patreon|PayPal: 1x or monthly|Square Cash * Finally! David Waldman finally listened to Greg Dworkin and finally got his booster shot!  That leaves… uhm, YOU. Listen to the show on your way to the closest vaccination place, then listen to the rest on earbuds as you hang around the waiting room. Think you're tired of COVID-19? Oh well, how about a winter of death first before you make a decision? Larry Hogan consistently fought against COVID-19, but he's got it now. Doug Ericksen was mostly interested in combating the disease after he caught it, and now he's dead. Sarah Palin has always needed a dose of something. No one even needs to catch COVID to die from it, and yet the Trump administration made sure as few people could be prepared as possible. So, here comes Omicron, which does not seem any milder, at least for unvaccinated… and even vaccination isn't a ticket out. Smart and careful might not work all of the time, but it sure beats the alternative. Renowned dancing fool Rick Perry happened to have his phone text ideas for the increasingly popular concept of overthrowing the government for Donald Trump, which more and more people are considering might be a crime. Kansas Senator Roger Marshall doesn't believe Joe Biden is president, but somehow thinks he is a Senator. Donald's wall isn't a wall, it's a pile of expensive trash. Meanwhile Trump sues New York's Attorney General to keep himself out of jail for other reasons.  Joe Manchin talked to those people who best understand him, the folks at Fox News. Manchin doesn't want child tax credit money in Build Back Better because young families would just blow it as if they're seniors with a new social security check, on some drugs of course. The White House officially states this was very uncool of Manchin. Chuck Schumer just won't play with him anymore if Manchin wants to be that way. Wait, is Joe Manchin aware that BBB might help his constituents? Yes, but Joe just wants spending to be more focused, that's all. Anyhow, Joe is just one of 50 or so opposed to Democrats.

Black On Both Sides Episode #125 Cosby is a free man. No matter how you find him, not guilty is the verdict. Word to the wise, do not go to any Coming Home parties at the Cosby residence. And if you do, watch your drink. Phylicia Rashad may be the first person to get cancelled and uncanceled in the same day. She was a ride or die and then a not gonna die. Speaking of dying, did you guys see the Keith Sweat Verzuz Bobby Brown? Kunta thinks they looked like two of the uncles at every family reunion. I personally don’t think Sweat can hang with Bob, but Kunta claims that Sweat got hits. Shaccari Richardson is not going to rep the US in the Olympics and I don’t think it was racism. Surprisingly enough, Kunta and I agree on this one. However, Kunta thinks soul bonnets should be allowed. I think they should be criminal. Speaking of the Olympics, did Team USA just lose to Nigeria in an exhibition basketball game? Branson went to almost-space. Meanwhile Trump is suing social media. All of it/them. Sweatin’ Rocks & Blunts #BOBS125 Support the show by paying your laugh tax or becoming a premium subscriber HERE Get Show merch here: MERCH

Black On Both Sides Episode #125 Cosby is a free man. No matter how you find him, not guilty is the verdict. Word to the wise, do not go to any Coming Home parties at the Cosby residence. And if you do, watch your drink. Phylicia Rashad may be the first person to get cancelled and uncanceled in the same day. She was a ride or die and then a not gonna die. Speaking of dying, did you guys see the Keith Sweat Verzuz Bobby Brown? Kunta thinks they looked like two of the uncles at every family reunion. I personally don’t think Sweat can hang with Bob, but Kunta claims that Sweat got hits. Shaccari Richardson is not going to rep the US in the Olympics and I don’t think it was racism. Surprisingly enough, Kunta and I agree on this one. However, Kunta thinks soul bonnets should be allowed. I think they should be criminal. Speaking of the Olympics, did Team USA just lose to Nigeria in an exhibition basketball game? Branson went to almost-space. Meanwhile Trump is suing social media. All of it/them. Sweatin’ Rocks & Blunts #BOBS125 Support the show by paying your laugh tax or becoming a premium subscriber HERE Get Show merch here: MERCH

Looks like one PA State Senator has seen enough and decided it's time to audit the 2020 election in PA.  Stigall discusses it and where it could go.  Meanwhile Tucker Carlson's claim that he was the target of NSA spying was confirmed yesterday and Stigall explains why these two issues – election integrity and spying on journalists is ballgame for the Republic.  Meanwhile Trump takes on big tech in a class action lawsuit.  Matt Schlapp, the Chair of the American Conservative Union was with the President yesterday in Bedminster, NJ for the announcement and he'll explain why the fight is so important from his perspective.  Legally, what's the play in court?  Katie Sullivan – executive director and general council for the America First Policy Institute shares her insight. 

2021 is wildin' and the lads are in fine form. Calvin is distraught about Kim and Kanye, Andy wants drunk conversations and G wants to find out if he is loved. Meanwhile Trump is bringing Amerikkka to it's knees! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conrad-gray4/support

15 days into Lockdown 2 and cases are still rising across England. Meanwhile Trump guns for Michigan and Priti Patel gets away with breaking the ministerial code of conduct. *Swearing*

Notorious deep state slayer Sydney Powell has joined the President's legal team. Meanwhile Trump supporters rally in Washington DC.

The Hake Report, Wednesday, November 11, 2020  Establishment media are smearing Postal Service whistleblower Richard Hopkins who appears more honest than them.  Shenanigans in many states by dishonest people who lie about everything including BLM, but we're supposed to pretend "robust safeguards" are in place. The Epoch Times seems to hold to the truth.  Happy Veterans Day! Don't fall for the smears against decent Americans.  BLM supporters are misguided and pretending to be victims when they're perpetrators.  Meanwhile Trump supporters are under attack. It's always the reverse of the narrative you're told.  Good news for law and order: FL Gov. Ron DeSantis supports Stand Your Ground for businesses to defend their property against violent looters.  Also check out Hake News from today.  CALLERS (courtesy of Nick!)  Samuel from Sweden brings up a good point about justice.  Julio from Rhode Island makes sense!  Danny from Maryland made it to vote, and exposes basic holes: No voter ID!  T from Alabama gets nasty and smears JLP and Hake. He claims he voted for Trump!  Skip from Augusta, GA talks about a hit-and-run incident.  Robert from Kansas pays tribute to Southern veterans of old and talks freedom.  Mary from San Antonio, TX agrees that everything is inverted.  Tony from California thinks Nat Turner was a hero, but Kyle Rittenhouse a villain, RME.  TIME STAMPS 0:00 Opening stories 9:03 Voter shenanigans 26:37 Samuel the Swede 31:39 Julio in RI 39:39 The Epoch Times, Super Chats 46:39 Danny in MD 53:11 Antifa 54:32 T in AL 1:04:46 Break 1:08:19 Trump on America 1:12:27 More Super Chats 1:15:23 Skip in Augusta, GA 1:29:44 Robert in KS 1:36:09 Mary in San Antonio, TX 1:41:01 Santa Maria incident 1:43:01 BLM catches pushback 1:51:01 Ron DeSantis, hero 1:56:17 Tony in CA 1:59:55 Thanks, all! 2:02:09 Closing song HAKE LINKS VIDEO ARCHIVE: Facebook | Periscope/Twitter | YouTube | Audio podcast links below LIVE VIDEO: DLive | Periscope | Facebook | YouTube* | Twitch*  PODCAST: Apple | Podcast Addict | Castbox | Stitcher | Spotify | PodBean | Google … SUPPORT: SubscribeStar | Patreon | Teespring | SUPER CHAT: Streamlabs | DLive  Call in! 888-775-3773, live Monday through Friday 9 AM (Los Angeles) https://thehakereport.com/show  Also see Hake News from JLP's show today.  *NOTE: YouTube and Twitch have both censored James's content on their platforms lately, over fake "Community Guidelines" violations.  BLOG POST: https://www.thehakereport.com/blog/2020/11/11/111120-wed-fake-news-blatantly-lying-in-our-faces 

Test and Trace has collapsed, Sausage Johnson wants out and the infection is rapidly spreading unchecked. Meanwhile Trump, for the first time ever, sounds presidential! *Swearing* Protect Scot app: https://protect.scot/ Covid 19 Zoe app: https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/covid-symptom-tracker-us

Economist Richard Wolff is watching an economy in which half of America's retail stores have not paid their rent for months. Could this in turn lead to default on the loans that built those spaces, and along with widespread low wages and massive unemployment result in a collapse of the capitalist system?Meanwhile- Trump's administration continues to dismantle America on the billionaire's behalf while failing to adequately respond to the Covid crisis. What effect will all of this have come November? How can we take inspiration from the way FDR responded to the first Great Depression?

Democrats Are Panicking As Biden Is FORCED Out Of Hiding, Calls For Biden To Drop Out Emerge. Democrats primary strategy with Joe Biden was to keep him hidden and hope that people vote for whatever nostalgic idea of him they had.But following the MSNBC interview Biden had with Mika Brzezinski calls have emerged for Biden to drop out as the Democrats can no longer defend his consistent failures.From his struggling to speak, overt gaffes, and now these accusations Biden has become a serious liability for the Democrats. Meanwhile Trump and Republicans are cheering him on arguing Democrats should absolutely run with Biden.Democrats may be panicking, going so far as to entertain Obama or Hillary tickets, but this may still be advantageous for them as it gives them a real opportunity for a new nominee, one who could actually run against Trump.If at this point Democrats and their media allies are calling for a new candidate 6 months out from a general election it stands to reason that they are freaking out over the latest media blitz.Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate)

The Democratic Party Is CRUMBLING, Super Tuesday Is The Day We Watched The Democrats Collapse. Joe Biden is the official frontrunner, the best the Democratic Establishment could offer.A man who can barely speak and could barely win without establishment support. What makes Democrats think that Sleepy Joe will be able to win against Trump?NothingBut Bernie is worse in the eyes of the Democrats. The fracturing of the left and conflict with far left activists has left them no choice. The only option establishment Democrats have at this point is to sabotage their own party with a weak and ineffective b team candidate in an effort to stifle Bernie Sanders.Meanwhile Trump is coasting by as usual, laughing all the way as Republicans enjoy party unity under the current president.Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate)

It was a hell of a week in politics and EJ and Steve are here to give you the rundown from the District Brew Yards. This week Warren got to enjoy her favorite hobby, eviscerating rich guys from Wall Street. Meanwhile Trump decided to pardon a few of his buddies including our very own Rod “It's F**king Golden” Blagojevic.

The Democrat clown car dumpster fire seems to know no bounds. Reparations galore for everyone compliments of Liawatha. Free money and free stuff will somehow carry the day, and perhaps for a large number of people, it will. Free operations for transgenders. What will Bernie charge for, will there be anything we have to pay for. Meanwhile Trump is standing by sidelines and hurling insults at the already challenged field and having a great party. But the party is about to end and then we'll see a landslide of epic proportions. 

It was a hell of a week in politics and EJ and Steve are here to give you the rundown from the District Brew Yards. This week Warren got to enjoy her favorite hobby, eviscerating rich guys from Wall Street. Meanwhile Trump decided to pardon a few of his buddies including our very own Rod “It’s F**king Golden” Blagojevic.

The Democrat clown car dumpster fire seems to know no bounds. Reparations galore for everyone compliments of Liawatha. Free money and free stuff will somehow carry the day, and perhaps for a large number of people, it will. Free operations for transgenders. What will Bernie charge for, will there be anything we have to pay for. Meanwhile Trump is standing by sidelines and hurling insults at the already challenged field and having a great party. But the party is about to end and then we'll see a landslide of epic proportions. 

Ocasio Cortez LIES To Cover Up MASSIVE Jobs Failure Meanwhile Trump Boasts Best Numbers Of Our Lives. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is trying to claim victory after Amazon announced an advertising office will be set up in Manhattan's Hudson yards.AOC posted a photo smugly sitting while demanding "haters" apologize after she was "proven right" and save NYC "billions"In reality AOC chased away 25,000 jobs from New York and cost the city billions and the new office being set up has nothing to do with Amazon HQ2 and will only bring, eventually, 1,500 jobs to the city.The sad truth for AOC is that she is not only an arrogant narcissist much like Trump but that she is failing to make anything meaningful happen.For all of Trump's faults with his character he is boasting the "best numbers of our lives" following a record smashing jobs report.While Trump is absolutely worthy of being criticized for his arrogance he at least has hard numbers to back himself up. Ocasio Cortez unfortunately has only arrogance and failure behind her.Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate)

ABC's Amy Robach gets caught talking off air about how ABC killed off her Epstein Story. Meanwhile Trump is highly competitive in battleground states despite the nonstop impeachment news, I discuss why. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dankingston/message

As Dem leadership wobbles and careens in that direction, tepidly. Meanwhile Trump is a racist, and a fascist, and things are getting scary. Also some Epstein updates and border concentration camps (an American citizen was detained for 23 days and conservatives think that's cool, yo.)

Democrats Are Losing The Immigration Debate As Trump Escalates Deportations. A Liberal think tank has warned that Democrats are losing the war on media messaging by appearing soft on enforcement.More importantly the Democrats seem to be at odds with their own party even 4 years ago under Obama. By undermining Obama's positions Democrats not only look weak but hypocritical.While much of this is fueled far the far left encroaching on the Democratic party it can mostly be attributed to a lack of real charisma and leadership on the Democratic side.Meanwhile Trump is rapidly escalating deportation and restricting new asylum claims. However there is still risk to Trump as his rhetoric on the "the squad," or Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan omars group, has gotten too hot for the "moral market" watchers who may turn on Trump come 2020.Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate)

The nationwide immigration raids that President Trump threatened over the weekend did not happen.Meanwhile Trump administration policies mean hundreds of immigrant kids are still being housed at shelters in the Chicago area.Want more Morning Shift? Subscribe to our podcast and rate us. It really helps. Connect with us on Facebook and on Twitter at @WBEZMorning. And leave us a voicemail with feedback or with a comment we may play on the air at 855-848-5551.

Our good friend and movement warrior extraordinaire Emma Lee joins us to lament the current state of affairs in reproductive rights. Spoiler: it's fuckin scary. And infuriating. And hopefully political poisonous. Meanwhile Trump and his minions keep laughing manically while wiping their asses with various pages of the Constitution, to which Dem leadership says "wait for 2020." Sound stupid? It is! 

This week, two weeks after Mueller had sent his final report to Attorney General William Barr, members of the special counsel anonymously broke their silence, indicating to the Times and the Post that their findings were more troubling than Barr's letter had indicated. Meanwhile Trump changed his position on public release of the report, as he and his surrogates went into attack mode against the Democrats and Mueller's team. Republicans rebuked Trump this week, failing to stand with him on his threat to close the U.S.-Mexico border and to come up with an alternative to Obamacare ahead of the 2020 election. The House joined the Senate, voting to end U.S. involvement in Yemen, marking the first time both chambers of Congress have voted to invoke the war-powers resolution to end U.S. military engagement in a foreign conflict. Read the full list: https://theweeklylist.org/weekly-list/week-125/

Episode #35 What’s Hot Tristan Thompson apparently can’t do anything right. He can’t even get out of the relationship correctly. This Kardashian is willing to do whatever it takes to keep her man this time. #freetristain What’s the difference between wealthy and rich? Young Dolph and Keyshawn Johnson move in very different ways. Some people can’t get robbed no matter how hard they try and others lose half a million at Cracker Barrel. R. Kelly gets out and it’s all because of a daycare owner who used her wrongful death settlement money as collateral. What’s worse…her daughter being memorialized by bailing out Kellz, or the fact that she is supposed to be protecting kids at her job and released a alleged child molester? What’s Real Cohen had a big day but I didn’t get the info. I watched it, but had to mute the sound due to being at work. Apparently, the Republicans didn’t hear it either as they decided to #muteCohen at every turn. Is Cohen a dirtbag? Yes. Is his testimony likely tainted? Yes. But does he know where the bodies are buried? Most likely. Did Republicans have any questions for him? No. Kunta went on a Cohen deep dive about reimbursements and racism. I have trouble connecting the dots as to how this will really affect Trump enough to put him behind bars. Only time will tell. Kunta is sure that one of the many courts after Trump will likely succeed. MArk Meadows uses a human prop that Kunta can’t get over. He feels like this is as much a sign of racism as any other we have discussed. Meanwhile Trump flies off to meet with the Korean Dictator and gets nowhere. I feel like Trump was a prop in that meeting. Both he and the black woman in the Mark Meadows press conference accomplished about the same. Cism Coonman’s wife hands out cotton souvenirs for the balck kids she was teaching about the history of Virginia. Can this family not get anything right? Meanwhile a Maryland Democrat hot mics the N word and has to apologize.

Episode #35 What’s Hot Tristan Thompson apparently can’t do anything right. He can’t even get out of the relationship correctly. This Kardashian is willing to do whatever it takes to keep her man this time. #freetristain What’s the difference between wealthy and rich? Young Dolph and Keyshawn Johnson move in very different ways. Some people can’t get robbed no matter how hard they try and others lose half a million at Cracker Barrel. R. Kelly gets out and it’s all because of a daycare owner who used her wrongful death settlement money as collateral. What’s worse…her daughter being memorialized by bailing out Kellz, or the fact that she is supposed to be protecting kids at her job and released a alleged child molester? What’s Real Cohen had a big day but I didn’t get the info. I watched it, but had to mute the sound due to being at work. Apparently, the Republicans didn’t hear it either as they decided to #muteCohen at every turn. Is Cohen a dirtbag? Yes. Is his testimony likely tainted? Yes. But does he know where the bodies are buried? Most likely. Did Republicans have any questions for him? No. Kunta went on a Cohen deep dive about reimbursements and racism. I have trouble connecting the dots as to how this will really affect Trump enough to put him behind bars. Only time will tell. Kunta is sure that one of the many courts after Trump will likely succeed. MArk Meadows uses a human prop that Kunta can’t get over. He feels like this is as much a sign of racism as any other we have discussed. Meanwhile Trump flies off to meet with the Korean Dictator and gets nowhere. I feel like Trump was a prop in that meeting. Both he and the black woman in the Mark Meadows press conference accomplished about the same. Cism Coonman’s wife hands out cotton souvenirs for the balck kids she was teaching about the history of Virginia. Can this family not get anything right? Meanwhile a Maryland Democrat hot mics the N word and has to apologize.

Ep 111618 Election Madness Still Going on In Florida Meanwhile Trump Gives Convicts another change at life

Thom looks at critical look of the fragility of socially isolated youth growing up with their attention fixed on phone screens. With a consideration of the new book, "The Coddling of the American Mind" co-authored by Jonathan Haidt, Thom reflects on the impact screens have on developing minds including increased suicide rates, and a rejection of digital dependence on their children by Silicon Valley parents. ----------- Listeners call in with very interesting observations and experiences on kid's screen addictions. ---------- Thom wants listeners to vote for the cover of his new book ---------- Trump is following the Nazi's first rule of manipulation - never let the public cool off- so Trump stirs the pot constantly, even if his vitriol leads to mail bombs and mass shootings. ---------- Talk Media News' Luke Vargas has a hot story from London via Iran on why the Saudis really killed Khashoggi. And, how long does it take to walk to Texas from Guatemala? ---------- Callers respond.

Max starts off by pointing out that he is not an athlete, and is amazed that by having a personal trainer he has learnt how to stretch properly. He is even more amazed in the results of stretching properly. This just goes to show that Max really is not an athlete in any shape fashion or form. After going off at a tangent, Max endeavors to get things back on track by talking about Trump cancelling the meeting with Kim Jong-un and the even more fantastical letter that the White House sent to the North Korean leader. Max also digs into yet again Trump's idea of fixing the trade issues with China, whereas China is connecting all things together, American farmers, North Korea, ZTE, and so on. Meanwhile Trump is out maneuvered in every way. Remember when Trump “trade wars were an easy win.” As if to back this up Max reminds us that in many ways he supports Trumps ideas, trade reform, infrastructure and so on. The trouble is Trump is wholly incapable of executing any of this. Next Max gets into the letter the White House sent to Kim Jong un which clearly Trump was so proud of that he had it released to the public, unfortunately it looked like is written by a bunch of twelve year old kids. Finally Max has to remind everyone that the Cowardly Lion, AKA Paul Ryan, really is the world's biggest hypocrite.

Max starts off by pointing out that he is not an athlete, and is amazed that by having a personal trainer he has learnt how to stretch properly. He is even more amazed in the results of stretching properly. This just goes to show that Max really is not an athlete in any shape fashion or form. After going off at a tangent, Max endeavors to get things back on track by talking about Trump cancelling the meeting with Kim Jong-un and the even more fantastical letter that the White House sent to the North Korean leader. Max also digs into yet again Trump’s idea of fixing the trade issues with China, whereas China is connecting all things together, American farmers, North Korea, ZTE, and so on. Meanwhile Trump is out maneuvered in every way. Remember when Trump “trade wars were an easy win.” As if to back this up Max reminds us that in many ways he supports Trumps ideas, trade reform, infrastructure and so on. The trouble is Trump is wholly incapable of executing any of this. Next Max gets into the letter the White House sent to Kim Jong un which clearly Trump was so proud of that he had it released to the public, unfortunately it looked like is written by a bunch of twelve year old kids. Finally Max has to remind everyone that the Cowardly Lion, AKA Paul Ryan, really is the world’s biggest hypocrite.

In his first show after the weekend when Donald Trump had yet another Twitter storm, which as Max has long said, are essentially windows into the Trumpsters soul, so we can look into over one dozen Tweets to realise that Trump really only cares about himself.  Now we know 19 women have accused Donald Trump of inappropriate behavior, yet will the so called Evangelicals still support the Donald. Of course they will! It is also very good to know that Fox & Friends is the sole source of “intelligence” if that's the right word, for Trump, yet he has the best intelligence agencies on the planet. But apparently Fox & Friends has better sources than the CIA, FBI etc etc. Max also outlines how Trump has become Churchillian much to his amazement. Meanwhile Trump goes after everyone but Russia, so much for protecting the United States. Finally, Max begs the Democrats to get their act together.

In his first show after the weekend when Donald Trump had yet another Twitter storm, which as Max has long said, are essentially windows into the Trumpsters soul, so we can look into over one dozen Tweets to realise that Trump really only cares about himself.  Now we know 19 women have accused Donald Trump of inappropriate behavior, yet will the so called Evangelicals still support the Donald. Of course they will! It is also very good to know that Fox & Friends is the sole source of “intelligence” if that’s the right word, for Trump, yet he has the best intelligence agencies on the planet. But apparently Fox & Friends has better sources than the CIA, FBI etc etc. Max also outlines how Trump has become Churchillian much to his amazement. Meanwhile Trump goes after everyone but Russia, so much for protecting the United States. Finally, Max begs the Democrats to get their act together.

Has journalism sunk to an all time low ? Meanwhile Trump is fundraising & Lisa Durden loss her job! Wow !! Let's sort this stuff out together ??