Weapons of Meme Destruction

Sadly, we decided this week that this episode would be our last for a while. It was a difficult decision to make, but for the reasons discussed in this episode, it make the most sense for us right now until we can come back bigger, better, and stronger. Please keep the light of freedom on for us and do all you can to keep working toward a little saner world in our absence. We will be back and bett...

Trump's "reciprocal tariffs" went into effect this week and the U.S. stock market tumbled under the uncertainty of what such a shakeup in the global trade framework will end up looking like. We give the strict economic analysis of why tariffs are bad but include a balanced approach to what the Trump side of the argument is for the tariffs and let you decide how to feel or what to think about them....

The mainstream outlets lost their collective mind this past week over a nothing-burger story about a hostile reporter from The Atlantic being "inadvertently" added to a group chat between high-ranking officials from the Trump Administration discussing war plans in Yemen. Peering through the thinly veiled attempts at manufactured outrage, one can easily see that rather than being a damning story ab...

Faced with a right-wing populist, Calin Georgescu, winning the presidential election in Romania late last year, election officials canceled the election. When it looked like he was still going to win in the re-do this year, they arrested him. His crime? Placing the interests and fortunes of Romanian citizens above the one-world-government dictates of the European Union and NATO. The next time you...

Thomas Massie was and remains "America First" before Trump was even in politics and before any of his braindead sycophants figured out how to breathe unaided. And yet, Trump decided to attack Massie this week over Massie's opposition to Mike-I've never met an exploded budget I didn't like-Johnson's continuing resolution that funds government at pre-DOGE levels, rendering all of DOGE's work up to n...

Whether it be Democratic New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez going after Democratic New York Mayor Eric Adams over illegal immigration, or Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom being confronted with his party's rigid purity tests that result in people like RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard being ousted from party, it should be crystal clear by now for all their sloganeering about "divers...

This past week, Trump delivered the first State of the Union Address of his second term. On the morning of the address, 22 Democrat Senators thought it would be a great idea to record themselves delivering a scripted, fake outrage video and posting it to their social media accounts. Completely tone deaf as they are, none saw fit to even slightly modify their presentation so as not to appear like t...

At the end of the last week of February 2025, the Trump White House invited a handful of MAGA social media influencers to receive "Phase 1" of the Epstein files. If this monumental screw up of the promised release of the Epstein files was an accident or simple oversight, they couldn't have messed it up any worse if they'd done it on purpose. At bottom, the Epstein story is (and always will be unle...

Is the internet the modern-day version of the Tower of Babel? Maybe, maybe not. But the timeless wisdom of the Tower of Babel story still has plenty to teach us today about human nature, power, and the relationship between humanity and God (the Creator or whatever else you prefer to call him/it). On this week's episode we apply this ancient wisdom to what we are experiencing today as another angle...

A new talking point has hit the establishment media's desks: that the U.S. is experiencing a "Constitutional crisis." As usual, the thing they've identified as the source of the crisis is the exact wrong thing. Rather than President Trump and DOGE being the problem, their executive agency-confined actions are RESOLVING existing Constitutional crises because the agencies they are targeting are unco...

The Regime, Deep State, Shadow Government, Cathedral, whatever you want to call them, absolutely lost its collective mind this week over the exposure of 1% of its total corruption and grift, facilitated by USAID. In reality, what DOGE accomplished this week is waking up normies on a scale previously unimaginable. Now and forevermore, John Q. Public won't be able to miss or ignore the elephant in t...

Last week a military Blackhawk helicopter crashed into a commercial flight making its approach for landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The fallout from this tragedy has exposed (not for the first time) the government's incompetence and incentives to fail. Although the room temperature IQ, TDS afflicted screechers are blaming Trump, despite only having been back in office for a we...

Just before Trump took office for the second time, Biden issued preemptive pardons for Anthony Fauci, Liz Cheney, and other anti-Trump politicians, promising the pardons were not an admission of guilt. But we all know what to do with the regime's promises. After Trump took office earlier this week there was a flurry of winning, but it was mixed with some serious missteps. We analyze week one and g...

To much exaggerated celebration from the left, in his farewell address, Joe Biden warned of an impending oligarchic takeover of America. Curious that this is only a problem now that his side lost the election (despite being overwhelmingly supported by people they would otherwise call "oligarchs") and apparently only includes, in the category as potential "oligarchs," wealthy people they don't like...

This past week, Los Angeles was devastated by wildfires that raged out of control, due in no small part to political mismanagement that left local firefighting personnel and infrastructure completely unprepared and ill-equipped for the task. The flippant way government prepared and subsequently handled the problem is only the latest example demonstrating the fact that government does not care abou...

January 1, 2025 was less than happy for too many. Simultaneous terrorist attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas left more questions than answers about motivations, as well as some interesting coincidences that require follow-ups. We talk about the facts of the events (known to us two days after the events), the interesting connections, the response to the events, and why at least one X talking head...

Elon's DOGE and astute X users gave the country a major gift the week before Christmas this year. Once again, at the 11th hour, the parasites in Congress tried to rush through a 1,500+ page spending bill, loaded with pork and all other manner of waste, fraud, and abuse. As intended, this gave the few members that are trying to do the best for the American people precious little time to even read t...

Those of us that were silenced throughout Covid are now often asked "why are you still talking about Covid? It's over, move on." Well, not only will it never be over because if we let those criminals get away with what they did (and tried to do) during Covid, it is inevitable they will try it again, and worse. But, as important as it is that we never let them try anything like that again, it is al...

Joe's recent pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, is about much more than whether he was telling the truth when he said he would not pardon Hunter. By granting his son a more than 10-year blanket pardon, running from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024, Joe not only pardoned Hunter in a much more expansive way than is typically done for pardon recipients, but he also granted to himself and the re...

The soon-to-be established Department of Government Efficiency ("DOGE"), headed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, has released its 5-point plan to impose accountability at the federal level, pare back the administrative state, and attack the deep state at its core. The outline is a thing of beauty in itself, and if DOGE is able to accomplish only a fraction of what it sets out to do, it will be th...

Less than two weeks after the American people spoke loudly against war, rebuking the war party's puppet candidate in favor of the decidedly more anti-war candidate, the Deep State decided to escalate tensions with Russia by authorizing the use of long-range U.S. missiles by Ukraine to strike targets inside Russia. Putin has been clear that this was the brightest of red lines. Zelensky, wasting no...

Trump has made a slew of early cabinet picks and it is certainly a mixed bag. As we stated on episode 219, the election night win was only the beginning of our work to hold Trump to his pro-liberty promises and criticize him where he fails. Domestically, he's done a great job, appointing RFK, Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and establishing D.O.G.E. with Elon and Vivek at the helm. In foreign policy, it is mo...

To the shock of precisely no one that doesn't listen to mainstream media 8 hours a day, Trump prevailed over VP Kackles, and in "mandate" level fashion. Despite the fact that he made tremendous gains amongst every major demographic, won every single swing state, won red states by wider margins than he did in 2016, and won not only the Electoral College but also the popular vote by a wider margin t...

As libertarians we've been disaffected with both Democrats and Republicans for a long time. All the propaganda about "wasting votes on a third party" and "a vote for a Libertarian/third-party candidate is a vote for whoever won" (according to the side that lost) has never worked on us. We've voted our conscience in every election we've participated in and apologized to no one for that. But, this o...

Pete Buttigieg gaslights libertarians on the basis of Trump's former advisors' hearsay and The Atlantic's Anne Applebaum makes the case on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that democracy is no longer democracy when an undesirable (according to her and her ilk) candidate wins. These are deeply unserious people. Show Notes: Anne Applebaum Hates Democracy: https://x.com/Morning_Joe/status/1849057674102518117 **...