A Slice of News

In this episode I discuss the House Ethics Committee report on former Florida Representative Matt Gaetz that found he'd engaged in numerous criminal actions while he served in office...from back in 2024

In this episode I discuss how current President Trump has gone out of his way to name or re-name just about anything he can after himself, including the Institute of Peace and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and what, outside of simple vanity and narcissism, might be his motivation for doing so

In this episode I discuss President Trump's numerous Christmas time offenses, from rambling online about the "Democrat hoax" that is the Epstein files on Christmas Day to telling children about the benefits of clean coal and how good he did in the elections when they just wanted to talk about Santa

In this episode I discuss a judge in Texas that is petitioning the Supreme Court to overturn the ruling that made same-sex marriage legal on a national level on the grounds that doing so was unconstitutional and what that might mean for the future of marriage equality in this country

In this episode I discuss the release by the Department of Justice of the so called "Epstein Files" that amounted to little more than hundreds of heavily or entirely redacted documents, providing barely any useful or actionable information, thereby barely complying with the legal mandate that they release these documents and how the victims deserve far better than that...

In this episode I discuss that while this is the legally mandated release date for the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files, they are likely not going to do so, why that might be and what the consequences may end up being for defying a law almost unanimously passed by Congress

In this episode I discuss the publication by Vanity Fair of a series of interviews of President Trump's Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and the candid and somewhat unflattering look into the inner workings of the Trump Administration it provided

In this episode I discuss the announcement by House Speaker Mike Johnson that there would be no vote on extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies prior to Congress' adjournment for the holidays and the end of the month, ensuring that health care premiums would be going up considerably for millions of Americans at the start the New Year

In this episode I discuss the President's callous and defamatory response to the news that famous director and Hollywood icon Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle were discovered slain in their home, the response to his inappropriate words and how in far too many ways, that is exactly what we have come to expect from him...

In this episode I discuss the possibility of former VP Kamala Harris re-entering the ring for the Democratic nomination for Presidents for 2028 and what factors she may have to overcome to not see a repeat of her first run for President

In this episode I discuss how Congress failed to reach an agreement on extending the Affordable Care subsidies set to expire at the end of the month, ensuring the healthcare premiums for millions of Americans are set to increase to affordable levels, and the cost this decision will have both on the American people and the elected officials who chose not to stop it from happening

In this episode I discuss rumblings that Donald Trump's wall of impenetrability is crumbling in real time and how for the first time in what feels like forever, he may be on track to actually face the consequences of his actions

In this episode I discuss the recent announcement that the State Department would be returning to Times New Roman for all official communications, reversing the "DEI" decision to transition to Calibri for ease of readability by people with disabilities. The Age of Woke Typeface is clearly over at State

In this episode I discuss the upcoming vote in Congress to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies and how its likely to fail despite there not being any sort of Republican backed alternative, which will lead to the healthcare premiums of millions of Americans to skyrocket to unaffordable levels, leading to many to have to go without

In this episode I discuss how back in 2024 now Attorney General Pam Bondi had said in legal brief that military officers weren't compelled to follow an unlawful order from the President, but question how much she would stand by that now that her boss is basically challenging the very definition of what an "unlawful order" truly is, and what it could mean for our collective futures

In this episode I discuss a growing sentiment that old politicians need to make way for new younger replacements, the importance of new younger minds with new younger ideas and the detriment of letting us become a nation of old people electing old people

In this episode I discuss a recent poll out of Harvard that showed a majority of Generation Z had a fairly pessimistic view of current current politics and a lot of fear and anxiety for their own futures, and go into how at least some of it may have been a product of their own making

In this episode I discuss the recent special election in Tennessee where Republican Matt Van Epps defeated Democrat Aftyn Behn...but not by very much, and how this narrow loss actually might be a positive sign for Democrats going into next year's midterm elections and evidence that Democrat voters are energized for the first time in a long time

In this episode I discuss the recent Presidential pardon given to former President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez for his conviction stemming from his involvement in bringing hundreds of tons of cocaine into the US and how a sentence that was supposed to be evidence that even Presidents aren't immune to the consequences of their crimes was invalidated, resulting in the exact opposite messa...

In this episode I discuss recent data out of the Labor Department that showed blue collar jobs have been massively declining under a second Trump presidency and speculating what this downtrend may leading towards and the alarm bells it may be ringing

In this episode I discuss the announcement that the prosecutor in Georgia who was put in charge of the criminal case against sitting President Donald Trump in relation to his attempt to overturn the 2020 election has decided not to pursue the case and a judge subsequently dismissing it, cementing that Donald Trump now faces no consequence for trying to criminally invalidate the results of an elect...

In this episode I discuss the recent annual Presidential Turkey Pardoning and how our President had to find a way of putting his own Trump spin on it and also manage to make it about himself

In this episode I discuss House Speaker Mike Johnson's recent communication with the White House that Congressional Republicans do not wish to extend ACA subsidies, even as the President was strongly considering extending them for two years as a part of a proposed Republican healthcare plan, and how this whole thing may ultimately cost Republicans when election time comes

In this episode I discuss concerns by Republicans that Democrats are looking to make huge gains in the House come 2026 and they may lose their majority there, possibly even the Senate too, laying a solid foundation for them to take the Presidency in that next election

In this episode I discuss recent comments made by President Trump in regard to a video released by a group of Democratic lawmakers cautioning against the following of illegal or unconstitutional orders by our armed forces, which the President viewed as seditious and traitorous statements