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Category Archives: America
Politico: Trump’s Anti-DEI Edicts Just Scared a Big Sponsor Away From a Major Pride Event (2-16-25)
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Trump’s Days Of Thunder (2-16-25)
01:00 The Mayor of Kingstown, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_of_Kingstown09:50 The Elon Musk Show14:00 The Premiere League is the world’s most competitive soccer league and it is much more athletic and intense than it used to be28:00 The Age of Empire Strikes Back: Stephen … Continue reading
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Ashley St. Clair Says Elon Musk Is The Father Of Her Second Out Of Wedlock Child (2-15-25)
01:00 How’s your personal level of fulfillment these days? Are you getting all the sex, power and money and meaning that you need? Are you not entertained?04:00 NYP: Elon Musk breaks silence after conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair claims she … Continue reading
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President Trump – unburdened by what has been (2-13-25)
01:00 If Fox News moves to the center, the audience will go somewhere else05:50 Jesse Waters13:00 WSJ: Taylor Sheridan’s ‘Landman’ Hits Pay Dirt With Its Oilman Hero: The Paramount+ drama conveys the modern necessity of fossil fuels like nothing else … Continue reading
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Are We In A Constitutional Crisis? (2-13-25)
01:00 Joe Biden getting out of Afghanistan was the right move, even though it was chaotic02:00 DOGE is chaotic, but I hope it is doing more good than harm03:00 WP: Musk team kicks off federal layoffs as White House eyes … Continue reading
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Learning To Forgive For Good (2-12-25)
01:00 NYT: Vance Is Laying the Groundwork, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/opinion/jd-vance-donald-trump.html04:30 Jesse Waters08:00 My initial step four experience in 2012, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=4737224:00 Elliott Blatt joins the show to discuss a resentment32:00 Forgive for Good: A Proven Prescription for Health and Happiness By Frederic Luskin, … Continue reading
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Donald Trump & Constitutional Dictatorship (2-12-25)
01:00 Trump’s State Of Exception, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15889703:00 Carl Schmitt quotes: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/162542.Carl_Schmitt#05:00 Will the USA take over Canada?, https://statesofexception.substack.com/p/what-ir-theory-tells-us-about-canada23:00 The Morning Meeting S4E28 | Trump’s First 100 Days, Democrat Realignment & Today’s Political News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6ssgxybIpc32:00 John Podhoretz & Commentary magazine crew on … Continue reading
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Decoding Donald Trump’s State Of Emergency (2-11-25)
01:00 Constitutional Dictatorship: Its Dangers and Its Design, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=13038602:00 Just imagine what Trump will do if we get into a true state of emergency! 14:00 POLITICO: Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong. 22:00 Are we in … Continue reading
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Decoding The Super Bowl (2-10-25)
01:00 The NFL is humiliated by a terrible Super Bowl02:00 The Kansas Chiefs only got to the Super Bowl by the NFL rigging the refereeing07:00 Commentary magazine podcast crew on the Super Bowl, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAjy7iObB0815:00 Democratic party leaders have bad optics27:00 … Continue reading
Decoding Peter Thiel (2-9-25)
01:00 What makes Stephen Miller successful with Donald Trump16:30 My 3am AI nightmare25:00 “Ties bind and blind.” I am triply inclined not to criticize Ben Shapiro because I share his outlook, his sacred values, his Orthodox Judaism, and many of … Continue reading
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