According2Sam Podcast

It's not difficult to recognize the news cycle these days, because regardless of which story is dominating the news at any given time all outlets seem to be on the same page. For example, last week the story that was dominating the news cycle was the impending indictment and arrest of President Trump in New York. It was all everyone was talking about. It was not only the main topic of discussion on news and opinion shows, it was the punchline for all of the jokes the comedians told on the late night shows. However, as the days of the week ended without an indictment it began to appear that Trump would not be arrested after all. The case against Trump seemed to be falling apart, and the grand jury didn't even meet at the end of the week. This was embarrassing to all of the talking heads and comedians that had been preparing their viewers and making jokes about an imminent Trump indictment. They were in desperate need of a change in the news cycle. How did the school shooting in Nashville at the beginning of the next week give them the new news cycle that they needed? Join the conversation and get answers to this question and more on According2Sam episode #157.

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It's been 20 years since the Bush administration needlessly took our nation to war in Iraq based on a pack of lies. It is important that we take the time to reflect on just how we were lied into that war, so that nothing like that ever happens again. Today as we reflect on the lies that got us into that war 20 years ago we find ourselves on the verge of an even greater war, again based on lies, proving that if we don't learn from our past we are doomed to fall for the same deceptions over and over again. The lies that the Bush administration told us about Iraq were many. They told use Iraq had chemical and biological weapons. They did not! They told us they had a nuclear program and that they were buying yellowcake uranium from Africa. They did not, and were not. They told us that Iraq had an alliance with Al-Qaeda. They did not. They led us to believe that Iraq was involved in the 9/11 attacks, and said if we didn't invade there could be a 'mushroom cloud' in the United States. None of it was true. How did the Bush administration lay out their case of lies against Iraq, and why did it fail to sway the United Nations Security Council? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #156.

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FBI Director, Christopher Wray said there was three groups of people that participated in the events of January 6. He said the largest group, the group that needed to be focused on the least, were the tens of thousands of people who showed up in Washington that day to exercise their First Amendment right. He said they were rowdy, but peaceful and they didn't break any laws. The second group, a much smaller group, was people who went to Washington intending to participate in peaceful protest. However, they were caught up in emotions and fervor, and they committed low-level crimes like trespassing in the Capitol. The third group was the smallest group by far, but they are the most serious group according to Director Wray. These were those who vandalized the Capitol and participated in violence. This characterization of the demonstrators from Director Wray are in stark contrast to that of Democrats who want to put everyone in the same category, "insurrectionist". How does the new video aired by Tucker Carlson support the comments by Director Wray? Join the conversation and get answers to this question and more on According2Sam episode #155.

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The development of mass mediums in human history changed the societies in which they were developed. For example, the invention of the printing press in Germany in the 15th Century took Europe from darkness to light, and created the modern era. The development of the radio in the 19th Century helped connect the United States, bringing together those in urban areas with those in far away rural areas of the country. Weekly syndicated programs entertained Americans. They could get blow by blow coverage of the heavyweight fight, and hear the President address the nation as he prepares for war. The radio was a powerful medium, but it was just a prelude to the medium that would be the most powerful medium humanity had ever seen at the time of its invention in the 1920s. The television offered everything that the radio offered accept it added imagery. You didn't have to create the images in your mind with your imagination. It was a game changer! How could the story that Democrats told us about January 6 only be told on television, and why did they hire a television producer to help them tell it? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #154.

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The Department of Energy's intelligence agency has determined that Covid-19 originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. They are the second of the 17 intelligence agencies in the Intelligence Community (IC) that has made this determination, along with the FBI who first came to this conclusion. The Department of Energy (DOE) says that new information has led them to change their assessment. However, they did not disclose what this new information is. Regardless, we have come a long way from 2020 when it was considered looney, rightwing, conspiracy theory to even suggest that Covid-19 was created in a lab. Now we have two agencies in the IC that say that is exactly what happened. This new assessment by the DOE has made many ask what are the implications for American and China relations if more agencies reach this conclusion and it becomes a certainty. Will it exacerbate an already tense relationship between the two nations and possibly provoke a military confrontation? How will it also implement Americans who funded this research in China? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #153.

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As we celebrate the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine it's important to remember how it started, and it didn't start a year ago when Russia invaded Ukraine. The conflict in Ukraine goes back decades, before the coup in 2014 and even before the Orange Revolution in 2004. There are many components to the war, and the roots of the conflict are deep. The tensions leading to the war have been festering in Ukraine since WWII and they have finally come to hot war, but even the hot war didn't start last year. Ukraine has been in hot civil war since Euromaidan and the 2014 coup. The war has escalated from internal ethnic tensions between native Ukraines, Muslim Tartars, and Russian Ukraines, to hot civil war in the Donbas, to Russia invading. However, now there is a threat that this conflict can escalate outside of the borders of Ukraine and cause a global conflict that leads to the next World War. How are the policies of the Biden administration, along with Republicans and Democrats backing him in Congress, inching us closer and closer to that reality? Join the conversation and get answers to this question and more on According2Sam episode #152.

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Joe Biden has been in Washington for the majority of his life. He was first elected to the United States Senate in 1972 when he was 29 years old, and he was one of Delaware’s two Senators for 30 years, before Barack Obama chose him as his running mate in 2008. Biden himself had run for president that year, but dropped out after a very poor showing in the primary. This was his second attempt at the run for the White House. He also ran in 1988, but dropped out of that race in shame after being exposed in several scandals surrounding plagiarism and outright lying about his resume. Biden finally won his party’s nomination in 2020, after losing the first two primaries and a deal was cut for all other nominees to drop out of the race to clear the way for Biden. He was sworn in as President the following January. Today Biden has rebranded himself as a champion of the middle class, but his record shows that he has done more in his time in Washington to build the middle class in China. How has 'Middle Class Joe' made multi-millions as a public servant, while helping to destroy the middle class here in America? Join the conversation and get answers to this question and more on According2Sam episode #151.

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Have you ever heard the expression, 'Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining'? It's a cute way of saying don't hurt me and pretend to be helping. It is the perfect expression to describe the narrative that the media and Biden administration are telling America. Their narrative is that the Biden administration is the most successful administration since FDR. They want us to believe the economy is roaring due to record job creation and low unemployment. We are told that America is stronger and better than we have ever been, but many Americans don't seem to be buying it. Maybe it is record high inflation, the high interest rates, or the push towards WWII, but many Americans do not share the optimism about the future of our nation. Three quarters of the nation believe we are on the wrong track, and a mere 16% say they are better now than when Biden took office. It is in this environment that Biden gives his second State of the Union address. Why is there such a disconnect between the story Biden and his surrogates want to tell, and the story that the public believes? Join the conversation and get answers to this question and more on According2Sam episode #150.

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Meet the Press is the longest-running television program in America. The show hosts and has hosted many of the most important world leaders of the past 70 years. Meet the Press has had 12 hosts since it began in 1947, many of which are giants in American journalism, such as Martha Rountree, Ned Brooks, Tim Russert, and Tom Brokaw. Over the years Meet the Press has been a staple for those who follow politics and world affairs, and it has had a reputation for being none-partisan, unbiased, and objective. It was a program that was trusted on both sides of the political aisle, but something has happened to the show since the death of its longest serving host, Tim Russert in 2008. The show has been rapidly going downhill since 2014 when the current host, Chuck Todd took over. It is no longer none-partisan, unbiased, and objective. It has become hostile to Republicans while pushing the agenda of the Democrats. Todd is essentially a shill for the Democratic Party. How does Todd demonstrate his bias in his recent interview with the Chairman of the Judiciary and new House Select Committees, Jim Jordan? Join the conversation and get answers to this question and more on According2Sam episode #149.

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If the United States intelligence community (IC) is plotting to destroy President Joe Biden it would not be the first time that American spies have worked to takedown an American president. It happened to John F. Kennedy. In his case they did not use a manufactured scandal to remove him from office. They used an assassin with a high power rifle to blow his head off in Dallas, Texas in front of hundreds of Americans. However, not all presidents that have been removed from office by the IC have been handled with such brutality. More often they use a phony scandal to assassinate the president politically, as in the case of Donald Trump. The phony Russiagate scandal was completely invented by the IC. It was used to damage Trump politically and destroy his chances for reelection. In Nixon's case, he had already won reelection, by the largest margin in American history. The IC then used the Watergate scandal to force Nixon to resign. Why did the IC turn on Nixon and destroy him? Join the conversation and get answers to this question and more on According2Sam episode #148.

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