This week on Look Forward, the guys return to discuss the absolutely abysmal reaction to the new Trump tariffs, Corey Booker holds the longest speech on the Senate floor in a direction response to the enduring nightmare that is the second Trump administration, Social Security weaponized against the state of Maine because their governor followed the law, White House admits they made a mistake with sending an innocent man to El Salvador but they don't care, special election results, Trump signs EO to try and sway voting in his favor, more stupidity from Signal-gate, DoJ have knives out for Luigi Mangione, and much more!

Big Topic

• Tariffs…let’s crash the economy!!!
  • You will totally believe how they got to the numbers they got to

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• Booker holds the Senate floor to speak out against the Trump admin’s actions
• Social Security Administration tried to retaliate against Maine because the governor didn’t bend to Trump
• WH admits they deported a legal migrant to El Salvador prison “in error”...but they can’t get him back
• Special election results bring hope
  • Elon gives $1M to GOP operatives in revisit to vote-buying scheme, because of course he did
• Trump tries to change voting, and yes its a big deal

Fast Corruption and Faster Screw-Ups

• BUT (t)HE(i)R EMAILS!
• Justice Department is seeking the death penalty for Luigi Mangione

What’s Dumber, A Brick or A Republican?

• Sometimes you gotta just tariff stuff
  • More dumb

This week on Look Forward, we break down the biggest political stories dominating the headlines, including Pete Hegseth's top secret military operations group chat on Signal, Chuck Schumer's massive vote screw-up on the continuing resolution, and AOC's star is rising in the Democratic Party and what her future may hold. From classified war plans on public chat applications to a legendary Democratic politician's inability to under the moment he's in, we bring clarity and analysis you won’t find anywhere else. Also in this episode:

• Trump administration violating judges orders on deportations
• Invalidating previous pardons from other presidents?

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Big Topic

• Schumer caves to end cloture on continuing CR
  • Cancels book tour because he is a pussy
  • Is this the moment for Senator Ocasio-Cortez?
    • Bernie and AOC draw 34K in Denver
  • He wasn’t the only vote - vote every single one of them out

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• DOD accidentally includes Atlantic EIC in Signal group chat to discuss bombing strike
• Smart Dems are stepping up in districts whose GOP reps have bailed on them
• This is a number worth noting and being terrified about
• Seems to me like a specific president wouldn’t want to establish a precedent that pardons can be unilaterally voided by a successor, but what do I know?
• Lutnick and others are building a narrative in real time

Fast Corruption and Faster Screw-Ups

• ICE violates judge’s order in deporting alleged gang members to El Salvador
• Trump voters punch themselves in the dick, again
• Oracle seems to be coming to TikTok’s rescue with basically the same plan China-hawks said was unacceptable
• In this difficult economic time, Trump makes sure he takes care of those who need the most help

What’s Dumber, A Brick or A Republican?

• Is it tho?

This week on Look Forward, the guys return to discuss Donald Trump's back and forth insanity with tariffs, the stock market heads into freefall as financial uncertainty is on the rise, Tesla stock is half what it was under Joe Biden and that's fine with us, Trump administration tries to disapear pro-Palestinian protestor, air travel contract to be taken over by Starlink, Rubio bends the knee to Elon Musk over USAID, DOGE exposes location of CIA black site, Starlink loses billions because of its moronic boss, Jeff Bezos does more destruction to the Washington Post, and much more!

Big Topic

• Schrodinger’s Tariff
  • China joins the fight in a way you’d not expect
• The Dow has given back all gains since Election Day; Tesla is crashing hard
  • More

Fast Corruption and Faster Screw-Ups

• The Trump admin has arrested - and tried to disappear - a foreign student for having organized pro-Palestine protests at Columbia U
  • Judge rules on this, will it matter?
• The air travel news we’ve all been waiting for
• After reported dust up, Rubio gets cucked by Elon
• DOGE mistakenly exposes Black site, and hates the Enola because its “gay”

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• Starlink’s $100M contract cancelled by Ontario
  • Another massive Starlink contract loss
• Bezos bars WaPo op-ed writers from being anti-republican, essentially
• Al Green gets kicked out of joint congressional address; somehow gets censured with assistance from 10 House Dems

This week the guys return to discuss the progress of pushing back on the Trump administration, James Carville's controversial opinion and being a victim of your own political success, DOGE has a new head but does it really, shareholders and corporations feeling the heat for their behaviors towards Trump, auto-firing of federal employees?, Ron DeSantis is wondering who could be responsible for HIS parties screwing up, Trump selling citizenship for $5 million dollars, MSNBC layoffs do in fact matter more than you think, House GOP pushes for draconian Medicaid cuts, and much more!

Big Topic

• The pushback is - slowly- working
  • Trump admin gets dunked on in court for funding withholding
  • Scramble to name “head” of DOGE
  • GOP congresspeople scared shitless at town halls
  • The hackers have entered the chat
  • Shareholders seeing where the public wind is blowing
  • Is James Carville actually correct here?

Fast Corruption and Faster Screw-Ups

• Nothing could possibly go wrong here
• The thing about government contracts is that they’re often paid up front...
• Trump fires Chairman of the Joint Chiefs - you’ll never guess why!
• Ron DeSantis is launching his own Floridian-DOGE

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• Trump would love to sell fast-track citizenship for cash
• House passes Medicaid-cutting, tax cut-extending resolution with nary a single Democratic vote
• MSNBC cancels a bunch of shows, and what do all of the hosts have in common?
• Woman dragged out of Idaho town hall by private security - sheriff now facing scrutiny

What’s Dumber, A Brick or A Republican?

• MTG complains about fed employees

This week on Look Forward, Jay and Brad return to discuss Trump's newest inane threat statements that went nowhere, NYC mayor gets a lovely quid pro quo from the Trump administration, more tariff threats send the stock market into another tumble, the push for the unitary executive theory, firing the folks who handle nukes and pandemics just because, CPAC brings out the crazies and one big drug addict has a time, Ukraine is now the blame for Russia's invasion according to their top stooge, IRS fires 6000 people, Republican budget will have massive cuts to Medicare/Medicaid, cities are prepping for how to deal with huge layoffs from the federal government, and much more. 


Big Topic

• How much attention do we need to pay when Trump says the dumbest shit?
  • Claims we will not militarily support Canada unless they join the union
  • You are not alone in your feelings on what’s happening

Fast Corruption and Faster Screw-Ups

• Trump admin cuts a quid pro quo with nation’s worst mayor
  • Leads to a Thursday afternoon massacre!
• Local idiot proposes more tariffs on lumber at 25% ACROSS THE BOARD!!!!!!!!!
• Freedom of Information Act request are dead
• Trump admin fires people who handle nukes, scramble to re-hire them
• The other - in retrospect - obvious reason behind DOGE’s purges

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• Trump blames Ukraine for the Russian invasion
  • Zelensky makes the point that media doesn’t want to address fully
• IRS fires 6000 employees right in time for tax season
  • Well maybe we don’t NEED the IRS after all
• Republicans unveil their budget plan and yeah its draconian as you’d assume
• CPAC is showing up just how much the Right is enjoying this, there is a lesson in this
• Cities will feel the hits of these layoffs, an example
• Trump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential Powers

What’s Dumber, A Brick or A Republican?

• Look, maybe we’ve been too harsh on AI

This week on Look Forward, the guys return to discuss the judiciary's hard push back on Donald Trump and Elon Musk's attempts to ruin the U.S. government, DOGE staffers coming back after racists social media posts were discovered, Trump axes federal EV programs, Trump says America will own Gaza and develop it, more tariffs announced on foreign steel and aluminum with no exceptions, Eric Adams is definitely about to flip parties, voters in Missouri find out that Republicans couldn't care any less about their votes, JD Vance getting embarrassed publicly yet again by his boss, and much more!

Big Topic

• The judiciary is stepping up, but what happens when the administration throws up a middle finger?
  • Administration fires DOGE staffer after racist tweets resurface; Musk and Vance want to bring him back

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• Watch what they do
  • Trump axes Federal EV Charging program
  • NCMEC scrubs any mention of trans kids from website
• GAZA GAZA GAZA!!!! (what could possibly go wrong???)
• Surprise! Moar tariffs!
• More chaos around non-tariffs with suspension - and subsequent walk back - of de minimis exemption
• Eric Adams GOP turn coming in 5....4....3...
• Missouri voters chose to enshrine abortion access in the constitution. Legislators DGAF
• Brutal, when will people learn

This week on Look Forward, Jay and Brad return to discuss the Elon Musk's control over the U.S. financial payment system, the attack on USAID is in full swing, Dems begin an actually smart strategy, tariffs are happening...tariffs are not happening, Gitmo will be a concentration camp, and much more!

Big Topic

• Elon Musk stages what can only be called a coup over the weekend
  • Exclusive: Musk aides lock workers out of OPM computer systems | Reuters
  • Musk claims to have shut down USAID (can’t do that without Congress!)
  • Schatz, Schatz, Schatz, Schatz, Schatz!
  • So...what the fuck is going to happen now?

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• House races that REALLY MATTER coming April 1st (seriously)
• Tariffs are (not) happening
  • Mexico folds...OR DO THEY?
  • Canada folds...OR DO THEY?
  • So why did this actually go sideways?
• Trump admin institutes funding freeze, walks it back, then unwalks it, then walks it?
• Trump plans to turn Gitmo into a sort of camp where migrants can be concentrated
• Plane disaster at Reagan just a week after Trump cans the head of the FAA at Elon’s request
• The CFPB is probably dead; would love to allow companies to sell your sensitive information
• Rubio appoints incredibly racist MAGA chud as UnderSec of Public Diplomacy at State

This week on Look Forward, Jay and Brad return to discuss just a few of the massive nightmare changes that happened in Trump first week back in charge. We get the American version of the Night of the Long Knives with the firing of all the Inspectors Generals in the federal government, global aid stops excepts in two countries, Pete Hegseth is confirmed as Secretary of Defense, Trump and Vance both admit that inflation isn't a priority, an amendment to the Constitution is proposed to allow Trump a third term, Colombia demands respect be given to its citizens picked up by ICE raids, alleged plan leaked of how the U.S. will settle the war in Ukraine, and much more!

Big Topic

• First Week in Hell

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• Trump violates federal law by firing pretty much all the Inspectors General in the Federal Government
• Trump pauses aid for every country except Israel...and Egypt
• Meetings with the Joint Chiefs are now a two-drink minimum
• Dude, we told you, you absolute moronic fucks
• Republican pushes for amendment to the Constitution for Trump’s benefit
• Trump’s very stupid, very pointless 12-hour showdown with Colombia
• How’s the “lesser of two evils” working out?
• Ukraine plan leaked

This week on Look Forward, Jay and Brad return to discuss the first 2 days of the second Trump administration and show how it's already a complete mess. Trump pardon's Jan 6th domestic terrorists, goes after Trans folks with federal legislation, announces end of Birthright Citizenship (which is of course is protected in the Constitution), America will leave the World Health Organization, the Pope comes out against Trump's mass deportation plans, Elon Musk stops pretending and goes full fascist, AOC immediately sets the standard for the Democratic party in true fashion, Medicare and Medicaid advancements ended out of spite, meme coin scams, Biden does last minute pardons to protect people who were doing their jobs, and much more.

Big Topic

• Trump’s no good, very bad first day back
  • All the Jan 6 criminals have been pardoned or commuted
  • Trans Americans are the first victims of the new administration
  • Birthright citizenship, yer outta here!
  • America is leaving the World Health Organization
  • Even the Pope is coming out against Trump’s plans on deportation
  • We got Elon out here doing Nazi/Fascist salutes
  • Trump makes last minute change to inauguration b/c of crowd size fears, stranding his supporters

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• AOC sets the bar for Progressive response in the Trump era
• Trump reverses Biden policies on drug pricing and Obamacare
• The incredibly stupid TikTok saga is the most revealing bit of corporate genuflecting yet
• Biden drops some last minute preemptive pardons on the way out
  • General Mark Milley and Anthony Fauci
  • Biden Family Members
• Trump says something very weird about the election
• Meme Coins are all the rage now
  • MOAR!!!!
• Vivek Ramaswamy is out at DOGE before the stupidity even began
• Actual leaders doing actual leadership

What’s Dumber, A Brick or a A Republican?

• It's going to be “The Golf of America” isn’t it?
• The GOP has daddy issues

This week on Look Forward, the guys return to discuss the massive wildfires in California and the hypocritical political responses from the Right, Israel and Hamas reach a ceasefire, Hegseth's hearing sheds more light on MAGA madness, Mark Zuckerberg goes full MAGA for Trump's good favor, loyalty test are beginning to emerge as Trump gets closer to the White House again, Bezos uses Melania as a way to curry favor with Trump, Musk is likely lying about his video game skills (pretty damn pathetic), and much more!


Big Topic

• The CA wildfires are the most helpless I can ever remember feeling
  • Windy conditions prevent this from ending
  • GOP signaling they’d like to hold disaster relief hostage unless states engage in policy change

News You Need

• Israel and Hamas agree to ceasefire - why now?
• Dems show fight in Hegseth hearing; probably not gonna matter
• Dems take it to Pam Bondi
• Zuck has gone full mask -off in the blink of an eye
• Alito just corrupts out in the open
• Cannon auditions for SCOTUS seat
  • Happened anyway, but point still stands about her
• The loyalty tests are already starting
• Bezos launders $40 million to Trump
• The GOP is literally trying to steal a NC Supreme Court seat

What’s Dumber, A Brick or a A Republican?

• World’s richest man is also so insecure that he’s basically been proven to account boost in a video game for clout