This week on Look Forward, Jay and Brad return to discuss potentially one of the worst week's in Donald Trump business career, the Supreme Court rules with the federal government on handling the border between Texas and Mexico, Republicans in Texas and all over the country decide that defying the SCOTUS is fine, the GOP say outloud why they are opposing the border security bill in Congress, Texas begins yet again more ridiculous talk of secession, NY court assigned financial monitor discovers $50 million in potential fraud inside the Trump Organization, E Jean Carroll is awarded $83.3 million in the second defamation case against Donald Trump, three American soldiers are killed in Jordan in an escalation of the war in Gaza, UAW (United Auto Workers) endorses Joe Biden for 2024, Lauren Boebert has embarrassing fifth place finish in Colorado straw poll, and much more!

Stories

• SCOTUS rules Feds can manage border as they see fit; Texas and other red states decide we don’t need to follow SCOTUS direction
• House Republicans and Dear Leader pulling a “dumb Nixon” in their fight over a border bill
• Its a day ending in “Y”, so of course Texas is talking secession again
• Financial monitor in NYC fraud case finds fraud at Trump Organization
• E Jean Carroll awarded $83.3 million judgment in second defamation trial
• Three Americans killed in drone strike near Syrian border
• UAW endorse Biden; call Trump a “scab”
• Carpetbagger finishes a distant 5th in primary straw poll

This Week in Stupid

• GOP rep gets selective amnesia in the wake of tough questioning (VIDEO)

This week on Look Forward, Jay and Brad return to discuss the results of the New Hampshire primary race for Trump, Haley, and Biden, Ron DeSantis drops out after Iowa making it a two person race for the GOP nomination, Donald Trump's mental decline is now the biggest story in politics, SCOTUS barely upholds the law in Texas for migrants, Nikki Haley still hanging on until Super Tuesday, GOP terrified of what will happen to the control in Congress in 2024, SCOTUS set to give unprecedented power to corporations and uneducated judges, Florida tried to pay for Trump's legal fees, Kentucky Republican makes a wild but funny mistake, Tim Scott conveniently gets engaged, and much more!

Stories

• Trump wins NH primary shortly after polls close
  • As does Biden...without even being on the ballot
• Ol’ Pudding Fingers, we hardly knew ye
• Trump’s mental decline has finally gotten so obvious even Nikki is going in
• SCOTUS barely upholds obvious law in Texas, and MAGA is angry
  • Republicans advocate for defying the SCOTUS…ok, don't mind if I do!
• GOP is terrified of 2024, and Dem voters need to take notice
• SCOTUS is getting ready to put regulatory questions firmly in the hands of billionaires
• Florida CFO so thirsty to throw public money behind Trump’s legal woes
  • DeSantis immediately destroys this plan
• Chris Sununu says Trump harms the party at the top of the ticket

This Week in Stupid

• Tim Scott got engaged…WE ALL KNOW WHY!
• Kentucky Republican goes full Shelbyvillian but not really

This week on Look Forward, Jay and Brad return to discuss the results of the Iowa Republican Caucus, what Donald Trump's victory tells us about his chances against Joe Biden, Vivek Ramaswamy drops out and endorses Trump after abysmal finish in Iowa, Trump embarrasses himself in closing arguments of his fraud trial in New York, Marijuana rescheduling/legalization seems imminent thanks to new reporting from the HHS (Health and Human Services), Trump admits to "doing services" for foreign countries while President, 2020 presidential votes miscounted in Virginia discovered, Nikki Haley says America was never a racist country, and much more!

This week on Look Forward, Jay and Brad return to discuss Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, almost identical budget as Kevin McCarthy's, Republicans go looking for China corruption on Biden and find Trump instead, Donald Trump says that Lincoln could have negotiated the Civil War, Jack Smith has some seriously damaging evidence on Trump for Jan 6th according to experts, Defense Sec is hiding something from the Biden administration, the Epstein list was not as salacious as people would have assumed, GOP starts referring to Jan 6th insurgents as hostages, Trump's lawyers argue in political assassinations are fine to do, Roger Stone calls for direct assassinations of Democratic Congress members by name, Lauren Boebert is back in the news this time on domestic abuse allegations, listening to Trump might have cost many Americans their lives during the height of the pandemic, and much more!

Stories

• Mike Johnson hopes to avoid gov’t shutdown with the same deal that got McCarthy ousted
• Noted gov’t official proved to receive money from China!
• Trump says he would have negotiated the Civil War
• Jack Smith reportedly has info on Trump that can cause others to flip
• Lloyd Austin was hospitalized...and didn’t tell anyone?
• The Epstein list not as salacious as expected
• New GOP line - Jan 6 “hostages”
• Trump's lawyer argues that a president can order SEAL Team Six to assassinate his political rival if Congress is cool with it

This Week in Stupid

• Roger Stone just out here calling for political assassinations
• Trump-Backed Drug Linked to Thousands of COVID Deaths: Study
• From fists full of… to Fisticuffs, Lauren Boebert is back!

This week on Look Forward, Jay and Brad return to start 2024 off with a bang. The hosts discuss Nikki Haley walking directly into the political buzzsaw when she works overtime to not mention slavery as the reason for why the Civil War happened, former Donald Trump advisor, Steve Bannon gives his thoughts on Haley as the possible Republican vice president nominee, Trump makes up a new conspiracy as to why his lawyers are unprepared and incapable of properly defending him during the Jan 6th trial, Maine removes Trump from the primary ballot using section 3 of the 14th amendment as the reason, GOP set to rollout a plan to pivot from their disastrous politics on abortion, Republicans' majority shrinks in the House yet again, swatting comes to politics on both parties, Lauren Boebert changes districts, and much more!

Stories:

• Nikki Haley walks right to the trap of being in a party full of anti-historical bigots
  • What Bannon thinks of Haley’s position in all this
• ALERT: New Conspiracy just dropped!
• Maine pushes Trump off the ballot in the primary
• GOP plans assume you are stupid when it comes to abortion
• House GOP majority to shrink to 2 with Ohio lawmaker’s early resignation
• Seriously this time guys, it's gonna be awesome
• Swatting moves from gaming into politics
• BoBo can’t hack it so she cuts and runs to another district

This week on Look Forward, Jay and Brad return to discuss Donald Trump being booted off the Colorado ballot, Trump puts it out there...he wants to be a dictator, Rudy Giuliani forced to pay $150 million in defamation case in Georgia, porn filming in the Senate?!!!, Texas abortion case shows just how right every pro-choice advocate was, Jack Smith wasting no time getting to the core of the Trump question, Jeffrey Epstein's client list to be released, and much more!

Stories

• Trump booted off the primary ballot in Colorado
• • Local fool will join him!
  • Republican in Texas threatens to remove Biden from ballot
• Dictator on day one - Donald Trump says the quiet part out loud
  
  • Donald Trump Says Immigrants Are 'Poisoning the Blood of Our Nation,'
• Rudy Giuliani made to pay nearly $150 Million in Georgia Election Defamation Case
• Filming what in the Senate hearing room?
• A Binder on Highly Classified Russian Intel Went Missing Under Trump
• Woman leaves Texas to have an abortion, a case worth examining
• Jack Smith takes Trump immunity question to the SCOTUS
• Federal judge orders documents naming Jeffrey Epstein's associates to be unsealed

This Week in Stupid

• Marjorie Taylor Greene Rages at 'Stupid People' She Has To Work With

This week on Look Forward, Jay and Brad return to discuss the legacy of Henry Kissinger, George Santos finally expelled from Congress, Donald Trump lawyers are so desperate that they argued that he was immune from prosecution and civil penalty, Ron DeSantis gets embarrassed by California governor Gavin Newsom in Fox News Sean Hannity moderated debate, Florida GOP chair and husband of the Moms of Liberty president accused of rape and sexual assault, apparently some guy named Doug Burgum was running for president, Israel may have had the Hamas attack plan for over a year, and much more!

Stories

• Henry Kissinger died and you should be more than OK with that
• Sayonara to the messiest bitch we’ve ever seen in Congress
  • Though perhaps he’s not quite done?
• Trump tries to argue he is immune from prosecution and civil penalty; fails
• Ol’ Pudding Fingers made a huge mistake while Gavin Newsom establishes himself as the 2028 DNC frontrunner
• Florida GOP chair - and husband of Moms for Liberty president - being accused of rape
• ND Gov Doug Burgam “suspends” “campaign”
• Looks like Israeli intelligence had Hamas’ attack plans a year before the attack happened

This Week in Stupid

• Trump co-defendant walks right into another charge
• Moron comes so close to saying the quiet part out loud, still kind of does? (MTG) - VIDEO

This week on Look Forward, Jay and Brad return to discuss Donald Trump's lawyers making the wild argument that he has never pledged to support the Constitution in a last ditch effort to fight off being removed from the ballot in Colorado, Fani Willis and her team in Georgia have made it clear that there will be no plea deals for Trump, Rudy Giuliani, or Mark Meadows. Hunter Biden offers to speak about his alleged corruption with the House of Representatives but only publicly, and the GOP rejects this out of hand. Former Fox NewsCorp head Rupert Murdoch to be deposed in the $2.7B defamation trial against Smartmatic. Republican Mitt Romney says he'd rather vote for a Democrat for president than Trump. Koch Network puts their money and power being Nikki Haley as their choice for Republican nominee. More than 800,000 people receive student debt forgiveness letters from President Joe Biden this week. Conservatives like Ben Shapiro, Candance Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Ted Cruz make a anti-trans comedy called Lady Ballers and it looks just as you'd expect.

This week on Look Forward, Jay and Brad return for a huge episode that covers just an absolutely bizarre week in American politics:

Democrats' Success in Elections Linked to Abortion Issue (New York Magazine): Unfortunately, I couldn't access this specific article. However, based on general trends in recent U.S. elections, it's likely that the article discusses how the abortion issue has become a significant factor in recent elections, potentially influencing voter turnout and preferences, particularly after the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Trump's Georgia Election Racketeering Case: A Georgia judge scheduled an emergency hearing following the release of confidential video evidence in the election-racketeering case against former President Donald Trump. Prosecutors filed an emergency request for a protective order after several videos leaked, detailing evidence provided by former co-defendants who have since pleaded guilty. Trump faces 13 state felony counts in this case, part of 91 total state and federal felony counts he faces in four jurisdictions.

Supreme Court Adopts New Ethics Code: The Supreme Court adopted its first code of ethics amidst criticism over undisclosed trips and gifts to some justices. However, the code lacks enforcement mechanisms and doesn't impose significant new requirements, leaving compliance to each justice's discretion.

Senator Joe Manchin's Decision Not to Seek Reelection: Senator Joe Manchin III announced he would not seek reelection, complicating Democrats' chances of retaining the Senate. His departure is especially impactful given his role as a conservative Democrat known for bipartisan deal-making.

House Vote on Speaker Mike Johnson's Plan to Avert Government Shutdown: The House voted on a plan proposed by Speaker Mike Johnson to prevent a government shutdown. The plan involved a short-term spending bill requiring significant Democratic support due to conservative opposition.

Senator Markwayne Mullin's Confrontation with Union Boss: Senator Markwayne Mullin, a former MMA fighter, nearly engaged in a physical altercation with Teamsters President Sean O’Brien during a Senate HELP Committee hearing. The confrontation was defused before it escalated into a physical fight.

Representative Tim Burchett Accuses Kevin McCarthy of Physical Altercation: Tennessee Representative Tim Burchett accused former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of elbowing him in the kidneys during an interaction at the Capitol. The incident reportedly occurred in the context of political tensions within the GOP.

Senator Tim Scott Drops Out of 2024 Presidential Race: Senator Tim Scott announced his withdrawal from the 2024 Republican presidential race, making the announcement just months before the Iowa caucuses. His departure was unexpected, given his previous campaign activities.

Stories

• Dems win big on election night and the reason shouldn’t surprise anyone
• Georgia Judge Schedules Emergency Hearing in Trump RICO Case Following Video Leaks
• Trump goes the full Adolf
• The Supreme Court’s new ethics code is a joke
• Joe Manchin will not seek re-election
• House passes a short-term funding bill...without the Free-dumb Caucus again
• GOP senator pretends to be a tough guy to a Union Boss
  • Kevin McCarthy throwing sharp elbows not just politically anymore
• Tim Scott fails to impress his girlfriend; drops out of Republican race

This week on Look Forward, Jay and Brad return to discuss the current situation with Donald Trump's NY fraud case, Trump forgets when he was president of the United States during his testimony, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson weird porn monitoring software usage with his son, the continuing nightmare in the Gaza Strip and what many people get very wrong about the situation there, House Republican introduce bill to expel Palestinians from the US, White House starts to take AI seriously for a stupid reason, polling shows us why we should ignore most polling a year before the presidential election, updates from voting night in America (a great night for Dems, and a terrible day for MAGA), and much more!

Stories

• Legal experts say NY AG got Trump to make "critical admission" in fraud testimony
• Trump Forgets What Years He Was President While on the Stand in NY Trial
  
  • Donald Trump's Attorney Pushes for a Mistrial
• Mike Johnson and his son monitor each other’s porn habits like normal people
• The current nightmare in the Gaza Strip
  • Netanyahu guarantees perpetual war with his statement on security
  • English version
• House Republican Introduces Bill to Expel Palestinians From the U.S.
• Alabama Mayor Kills Self After Right-Wing Blog Outs His Cross-Dressing
• Tom Cruise a major factor in the WH taking AI seriously
• Poll show just why you should ignore most polling right now