Observations: The QandO Podcast

Bob Mueller has impaneled a Grand Jury for his Special Prosecution, exactly unlike what happened during the Hillary Clinton investigation. H.R. McMaster loves terrorists. Donald Trump may be the nation's first impeachable president. Sean Hannity, heaven help us, is actually right about the "deep state". Will America's national divorce be amicable? Race relations: Then and now.

The Republican party is the party of fail. Obamacare will not be repealed, but Paul Ryan promises that tax reform will be completed real soon, now. President Trump banned transgender Americans from serving in the military via policy tweet. Hey, I bet you didn't know that a company called Fusion GPS collected anti-Trump material from Russian government offials on behalf of the Democratic National Committee and disseminated it to the media, did you? Yeah, I thought not. But, remember, Russia, Russia, Russia!

Just about everything that can go wrong in Washington DC is going wrong. President Pence is gonna have a huge mess to clean up next year. Obamacare still can't be repealed. The health care system's a mess, but the only acceptable solution is apparently more government-provided health care. Too many people now just see government as the good daddy who gives everyone a pony on their birthday.

The news media has one currency, credibility, and they're squandering it by crying wolf about Donald Trump and attacking randos who post memes on the Internet. Donald Trump gave a pro-Western Civ speech in Poland, or, depending on who's reporting it, spouted off a bunch of White Nationalist dog whistles. Economics is not really a science. People don't trust experts. Oh, and it appears that the major networks have been falsifying their Nielsen ratings. Which sounds a lot like, you know, fraud.

This week brings us the sad story of a very ill baby in the UK, named Charlie Gard. His parents have raised $2 million to bring him to the US for an experimental treatment. The government has refused to allow them to do so, or even take him home to die. The government says that it's in the child's best interest to be left to die in the hospital. So, UK residents now know who owns their children. Meanwhile, in this country, the week's big news is that the president of the United States has engaged in a Twitter war with a couple of TV talking heads.

Technically, it's possible to have served in Afghanistan as an E-1 Private and now be a Sergeant First Class. We've been there for 15 years, and we have no clue when we'll leave or what victory is. Which is interesting to think about, considering we seem to staggering towards another war in Syria. BTW, what's the deal with new Saudi Crown Prince? He'll need to do something to replace that oil money. Have you hugged a fracker today?

Jim Lakely is our guest tonight, and we spend a lot of time talking about the climate, the Paris Accords, and suchlike. Lots of useful info about the environment and climate change. Oh, and Climate Change is a galactically stupid term.

James Comey is a giant of a man, who fearlessly bestrides the political landscape like a pouty, teenage girl. Unlike the President, who only tweets like a pouty, teenage girl. The Brits had an election. No one won. Happily, that includes aging commie Jeremy Corbin, who has never been right about anything, up to and including what the current time or date might be. Socialism, by the way, is the failure that we apparently can't help repeating. I guess we'll do it until we get it right. We don't really know what the American--or British, apparently--people want from their government. There's just an increasing dissatisfaction with how our governments work in the West.

Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Climate Accord, although we weren't actually in it, since it was never ratified by the Senate. But, you know, he hates Mother Gaia. That doesn't change the fact that the climate science is settled...if by "settled" you mean "asserted without a falsifiable hypothesis or working predictive model". In fact, there's a lot of strange "science" getting published, like gender theory mathematics and whatnot. Meanwhile, Kathy Griffin posed for an unflattering picture of Donald Trump--or his head, at least--and now is complaining that we didn't all get the joke. Meanwhile, the DNC is being sued by Bernie Sanders supporters, because the DNC's nominating process was fixed. Like Superdelegates didn't already make that obvious.

Trump went to Saudi Arabia, and told Middle Eastern leaders to drive out terrorists. We'll see how that works. He also fondled the Palantir with Suruman. Then he went to Europe and a NATO conference where he shoved around the Prime Minister of Montenegro or something, then called the other NATO members freeloaders. Which, essentially, they are. The news media is worthless, but, soon, they'll have their impeachment victory. Or not. Meanwhile SJWs try to enforce their views on all of the rest of us. There was a terror attack in Manchester, England, though the motivation for this attack may never be known. Speaking of becoming useless, how's that Federal Judiciary working?