Observations: The QandO Podcast

The certainty of President Trump's collusion with the Russians has been replaced by certainty that the president obstructed justice. Or something. Jussie Smollett, for some reason, got to walk away from the 16 felony charges without admitting any guilt. The Spotlight is on Chicago DA Kim Foxx, as the state's association of district attorneys--and the DoJ--wonder how this prosecution got handled in the way it did. Democrats now feel that Joe Biden has a history of touching women inappropriately. This comes about 6 years after everybody else noticed it. Similarly, Pete Buttigeig, some Democrats say, is too white male to be elected, even though he is gay. AOC says the Green New deal would only cost $300 billion, even though everyone else says it's $93 trillion.

Just a few hours prior to the podcast, Robert Mueller delivered his investigation's report to the Department of Justice. The contents of the report are still unknown, though DoJ insiders say no prosecutions will result from the report. This doesn't stop the news media, and us, from speculating about the implications. What do we do about Google and other major tech companies, who increasingly control our public discourse? It's hard to know. Various peculiarities of the Democratic candidates for president are amusing. The big volcano outside of Mexico City, Popocpep--Potopoc--Pocapacap--the big volcano outside of Mexico City appears to be in danger of a major eruption. The SPLC's leadership has resigned, but new leadership to continue the profitable scam is being sought.

In Christchurch, NZ, a gunman entered two mosques and opened fire, killing dozens, and wounding many more, broadcasting it live on Facebook. Some Hollywood stars, among others, were arrested for felonies related to cheating to get their children into college. It might be understandable to commit a felony to get your kid into Harvard, but USC? That isn't worth more than a class C misdemeanor, surely. A bunch of testimony related to the FBIs involvement in the 2016 election was released. How 1/3 of the inhabitants of the FBI headquarters aren't already in jail is baffling. More Democrats have jumped into the 2020 presidential election ring. This should be...interesting.

Rep. Ilhan Omar said some stuff about Jews. Not good stuff, either, so Congress got together to censure her. But, after talking about it, decided a declaration that "hating stuff is bad" was good enough for government work. Paul Krugman observed that the Democratic party's anti-Semites were a much better class of Jew-hater than the Repubican ones. This country is heading down the tubes. In the meantime, though, it's still possible to live well. Still, it might be wise to teach your children how to use spears and bows and arrows. You know, just in case.

The Trump-Kim summit in Vietnam ended abruptly, because either Donald Trump's Korea policy is a total failure, or because Donald Trump is as wise as Reagan at Reykjavik. Take your pick. Michael Cohen went before Congress this week and said things. Republicans said everything they disagreed with were lies. Democrats said everything they disagreed with were lies, too. Nt sure where that leaves us, really. Two of the world's nuclear-armed states were, once again, at the brink of war this week. Ho-hum. Thre Green New Deal is estimated now to cost between $55-$98 trillion dollars over the next decade. Paying for it will require only a 100% income tax on all incomes over $30,000. So, you know, it's very affordable. Bernie Sanders, in fact, says it doesn't go far enough, presumably because it doesn't mention gulags. The author of the Green New Deal, AOC, continued to amaze the world with her wisdom.

The Jussie Smollett case reached a climax with his arrest by the Chicago Police Department for Disorderly Conduct and Filing a False Police report. CPD allege that Mr. Smollett wrote himself a threatening letter, then hired his assailants. We received this announcement with the appropriate shock and surprise. The 2019 Democratic presidential field seems eager to engage in a race to see who can more convincingly assure the voters that their election will usher in True Communism. AOC made it to Reuters "Top News" feed with a video showing her being licked by a happy dog. Top. News. The Supreme Court unanimously dealt a blow to states' asset forfeiture programs by announcing that certain programs were unconstitutional. Members of our vaunted political class are just as stupid and venal as the stupidest and most venal regular person you know.

Two men were arrested by CPD in the attack on Jussie Smollett. Apparently, Nigerians really love "MAGA Country". Amazon decided not to build a new HQ in NYC, prompting idiots to plan using their $3 billion in tax abatement to repair the subway, despite the fact that there is no $3 billion, nor will there be an additional $27 billion in tax revenues, or 25,000 new jobs, because money is not magical. Andrew McCabe detailed, then quickly backed away from, an admission that FBI officials discussed overturning the 2016 election through use of the 25th Amendment. One wonders what the new Attorney General thinks of all this. CA Governor Gavin Newsome finally admitted what the rest of us have known for a couple of years, which is that the bullet train project is utter BS.

Alexadria Ocasio-Cortez released her Green New Deal plan. Apparently, in the next 10 years, we will eliminate all air travel, the internal combustion engine, and rebuild every building in the United States. And the question isn't how we'll pay for all that, but how we'll deal with our new shared prosperity. And how to get to Hawaii. Apparently, every politician in the Commonwealth of Virginia has either dressed in blackface, or assaulted a woman. Donald Trump got his SOTU Address in, and trolled the Democrats without them realizing.

Jussie Smollet got attacked in Chicago by...somebody. His story can't seem to be confirmed by the police, but, who cares, it matches the preferred narrative.about 1,000 democrats are running for the presidential nomnation, including that Starbucks guy, Schultz, except he's running as an independent. Liz Warren had to apologize to the Cherokee tribe for her DNA test, in order to gun up her presidential run.

Catholic high school students were widely reported to have used their white privilege to start a confrontation with people of color and a wise native American elder. But it didn't happen that way. The kids, it turns out, were mobbed by lunatics. Not that the truth prevented the media from running with the former story...until it fell apart. Donald Trump "caved" on the border wall, and assented to re-opening the government. We have the feeling he's going to declare a national emergency on the border and build his damned wall anyway. An FBI SWAT team showed up at 5AM in Florida this morning to arrest noted criminal Roger Stone. Usually, you're supposed to ustify SWAT raids via some expectation of violence. I guess they thought that it was too dangerous to give Stone the chance to get to a wardrobe, get dressed, and blind the FBI agents with his sense of style and fashion. Noted political prisoner Jim Acosta published a book, detailing the dangers of being a brave truth-teller in AmeriKKKa.