Observations: The QandO Podcast

Nancy Pelosi, et al., were on an Air Force bus, being driven to an Air Force base to catch an Air Force plane to Brussels, when Donald Trump canceled their flight, saying it was inappropriate for them to jet off to Belgium while the government was shut down. Hilarity ensued. Buzzfeed released a story from unidentified sources, saying that the Mueller investigation had proof that Donald Trump ordered Michael Cohen to lie to Congress. For nearly a day, progressives got "President Pelosi" trending on Twitter. There were only two problems. Mueller's public spokesman released a statement saying the story was wrong, and getting rid of Trump won't make Nancy Pelosi president. Gillette decided that the best way to sell men's razors was to tell men that they were assholes. This may not have been the best ad campaign available. PM Theresa May's Brexit plan crashed in flames in Parliament. They then voted down a No Confidence vote and dumped the whole mess back in her lap. A No Deal Brexit looms in March, and a lot of Brits seem fine with it.

It's a new year, which means it's time to kick off a new season of the podcast. Several things happened during our hiatus. None of them particularly good. The Government shutdown entered it's third week this week, with neither side budging. All Democrats have to do over the next two years is not be crazy, and they're failing at that. On, the other hand, Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King publicly asked why people say "white supremacy" like it's a bad thing, so there's plenty of stupidity to go around. Sargon of Akkad was kicked off of Patreon, and went to SubscribeStar, after which Paypal and Stripe stopped processing payments for SubscribeStar. This is beginning to look a lot like collusion. Alexandra Ocasio Cortez can't explain how to fund her policies, but she sure can do a sexy, undulating little dance. So, she's got that going for her.

Our sick culture isn't getting any better. And that's true of both our political and popular culture. Dale and Michale take a long tour through the present morass.

The Mueller investigation has not reached a stage where we can definitively say that Donald Trump either did, or did not, collude with Russia to win the election. Russia is playing a dangerous game in Ukraine. Saudi journalist Jamil Kashoggi is still dead. So, it the Republican Party, though not everyone seems to know it yet.

A Federal judge ordered the White House to allow CNN's Jim Acosta back into the press room, so he can resume yelling "Look at me!" Florida's close elections have exposed more media double-standards. What is up with our culture?

The election 2018 Midterm election is over...well...mainly. It seill seems to be going on in Arizona, as ballots there are apparently delivered by ox cart and stagecoach, and in Florida, as ballots there are manufactu--I mean, carefully counted. Nancy Pelosi is set to take over as Speaker of the house, on the back of the Democrats' 40-ish plus seat gain. we can now look forward to two years of little legislation, but highly-entertaining investigations of Donald Trump.

The election is coming up on Tuesday, and there's general agreement that we have no idea what the congressional result will be. Contra Max Boot and Tom Nichols, both parties need to face a massive defeat at the hands of the voters. The caravan of "migrants" draws ever closer. There is some controversy over whether birthright citizenship required by the 14th Amendment. The odd double standard the media has about unacceptable rhetoric, based on who uses that rhetoric, is getting harder to ignore.

A Florida man sent out packages contains bombs--or pseudo bombs; it's not entirely clear--to CNN, President Obama, and others who've been on the receiving end of President Trump's rhetoric. Crazy people gonna crazy, but it's all Trump's fault anyway. Megyn Kelly was forced to undergoe a mandatory self-criticism session publicly on NBC, before being booted off of NBC and being sent to the employment equivalent of a re-education camp. The lesson being: never apologize, because it's pointless. The Progressive Left doesn't want your apology. They want your career destroyed for committing heresy. Feminist game developer Jessica Price was fired from ArenaNet because, as she says, she refused to let men own her. But, as everyone else says, she publicly went off on the company's customers on Twitter. There is a caravan of 7,000 migrants walking through Mexico to the US border. How they are eating, drinking, and going poo every day is a complete mystery.

Saudi Arabia finally admitted that Jamil Kashoggi dies after a "fight broke out". Also, it was a rogue operation, of which they're getting to the bottom. COngressman Justin Amash, however, is apparently certain he knows what happened, so he has introduced a bil to cancel arms sales to the kingdom. Three weeks before the election. Elizabeth Warren took a DNA test that she says proves that she had native American ancestry, though it is about half of what the average white person has. Listeners were...unimpressed. We survey the upcoming election, and some of the races, We hope Democrats keep sending money--and lots of it--to 'Beto' O'Rourke. Maybe China doesn't want political freedom. We remain perpelexed at how Donald Trump manages to be effective at implementing policy.

We return after a 1-week hiatus to spike the football over Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court. The Left isn't happy about this whole thing, of course, as you can tell from the unending wailing and gnashing of teeth that is still going on. Hopefully this craziness will cause voters to force the Democrats back to more reasonable positions than eliminating due process. The press' behavior during this whole affair has been...clarifying. Saudi Arabia is playing a dangerous game.