Observations: The QandO Podcast

Peter Strzok...Szchtrok....Stroczk...whatever his name is, testified before Congress this week, so we finally got a look at him. His performance as the movie villain was just too over-the-top for me to suspend disbelief and enjoy the story. Brett Kavanaugh was nominated to go to the Supreme Court and roll back Constitutional rights to the Colonial Era, apparently. Donald Trump went to the NATO Summit, called them a bunch of freeloaders, and demanded they pay up, like Ray Liotta in "Goodfellas". He now goes to Finnald to genuflect before Vladimir Putin and give the Russians Alaska back, by all accounts. As usual, this week, it was all about Russia, Russia, Russia, with the DoJ essentially indicting Russian Military Intelligence for crimes that will never go to trial. So, we now have TWO indictments from Mueller's team for which which no arraignments or trials will ever occur. British lefties unveiled their "Hindenberg-sized" Trump Parody balloon. And, by "Hindenburg-sized" they apparently meant, "about 5 feet tall". It had all the spectacle and drama of the 12-inch Stonehenge from "Spinal Tap".

An adult assaulted a 16 year-old for wearing a MAGA hat. In Texas. Hilarity ensued. Scott Pruitt left the EPA. Also, we just talked about a lot of different stuff. It's kind of a potpourri episode.

Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement announcement continued the Left's exploding head syndrome. There was weeping and gnashing of teeth among Progressives at the thought of another conservative justice. The #4 House Democrat lost a primary to a young commie. Hey, here's a question for progressives: If you're weeping because a justice retires, does it ever occur to you that the Court may have to much power over your life? LOL, no, of course not. The california Supreme Court ruled that, just because it's impossible to comply with the law, doesn't mean the law can be overturned. Rod Rosenstein testified before a testy congress this week.

Note: The first 30 seconds or so of the show is missing. This week, the Trump Adminstration was castagated for an immigration policy that's been in place since 1997. When Obama was running it, Democrats cautioned us not to polticize this difficult issue. Now, it's the equvalent of Nazi concentration camps. The media is a simply a propaganda outfit. Melania Trump, though, wore a tone-deaf jacket, which Trump turned against the media. The Supreme Court released a couple of interesting rulings concerning the 4th Amendment and Internet taxation. Nobody knows tech like 70 year-old lawyers. The long-expected Civil War II seems to be inching closer. The SPLC settled a British libel suit for $3.5 million, money they deserved to lose.

The US/North Korea Summit went off without a hitch. Depending on who you listen to, it was a diplomatic feat of world-historical dimensions, or waste of time that accomplished nothing. The DoJ released the IG report on the Hillary Clinton email investigation. We didn't really learn anything new, but it confirmed that the FBI's headquarters personnel are both troublesome and arrogant. California has decided that 55 gallons of water per day per person is more than enough water than you need. Unless you need to, you know, shower and do laundry on the same day. In addition to a trade war with Europe and Canada, Donald Trump is kicking off one with China, as well. Two words: Smoot-Hawley. Two more words: Great Depression. The ANC-led government of South Africa appears keen to follow exactly the same path of policy failure that has turned large swathes of the African continent into poverty-stricken hell-holes.

Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade committed suicide this week, and suicide is on the increase nationally. Why are we unhappy? Has the Internet destroyed community? If so, how do we fix it. The culture has also changed our politics. We're harsher and less forgiving of others with whom we disagree. We don't have any answers to this, of course, but we do engage in a long discussion about it.

Roseanne Barr got herself fired for an intemperate personal tweet. Meanwhile, Samantha Bee called Ivanka Trump a c*nt on national TV, but she's fine. Black voters seem to be more well-disposed towards the Trump Administration, while the Democrats' lead in the generic congressional polling has turned negative. Maybe the voters don't like Liberal busybodies telling them how to live any more than they like it when conservative busybodies do. We've let tariff restrictions expire for Canada, Mexico, and the EU. Welcome back Smoot-Hawley! At least, this time, Japan doesn't have a navy. The on-off-on again summit with Kim Jong-Un is back on. Trump made some pardons that seem to be a bit politically...pointed. Finally, the EPA was rocked by another financial scandal when it was revealed that the agency bought a dozen fountain pens at the going market price.

Someone forgot to record the first minute of the podcast. It was frickin' brilliant, too. Just because someone is covertly gathering intelligence on the Trump campaign on behalf of a government agency, that's no reason to call him a "spy". Spy is such a loaded term. We have moved, by the way, from "Asserting someone spied on the rump campaign is insane," to "The spying was for Trump's own good!" Um...OK. The DOJ has released the secret draft of the DoJ IG report on the FBI's Clinton Email investigation. Can't wait to read it. Trump canceled the NoKo summit with Kim Jong-Un. Like the Spanish Inquisition, nobody expected it. Cops are not racists who just want to shoot black people. They're shooting whites, they're shooting Asians, they're shooting indiscriminately. And that should be applauded. A federal judge ruled that it is unconstitutional for Donald Trump to block people on Twitter, because reasons.

There was another school shooting today, which is super depressing. There may or may not be a summit with North Korea. The DOJs IG report on the election seems to be drawing to a close. The Dems seem to have decided t0 make a midterm election run on raising taxes, confiscating guns, harboring illegal immigrants, and impeaching the president. We'll see how that works, I guess. Pro tip: If you're going to commit armed robery on a group of moms, be sure that one of them isn't a 20-year veteran of the national police.

The Iran Nuclear deal is dead. This what happens when a presidential administration makes a unilateral decision not backed by Congress, then leaves office. Pro Tip: Senate ratification is important. The North Korean Summit is set to go ahead in Neutral Singapore. Iranian-supported Hezbollah units ineffectually attacked Israel from Syria. Israel's response was...less ineffectual. The FBI is still refusing to comply with Congressional subpoenas. Also, "subpoena" is spelled really strangely. A group of police chiefs says that if marijuana is legalized, they'll have to kill all their police dogs, because reasons.