Observations: The QandO Podcast

A federal judge looked askance at Robert Mueller's invstigation of Paul Manafort. We discussed allowing you people to call int the show...but probably won't. It looks like there'll be a summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un. This is the best of all possible times to be alive. Some poor teenage girl wore an Chinese dress to prom and exposed herself to twitter rage from idiots.

We're back, after a hiatus last week, trying to catch up on everything that's happened. The DNC is suing Trump for winning the election, under a tort theory called "I'm butthurt!". Jim Comey's book tour and memo releases reveal him to have the character and decisiveness of the 13 year-old girl. A Fresno state professor declared that she was glad Barbara Bush is dead, and may lose her job over it. At what point to do we stop just tut-tutting about Progressive lunacy, and enforcing their own rules on them? Also, why does education in general suck in this country?

A Chicago suburb has banned all high-capacity firearms on pain of a $1,000 per day fine, while a Federal court in Massachussetts upheld the state's 'Assault Weapons' ban. This is a worrying trend. Kevin Williamson was hired, then fired by the Atlantic based on his pro-life stance. Progressives want you silent and cowed. Wierd things are happening in the Middle East. Could we we be seeing the start of an Islamic Reformation?

Congress passed an Omnibus spending bill for the next six months that funds everything the government does, except for what Republicans and Donald Trump said it should. But Trump will sign it anyway. John Bolton is going back into government is National Security Advisor. The Blue Check Mark crowd is having a cow about it. There's going to be a big gun control march in Washington this weekend. Out political culture continues to decline.

As the podcast got going, the Justice Department announced that Andrew McCabe had been fired from the FBI. At least someone in DC is being held accountable for something. Hillary Clinton said women are useless and weak. Then she fell down and broke her wrist. Republicans lost a House seat in Pennsylvania to a Democrat who loves God, guns, and guts...so, basically a Republican. Teenagers continued to expound on their deep wisdom. The 2018 election seems to be a lock for Democrats to take back the House, so they've decided to run on banning guns, raising taxes, and open borders. We'll see if that's what the electorate actually wants.

Donald Trump will reportedly meet with Kim Jong-Un in a summit meeting, the first Meeting between a US President and NoKo dictater in history. We'll see how that goes. Posing for pictures with Louis Farrakhan seems to be a relatively normal obligation for Democrats, in precisely the same way the Republicans posing with David Duke is not. Meanwhile, the Nation of Islam's newspaper is quick to point out that accusations that Farrakhan is anti-semitic are just "Jewish lies". California's new high-speed train from LA to Frisco will now cost about $100 million. Not that it'll ever be built. Also, California is in more or less open insurrection against the Federal government on immigration. Millennials are awful, and don't know how to debate.

This week has been all about gun control, and the House Democrats introduced a bill that would ban all semi-automatic firearms. Meanwhile, we've been deluged with a mass of misinformation about the deadliness of the AR-15 by people who know literally nothing about it. The president decided that consumers, apparently, aren't paying enough for goods made with steel and aluminum, so he announced a 25% tariff on them. Google, Facebook and Twitter are very powerful, but maybe we want to think before trying to regulate them as common carriers. If we do, we'll NEVER get rid of them. Georgia punished Delta Airlines for discontinuing the NRA discount that only 13 customers have ever used. Not the government of Georgia's business, really. Though one of us seems to disagree.

There were, apparently, 4 Broward County Sheriff's Deputies on scene at the Parkland shooting who did nothing but take cover. They were still taking cover when Coral Gables PD arrived and went into the shooting scene. The BCSO Deputies just waited for...something...while they listened to 17 kids get shot and killed. Unbelievable. CNN had a town hall--more of an anti-gun hatefest really, where BCSO Sherrif Israel--who must have already known about his deputies doing nothing on scene--blamed gun owners. It's all so tragic and depressing. So is the anti-gun crowd's insisence that guns be banned or confiscated. So depressing that Bruce and Dale just switched over to telling humorous war stories.

There was another mass shooting at a school. All of the usual one-line "solutions" are bing offered. But, the problem is much too deep and cultural for any of them to work. The Mueller investigation resulted in 13 indictments of Russians who will never be arraigned, so, we got that going for us. The Obamas had their oddicial portraits painted. They're very...arty.

The super-important intelligence committee memo was released today. We learned, more or less, nothing we didn't already know or suspect. The FBI did use the Steele Dossier to get a FISA surveillance warrant, as we suspected. Which is no small deal, but also isn't Watergate. Trump gave a well-received SOTU address, during which Democrats mainly sat on their hands, and refused to applaud soldiers, cops, jobs, or America. Sure, Trump may be a narcissistic buffoon that they don't like, but shouldn't they at least pretend to be happy the country isn't descending into some sort of post-apocalyptic hell? Guess not. Congress seems cmpletely incapable of doing what is arguably their primary job. The FBI's activity--and that of the Federal Bureaucracy as a whole--can be explained without resort to conspiracy by remembering that its leadership is composed mainly of butt-covering bureaucrats who are marginally competent.