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The No Kings rally was a great success.  There has never been a protest this large in American history!  The goal was to raise awareness of the moves being made to consolidate - or simply take - power into an authoritarian executive branch, and to remind everyone America has No Kings.

Maybe it had a side effect no one anticipated.  Maybe it made some of the MAGA faithful... question their faith.  Listen in and see what I mean!

Leaving MAGA website: Leaving MAGA - Leaving MAGA

David Remington's story: https://leavingmaga.org/they-left-maga/david-remington/

Huffington Post piece I mentioned: Former MAGA Supporters Reveal What Finally Made Them Dump Trump | HuffPost Life

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The National Guard is getting some bad press.  This is not the National Guard's fault though.  The Guard has a long, storied history in America, and this episode shares some of the highlights (and a low light too).  It also compares President Trump's use of the National Guard to other Presidents in history.

Spoiler Alert: it doesn't do Trump any favors.

Show Notes: 

Starbucks closing: Starbucks Closures May Signal A Shift In Consumer Values] 

Crime wave stories: Trump’s Tariffs and DOGE Will Set Off a Crime Wave | Opinion - Newsweek]  & Trump’s tariffs trigger unlikely crime wave across US] 

Foreclosure stories: Foreclosures are surging as U.S. homeowners grapple with rising costs - CBS News & Five-alarm warning for housing market as key crash indicator spikes 17% | Daily Mail Online 

National Guard stories: Little Rock Nine - Definition, Names & Facts | HISTORY  Selma to Montgomery March - MLK, Purpose & Distance | HISTORY  The Mariel Boatlift: How Cold War Politics Drove Thousands of Cubans to Florida in 1980 | HISTORY  Los Angeles Riots - 1992, Cause & Rodney King | HISTORY  

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The data exists, if we want to find it.  This is the job of some people.  But no one seems to be able to find it.  In this episode I present some data that makes me question the stability of the economy.  Some of it is uniquely Maddening.

Show Notes:

Cardboard slowdown: Cardboard-Box Demand Is Slumping. Why That’s Bad News for the Economy. - WSJ 

(Not) Leaving (for) Las Vegas: An Empty Strip And Fewer Tips: Is Las Vegas In Trouble? | TIME 

Disney World empty? Disney World 'empty' as Americans fear tourism is 'finished' in Florida - The Mirror US 

Seattle Coffee news: Seattle, a coffee haven, is watching java prices spike. Why? | The Seattle Times 

Both Soybean articles: By the numbers: Breaking down the global soybean trade | Reuters  & U.S. Soybean Harvest Starts with No Sign of Chinese Buying as Brazil Sets Export Record - Center for Commercial Agriculture 

Alabama Contruction impacted by ICE: Alabama builders rethink deportations as raids disappear hundreds of their ‘God-fearing, family-oriented’ immigrant workers 

What CEOs fear: ‘CEO Whisperer’ Exposes What GOP CEOs Secretly Fear Most About Trump | HuffPost Latest News 

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Ask an easy question, and sometimes you get a deep thoughtful response.

What killed Charlie Kirk is one of those questions.  Not who, but what.  This episode is off the cuff and relies on thoughts already recorded in past episodes.  Therefore, there are no real show notes - except to say... maybe listen to episode #3 again - or for the first time.

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Tariff, a hot button issue for sure.  In America, we argue - still - over who pays them (Hint: it is not the foreign nation).  We complain about how they increase prices.  We largely ignore the international consequences - but we better start paying attention.

The International Community is starting to re-align, and it is doing so without America whenever and wherever it can.  This is a tremendous unintended consequence of Trump's policies, and it is downright dangerous for America.

Links for the show:

Article on Lesotho: How tiny Lesotho ended up with the highest US tariffs in the world | AP News 

Newweek's piece on Levis: Levi's Issues Warning Over 'Rising Anti-Americanism' - Newsweek 

MSNBC article - yes, MSNBC, I know - on BRICS and stuff: Trump Fumes At BRICS — Now Other Nations Are Banding Together To Counter US Tariffs 

BBC article on BRICS: Brics: What is the group and which countries have joined? 

AP News coverage of the SCO in China: https://apnews.com/article/china-sco-putin-modi-xi-summit-95f1421de601960a9c569933862a09a0 

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In the throes of COVID-19 a movement gained power. A silly on, but still, Q Anon grew unexpectedly.

In hindsight it would be laughable that it ever happened, except for the damage done to our nation, and families and individuals.

Now we have a poor-man's "Q" trying similar tactics when everyone is much wiser, and a pandemic is not keeping us inside in front of screens anymore.

A Substack post of ludicrous nature attempts to start the crazy all over and fails.

The dubious Substack in question: Ex-CIA Whistleblower: "The NSA Audited The 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won" 

The Snopes article pouring cold water on it: Inspecting report on ex-CIA whistleblower who allegedly said NSA audit proved Harris won 2024 election | Snopes.com 

The really good case study tearing it apart: The Zarnowski File: A Case Study in Live Disinformation

Wikipedia (why not?) on Apophenia: Apophenia - Wikipedia 

Lastly, the really cool episode on political bias: episode #5, Bias in Politics 

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Who would have thought we would be here?  Camps now across multiple states, and most of the population recognizes them as what they are: concentration camps.

The crazy part is half of the people seem to be OK with concentration camps in the United States of America.

Show Notes:

Scientific American article: Trump’s Massive Deportation Plan Echoes Concentration Camp History | Scientific American 

 Andrea Pitzer's book: Amazon.com: One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps eBook : Pitzer, Andrea: Kindle Store

Mónica Guzmán's book: I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times: Guzmán, Mónica: 9781637740323: Amazon.com: Books

Pitzer's Smithsonian article: Concentration Camps Existed Long Before Auschwitz 

Stanley Karnow's book: Amazon.com: In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines eBook : Karnow, Stanley: Kindle Store

An Overton Window primer: The Overton window explained | The Week

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Jeffrey Epstein has a sorted past.  Ghislane Maxwell, his partner in crime is serving 20 years for human trafficking and other sex crimes.  Both of these notorious people have ties to President Trump from the 1980s to the mid-2000s.

In this episode I put together a pretty comprehensive timeline of events and crimes and how the lives of two of the most notorious pedophiles and human traffickers crossed paths so many times with the President of the United States of America - and what, if any, role the 1st lady plays in all of it.

No show notes, because there were dozens of links, articles, PDFs, and it was way too much to list here.  I provide the source media outlets at the end of the episode!

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The Trump Administration and the Supreme Court - frienemies?

Trump continues to try to bully law firms, and has some success, and some failures.  Why does Trump continue to attack the legal system?  How does he get away with it?

For the answer to these questions and more we welcome back Professor Balderas, first amendment lawyer and friend of the show!

No show notes - it is an interview after all!

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Sometimes things go another direction, and the perfect opportunity arrives.

I wanted to speak about how I get news sources for some time, and I also thought it would be an injustice to not touch of some of the most important current events.  When scheduling conflicts kept a guest off the show, lemonade from lemons!

This week I hit REAL news, inflation, The Supreme Court (or rather, I don't), the Senate's budget bill, and a brief look at why we may have entered the fray against Iran.  Hold tight!

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