The Observations Podcast

Despite assuring us that they're on top of things, reports from the scene of the devastation in North Carolina indicate that, once again, FEMA is incapable of responding to a disaster quickly or competently. Plus, we look at how changes in both parties are resulting in a massive re-alignment in American politics.

Nearly every major institution in every Western country suffers from a crisis of legitimacy. Government's won't deliver on the policies the electorate wants. The news media won't tell the factual, objective truth. Entertainment is more interested in ideology than entertaining. Education has become more indoctrination than training to seek the truth. A Golden Age is coming to an end, and the future doesn't look promising.

Once again, Donald Trump escaped an assassination attempt, with the shooter being driven off by gunfire from Secret Service, and apprehended shortly thereafter. How much does the political rhetoric around Donald Trump contribute to a climate of violence? Well, at least this will probably short-circuit what was turning into an impending 4-day news cycle about his ill-advised Taylor Swift post.

In this episode, we discuss the state of the current presidential race, including Trumps sentencing delay, the upcoming debate and much more. We conclude, however, by discussing what it means to live in, as one of our chat commenters put it, a "post-reality society." Because that's the direction in which we're heading.

The sheer amount of narrative-pushing and propaganda on display in today's media is astounding. Americans have no idea how often they're lied to by the media, as well as by every other major institution.

Performing a Google news search to find stories on Kamala Harris' proposed tax on unearned income produces interesting results...or rather, a LACK of interesting results. The importance of which is not what Google shows you, but what it refuses to show. You can, of course, find the stories elsewhere, such as a news search in the Brave search engine. But not in Google. Now, perhaps it's some sort of weird error. Or, perhaps, it's an integral part of manufacturing a false consensus by withholding information in the world's most popular search engine.

We start the episode by looking at how the Left and Fascism are inextricably intertwined, even though the traditional political spectrum places them on opposite ends. We also discuss the propagandization of the media, and why society seems to be in such constant flux and anxiety.

Since Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden as the Democrat's presidential candidate, the race has turned from a shoo-in for Trump to a Harris lead. In this podcast, we discuss how the Trump campaign strategy has responded. So far, the response…doesn't look very effective.

This week, we start by discussing the Democrats' switch from Joe Biden to Kamala Harris as their party's presidential nominee. But looking at how the changeover was handled raises issues of how American media is increasingly propagandized and, even more frighteningly, the rise of what Michael Shellenberger calls the Censorship Industrial Complex.

This week, we discuss the events surrounding the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.