The Observations Podcast

Donald Trump's executive department nominations have been met with varying levels of shock and disbelief in Washington, DC. In this podcast, we take a deep dive into the nominations Trump has made so far.

The 2024 Election is over, and Donald Trump looks to have taken it by a clean sweep. The wailing and gnashing of teeth on the left seems to indicate that they've learned nothing from defeat. But the more interesting question is what, if anything, Donald Trump has learned from his previous experience as president.

With two days left before the 2024 election, we try to get a sense of how things will go on Tuesday. TL;DR: We have no idea. We'll see when we do the Election Livestream on Tuesday night.

Both polling and betting averages have now switched over to favor Donald Trump to win the 2024 presidential election. We may be seeing the same sort of preference cascade that we saw with the Reagan-Carter race in 1980, where the electorate shifted strongly in the last two weeks of the campaign. Democrats, for the last weeks of the election campaign, have fallen back on their tried and true tactic of characterizing the Republican candidate as a devotee of 1930s Germany. Meanwhile, after three months into her campaign, Kamala Harris still can't explain why anyone should vote for her.

The Feds have launched a lawsuit against the state of Virginia for removing non-citizens from the Voter rolls. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris put out a new commercial, showing real men doing really manly things, in what may be the cringiest and least convincing political ad ever. Finally, the Democrats are clearly serious about gutting the 1st Amendment.

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.