In 10 days, The Taliban has comnpletely taken control of Afghanistan. Despite repeated assurances from the Biden administration, from defense officials all the way up to the president, that there would be no collapse...there was. It seems like we really are reliving the 1970s. Covid is real. The media and government's reaction to it is not. NASA can't get a mission back to the moon launched in time, becasue they need 5 years and a billuin dollars to make spacesuits. Inflation is back.

Joe Biden says he doesn't have the constitutional authority to reimpose a rent moratorium, but did it anyway. The Constituion is basically dead, except for lip service. Covid is still here. Probabaly always will be, now.

Joe Biden appears to be incrementally struggling more and more, but his stupid, arrogant, and vindictive replacement is waiting to take over. The Fed has admitted that inflation may not be, you know, temporary. The CDC is too arrogant to admit the things they simply don't know about COVID. California has just outlawed powerful gaming PCs, primarily because they are bought by the little people. China is lying about the casualties from their massive flooding, just like they lie about everything else. We've lost count of the number of biological genders that exist, apparently.

Jen Psaki admitted that the Biden adminitration helpfully points out "misinformation" on social media to the tech giants, which the tech companies then censor. We should be auditing every election on a random basis in every state. If the elections are being handled freelay and fairly, election officials should be perfectly amenable to this. Ex-Mandela, South Africa seems to be spiraling into the same dysfunction that makes life difficult in the rest of the continent. The Cuban people seem to be losing patience with their commie overlords.

Anthony Fauci's emails were released through a FOIA request. He doesn't seem like a very consistent fellow. AOC's grandmother is apparently living in desperate poverty in Puerto Rico and AOC was bitching about how awful that was. Since she didn't seem interested in actually doing anything about it, conservatives set up a GoFundMe for AOCs abuelita and raised tens of thousands of dollars to get her place fixed up. AOC is the queen of self-owns. The NFL annoucned that it was ending 'race-norming' for brain injury settlements. Sure, it was virulently racist policy, but it saved them a lot of money in settling brain injury cases, so they got their money's worth out of it. Remember the Durham investigation into FISA abuses, and how so many people were going to have to fce justice? Yeah. Good times. Good times.

The Senate Republicans rejected a senate investigation into the Jan 6 capitol riots, which are now permanently enshrined in the narrative as an "armed insurrection", although the rioters weren't actually carrying any, you know, guns. A teacher in Virginia was placed on administrative leave because he told the school board he didn't support the transgender policies of the school district. Immkigration is still a problem. We then conduct a lengthy critique of the film oeuvre of Mel Brooks. Youth in our society are increasingly celibate, and we wonder what it bodes for the future.

Lots of people are still vaccine hesitant, which we explore for a fairly long segment. We then seague into how much of this phenomenon can also be attributed to the corruption of our culture's sense-making apparatus. We then cut the podcast off early, because Dale didn't call his mother on her birthday, and judgement is approaching

The CDC has once ahgain revised their guidance on masks, which is that the vaccinated don't need to wear them, except for virtue signaling that they aren't conservatives. Once this COVID thing winds down, will employers be able to force people to return to the office without pushback? The Arizona election audit is getting a lot of online hate, but we should actually be doing thse kinds of audiots on a regular basis, to assure people that our election system actually works. And if you oppose such audits, we have a pretty good idea why. Inflation is back! Yay!

Watching the slide of America into decadence and srife gets tiring. Expertise has been politicized, and experts wonder why their advice is disregarded. Unemployment numbers werwe a disappointment, almost as if paying people not to work, incentivizes them not to work. OTOH, $27 trillion in debt is lurking out there in the shadows, just waiting. As are, apparently, millions of illegal immigrants. It looks like we're finally gonna get out of Afghanistan.

New Taxes are coming, so we got that goin' for us. Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd, on the same day that a policeman shot a black person. So the cycle continues, partially fueled by bad training on the part of cops, and bad behavior on the part of people who get shot.