I'm loving the summaries. I live in Budapest, Hungary, an interesting place, I'm sure you will agree. With the time difference, I don't always have time to listen to the whole broadcast so these summaries are invaluable. I'm a pensioner so will give some money as and when I can afford it.
That’s the beauty of these updates man, you can catch the shape of the storm even if you don’t catch every word. And Budapest? Yeah, I’d say that’s an interesting vantage point right now.
What you said about giving when you can hit me. There are a lot of us writing, reporting, documenting quietly, steadily trying to connect dots before they disappear beneath the noise. Support matters, but so does presence. And yours shows up.
If you’re ever curious how someone with a front-row seat to the inside has been tracking all this, I’ve been writing through it. Quietly, but purposefully. Click my name if you ever want to read more.
Ah, yes another morning bulletin from the algorithmic apocalypse, read aloud with the soothing cadence of impending collapse. Let us begin with the former President, Donald Trump a man whose inner monologue appears to have been ghostwritten by a drunk Joseph McCarthy on Truth Social. This week, Trump alleged that Barack Obama, who seems to haunt him with the persistence of a well spoken poltergeist, led a coup against him. A coup! One imagines Obama in Bermuda shorts, sipping tea, coordinating deep-state coups between jump shots and Nobel peace prizes. Treason, no less because nothing says “credible legal strategy” like demanding the arrest of your predecessor live on air, as if history is being directed by a Fox Nation intern on ketamine.
Naturally, Barack Obama responded with calm reason, which in Trump’s world is considered an act of violence. But it gets better Trump then lashes out at Jimmy Kimmel, proving once again that the man holds the nuclear codes is now engaged in a blood feud with late night comedians. I would say “how the mighty have fallen,” but in Trump’s case, one is hard-pressed to find the altitude from which he could plummet. Then there’s the economic wizardry. Trump promises drug prices will drop by 1,000%, which mathematically implies pharmaceutical companies will pay you to take medicine, and gas will cost less than the bottle of water you wept into while reading this. His solution to European car imports? A tantrum disguised as policy. At this rate, by 2026, he’ll be threatening to nationalize IKEA if they don’t rename “Skörgflön” something American, like “Chad.” Meanwhile, his economic surrogates are trying to reinvent tariffs like they’re launching a diet cola. “No, no, the consumer doesn’t pay—it just disappears into the ether!” Perhaps next they’ll say gravity is fake news invented by Big Apple. And somewhere in this clown car of news, a 73-year-old senator freezes mid-sentence on live television, and we’re told it’s a “technical glitch.” Of course. America’s ruling class is now either under indictment, glitching, or quoting QAnon in committee meetings. Governance by Ghost in the Shell. But don’t worry, there’s still time for moral clarity like firing a self-described fascist after he appears on camera saying he’s a fascist. Bravo. The bar is not only low, it’s now buried beneath the alligator-infested ruins of some hellish detention center we’re calling “Alligator Alcatraz.” A phrase so perfectly American it might as well be sponsored by Monster Energy and civil rights violations.
And finally, the Democrats eternally committed to blaming no one, especially not the man who’s spent the last three years mistaking governance for a nap schedule. Their 2024 autopsy will be conducted with all the seriousness of a cooking show, except no one’s in the kitchen and the oven’s on fire.
So yes, do subscribe because if this is the preview, the full show might just be the world’s last surviving satire.
You should have your own show. Excellent articulation of the nightmare before doomsday and broadcasting in a very poignant manner that sums up the entire situation of a reality show government that’s gone rogue.
20 something social media influencers are setting policy while grown men like Bessent are articulating them looking like utter fools. Perhaps we should be asking how much it's costing for Loomer, McMahon, Pirro, Leavitt etc to sculpt their faces when millions including children are being thrown off health care & food. This is an orgy. I'd like to hear your show on this. Your writing truly lightens up the tension. Love it.
Honestly? The freakin scariest part of all this isn’t the fact that Trump said something outrageous again. It’s that no one around him seems to have the courage or the leverage to stop it.
He’s throwing out wild distractions. Obama. Gas prices. Maxwell. CBS and blah blah …But look closer, and it’s always the same pattern: delay, deny, deflect. What’s different now is that the playbook isn’t working. And the people who should be pulling the fire alarm are either on vacation or watching it burn for sport.
I used to be close enough to see how narratives get managed, how people with power stall for time, how silence becomes policy. And even I’m floored by how far the Overton window has shifted.
That’s the mood right now. And it’s how democracies rot in silence.
The problem is his party also seems to have dementia. Meanwhile the House wants to hold hearings on Bidens dementia. I hold little hope that Dems can figure this out.
When you cannot beat them maybe you need to join them in some way. By that find enough sane Republicans who do not have weak knees, support them for mid-terms so they can win in the primaries. Then maybe you might get them to impeach him finally. We are only talking maybe 20 candidates to save the ship.
How can anything's price be reduced by 1,000%? A 100% reduction brings the price to zero. Trump should be nailed for these childish errors more often. On another point, Republican voices point out, in relation to the Epstein issues, that the DOJ took no action from 2021 to 2025 when, and I quote, "The Democrats HAD CONTROL of the DOJ." The WH should not and, in the past, did not CONTROL the DOJ. It was only under Trump that the DOJ fell under the WH's CONTROL.
Trump is alleged to be innumerate: unable to read a balance sheet -- which would help to account for his numerous bankruptcies.
So it might take a very good maths teacher (hard to find) to explain to him the idiocy of his stating that the price of anything has been "reduced 1,000%". Which might best be reinterpreted as waiving the price altogether, and offering a 900% (x 9) bonus instead.
Hate to admit it, but Trump is smarter than he appears. He knows saying stupid stuff drives the Dems crazy. This is his way of creating chaos so his political enemies will waste time and energy trying to nail him. Does not work. He knows full well how to read balance sheets and when they do not add up, bankruptcy always fixes it. Blame him all you want as he heads to the bank for another deal. Next to BT Barnum, Trump has got to rank as one of the world's greatest conmen.
You are right, Watergate would not have been prosecuted under this administration. Our founding fathers thought the 3 branches of govt would balance each other out. Well that has gone out the window. Time to redo the constitution to reduce the power of the pardon so there can be no conflict of interest. Also there needs to be a limit to the number of pardons granted and not done at the last minute on the way out of office.
Also need to limit power of president to remove people he does not like. DOJ should be independent and not headed by loyalists. FBI agents DOJ lawyers should only be fired for cause and not for cases they handled. These are civil servants who in most cases get paid less than their private counterparts. They do it for less because in the end they get a retirement.
Why repeat what you know are lies? Here we go again, putting the responsibility on President Obama to literally defend what we know is nothing more than character assassination by the real treasonous white man who lies like he breathes. I am so sick of folks, by virtue of repeating his lies, giving that thing playing President, legitimacy.
“On economic policy, Trump said drug prices would be reduced by 1,000 percent, and claimed gas prices had dropped to $1.99 in several states—figures that contradict official data. He also threatened to ban European car imports if pharmaceutical companies don’t comply.”
A 1000 percent reduction, aye? He just pulls figures out of his arse!
That means the pharmaceutical companies will be paying their consumers 10 times the current cost of the medications to take them off their hands. Not a particularly good business model. 🤣
Anyone who believes Trump on that is a complete fucking idiot!
Call them idiots but they put him in office and the non-idiots lost. Most probably flunked math in school so those figures would not bother them. Gas prices have been on the way up and would normally factor into the next election. However I bet they will go down magically in 2026 before elections.
I don't blame Biden nor Harris for their loss. I blame the people who voted for Trump and are now surprised that he has become a dick tater .... AND I blame the tens of millions who didn't vote at all.
Thank you, the silent majority stayed home and they are the real reason for the loss. Trump won the population count by only 1.62%. Yes he did win the electorial college by a wide margin, but that was just 7 states, who are now paying the price. The CLEAR MANDATE is a joke.
Yes. Very good idea. The obnoxiousness of mr trumpf is truly breathtaking. I hope a nice settlement against trumpf of a couple of dozen millions might be just the thing.
I am a democrat. I think we Democrats must own our own party's policy and follow-through mistakes as well as the good we have done. Of course we also must throw out absurd accusations like blaming former President Barack Obama of treason (rather funny when you consider who is accusing him). I do not think the Democratic leadership owns up to our shortcomings and blunders, however, with 100 percent openness. Kate Delano-Condax Decker
Trump's absurd and outrageous accusations of an attempted coup by Obama appear to be a straightforward attempt at distraction, from ever more embarassing MAGA demands to reveal Epstein's prestigious clients. An unsuccessful "dead cat" technique.
Unless Trump is really that paranoid? More like he still believes that MAGA cult followers are still willing to believe anything he tells them...
Trump is such a victum. Everyone is always picking on him. Oh brother nothing worse than a bully who is a whiny baby always wanting sympathy but never having any sympathy for others.
Hi David, Congratulations! Just saw you on Channel 4 news in the UK just a moment ago. Great that you are being recognised as a serious voice on the situation in the US! Maybe BBC next?
Your summaries are excellent. Reminds me of the time when news reporting was just news, not editorials. While I do appreciate your opinion on various news items, coming from a background in journalism, I understand the difference. Thank you.
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I'm loving the summaries. I live in Budapest, Hungary, an interesting place, I'm sure you will agree. With the time difference, I don't always have time to listen to the whole broadcast so these summaries are invaluable. I'm a pensioner so will give some money as and when I can afford it.
That’s the beauty of these updates man, you can catch the shape of the storm even if you don’t catch every word. And Budapest? Yeah, I’d say that’s an interesting vantage point right now.
What you said about giving when you can hit me. There are a lot of us writing, reporting, documenting quietly, steadily trying to connect dots before they disappear beneath the noise. Support matters, but so does presence. And yours shows up.
If you’re ever curious how someone with a front-row seat to the inside has been tracking all this, I’ve been writing through it. Quietly, but purposefully. Click my name if you ever want to read more.
Ah, yes another morning bulletin from the algorithmic apocalypse, read aloud with the soothing cadence of impending collapse. Let us begin with the former President, Donald Trump a man whose inner monologue appears to have been ghostwritten by a drunk Joseph McCarthy on Truth Social. This week, Trump alleged that Barack Obama, who seems to haunt him with the persistence of a well spoken poltergeist, led a coup against him. A coup! One imagines Obama in Bermuda shorts, sipping tea, coordinating deep-state coups between jump shots and Nobel peace prizes. Treason, no less because nothing says “credible legal strategy” like demanding the arrest of your predecessor live on air, as if history is being directed by a Fox Nation intern on ketamine.
Naturally, Barack Obama responded with calm reason, which in Trump’s world is considered an act of violence. But it gets better Trump then lashes out at Jimmy Kimmel, proving once again that the man holds the nuclear codes is now engaged in a blood feud with late night comedians. I would say “how the mighty have fallen,” but in Trump’s case, one is hard-pressed to find the altitude from which he could plummet. Then there’s the economic wizardry. Trump promises drug prices will drop by 1,000%, which mathematically implies pharmaceutical companies will pay you to take medicine, and gas will cost less than the bottle of water you wept into while reading this. His solution to European car imports? A tantrum disguised as policy. At this rate, by 2026, he’ll be threatening to nationalize IKEA if they don’t rename “Skörgflön” something American, like “Chad.” Meanwhile, his economic surrogates are trying to reinvent tariffs like they’re launching a diet cola. “No, no, the consumer doesn’t pay—it just disappears into the ether!” Perhaps next they’ll say gravity is fake news invented by Big Apple. And somewhere in this clown car of news, a 73-year-old senator freezes mid-sentence on live television, and we’re told it’s a “technical glitch.” Of course. America’s ruling class is now either under indictment, glitching, or quoting QAnon in committee meetings. Governance by Ghost in the Shell. But don’t worry, there’s still time for moral clarity like firing a self-described fascist after he appears on camera saying he’s a fascist. Bravo. The bar is not only low, it’s now buried beneath the alligator-infested ruins of some hellish detention center we’re calling “Alligator Alcatraz.” A phrase so perfectly American it might as well be sponsored by Monster Energy and civil rights violations.
And finally, the Democrats eternally committed to blaming no one, especially not the man who’s spent the last three years mistaking governance for a nap schedule. Their 2024 autopsy will be conducted with all the seriousness of a cooking show, except no one’s in the kitchen and the oven’s on fire.
So yes, do subscribe because if this is the preview, the full show might just be the world’s last surviving satire.
Yours in disbelief,
Darrell McClain
You should have your own show. Excellent articulation of the nightmare before doomsday and broadcasting in a very poignant manner that sums up the entire situation of a reality show government that’s gone rogue.
Thanks I do a audio only show once a week it’s completely free If you want to listen
20 something social media influencers are setting policy while grown men like Bessent are articulating them looking like utter fools. Perhaps we should be asking how much it's costing for Loomer, McMahon, Pirro, Leavitt etc to sculpt their faces when millions including children are being thrown off health care & food. This is an orgy. I'd like to hear your show on this. Your writing truly lightens up the tension. Love it.
Good points, however do you know how to paragraph? Makes easier on the eyes, Thanks.
Honestly? The freakin scariest part of all this isn’t the fact that Trump said something outrageous again. It’s that no one around him seems to have the courage or the leverage to stop it.
He’s throwing out wild distractions. Obama. Gas prices. Maxwell. CBS and blah blah …But look closer, and it’s always the same pattern: delay, deny, deflect. What’s different now is that the playbook isn’t working. And the people who should be pulling the fire alarm are either on vacation or watching it burn for sport.
I used to be close enough to see how narratives get managed, how people with power stall for time, how silence becomes policy. And even I’m floored by how far the Overton window has shifted.
That’s the mood right now. And it’s how democracies rot in silence.
It's an oligarchy Overton Window. It's moving faster with SCOTUS injecting energy.
Trump is suffering from dementia . American Conservatives are suffering from a malignant cancer in their hearts .
The problem is his party also seems to have dementia. Meanwhile the House wants to hold hearings on Bidens dementia. I hold little hope that Dems can figure this out.
When you cannot beat them maybe you need to join them in some way. By that find enough sane Republicans who do not have weak knees, support them for mid-terms so they can win in the primaries. Then maybe you might get them to impeach him finally. We are only talking maybe 20 candidates to save the ship.
I think that cancer is in their stem cells.
How can anything's price be reduced by 1,000%? A 100% reduction brings the price to zero. Trump should be nailed for these childish errors more often. On another point, Republican voices point out, in relation to the Epstein issues, that the DOJ took no action from 2021 to 2025 when, and I quote, "The Democrats HAD CONTROL of the DOJ." The WH should not and, in the past, did not CONTROL the DOJ. It was only under Trump that the DOJ fell under the WH's CONTROL.
Trump is alleged to be innumerate: unable to read a balance sheet -- which would help to account for his numerous bankruptcies.
So it might take a very good maths teacher (hard to find) to explain to him the idiocy of his stating that the price of anything has been "reduced 1,000%". Which might best be reinterpreted as waiving the price altogether, and offering a 900% (x 9) bonus instead.
Hate to admit it, but Trump is smarter than he appears. He knows saying stupid stuff drives the Dems crazy. This is his way of creating chaos so his political enemies will waste time and energy trying to nail him. Does not work. He knows full well how to read balance sheets and when they do not add up, bankruptcy always fixes it. Blame him all you want as he heads to the bank for another deal. Next to BT Barnum, Trump has got to rank as one of the world's greatest conmen.
You are right, Watergate would not have been prosecuted under this administration. Our founding fathers thought the 3 branches of govt would balance each other out. Well that has gone out the window. Time to redo the constitution to reduce the power of the pardon so there can be no conflict of interest. Also there needs to be a limit to the number of pardons granted and not done at the last minute on the way out of office.
Also need to limit power of president to remove people he does not like. DOJ should be independent and not headed by loyalists. FBI agents DOJ lawyers should only be fired for cause and not for cases they handled. These are civil servants who in most cases get paid less than their private counterparts. They do it for less because in the end they get a retirement.
Why repeat what you know are lies? Here we go again, putting the responsibility on President Obama to literally defend what we know is nothing more than character assassination by the real treasonous white man who lies like he breathes. I am so sick of folks, by virtue of repeating his lies, giving that thing playing President, legitimacy.
“On economic policy, Trump said drug prices would be reduced by 1,000 percent, and claimed gas prices had dropped to $1.99 in several states—figures that contradict official data. He also threatened to ban European car imports if pharmaceutical companies don’t comply.”
A 1000 percent reduction, aye? He just pulls figures out of his arse!
That means the pharmaceutical companies will be paying their consumers 10 times the current cost of the medications to take them off their hands. Not a particularly good business model. 🤣
Anyone who believes Trump on that is a complete fucking idiot!
Call them idiots but they put him in office and the non-idiots lost. Most probably flunked math in school so those figures would not bother them. Gas prices have been on the way up and would normally factor into the next election. However I bet they will go down magically in 2026 before elections.
I don't blame Biden nor Harris for their loss. I blame the people who voted for Trump and are now surprised that he has become a dick tater .... AND I blame the tens of millions who didn't vote at all.
Thank you, the silent majority stayed home and they are the real reason for the loss. Trump won the population count by only 1.62%. Yes he did win the electorial college by a wide margin, but that was just 7 states, who are now paying the price. The CLEAR MANDATE is a joke.
Please Obama sue his azz. So sick of f4547.
My think exactly, however most of us will be dead and gone before it goes anywhere and T will pull it when he thinks it will cost him some real money.
Yes. Very good idea. The obnoxiousness of mr trumpf is truly breathtaking. I hope a nice settlement against trumpf of a couple of dozen millions might be just the thing.
I am a democrat. I think we Democrats must own our own party's policy and follow-through mistakes as well as the good we have done. Of course we also must throw out absurd accusations like blaming former President Barack Obama of treason (rather funny when you consider who is accusing him). I do not think the Democratic leadership owns up to our shortcomings and blunders, however, with 100 percent openness. Kate Delano-Condax Decker
Trump's absurd and outrageous accusations of an attempted coup by Obama appear to be a straightforward attempt at distraction, from ever more embarassing MAGA demands to reveal Epstein's prestigious clients. An unsuccessful "dead cat" technique.
Unless Trump is really that paranoid? More like he still believes that MAGA cult followers are still willing to believe anything he tells them...
Who'd have thought trump would go after Jimmy Kimmel 🤔 and the rest same ol' same ol'. Thanks for the summary!
Trump is such a victum. Everyone is always picking on him. Oh brother nothing worse than a bully who is a whiny baby always wanting sympathy but never having any sympathy for others.
Hi David, Congratulations! Just saw you on Channel 4 news in the UK just a moment ago. Great that you are being recognised as a serious voice on the situation in the US! Maybe BBC next?
Your summaries are excellent. Reminds me of the time when news reporting was just news, not editorials. While I do appreciate your opinion on various news items, coming from a background in journalism, I understand the difference. Thank you.
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