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Here’s what we’re talking about today.
This is a quick rundown of the topics we’ll be covering on today’s show. You can hit play to listen, or read the transcript below if that’s more your style.
Transcript:
One of the final shows of 2025.
Donald Trump spent the day meeting with the Ukrainian president. It went about as badly as you would expect. Trump praised Putin while Putin was actively bombing Ukraine, and kind of shrugged when asked about deadlines, snapped at reporters, rambled while confusing basic facts.
And then we’re going to talk about something maybe even bigger, which is that Donald Trump has spent years branding himself “the anti-war president,” and I believe that that brand is dead. I’m going to give you examples of all of the strikes that he has launched in this second term.
We’re also going to deal with the Trump health panic that has gone mainstream because of Trump’s left hand, rather than right hand, appearing bruised and with some kind of hole in it. It’s bizarre, but I will show it to you.
And we will also talk about Joe Rogan, again, spreading factually incorrect nonsense about measles. And it’s actually a prototypical example of some of the reverse logic that we see applied to vaccines by a lot of these folks.
And finally, the latest solution that Republicans are floating for housing affordability, the 50-year mortgage, is not going to help anybody. It is a trap, and I will break it down for you.
Glad you were here in almost 2026.
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