Yeah, well, I spent some time in Sacramento in the early 2000's. It was a very nice city and I was impressed by the beauty. However, when I started seeing the over-involved and restrictive nature of the government, even with small things, it was really off-putting. I remember a cold night that we couldn't light the fireplace because of a air polution alert. They announced it on the evening news. I mean, that's getting pretty deep into things and that was over twenty years ago.
EDIT: My point is, that Cali lost it's mind a long time ago.
Yes, fruits, flakes, and nuts give a colorful edge to life. However, if they dominate, then the place is doomed. Think of Austin, Texas. Its motto is "Keep Austin Weird". Austin works because Austin is surrounded by the rest of Texas - fairly rational and common sensical. In California, the fruits run the entire place.
Should be a good one. The LaPen story is the EU getting rid of the opposition. The charges are “Trumped” up of course. They went to the waaaayback machine to even find a possible piece of evidence of wrongdoing. Macron is acting like a dictator.
I’m no Biden fan, not at all, but he seemed to respect the constitution and rule of law. He may have found loopholes but this guy has literally said he is “King.” He is doing things that we’ve never witnessed before and to say “oh and i might be here for a third term when the founders were very clear on that not being a thing is pretty scary. We shall see 🤷🏾♂️
You’re kidding right? Biden was ruled by the Supreme Court to knock off the college loan forgiveness and he kept doing it. Trump isn’t going to try and get a third term. He’s just giving the left wing media something to cry about. He has more respect for the constitution than that.
Could Matt look into the Federal Reserve - Federal Reserve Docket No. OP-1670. The chatter I am hearing is this is the ultimate in restrictive, freeze your bank account at will, track your activity, a part of the social credit system like China. What can be done? Can this be prevented? Who ultimately controls the Fed?
I have one thing to add to the "how to find your own sources" file. Not so much for primary documents, but for useful secondary sources in this case.
I often use time-based search. I hadn't heard anything about the charges against Marine LePen and of course it smacks of lawfare. But charges can of course be valid or not, and they can be as a separate matter pursued for political reasons or not. I wanted to form my opinions.
But good luck with a search at this point for useful background info, once this story is out. Most MSM is burying a couple sentences on the actual charges about 16 paragraphs in, and every story you'll see is now about what just happened with little depth.
So I did a time-restricted search for things in Jan and Feb 2025 and found a great article by a Princeton freshman. I offer it as a useful source. Also, I offer the time-based search ending weeks to months back as a tool as a useful way to screen out, when a news story pops, the incredibly high sudden noise to signal ratio.
You'll note I'm not offering my takeaway after this and other info - but I'll enjoy hearing yours uncolored by my thinking. And I'd really love if people share more sources.
Kelly, you read my mind! As an uninformed person on France, except that I've been paying attention for the last ?? years or so, what's happening to LePen seems eerily similar to what happened to Trump. Something tells me that France is in for a big surprise. I hope it's not infamy.
On the one hand, CA brain trust proposes naming legislation after an accused murderer who is pending trial.
On the other hand. Babylon Bee headline, “Libs spell out ‘COEXIST’ with burning Teslas.” I also saw a short video today phone filmed by guys driving down the freeway and they were passed by a cybertruck that had TOYOTA branded across its tailgate. They were cracking up with laughter.
I don’t know about anybody else, but the side with the sense of humor (not to mention, rules) looks good to me.
More left coast news. Hiring freeze at all UC schools, UC-SLO lost its aquatics program unless they raise $25 million all while tuition goes up and housing availability goes down. Oh, and the LA Times is suing Karen Bass' office for text messages they are required to share but aren't.
It's as though people memory holed 2016 - 2020, and that Trump is a world class troll. No, it's not good a president trolls. It's also not good that we had a president who was a celery stick and we had no knowledge of who President Autopen actually was.
Trump isn't trolling, he's dead serious. He wasn't joking about tariffs either.
He wants to be the Putin and/or Jinping of the West. I'd be willing to bet over half the people on this Substack would have no issues with their Dear Leader spending the rest of his life in the White House.
You're being trolled. Trump's great at being an asshole. We had 4 years to see it and perhaps you still don't believe it. Example: We were told he was a Putin puppet and that a peepee tape in Adam Schiff's private safe was going to be released with definitive proof.
I guess on a long enough time line, anyone can say whatever they'd like and claim the evidence is just around the corner.
And how do you know I'm being trolled? Spoiler Alert: you don't.
This is the beauty of the defenders of Trump. If you don't agree with something he said (or do agree but don't want to admit it in public), all you have to do is say he was trolling. That's it. Easy as pie and you can always have it both ways.
Is Trump trolling about taking Greenland? Is he trolling about having U.S. District Judge James Boasberg impeached?
Here's a question you can answer. Would you be OK with him serving a third term?
You both were a revelation tonight. Great show, thanks for all the effort you went to to put this together. It's amazing how America just slips from one war into the next without missing a step.
Wasn’t able to watch real time but caught it two hours later. Thank you, Matt and Walter for going through the background insanity in that article of our leadership during the Ukraine War. Dr Strangelove all the way.
CA has succeeded in topping itself in the “I don’t believe that educated people sitting calmly at desks just did that” sweep stakes with the Luigi Law. NYC will never be able to catch up. I think they may want it to be harder to get health care coverage in their state and not just Home Insurance.
I just don’t get why the latest Trump free speech problem is not the number one topic for these show. It’s all they talked about for two years. Citizen or not, that girl from Tufts getting arrested for an op ed is scary. When is Matt going to admit that Trump is just as bad if not worse than Biden on free speech. Even him threatening to take away CBS s license was crazy and no word about from the journalist who I think is at the front lines of the war on speech. A 2 hour show on the Biden corruption again? We all know he was corrupt and that it was a proxy war!! We ve known this for years. I get that the democrats went after Matt and that was total bullshit. However, isn’t it time to get back to what he does best?
Because of you two here, when Biden wandered off into the jungle, when the US was shooting missiles into Russia, I was aware we were in deep shit. I prayed. I prayed that Putin was praying. The USA got VERY, VERY, VERY lucky that Putin was wise enough to desist. I say Putin *was* wise. He *is* wise. Putin is a saint. I will say it again:
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I'm sorry, but that's truly sickening if my state has named a ballot initiative after a cold-blooded murderer.
Yeah, well, I spent some time in Sacramento in the early 2000's. It was a very nice city and I was impressed by the beauty. However, when I started seeing the over-involved and restrictive nature of the government, even with small things, it was really off-putting. I remember a cold night that we couldn't light the fireplace because of a air polution alert. They announced it on the evening news. I mean, that's getting pretty deep into things and that was over twenty years ago.
EDIT: My point is, that Cali lost it's mind a long time ago.
@Ollo Gorog
A long time before I was old enough to understand what she meant, I heard my mom say:
"Every time this country gets stood on edge, everything loose rolls to California".
The only reason your state is a state is because of cold-blooded murderers.
It is California, you are surprised?
As a native Californian, I am not. As wonderful as the state can be, all the fruits, flakes, and nuts are a major part of the place’s character.
Yes, fruits, flakes, and nuts give a colorful edge to life. However, if they dominate, then the place is doomed. Think of Austin, Texas. Its motto is "Keep Austin Weird". Austin works because Austin is surrounded by the rest of Texas - fairly rational and common sensical. In California, the fruits run the entire place.
I guess not. How much darker can we get? I'm afraid to ask.
Bad choice of words....
You act like we all don't have to follow the infamous "O.J.'s Law"
Should be a good one. The LaPen story is the EU getting rid of the opposition. The charges are “Trumped” up of course. They went to the waaaayback machine to even find a possible piece of evidence of wrongdoing. Macron is acting like a dictator.
Macron is not "acting".
He’s following our Presidents lead. The new rules is that you can do anything you want if you’re President.
Started by Biden.
I’m no Biden fan, not at all, but he seemed to respect the constitution and rule of law. He may have found loopholes but this guy has literally said he is “King.” He is doing things that we’ve never witnessed before and to say “oh and i might be here for a third term when the founders were very clear on that not being a thing is pretty scary. We shall see 🤷🏾♂️
I’m no Biden fan, not at all, but he seemed to respect the constitution and rule of law.
🙄🙄🙄😀😀😀🙄🙄🙄
You’re kidding right? Biden was ruled by the Supreme Court to knock off the college loan forgiveness and he kept doing it. Trump isn’t going to try and get a third term. He’s just giving the left wing media something to cry about. He has more respect for the constitution than that.
Could Matt look into the Federal Reserve - Federal Reserve Docket No. OP-1670. The chatter I am hearing is this is the ultimate in restrictive, freeze your bank account at will, track your activity, a part of the social credit system like China. What can be done? Can this be prevented? Who ultimately controls the Fed?
If Powell freezes your account, it will just be transitory.
Old News and not what the rumors claimed.
Interested in hearing your takes on MLP. Bolsinaro probably going behind bars soon as well
I have one thing to add to the "how to find your own sources" file. Not so much for primary documents, but for useful secondary sources in this case.
I often use time-based search. I hadn't heard anything about the charges against Marine LePen and of course it smacks of lawfare. But charges can of course be valid or not, and they can be as a separate matter pursued for political reasons or not. I wanted to form my opinions.
But good luck with a search at this point for useful background info, once this story is out. Most MSM is burying a couple sentences on the actual charges about 16 paragraphs in, and every story you'll see is now about what just happened with little depth.
So I did a time-restricted search for things in Jan and Feb 2025 and found a great article by a Princeton freshman. I offer it as a useful source. Also, I offer the time-based search ending weeks to months back as a tool as a useful way to screen out, when a news story pops, the incredibly high sudden noise to signal ratio.
https://www.princetonpoliticalreview.org/international-news/france-awaits-the-verdict-of-marine-le-pens-embezzlement-trial
You'll note I'm not offering my takeaway after this and other info - but I'll enjoy hearing yours uncolored by my thinking. And I'd really love if people share more sources.
Kelly, you read my mind! As an uninformed person on France, except that I've been paying attention for the last ?? years or so, what's happening to LePen seems eerily similar to what happened to Trump. Something tells me that France is in for a big surprise. I hope it's not infamy.
@Kelly Green
Which search engine(s) are you adding these date ranges to?
DuckDuckGo is my primary, Google if not finding enough useful hits.
On the one hand, CA brain trust proposes naming legislation after an accused murderer who is pending trial.
On the other hand. Babylon Bee headline, “Libs spell out ‘COEXIST’ with burning Teslas.” I also saw a short video today phone filmed by guys driving down the freeway and they were passed by a cybertruck that had TOYOTA branded across its tailgate. They were cracking up with laughter.
I don’t know about anybody else, but the side with the sense of humor (not to mention, rules) looks good to me.
More left coast news. Hiring freeze at all UC schools, UC-SLO lost its aquatics program unless they raise $25 million all while tuition goes up and housing availability goes down. Oh, and the LA Times is suing Karen Bass' office for text messages they are required to share but aren't.
So no mention of Trump saying he's "not joking" about seeking a third term? What's the matter Matt? Do you not want to upset the cultists?
Speaking of cultists, he certainly got you to bite. Which is exactly what he both wants and expects, and is rarely disappointed.
Is it safe to assume you have no issues with Trump leading this country until the day he dies?
It's as though people memory holed 2016 - 2020, and that Trump is a world class troll. No, it's not good a president trolls. It's also not good that we had a president who was a celery stick and we had no knowledge of who President Autopen actually was.
Those are the times we're in.
Trump isn't trolling, he's dead serious. He wasn't joking about tariffs either.
He wants to be the Putin and/or Jinping of the West. I'd be willing to bet over half the people on this Substack would have no issues with their Dear Leader spending the rest of his life in the White House.
You're being trolled. Trump's great at being an asshole. We had 4 years to see it and perhaps you still don't believe it. Example: We were told he was a Putin puppet and that a peepee tape in Adam Schiff's private safe was going to be released with definitive proof.
I guess on a long enough time line, anyone can say whatever they'd like and claim the evidence is just around the corner.
And how do you know I'm being trolled? Spoiler Alert: you don't.
This is the beauty of the defenders of Trump. If you don't agree with something he said (or do agree but don't want to admit it in public), all you have to do is say he was trolling. That's it. Easy as pie and you can always have it both ways.
Is Trump trolling about taking Greenland? Is he trolling about having U.S. District Judge James Boasberg impeached?
Here's a question you can answer. Would you be OK with him serving a third term?
“Michael, I begged you to get some therapy.”
Who is Michael? Kidding. I get the Tootsie reference.
You both were a revelation tonight. Great show, thanks for all the effort you went to to put this together. It's amazing how America just slips from one war into the next without missing a step.
Wasn’t able to watch real time but caught it two hours later. Thank you, Matt and Walter for going through the background insanity in that article of our leadership during the Ukraine War. Dr Strangelove all the way.
Ever played the telephone game? This is hilarious.
NYT is a total joke. Just watch the Duran, who had it right since 2022 and 2014.
CA has succeeded in topping itself in the “I don’t believe that educated people sitting calmly at desks just did that” sweep stakes with the Luigi Law. NYC will never be able to catch up. I think they may want it to be harder to get health care coverage in their state and not just Home Insurance.
CA doesn't understand that things are dynamic, they have repercussions beyond the desired object.
We poured napalm on the fire. 🎹 🧨🔥⛽️ 🎶
Napalm doesn't really "pour", kind of the point of adding those thickeners?
Now, LIQUID OXYGEN, that stuff does pour well and sure makes a fire more spicy...
https://youtu.be/9Floi2gQEb4?si=TH4JCMp7jOV14PTt
Amazing! I hope Cody is still alive! He seems smart. Curiosity is only suppose to kill cats? And the good news for cats is they sleep a lot.
I just don’t get why the latest Trump free speech problem is not the number one topic for these show. It’s all they talked about for two years. Citizen or not, that girl from Tufts getting arrested for an op ed is scary. When is Matt going to admit that Trump is just as bad if not worse than Biden on free speech. Even him threatening to take away CBS s license was crazy and no word about from the journalist who I think is at the front lines of the war on speech. A 2 hour show on the Biden corruption again? We all know he was corrupt and that it was a proxy war!! We ve known this for years. I get that the democrats went after Matt and that was total bullshit. However, isn’t it time to get back to what he does best?
Because of you two here, when Biden wandered off into the jungle, when the US was shooting missiles into Russia, I was aware we were in deep shit. I prayed. I prayed that Putin was praying. The USA got VERY, VERY, VERY lucky that Putin was wise enough to desist. I say Putin *was* wise. He *is* wise. Putin is a saint. I will say it again:
✝️‼️_________P U T I N________ I S_________A_________S A I N T______‼️✝️
✝️‼️________P U T I N________ I S_________A_________S A I N T______‼️✝️
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