Bookworm Room's Podcast

This marks my second attempt at a video podcast and it's still rough around the edges (especially at the end) but you get to hear me opine about social issues and politics, including Critical Race Theory, gender madness, military madness, and more.

After an 18 month hiatus, I decided it was time to start podcasting again. This time, there's a slight twist, which is that I also did a video. (Don't worry, though. You don't need to watch the video to understand the podcast.) I discovered that I'm amazingly rusty when it comes to the technical aspects of all of this but I can still talk the hind leg off a donkey. Join me as I walk you through the sublime, the ridiculous, and the very serious mental journey I make every morning when I read the news. I promise that my work will improve with time. My current hope is to produce 2-3 podcasts/videos a week -- but no promise.

Topics: 1. Carson King, the "buy my beer" guy who donated the money he received to a children's hospital got doxed by Aaron Calvin, a two-bit reporter for a two-bit newspaper. When good people turned around and doxed Calvin, the two-bit paper fired him. Calvin, instead of learning from his disgraceful behavior promptly cried victim, likening himself to "women and journalists of color." This story is a microcosm of the Democrats who falsely attacked Trump and then, when the tables are turned with the investigations into the origins of the Russia Hoax, began to cry victim at the top of their lungs. 2. The Seattle School District, in an effort to raise scores and learning outcomes for its minority students has elected to bath in racial and educational "justice." This means telling students that they are oppressed, beleaguered, abused victims. I don't see this having a good educational outcome.  I'll have a companion (not identical, but similar) post up at Bookworm Room, which will contain links to documents and articles cited in this podcast.

In this podcast, I try to explain to NeverTrumpers that their prejudices are getting in the way of their core values -- and I remind them that, if past presidents had been given daily media colonoscopies, as has been the case for Trump, they'd look pretty gross too.

In the wake of mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, we need to remember that the Second Amendment still protects us against the greatest killer of all: government. The change in our society shouldn't be about guns; it needs to be about morality. We've reverted to a neo-paganism that devalues human life, leaving us more open to mass shootings. Lastly, I suggest that simply being kind may be something of an antidote to the alienation that seems to drive some shooters.

Show notes:   1.  All led with emotions – and some never left them. It was always about the children – Latin American children, never American. 2.  Kamala is good when she's in an offensive position and dreadful when she's in a defensive position. In other words, she can handle herself when she's been prepped, but falls apart when she's blindsided, as she was by Tulsi. a)  Sounds both bored and condescending. b)  Healthcare is a NOT right. c)  Described every summer camp ever. I went to a place in Florida called Homestead, and there is a private detention facility being paid for by your taxpayer dollars, a private detention facility that currently houses 2,700 children. And by the way, there were members of us -- Julian was there, members of Congress, they would not let us enter the place, members of the United States Congress. So I walked down the road, I climbed a ladder, and I looked over the fence. And I'm going to tell you what I saw. I saw children lined up single file based on gender being walked into barracks. 3. Biden is haunted by the "sleepy Joe" tag Trump hung on him. Biden just made going to prison a better option than trying for a college scholarship. Right now, we're in a situation where, when someone is convicted of a drug crime, they end up going to jail and to prison. They should be going to rehabilitation. They shouldn't be going to prison. When in prison, they should be learning to read and write and not just sit in there and learn how to be better criminals. And when they get out of prison, they should be in a situation where they have access to everything they would have had before, including Pell grants for education, including making sure that they're able to have housing, public housing, including they have all the opportunities that were available to them because we want them to become better citizens. Radical: Biden wants to imprison law-abiding businessmen for disagreeing with him: "we should put some of these insurance executives who totally oppose my plan in jail for of the $9 billion opioids they sell out there." 4. Inslee is a climate monomaniac. It's sad, really. No, I take it back. It's scary that he's the avatar of too many indoctrinated Leftists. (This indoctrination, BTW, is why Dems want to funnel all Americans into college.) Also funny to hear him tout criminal justice reform in Washington when you think about Seattle. 5. Gillibrand touts herself as the "white privilege translator." I think as a white woman of privilege, who is a U.S. senator, running for president of the United States, it is also my responsibility to lift up those voices that aren't being listened to. And I can talk to those white women in the suburbs that voted for Trump and explain to them what white privilege actually is, that when their son is walking down a street with a bag of M&Ms in his pocket, wearing a hoodie, his whiteness is what protects him from not being shot. When his - when her - when their child has a car that breaks down, and he knocks on someone's door for help, and the door opens, and the help is given, it's his whiteness that protects him from being shot. That is what white privilege in America is today. And so, my responsibility's to only lift up those stories, but explain to communities across America, like I did in Youngstown, Ohio, to a young mother, that this is all of our responsibilities, and that together we can make our community stronger. Does it not occur to her that if WP is such a problem, every candidate who is white needs to withdraw immediately from the race?

Today's topics are one doctor's testimony in the Senate reveals how ideologically corrupt medical education has become, an essay by Ireland's former president reveals more than she realizes when she rants against infant baptism, Scott Adams's death highlights (again) how utterly corrupt the media are (but change can happen), and the necessity for Trump to act in Iran.

Today, there's only one topic: Singapore. I spent 12 days there and have opinions (plus, if you're watching the video, photographs).

Today's topics are tariffs, and why Trump's tariffs are good, not bad; the divisions (perhaps good ones) that come from our siloed media world; and the reason that medical costs are so high and—sorry—will never go down.

Today's topics are why the shutdown's end was inevitable, why New York City doesn't matter anymore, the problem of rogue judges, a (good) cultural shift and the evidence supporting it, a bad shift in South Korea, the Palestinian "fatocide" (and why, inevitably, the absence of starvation genocide is the Jews' fault), and whether God serves man or man serves God.

This is a special edition of the American Thinker Takeaways podcast. I had the opportunity to interview Professor Charles Murray about his new book, Taking Religion Seriously, about his intellectual journey to faith.

Today's topics are a little insight into some of the people on food stamps and Governor Tim Walz's deeply dishonest accounting; Karine Jean Pierre's victim-centric mindset and the dirty little anti-democratic secret her interviewer gave away; and the serious problem with elected politicians who were not born in America and have roots in cultures utterly alien to our own.

Today's topics are scary ideas from Google's AI (and their intersection with the climate changista and environmentalist worldview), Europe's problematic African and Middle Eastern immigrants (and the coming purification), how one leftist member of the media defines "racism" to attack Timothy Mellon (we're all racists now), and the demise of Napoleon's Army.

Today's topics are what Obamacare has done to ERs, the drop in fuel prices, WaPo journalists who dare not speak "their" truth, what Google AI is alleged to have done to Robby Starbuck, and the fall of John Cleese, the avatar for all bad things from the "intellectual" left.

Today's topics are the leftist obsession with animal costumes (and what Biblical proscription I think it violates); the antisemitic madness in England and the general problem of unlimited, mostly Islamic, immigration to Europe, the Pope's obsession with immigrants over his own flock; and, lastly, Zohran Mandami's open embrace of the same pro-Islamic ideas that Barack Obama and his supporters are believed still to be hiding.

This episode looks at the peace plan in Gaza, Kamala Harris's ignorance (whether willful or natural), dhimmitude in America's prison system, the slaughter of Christians in Africa, the Blue state and city insurrection when it comes to illegal immigration, Jack Smith's serious misstatements about national security law, and the return to gender sanity.

Sizing up the proposed Trump peace plan to end the fighting between Israel and Hamas.

The West's neo-paganism is worse than the original.

In this, the last podcast of 2024, I consider my movement to "ReclaimTheRainbow" for everyone, not just the LGBTQ+ crowd; the Biden military's crazed focus on gender and climate change rather than national defense;* Islamified Europe; and the necessity of Biden's presidency, along with my hope for the New Year.   *This is the Naval War College video underlying my look at Biden's military: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEBdWjN9V_E

A look at the eight factors that make American healthcare so expensive—and why socializing our medical care will not make things better.