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?

Everyone recognizes that our dominant American culture marks a return to the pagan, but they don't see that, at a profound level, it's worse than the original. I've been writing over the last decade about our culture's return to the pagan -- and, indeed, I'm not the only one making this point. A lot of people are. In this video podcast, I examine the many ways in which we are abandoning the Biblical worldview in favor of paganism. That's bad, but I argue that the West's neo-paganism, which has made huge headway in America, is even worse than the original. That's not just because we're killing people; it's because the goals are different.

A cheerful look at problems with the Georgia RICO indictment, within China, and for the leftists in Marin County. The three stories I recount in this podcast give me hope. Whether it's the fact that even a stalwart NeverTrumper recognizes how horrible Fani Willis's RICO case against Trump is, the deep doo-doo into which China is sinking, or the fact that Marin's leftists are discovering that the piper inevitably must be paid, all of these are reports that will hearten you.

I've kept it short this time, focusing on one issue, which is the real -- and very weird -- beneficiary of the left's forced existential crisis. No matter how you look at it, every one of the left's policies is intended to decrease dramatically the number of humans on earth. This is a very bizarre and horrible experiment. More than that, the ultimate intended beneficiary isn't who (or what) you think it is.

This is an unusually short video podcast (for me, at least) because it addresses just one issue: The schism between Republicans and conservatives. Not only do I identify the issue, but I also offer suggestions for addressing what I see as a very serious problem in American politics. Plus, I want you to know there is reason to hope in America.

It's another thrilling ride through the flotsam and jetsam of my mind as I examine the social and political scenes in America today. It's all here: following the money behind transgender madness in women's sports, Biblical morals, Hunter Biden as an unlikely 2nd Amendment warrior, reefer madness, Republican candidates who have gone to the dogs, the American institution that is the root of all of today's evils, and one Democrat judge who got what he voted for.

On this podcast, gay activists v. gay men, crazy leftist ladies, why I don't trust RFK, Jr., a little secret behind so-called "white" crime, and a love letter to Pete Buttigieg. The most important thing to note is that it's not my love letter to Pete Buttigieg. But that comes last. Before I get there, I discuss what makes gay activists different from men who are gay, why we'd have fewer crazy leftist women if men weren't marginalized, the problem (as I see it) with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and one of the statistical lies behind the wave of white crime Biden insists is terrifying the nation.

  It's late at night, and my dyslexic tongue is stumbling, but I think I made sense with my look at some of the week's news. As always, there's a lot to talk about: The failed efforts to destroy Tucker, the problems for the left with Hispanic mass murderers, words that shall not be spoken, the things that leftists see and don't see (and how that drives policy), and a remembrance of a very good judge.

The gal suing Tucker is very much an avatar for the modern left, so I spend a bit of time discussing her (which also allows me to demonstrate my growing proficiency in embedding video clips). But before I touch upon Tucker, I have a few quick things to say about the "fascist" label, evil Republicans, and the fact that Don Lemon is also an avatar of sorts.

I'm baaaaack! This time, I take on God's role as a speed trap, homework (yes or no?), Sen. Tim Scott, slavery, and women's (or is it men's?) lingerie. Because my work schedule and the demands on my free time mean that, at least for now, I'll be unable to do a current events podcast, I'm trying to focus on subjects that draw on my personal knowledge and insights rather than essentially echoing other commentators. Most of these are ideas that come to me in the car (I don't know why), so it's up to you whether they're worth your time.

This is an everything and the kitchen sink edition: Slavery, Trump, so-called transgenderism, leftists' children, children on prescription drugs, pedophiles, reparations, politicians, and colleges! It sounds boring when I've reduced the content to its essentials, but I hope it's lively enough to stick with and enjoy.

What'll you hear in this podcast? Ruminations about Trump, childhood, parents, black racism, gun safety and government, Heaven and crime, and a few random other topics.

Dictionaries, pronouns, cops gone wild, celebrating ourselves versus being forced to celebrate others, leftists manipulating the human capacity for change, and Hooray for Jimmy Cagney.

Because I write so much for work, I don't always have the energy to put my random thoughts (and, sometimes, deep thoughts) into written form. My choice, then, is between a podcast or tossing those ideas. So here's that podcast. I managed to cover gender and sexuality, Biden and the PLO, Ukraine, the war in Ukraine, education, socialized medicine, and a touch of Milton Friedman who, surprisingly, sort of intersected with my life.

It's a short(ish) one this time, in which I ruminate about Biden's presidency, leftist antisemitism, the dead in Ukraine, motherhood, and the intersection between conservativism and the NFL.