Defining Success - Weekend Recap 05-30-26

Dems Losing It - Ep 26-256

It’s a great day to be CONSERVATIVE. Folks, the Democratic Party has become the parents who now sleep with the bedroom door locked, a knife under the pillow, and a loaded gun pointed straight at the door. Why? Because they’re terrified their own kids are gonna bust in at 2 a.m. and finish what they started. Remember the Menendez brothers? Those two charming lads who decided Mom and Dad were worth more dead than alive? Democrats spent years raising their own little Menendez. Now the kids see the parents as the oppressors. If authority is evil, then let’s dispatch the first authoritarians. The only way to fix anything was to burn it all down and take the inheritance. Now the “kids” have grown up, they’ve got the keys, and the parents are the ones triple-locking everything while whispering, “Please don’t come for us next.” Democrats have almost no idea who they are anymore. They look at their own reflection and see AOC screaming about Democrat Socialism like it’s the Sermon on the Mount, or the next radical firebrand who just knocked off a moderate because he wasn’t sufficiently ashamed of America. The party used to be slightly annoying at Thanksgiving, now show up with a bad attitude and 10 days of body odor  wonder why nobody wants to sit next to them. The lunacy isn’t just “crazy” anymore. It’s clinical. These folks don’t merely disagree with sanity — they walk right past it, don’t recognize it. We used to say they were out of touch. But it’s far worse than that. I’ve seen the stats on how many of these people are under some form of psychiatric care or report serious mental health issues. It’s not a little bump. It’s a mountain. They’re not just sad or anxious — they’re zealots. Crazed, True Believer zealots for causes that would make a normal person back away slowly. They treat every policy like it’s a religious sacrament, and if you question it, you’re not just wrong — you’re evil. What do you even call this? Delusional? Sure, but that feels too generous. In psychology there’s a term: anosognosia. It’s when someone is so deep in their mental illness they literally cannot see it. The brain won’t let them recognize their own symptoms. They think the hallucinations are real, the paranoia is justified, and everyone else is the crazy one. Sound familiar? That’s the modern Democratic Party in one fancy Greek word. They’ve got collective anosognosia so advanced they genuinely believe their open-border policies that let murderers and rapists stroll in are “compassionate.”  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].

Trump is the Sweetest Taboo - Ep 26-255

I feel like Sade. Every day is Christmas, and tomorrow is New Year’s Eve. Is Donald Trump the sweetest taboo? Have you noticed that every day feels like Christmas morning for Conservatives lately? Democrats keep waking up expecting presents, and instead they're finding subpoenas, court rulings, deportation orders, and election losses stuffed into their stockings. The winning has become so routine that Conservatives barely celebrate anymore. "Oh, another Supreme Court victory?" Yawn. "Another corrupt scheme exposed?" Pass the salt. At this point the list of Conservative victories is longer than a government grant application to teach gender theory to a trout. And how about the Biden coverup? Joe Biden spoke publicly again, and he didn’t disappoint. Yet again, Biden proved to be a buffoon. I’m actually surprised Democrats let this guy out. Remember in 2020 they kept him in the basement so they could steal the election. I predict he will have disappear soon. “Where’s my granddaughter!?” At issue are roughly 70 hours of audio recordings captured during conversations for Biden’s 2017 memoir, Promise Me, Dad. Biden’s legal team argued the recordings include deeply personal discussions, including references to the death of his son Beau and should remain private despite becoming part of a federal investigation. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].

Science of Lying Pt 2 - Ep 26-254

More discussion about lying and how Leftists specialize in it. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].

Science of Lying (Best of) - Ep 26-253

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Democrats are TIRED - Weekend Recap 06-28-26

Folks, Democrats are exhausted. Not physically exhausted. They're not out there roofing houses in Phoenix in July. They're politically exhausted. There's a difference. These people haven't had a decent night's sleep since Donald Trump got back into office. Think about what their daily schedule looks like. Wake up. Check if another investigation has been launched. Check if another former ally has flipped. Check if another government program has been exposed as a money-laundering operation disguised as compassion. Check if Trump has dismantled another sacred cow. Repeat until bedtime. And even then they probably sleep with one eye open and a lawyer on speed dial. What's fascinating is that for years Republicans mostly played defense. We argued about policy. Tax rates. Regulations. Border security. The size of government. The fights were ideological. Democrats wanted bigger government. Conservatives wanted smaller government. Simple enough. But now we're learning that many of these fights weren't about ideology at all. They were about access. Access to money. Access to influence. Access to systems that were never supposed to be questioned. And suddenly we're discovering that what was marketed as "public service" sometimes looks suspiciously like a criminal enterprise with a diversity statement. Funny how that works. Remember when they told us Trump was the criminal? Remember the endless investigations? The impeachments? The special counsels? The raids? The prosecutions? The cable news countdown clocks? At one point they had so many cases against Trump that it looked like they were trying to collect indictments the way kids collect baseball cards. "Got the New York one." "Need the Georgia edition." "Anybody got the classified documents hologram card?" And after all that noise, what happened? Most of those cases collapsed faster than Joe Biden's train of thought at a press conference. Meanwhile, the people who spent years telling us democracy was hanging by a thread are now discovering that subpoenas can be remarkably democratic. Now we're seeing investigations involving people who spent years presenting themselves as untouchable. California Governor Gavin Newsom appears to be discovering that good hair isn't a legal defense. His political brand was always fascinating to me. California burns. People leave. Businesses relocate. The homeless population grows. Yet every magazine cover treated him like he was one campaign speech away from carving his face onto Mount Rushmore. The media looked at California's performance and said, "Yes, but have you seen his jawline?" Then you've got Ilhan Omar and the growing scrutiny around people in her orbit. That story continues to expand. And here's the thing. The public is beginning to notice a pattern. For years we were told to ignore questions. Ignore concerns. Ignore contradictions. Just trust the experts. Trust the officials. Trust the process. Trust the people telling you not to ask questions. Turns out that's usually the exact moment you should start asking them. Which brings me to one of the most revealing stories I've seen recently. A study involving artificial intelligence and media credibility. Now this is rich. A company called NewsGuard rates news organizations and scores them on credibility. They developed data designed to help AI systems identify supposedly trustworthy information. Sounds reasonable. Until researchers started examining the results. And according to reports, Chinese state propaganda outlets ended up being treated as more reliable than many American news organizations. Let that sink in. We've reached a point where an authoritarian government's messaging operation can score higher than portions of the American press. You almost have to admire the accidental honesty. Because maybe the biggest propaganda achievement wasn't China convincing Americans to trust China. Maybe it was America's media convincing Americans not to trust America. That's the real magic trick. Imagine explaining this to somebody twenty years ago. "One day, artificial intelligence will be trained to identify truth." "Wonderful." "And it may conclude that Chinese government messaging is more trustworthy than some American reporting." "What caused that?" "The fact-checkers." You couldn't write satire this good. The joke writes itself and then sends you a royalty check. The deeper question is this: What happens when the institutions responsible for determining truth become political actors themselves? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].