Trump and Musk's (alleged fight), another program for DOGE to cut, immigrants sprucing up NYC, Fani Willis update, and avoiding stereotyping in Germany.
Ann, you are the first person I have heard say what I thought as well about the Musk/Trump break up. I think it is a trap for the left. Musk is angry about too much spending so now the Trump haters must also be angry with too much spending? Even the Epstein reference appears on the surface like an insult but if they had something more than Trump knew him and is in a couple of pictures, I think the Ds would have been all over that long ago. I think is a setup. Or it is play acting so Musk can go back to being the darling of the environmental doom and gloomers.
Nonetheless, I think the R messaging is especially terrible. They are not cutting Medicaid benefits; they are spending less because they are deporting illegals and do not need to spend as much. They had better be ready to drive message all over the place if they want to keep the House. They need to finally find a way to not snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. To your point about replacement rate etc. for the most part you need to keep that going to continue the Ponzi scheme. That is how it seemed to me when I worked on SS reform in the early 2000s. It was such nonsense; we needed to import cheap labor to pay into the system to support the boomers. Well, what do you do forty years down the road when those folks are looking for their money? I would prefer having a go at maintaining a population around 200 million as well. That is what our infrastructure was built for in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Not 300-400 million. Also, if we are to believe that AI and robots are going to do all kinds of things, why do we need cheap foreign labor? We need well paid American labor trained to build, operate, maintain, and fix the robots.
SO MANY people are convinced that the climate change hox is real... scammer are making money from it and grabbing power from all the believers... it's almost as bad as the "Flat Earthers."
Also, Americans are procreating less and less. the invaders want to breed their way in. If the evil plan works, we will have many more mixed race/mixed religion people. Right now, parents don't want to send their kids to school and have them be forced to associate with them,
I don't have much to comment on today's Podcast, but does Ann take Addyi? I know she won't be on the all-woman river cruise through Burgundy and Provence, however.
I appreciate Ann, but I subscribed in the belief that this was how I would get the podcast without ads, similar to what's offered with other Substack paid subscriptions. Is Ann's podcast available ad-free on another platform?
The weekly Five Stories podcast is a production of Ricochet.com. Their podcasts are all ad supported. The video interviews are ad-free and exclusive to Substack, although Ricochet carries them a week or two later in audio form with commercials.
I am becoming less and less impressed with Pam Bondi and Kash Patel. I want to see CONSEQUENCES.
Ann, you are the first person I have heard say what I thought as well about the Musk/Trump break up. I think it is a trap for the left. Musk is angry about too much spending so now the Trump haters must also be angry with too much spending? Even the Epstein reference appears on the surface like an insult but if they had something more than Trump knew him and is in a couple of pictures, I think the Ds would have been all over that long ago. I think is a setup. Or it is play acting so Musk can go back to being the darling of the environmental doom and gloomers.
Nonetheless, I think the R messaging is especially terrible. They are not cutting Medicaid benefits; they are spending less because they are deporting illegals and do not need to spend as much. They had better be ready to drive message all over the place if they want to keep the House. They need to finally find a way to not snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. To your point about replacement rate etc. for the most part you need to keep that going to continue the Ponzi scheme. That is how it seemed to me when I worked on SS reform in the early 2000s. It was such nonsense; we needed to import cheap labor to pay into the system to support the boomers. Well, what do you do forty years down the road when those folks are looking for their money? I would prefer having a go at maintaining a population around 200 million as well. That is what our infrastructure was built for in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Not 300-400 million. Also, if we are to believe that AI and robots are going to do all kinds of things, why do we need cheap foreign labor? We need well paid American labor trained to build, operate, maintain, and fix the robots.
SO MANY people are convinced that the climate change hox is real... scammer are making money from it and grabbing power from all the believers... it's almost as bad as the "Flat Earthers."
Also, Americans are procreating less and less. the invaders want to breed their way in. If the evil plan works, we will have many more mixed race/mixed religion people. Right now, parents don't want to send their kids to school and have them be forced to associate with them,
Thank you Ann for this presentation of Five Stories I May Have Missed This Week. The Boston Mayor is a problem of the DEI movement.
I don't have much to comment on today's Podcast, but does Ann take Addyi? I know she won't be on the all-woman river cruise through Burgundy and Provence, however.
I appreciate Ann, but I subscribed in the belief that this was how I would get the podcast without ads, similar to what's offered with other Substack paid subscriptions. Is Ann's podcast available ad-free on another platform?
The weekly Five Stories podcast is a production of Ricochet.com. Their podcasts are all ad supported. The video interviews are ad-free and exclusive to Substack, although Ricochet carries them a week or two later in audio form with commercials.