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Joe Crummey

Joe Crummey riffs on what's going on.

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Yesterday · 18 min
SPEECHLESS
Last night NBC & ABC spent about 30 each seconds covering the President's landmark speech at the UN, while today most of the media focuses on the role of "free press" and Trump's ban on CNN, MSNOW & Politico. What you will not hear: whether he has a point. Whether a leftist hegemony that calls itself journalism is still journalism when it buries a landmark speech & then lectures the country about the First Amendment. They will fight to the death for the right to ignore the news.
Tuesday · 18 min
BIG STICK
Trump walked into the UN today & talked like the building was rented, not sacred. Western Hemisphere first: cartels as the ISIS next door, no footholds for pretenders. Iran's like a dinner special. Option A: a deal after the midterms, rebuild, maybe even become great. Option B: annihilate the Islamic Republic, drive it into hell, no leftovers. A.I. got the MAGA treatment, too.
Monday · 18 min
TRASH DAY
Fake news gets the boot and then sues. Trump removes CNN, MSNOW & Politico from the WH. Networks sue, including Fox. They'll probably win like Jim Acosta did, and we'll still pretend they're journalists!
Friday · 18 min
WHO FLIPS IT?
Six years after he boarded up the Pacific, Gavin Newsom waded into a Montana river w/ Jake Tapper & declared beach closures "insane." Today he signed an executive order to invent an AI kill switch. The order does not say who gets the big red button-Newsom's office, some certified auditor in the lab, or the same governor who once decided you couldn't walk on sand. The man who now admits the last panic was overreach wants the next one to come with a remote.
September 17 · 18 min
WEEKEND AT MITCH'S
They rolled Mitch McConnell out of his Capitol Hill townhouse staring into the middle distance like the last vegetable the FDA forgot to recall. The Senate reconvened & the country got a live-action argument for term limits. Polls have been screaming 80%+. Congress still pretends the only term limit that matters is death or a midterm. btw: Do you think Mitch gets A.I.?
September 16 · 18 min
LET AMERICA COMPUTE
One side wants to flood the zone w/ compute, treat doomerism like a psy-op, and let the chips fall (preferably Nvidia-shaped). The other wants a hard stop, a new federal overlord, and prison time for anyone who keeps scaling. Trump called the panic a hoax on live speakerphone. Bernie called it an extinction-level event. The robots have not taken over. The politicians already have.
September 15 · 18 min
TWO MEN IN A RIVER
Waist-deep in a Montana stream, CNN's Jake Tapper & Gavin Newsom strap on the Orvis cosplay and pretend this is just two regular dudes cursing at trout. Newsom: I won't run if Kamala runs. Today we wade in: the interview, the pose, the pledge, and why "I wouldn't do that to her" is the slickest fly in the box.
September 14 · 18 min
CHINA'S BITCH
Over the weekend Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei published a long, trembling essay called We Must Pace the Frontier. After months of A.I. models getting better at building the next models, after rogue agent swarms already slipped the leash, the high priests of silicon suddenly want to take it slower. Evil Trump just told them to keep going largely because another country will.
September 11 · 18 min
GIGGLE ZERO
Twenty-five years later the names still get read. The families still fold in half. And New York's first Muslim socialist mayor and AOC still found something to giggle about while it happened.The camera cut from a man with his face buried in his arms to Mamdani and Ocasio-Cortez leaning in, smiling, then laughing as relatives kept reciting the dead. They treated the reading like a side conversation at a fundraiser. Tomorrow both of them will still have their jobs. That is the 25th anniversary in 2026: the dead get their two hours, the living get their careers, and the rest of us get to watch the difference.
September 10 · 18 min
DIVIDEND IN DALLAS
Last night at the first-ever GOP midterm convention, evil Trump proposed a $5,000 payment to every adult U.S. citizen — if Republicans hold the House and Senate in November. Price tag: 1.3 trillion. Critics aren't entirely wrong about the size. They're missing the mechanism.
September 9 · 18 min
FINAL EXIT
Jurors break their silence in the Lindsay Clancy case, Stella Parton speaks out on why Dolly kept her cancer diagnosis private, and podcast pioneer, Adam Carolla reveals (again) he's leaving CA
September 8 · 18 min
BOLDLY GO
The Hail Mary that isn't even legal. Lindsay Clancy's attorney appears on GMA and asks President Trump to consider issuing her a pardon. Meanwhile we were promised a better future 60 years ago today when the first episode of Star Trek aired on TV.
September 4 · 18 min
MISTRIAL
Cable drew the map before the jury finished the first hour. Team Mental Health versus Team She Knew. Men versus women. Meds versus murder. Every chyron hungry for a scoreboard. The jury, hung at 11-1, just refused to pick a jersey.
September 3 · 18 min
PICK YOUR FUTURE
On the day that Elon Musk rolls out fully autonomous cyber cabs in Austin, TX, Bernie Sanders unveils his "Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act." Same day. Same country. Two completely different ideas of who should be in charge.
September 2 · 18 min
3 KIDS DEAD. 2 SIDES DRAWN
Day 5 of the Lindsay Clancy trial and the jury in Plymouth is still hung. The cable chyron wants a left-versus-right score, a men versus women divide. That is a child's map of a tragic massacre.
August 31 · 18 min
LAID TO REST
Dolly Parton's private funeral was Friday- An American original, she was humble to the end, no circus, no politicians working the rope line. Elsewhere: Trump is squeezing Iran, where a hardliner dropped dead in mid-speech on Saturday night. It's bad omen energy you can't script.
August 21 · 18 min
LOVE SHACKS
Some absolute legend (or pure chaos agent) strolls into an L.A. City Council meeting and drops the proposal of the century: "Free Hygienic Sexual Relief Programs" for the unhoused. Not showers. Not condoms, but Full-service, city-funded, hygienic relief. Because apparently tents, fentanyl, and open-air everything else just weren't complete without taxpayer-sponsored climax care!
August 20 · 18 min
ROYAL PAINS
Bored with avocado toast & gratuitous Netflix checks in Montecito, Prince Harry & Meghan have decided the UK needs their special brand of drama injected straight back into the royal bloodstream. After spending years casually implying the entire country is a racist hellscape, they're packing up the kids and their victim complex for a triumphant return!
August 19 · 18 min
HOLLYWEIRD
L.A. sidewalks just got a whole lot more… hospitable. The L.A. City Council voted 10-3 to yank the anti-camping bans from a dozen spots across Hollywood, Silver Lake, and Echo Park. Urban campers are officially invited to roost, stretch out, and make themselves at home! Meanwhile, in Sacramento, the CA Energy Commission doesn't need your permission, your vote to impose the USA's first mandatory efficiency standards for replacement tires.
August 18 · 18 min
TIRE TYRANNY
The California Energy Commission votes unanimously to regulate replacement tires! By 2033 the rules wipe out roughly 70% of the tires currently on the shelf. This is the same playbook that turned CA into the high-cost totalitarian socialist showcase: endless new mandates, less competition, everything more expensive than anywhere else.

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