Topic: Trump Presidency

Jennifer Briney, host of the Congressional Dish podcast, joins the program to discuss the legislative reality of the first year of the Trump administration. The conversation addresses the difficulty of separating truth from fiction amidst media focus on tweets and the Russia investigation. Briney explains her process of reading bills and watching hearings to provide a watchdog perspective on the federal government.

A speaker uses a comedy club as an analogy for the presidency, suggesting the person on stage is not truly in charge of the building or the marketing. The discussion touches on the "orange chakra" and how public anger fuels the economy. Jimmy Dore argues that a Clinton presidency would have been worse because she was a "streamlined oligarch" compared to Trump’s "nincompoop" status.

Author Ingersoll Lockwood wrote a series of books in the 1890s, including "Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey" and "The Last President," which contain eerie parallels to modern events. These 19th-century novels describe a boy named Baron Trump traveling to Russia and a polarized America rioting at a Fifth Avenue hotel. While some speculate about time travel, others suggest these coincidences result from remote viewing or an understanding of the "mathematics of reality."