Stories of the week:

  • President Dementia has seen the future
  • Pete Hesgeth and Alcohol
  • Conspiracy theories
  • Fox News discovers immigration
  • Fixing Social Security

 

The incomparable Heather Mac Donald on Trump’s nominees and priorities: the hits and the misses.

Spurred on by converation with the great Heather MacDonald, Ann takes a look at Trump’s remaining controversial cabinet picks (Hesgeth, Patel and Noem) and asks, “Does character still matter?”

Then she throws down the gauntlet to Vivek Ramaswamy – come on the podcast and tell us what you really think instead of complaining to Ezra Klein.

A 28-year-veteran employee of United Airlines says the company fired him over false allegations of bigotry and that his union abandoned him in the process. Ruben Sanchez, Jr talks to Ann about how corporate wokeness took away his livelihood.

The Big Stories of the Week:

  • Matt Gaetz is out and Pam Bondi is in.
  • The enemy of my enemy is RFK
  • Dr. Oz is in
  • Kamala’s $B Spending
Audio this week: Sen. John Fetterman reacts to the Gaetz withdrawal and Lindy Li of the DNC Finance Committee on Fox & Friends Weekend

After getting off to a roaring start with the selection of Tom Homan as the Border Czar, some of Trump’s cabinent choices are running from the interesting to the clearly unserious.

The New York Times wraps up its 2024 Class of Undecided Voters and the results are very Ann-like, plus 23 Nobel Ecomomic Laureates vs America.

We’re past the election so today we present a collection of interviews Ann has done with true champions of freedom: Jay Bhattacharya, Peter Thiel and Nadine Strossen.

Videos of each interview are available at Ann’s Substack and audio versions at Ricochet.com.

It’s not that difficult.

Immigration.
Immigration.
Immigration.

The three things for you to know at the beginning of the week and the end of the campaign:

  • It’s still 50/50. So vote and don’t be overconfident.
  • More whole cloth bile from The Atlantic 
  • The Democrats Insanity Defense (A great article by Park MacDougald)

 

We break format this week by covering THE biggest story of the week: Ryan Girdusky gets a lifetime ban from CNN for a joke. Ryan joins us for a discussion of that and a last-minute assessment of the Presidential Sweepstakes.

Your Five Stories you need to know this week:

  • Kamala’s closing arguments
  • Driving whales crazy (and why liberals can’t take a joke)
  • A National Sales Tax! What?
  • Heather MacDonald on Prophets of Doom in City Journal
  • Militant Democracy

Ann offers up an early Halloween Treat with some truly scary stuff.

  • If you know your history, Hitler was a scary dude!
  • Scary liberal women!
  • The Excorist was the scariest movie of all-time!
  • Scary Townhalls!

Famed Democratic strategist Doug Schoen tells Ann who knew about Biden’s dementia, what his staff was thinking, who the Democrats really wanted to replace him, Kamala’s good and bad points, why she picked Tim Walz, what Democrats really think of Trump — and MORE!

Your Monday podcast:

  • Weighing Trump’s vulgarity vs Kamala’s awfulness
  • Reading the tea leaves of the polls
  • Vulnerable Dems tying themselves to Trump in campaign ads
  • Senator Buzzcut in trouble in Montana
  • Kamala’s $20K bribe for black men and the legality of race-based programs

Let us be very clear…

Kamala’s interview with Bret Baier did not go well for her. The MSM attacks on him showed that. She alternately came off as angry and whiny, tried to fillibuster her way through it and relied on her standby clichés. And if the folks at Fox News knew a thing or two about immigration it could have been worse – a lot worse.

A conversation with the Auteur, Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire.

The Big Stories for your week ahead:

  • JD Vance takes on the NY Times and gets badgered (as usual)
  • Money in Politics is now a good thing
  • Is Trump going senile or just getting cranky?
  • Polling Update: Still tied!
  • A nation of homebodies

Our Friday round-up of the week’s big stories:

  • Biden and Harris take on “misinformation” in the aftermath of back-to-back hurricanes
  • Happy Birthday, Reverend Al!
  • Lesbian Navy runs aground
  • Mika seeks professional help
  • Ron doesn’t take Kamala’s phone calls

As FEMA fails and flails in the wake of Hurricane Helene, Ann throws down the gauntlet to MAGA country: “I don’t want to hear about a stolen election or Democrats cheating if Republicans don’t throw everything they have at getting supplies and electricity. Help them build their buildings. But also, as the election gets closer, make sure they have their ballots, make sure their ballots get delivered.”

Also on the show:

RFK Jr like you’ve never heard him before!

A lot on his father’s old boss, Sen. Joe McCarthy — the subject of Ann’s revisionist account (i.e., “true”) in “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism.”