About this episode

The episode reviews the controversial events of 2025 following a tumultuous election and various geopolitical and domestic issues in the United States.

Following a wild election in 2024, which included an assassination attempt on then candidate and now President Donald Trump, 2025 was bound to be controversial. Realizing the fears and hopes of millions, the United States began enforcing its borders again, and enacting trade tariffs designed to shore up is dwindling manufacturing base. Geopolitically, attempts were made to wind down the Ukraine war, but other conflicts flared up between India and Pakistan and Iran and Israel. Domestically, the economy continued to hum along on the back of a now extended AI boom, but many people found basic housing unaffordable, and tensions grew as Charlie Kirk was assassinated in front a live audience of students, and citizen journalists showed how complicit and incompetent governments were from the fires in California to the massive fraud in Somalian daycares stealing billions from American taxpayers. Trump’s MAGA, while quick to act in the first 90 days domestically, was slow to respond to many of these real concerns of Americans, and further alienated its base as the administration engaged in two unauthorized attacks on the Iranian nuclear facilities and later on Venezuelan shipping and its…

People in this episode

Hosts: Nick Mason, Adam Smith

Guest: Borzoi

Topics covered

• 2024 election
• US politics
• geopolitical conflicts
• domestic economy
• AI impact
• border enforcement
• trade tariffs

Keywords

• Donald Trump
• Charlie Kirk
• Ukraine war
• AI boom
• trade tariffs
• border enforcement
• geopolitical conflicts
• MAGA
• California fires
• Somalian fraud

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Somalian daycares, MAGA

Places: United States, California, Iran, Israel, India, Pakistan

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