Kairoticast

Oof.

The last few weeks on Kairoticast have been tough. We’ve talked about bears and guns and democracy – lots of stuff that is not for the faint of heart.

I have mentioned Project 2025 a few times at this point, and my producer and I talked about the fact that I really need to devote some time to that – but I just didn’t know if I could do that to you this week. Do I think Project 2025 and the upcoming election are the biggest threats to face America since we declared our Independence? I actually kind of do. I know that is wild and dramatic and may seem like a step too far, but this is where we are. I truly don’t know if the American experiment is going to survive the next four years. I mean, to the point that I have started thinking in terms of how I am going to take care of my family if America crumbles. Plan ahead and whatnot. [Read More]

This episode will probably drop on the day after Independence Day. What a time to be alive.

There’s been a lot that has happened since we were last together. The ones that really stick out are that farce of a debate and the immunity decision. Either one of those could merit their own discussion, but I want to talk about what those both are leading to: the election. [Read More]

A theocracy is a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god. That word gets thrown around some in political discourse today, often as a scare tactic, but I want to talk about it for a few minutes. [Read More]

On Friday, the 14th, the Supreme Court handed down an opinion that may not have made your radar but is worth noting. The Supreme Court struck down a ban on bump stocks enacted by the Trump administration after the 2017 Las Vegas shooting. A bump stock is a device that can be attached to a semiautomatic firearm in place of a conventional gunstock, enabling it to fire bullets more rapidly. It literally exists just to make your gun more deadly – I’m sorry…more efficient. [Read More]

I had planned on doing an episode on the campus protests that were going on all over the nation, and really all over the world. I was going to talk about how the politics of all of this were more complicated than they appear on the surface. I mean, right wing radio was openly talking about how they are excited about the possibility of universities just shutting down completely because of all of this. So if you think this is anything other than a sustained attack on higher ed, you are, to be quite frank, wildly naïve. There is a concerted effort by one side of the political spectrum to keep people ignorant. That’s probably because if you put any real thought into their policies, you’d immediately realize they are nonsense. Hence, the culture wars. [Read More]