Sadly, we decided this week that this episode would be our last for a while. It was a difficult decision to make, but for the reasons discussed in this episode, it make the most sense for us right now until we can come back bigger, better, and stronger. Please keep the light of freedom on for us and do all you can to keep working toward a little saner world in our absence. We will be back and better than ever as soon as we are able. In the meantime, as David says, "stay safe and stay free." Show...
Apr 17, 2025•38 min
Trump's "reciprocal tariffs" went into effect this week and the U.S. stock market tumbled under the uncertainty of what such a shakeup in the global trade framework will end up looking like. We give the strict economic analysis of why tariffs are bad but include a balanced approach to what the Trump side of the argument is for the tariffs and let you decide how to feel or what to think about them. Show Notes: Trump on Tariffs: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-tariffs **SUPPORT THE PODCAST HERE...
Apr 10, 2025•45 min
The mainstream outlets lost their collective mind this past week over a nothing-burger story about a hostile reporter from The Atlantic being "inadvertently" added to a group chat between high-ranking officials from the Trump Administration discussing war plans in Yemen. Peering through the thinly veiled attempts at manufactured outrage, one can easily see that rather than being a damning story about Trump Administration incompetence, the only relevant aspect to the incident is that someone on t...
Apr 03, 2025•32 min
Faced with a right-wing populist, Calin Georgescu, winning the presidential election in Romania late last year, election officials canceled the election. When it looked like he was still going to win in the re-do this year, they arrested him. His crime? Placing the interests and fortunes of Romanian citizens above the one-world-government dictates of the European Union and NATO. The next time you hear someone lamenting the "death of democracy," ask them their thoughts on Romania. You'll quickly ...
Mar 27, 2025•24 min
Thomas Massie was and remains "America First" before Trump was even in politics and before any of his braindead sycophants figured out how to breathe unaided. And yet, Trump decided to attack Massie this week over Massie's opposition to Mike-I've never met an exploded budget I didn't like-Johnson's continuing resolution that funds government at pre-DOGE levels, rendering all of DOGE's work up to now pointless. Massie (and Rand Paul in the Senate, who also opposes the continuing resolution) is an...
Mar 20, 2025•40 min
Whether it be Democratic New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez going after Democratic New York Mayor Eric Adams over illegal immigration, or Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom being confronted with his party's rigid purity tests that result in people like RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard being ousted from party, it should be crystal clear by now for all their sloganeering about "diversity is our strength," "diversity" was never anything more than a smoke screen for ideological confor...
Mar 13, 2025•31 min
This past week, Trump delivered the first State of the Union Address of his second term. On the morning of the address, 22 Democrat Senators thought it would be a great idea to record themselves delivering a scripted, fake outrage video and posting it to their social media accounts. Completely tone deaf as they are, none saw fit to even slightly modify their presentation so as not to appear like the power drunk robots they are. Their behavior (along with their House colleagues) during the State ...
Mar 11, 2025•31 min
At the end of the last week of February 2025, the Trump White House invited a handful of MAGA social media influencers to receive "Phase 1" of the Epstein files. If this monumental screw up of the promised release of the Epstein files was an accident or simple oversight, they couldn't have messed it up any worse if they'd done it on purpose. At bottom, the Epstein story is (and always will be unless and until we get the full, un-doctored truth) about the fact that the intelligence agency of the ...
Mar 04, 2025•47 min
Is the internet the modern-day version of the Tower of Babel? Maybe, maybe not. But the timeless wisdom of the Tower of Babel story still has plenty to teach us today about human nature, power, and the relationship between humanity and God (the Creator or whatever else you prefer to call him/it). On this week's episode we apply this ancient wisdom to what we are experiencing today as another angle of our ongoing attempt to make sense of the world we inherited, in the hopes that maybe, just maybe...
Feb 25, 2025•43 min
A new talking point has hit the establishment media's desks: that the U.S. is experiencing a "Constitutional crisis." As usual, the thing they've identified as the source of the crisis is the exact wrong thing. Rather than President Trump and DOGE being the problem, their executive agency-confined actions are RESOLVING existing Constitutional crises because the agencies they are targeting are unconstitutional themselves and/or they're engaging in unconstitutional actions. But even though the wor...
Feb 18, 2025•1 hr 1 min
The Regime, Deep State, Shadow Government, Cathedral, whatever you want to call them, absolutely lost its collective mind this week over the exposure of 1% of its total corruption and grift, facilitated by USAID. In reality, what DOGE accomplished this week is waking up normies on a scale previously unimaginable. Now and forevermore, John Q. Public won't be able to miss or ignore the elephant in the room, that the United States government has and continues to exist for no other purpose than to f...
Feb 11, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Last week a military Blackhawk helicopter crashed into a commercial flight making its approach for landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The fallout from this tragedy has exposed (not for the first time) the government's incompetence and incentives to fail. Although the room temperature IQ, TDS afflicted screechers are blaming Trump, despite only having been back in office for a week and a half, anyone paying attention knows that the real fault lies with long-standing government ...
Feb 04, 2025•44 min
Just before Trump took office for the second time, Biden issued preemptive pardons for Anthony Fauci, Liz Cheney, and other anti-Trump politicians, promising the pardons were not an admission of guilt. But we all know what to do with the regime's promises. After Trump took office earlier this week there was a flurry of winning, but it was mixed with some serious missteps. We analyze week one and give our grades on Trump's performance so far. Show Notes: What Did the MSM Aay About Preemptive Pard...
Jan 29, 2025•1 hr 27 min
To much exaggerated celebration from the left, in his farewell address, Joe Biden warned of an impending oligarchic takeover of America. Curious that this is only a problem now that his side lost the election (despite being overwhelmingly supported by people they would otherwise call "oligarchs") and apparently only includes, in the category as potential "oligarchs," wealthy people they don't like. It appears, to surprise of no one, that the regime has learned nothing from its recent political d...
Jan 21, 2025•45 min
This past week, Los Angeles was devastated by wildfires that raged out of control, due in no small part to political mismanagement that left local firefighting personnel and infrastructure completely unprepared and ill-equipped for the task. The flippant way government prepared and subsequently handled the problem is only the latest example demonstrating the fact that government does not care about its subjects (it never has), and we hope this is the last time many need to see/feel the consequen...
Jan 14, 2025•59 min
January 1, 2025 was less than happy for too many. Simultaneous terrorist attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas left more questions than answers about motivations, as well as some interesting coincidences that require follow-ups. We talk about the facts of the events (known to us two days after the events), the interesting connections, the response to the events, and why at least one X talking head is pointing the finger at libertarians. Allstate CEO Gives Tone Deaf Remarks on the New Orleans Terr...
Jan 07, 2025•45 min
Elon's DOGE and astute X users gave the country a major gift the week before Christmas this year. Once again, at the 11th hour, the parasites in Congress tried to rush through a 1,500+ page spending bill, loaded with pork and all other manner of waste, fraud, and abuse. As intended, this gave the few members that are trying to do the best for the American people precious little time to even read the bill let alone be well versed enough to oppose anything of substance in it. But, fortunately for ...
Dec 31, 2024•41 min
Those of us that were silenced throughout Covid are now often asked "why are you still talking about Covid? It's over, move on." Well, not only will it never be over because if we let those criminals get away with what they did (and tried to do) during Covid, it is inevitable they will try it again, and worse. But, as important as it is that we never let them try anything like that again, it is also important to bring attention to the victims of their policies, many of whom are still living toda...
Dec 17, 2024•44 min
Joe's recent pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, is about much more than whether he was telling the truth when he said he would not pardon Hunter. By granting his son a more than 10-year blanket pardon, running from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024, Joe not only pardoned Hunter in a much more expansive way than is typically done for pardon recipients, but he also granted to himself and the rest of the Biden family members wrapped up in Hunter's shady dealings, blanket immunity for corruptio...
Dec 10, 2024•53 min
The soon-to-be established Department of Government Efficiency ("DOGE"), headed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, has released its 5-point plan to impose accountability at the federal level, pare back the administrative state, and attack the deep state at its core. The outline is a thing of beauty in itself, and if DOGE is able to accomplish only a fraction of what it sets out to do, it will be the most glorious success at the federal level seen in most of our lifetimes. Having just celebrated T...
Dec 04, 2024•54 min
Less than two weeks after the American people spoke loudly against war, rebuking the war party's puppet candidate in favor of the decidedly more anti-war candidate, the Deep State decided to escalate tensions with Russia by authorizing the use of long-range U.S. missiles by Ukraine to strike targets inside Russia. Putin has been clear that this was the brightest of red lines. Zelensky, wasting no time in acting on the U.S.'s green light, struck targets in Russia with U.S. ATACMSs which prompted ...
Nov 27, 2024•48 min
Trump has made a slew of early cabinet picks and it is certainly a mixed bag. As we stated on episode 219, the election night win was only the beginning of our work to hold Trump to his pro-liberty promises and criticize him where he fails. Domestically, he's done a great job, appointing RFK, Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and establishing D.O.G.E. with Elon and Vivek at the helm. In foreign policy, it is more of the disappointing same, selecting warhawk after warhawk to keep the war machine fed. We dish o...
Nov 19, 2024•1 hr 17 min
To the shock of precisely no one that doesn't listen to mainstream media 8 hours a day, Trump prevailed over VP Kackles, and in "mandate" level fashion. Despite the fact that he made tremendous gains amongst every major demographic, won every single swing state, won red states by wider margins than he did in 2016, and won not only the Electoral College but also the popular vote by a wider margin than Hillary won it over him in 2016, the TDS hysterics seem hell-bent on learning as little from thi...
Nov 12, 2024•1 hr 7 min
As libertarians we've been disaffected with both Democrats and Republicans for a long time. All the propaganda about "wasting votes on a third party" and "a vote for a Libertarian/third-party candidate is a vote for whoever won" (according to the side that lost) has never worked on us. We've voted our conscience in every election we've participated in and apologized to no one for that. But, this one was different. Only Trump has spoken to the concerns of libertarians (see his appearance at the L...
Nov 05, 2024•1 hr 6 min
Pete Buttigieg gaslights libertarians on the basis of Trump's former advisors' hearsay and The Atlantic's Anne Applebaum makes the case on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that democracy is no longer democracy when an undesirable (according to her and her ilk) candidate wins. These are deeply unserious people. Show Notes: Anne Applebaum Hates Democracy: https://x.com/Morning_Joe/status/1849057674102518117 **SUPPORT THE PODCAST HERE** Become a Member: https://wmdpodcast.com/support-our-work BUY MERCH (shirt...
Oct 29, 2024•53 min
The 2016 campaign exposed us to the concept of "fake news," which the mainstream mouthpieces for the regime tried to pin exclusively to Trump, but we've since learned applies to nearly everything that comes out of their mouths and off their pens. In their ongoing efforts to cover the Kamala pig with lipstick, they engaged in substantial efforts to lie about the results of the Biden-Harris administration both in terms of it doing better than advertised in some areas (job creation) and not as bad ...
Oct 22, 2024•44 min
Ever since Trump established himself as an "America First" candidate in 2016, the left, in its TDS-induced stupor, has taken the seemingly "America Last" position. If Trump wanted to do X aimed at benefitting Americans to the detriment of non-Americans, the left has been quick to label X as "fascist," "tyrannical," or "anti-democratic" in some form or fashion. So, it was rather surprising to see the outrage this past week over the news that Trump gave Covid tests to Russia during the height of t...
Oct 15, 2024•45 min
The story of the government's response to Hurricane Helene is a story of layered failure, incompetence, and evil in three parts. First, is generalized federal waste, fraud, and abuse of U.S. tax payers' dollars. While it has given billions in foreign aid since the start of 2024, it has given only $750 to those impacted by Helene. Second, is specific federal waste, fraud, and abuse. We learned this week that FEMA (the federal agency specifically tasked with responding to natural disasters) has sp...
Oct 08, 2024•57 min
"Rational ignorance" is a real phenomenon, that predominates our politics. When the average voter does not even know or understand the basic facts underlying their policy preferences, they can't possibly ascertain whether that policy will actually be in their self-interest or not (it generally is not). This week we discuss a recent questionnaire demonstrating that voters don't know the first thing about corporate profits but will cheer the politician that promises to come down on corporations th...
Oct 01, 2024•53 min
A second attempt was made on Trump's life this past week and for the miniscule amount of coverage the mainstream media gave it over a barely 48-hour news cycle, most of that time was dedicated to manufacturing the narrative that Trump is to blame for unhinged leftists and regular MSNBC consumers constantly trying to kill him. As if that wasn't bad enough, Hillary Clinton (of all people) took this opportune moment to shill her next memoir and complain to Rachel Maddow that the media isn't tough e...
Sep 25, 2024•52 min
