I talk about Biden's sadly DOA immigration bill and some of the really good stuff in it, the Facebook - Australia story, Ted Cruz's ill fated Cabo trip, Cuomo lying about the number of grandmas and grandpas that dies of COVID in NY nursing homes, my bewilderment at political parties hitching themselves to jackasses, and few other bits
TL;DL - everything is kinda horrible and broken but hey we might be getting some sweet at home COVID tests and another vaccine on the US market.
Well January sure turned out to be a weird month no? This past week capped it off with the rise of meme investing, preparing for impeachment 2.0, and a Texas court blocking Biden's 100 day deportation moratorium. A heads up - I'll be announcing in the next week changes to my Patreon and Substack accounts going forward, keep an eye out
The Trump administration is officially over and the Biden administration is gearing up; from the executive orders Biden issued on Day One we get a glimpse into his policy priorities. Plus, we have an impending impeachment trial and the possible formation of a Trump based political party.
The past week brought us Trump's second impeachment, details on the upcoming inauguration, and details on just how stupid (or overly confident) the Capitol rioters were. I also discuss the upcoming battle over the next stimulus bill and how jamming a $15 minimum wage requirement in it might have poison pilled it. Don't forget to subscribe to my Substack jenmonroue.substack.com
I don't know if this will go down as the week the GOP finally died but after losing Georgia, a riot in the Capitol building, and their leading losing his social media platforms it is on life support
Good news -- it's 2021! Bad news -- January is going to be a hell of a month We've got a fight over if Congress will approve additional direct stimulus finds (no), a vaccine rollout that's not going so great (eh), the first shot fired in the Vaccine War (yikes), and a last ditch phone call from to get the results of the Georgia election altered (oh boy) Next week -- the Georgia Senate runoff and the Congressional approval of the Electoral College vote.
The last full week of 2020 is officially over! This stupid dumb year is almost over! We still have insanely high unemployment and no COVID relief package but we do have another vaccine on the horizon. We also still have Trump and his swampy pardons, plus an unexplained RV explosion in Nashville
In the past week -Barr handed in his resignation -FDA approved Moderna's vaccine for EUA -FDA also approved a completely at home rapid COVID test kit -the federal government kinda botched the Pfizer vaccine rollout -we learned that (probably) Russian state sponsored hackers gained access to federal computer systems and has been rooting around in them since the spring
Bad news - unemployment has once again skyrocketed and the FTC wants to break up Facebook Good news - the 2020 election legal odyssey has ended and the first batch of Pfizer vaccine is officially in distribution
We've made it to the last month of this accursed year! Yay! However we now have Trump trying to shoehorn a repeal of Section 230 into the NDAA. Boo! We (finally) got a House vote on the MORE Act and it passed! Yay! And a federal judge ruled that DACA is to be reinstated in its original form posthaste. Yay but Congress need to do its job! My Substack is where you will find other fun stuff from this week - jenmonroue.substack.com
Short week that was not short on craziness - from the jettisoned Powell still going forward with the Kraken, a nasty Third Circuit dismissal of a Trump lawsuit, to SCOTUS weighing in on NYC's house of worship attendance caps Don't forget to subscribe to my Substack - jenmonroe.substack.com
The Trump campaign continues it push to drag out the election to the bitter end (which is coming soon), the narratives keep getting more and more absurd, and the exodus of talent in the mediasphere continues
It has been two weeks since Election Day and yet the election has not ended yet. It. Just. Keeps. Dragging. On. Warning - there is a rant in here
Look at that; we had an election, we got the results in time for the Weekly Roundup, and we managed to not literally set the nation on fire in the process. Metaphorically, however, the nation is kinda on fire
Here we are, in the last of the Before Times. This past week we had yet another stupid dumb tech hearing, a ruling on the TikTok ban, another police involved shooting, and some last minute voter disenfranchisement plots. Don't forget to subscribe to my Substack, I'll be posting content there too on the Twitter - NYP situation and a few other things - jenmonroe.substack.com
I did it. I watched all the debates from the 2020 election season. This episode is a bit shorter because I don't know what more commentary I can offer that I haven't in the fifty eleven debate episodes I already made, but I do offer my thoughts on the usefulness of debates and when they should be held
We're nearing the end of the 2020 Election Season and the news cycle is not slowing down. This past week we had a SCOTUS confirmation hearing, two townhalls instead of one debate, and the New York Post trying to do an email based October Surprise Link to my Substack - jenmonroe.substack.com
A week closer to Election Day, a week further from sanity... Don't forget to sign up for my Substack newsletter - jenmonroe.substack.com
A quick rundown of the almost useless vice presidential debate where we learned almost nothing Don't forget to subscribe to my Substack, it is much more interesting than the vice presidential debate - jenmonroue.substack.com
It's hard to imagine Trump has ever had a worse week than the one he just had - his tax returns got leaked, he had a horrible debate performance, and he's currently receiving treatment for COVID-19. Since Trump's bad week means the whole campaign season is now in chaos, let's break it down. Link to my new Substack newsletter (which you should totally subscribe to) - https://jenmonroe.substack.com
Well I started making these episodes for the Democratic primary debates so in order to see the series through to the end I decided to give the presidential debates their own episodes. This debate series has...not started out so well, to put it mildly. Link to my Substack (which you should subscribe to) - jenmonroe.substack.com
In this week's roundup - Trump makes dumb mouth noises, the SCOTUS nominee is revealed, and the grand jury makes its decision on who will face charges in the Taylor shooting. And news - I've started a Substack! Here is a link to subscribe and a post with a bit more info as to why I'm changing up the content schedule and delivery method. https://jenmonroe.substack.com
We may be done with 2020 but 2020 is clearly not done with us. This past week saw frightening levels of overreach from the Trump administration on the TikTok acquisition deal and on what exactly should constitute US history as taught to schoolchildren. And then Ruth Bader Ginsberg passed. Buckle up.
It was a short week but we still have stuff to talk about, like how for some reason Trump decided to tell Bob Woodward things he probably shouldn't have and the staggering number of deportations that have happened since March
Since Congress won't leave well enough alone when it comes to Section 230, we have two presidential candidates who are openly antagonistic towards Section 230, and two platforms have already changed their TOS to reflect the current environment we need to chat about S230 and its importance again. My RocaNews piece on S230 - https://www.rocanews.com/blog-posts/political-attacks-on-internet-freedom-will-lead-to-censorship
The story of the shooting of Aaron Danielson in Portland comes to a rather troubling end (?), both presidential candidates visit Kenosha and have very different experiences, and The Atlantic drops a piece on Trump that causes a mini freakout on the topic of anonymous sources. *correction - it was not Kenosha PD that issued a statement about Reinouhl being armed it was Thurston County Sheriff's Office
Left off of the weekly roundup - Trump released his 2020 agenda and the RNC decided that their 2020 agenda what whatever Trump said. So let's look at this Trump / GOP agenda shall we?
The past week gave us a bunch of dystopian hellscape - between the warnings of impending doom coming from the RNC to another police shooting that has kicked off riots in Kenosha, which lead to the Rittenhouse shootings Needless to say it wasn't a very good week
The DNC finally took place virtually on August 17 - 20 and I watched the primetime portions of it and recapped it for you, and we got a surprise arrest
