Comedian Shane Gillis gets hired by Saturday Night Live for its 45th season, then fired within days, when podcast audio reveals him using racial and ‘homophobic’ slurs.
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The District Attorney in Manhattan, Cyrus Vance, Jr., subpoenas eight years of Trump federal and state tax returns as part of a criminal probe into hush money payments allegedly made to Stephanie Clifford, AKA porn actor Stormy Daniels.
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Right Angle: Backstage [09-17-2019]
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Bill jets off to Norway, but before leaving he convenes the ruling council of Scott Ott, Stephen Green and his ownself, to plan this week’s episodes of Right Angle. The Members at BillWhittle.com enjoy exclusive access to these top-secret sessions, and we’re grateful.
Saudi Arabian Aramco oil facilities hit by drones and missiles — allegedly from Iran — leaving U.S. President Donald Trump with no good foreign policy choices. If Saudi Arabia strikes back, it will do so with U.S. weaponry, but should it be with U.S. cooperation, support or troops?
Aleksandr Solzhentisyn, who saw the starvation and brutality of The Gulag Archipelago, said “prosperity breeds idiots.” That helps to explain the existence of AOC, Bernie Sanders and other so-called social-democrats and Progressives.
The Washington Post says Democrat presidential candidates have deep policy divisions, but do policies even matter in a battle with incumbent Republican President Donald Trump, the post-policy president?
The trailer for ‘Knives Out’ made it sound like a fun caper. Turns out it’s a scathing indictment of American greed in the Trump era that takes direct aim at the MAGA crowd. The director, Rian Johnson, is the same guy who killed Luke Skywalker and turned Star Wars into a tribute to social justice warriors.
Behavioral scientist Magnus Söderlund, appearing on Swedish state TV, says to combat climate and deal with the looming food scarcity we need to overcome the “conservative taboo” against eating human flesh. Even if you’re reluctant to taste your neighbor, he says you could become accustomed to cannibalism little by little.
President Trump’s punitive tariffs on China lead to $30 billion in new farm bailouts, with no end in sight for these growing subsidies. Will Congress expand funding when the agriculture subsidies hit the legal ceiling this fall? What’s the end game for the president’s trade negotiations? Is it better to have American farmers dependent upon China or upon U.S. taxpayers? Has massive borrowing made the U.S. the richest/poorest country in the world?
Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, an appointee of President Trump’s, makes two simple, but extraordinary statements in a new interview. His thoughtful insight into American exceptionalism and partisan divisions bring much-needed
President Trump publicly dumps ‘secret’ Camp David talks with the Taliban and the Afghan government aimed at a peace deal. He said the deal is dead. Are U.S. troops stuck forever in Afghanistan? Is that the price we pay to avoid another 9/11-style terror attack? Have we achieved our objectives? Where does the Commander in Chief go from here when he has declared he wants to pull out of the long-running U.S. “police” action.
President Trump “quits” John Bolton, his third National Security Adviser, over “strong disagreements”. Why does the President hire people who disagree with him and then fire them because they don’t agree with him? John Bolton’s ideology and reputation preceded him like a brass band, but a president who wants to extract us from foreign military engagements hired a well-known “hawk”.
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Bill Whittle whistles Dixie to start this production meeting of the men of Right Angle. Join us in discussing this week’s show topics, and snacking. Thank you for making this show possible.
Democrat Congressman James Clyburn, SC, says he doubts the Bill of Rights would pass in 2019, because he meets many people who want to uproot it. Are our Constitutional guarantees in such jeopardy that “we the people” might tear them up? Would the first ten Amendments to the Constitution survive a clean up or down vote at the 2020 Democratic National Convention?
Weird and wonderful — nay, disturbing — stories of the week get the full treatment from Stephen Green, Bill Whittle and Scott Ott. Right Angle flight 909 is now boarding emotional-support horses.