JBLC analyzes the results of the Iowa Caucus and the bizarre messaging from multiple corners of Trump's inevitability after only winning a tiny election in a ruby red state;
We lament DeSantis' truly horrible campaign while we wait for him to drop out during our recording, and in typical DeSantis fashion he screws it up and announces 2 hours after we had finished that he was dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump. DeSantis, once the only viable Republican alternative to Donald Trump, had one of the least effective dumpster fire campaigns in history;
So now eyes turn to Nikki Haley, the lone anti-Trump horse in the race. Will she revive the anti-Trump coalition DeSantis had and managed to bludgeon to death with mediocrity? Or fold in the face of unrelenting MAGA fascist pressure for her betrayal of the dear leader. The answer may lie in her performance in New Hampshire Tuesday...
And Europe comes to terms with the reality of a 21st century without an alliance with the United States, as Trump eeks closer to power and a shift away from NATO and toward the world's authoritarian powers;
And does Trump have syphilis? What in god's name in on his hands? We explore the possibilities.
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