Ep. 12: Kamala's One Weird Trick To Beat Trump...

The Opinionated Ogre Podcast is 100% listener-supported. Please help me continue to inform/amuse/outrage you by becoming a supporting subscriber today for only $5 a month or just $50 a year! If not, it’s all good. Welcome to the Ogre Nation anyway!Welp! It’s been another not great week for the GOP as Kamala Harris’ campaign continues to rev up while Trump and his fellow fascists are crying about being called weird. White Dudes for Harris was a huge success and, seriously, what’s up with JD Vance and that couch?But it’s not all good news and I’ll get into that in the Ogre Opinion about Sinclair Broadcasting. Housekeeping Notes: This weekend is Otakon, a truly massive anime convention, one of the largest on the East Coast and I will be spending part of Thursday and all of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday geeking out with my girls. It’s amazing fun but exhausting and we’re still doing a bunch of family stuff next week, too, so light posting and a mini-pod on Wednesday. I’ll have a new poll up for the next main story next week.Lots to get to today, though, so let’s get to it!Ogre Nation News Update! 1:36 - 6:46 White Dudes for Harris: I watched the Zoom call along with about 140,000 other people. Was it worth the time? I’ll tell you all about it.6:47 - 12:43 Trump goes full fash and the press hits the snooze button. Again. 12:44 - 15:18 Trump can’t seem to land a punch on Harris and it’s driving them crazy15:19 - 20:48 Kamala Harris, on the other hand, has this one weird trick to beat the entire GOP…20:49 - 24:47 Couchgate Everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to askOgre Opinion: Sinclair Broadcasting And The Stealth Poisoning Of American Discourse24:48 - 35:26 This massive media empire has been accumulating TV stations like barnacles for decades and pumping out propaganda just as long. Why do you know next to nothing about them? Because, like always, the press won’t talk about what they’re doing. Whoops! Forgot to add the clip of Joseph Gordon Levitt! Get full access to The Opinionated Ogre at opinionatedogre.substack.com/subscribe