Ep. 84: Trump Panics, Doubles Down On Being A Dick(tator)

The Opinionated Ogre Podcast is 100% listener-supported. Please help us continue to inform/amuse/outrage you by becoming a supporting subscriber today for only $5 a month or just $50 a year (a 17% discount!)! If not, it’s all good. Welcome to the Ogre Nation anyway!This was another week that displayed enormous weakness for a regime that depends on the illusion of absolute strength. A wounded and dying animal is at its most dangerous, but that doesn’t change the fact that the animal is wounded and dying. Come join the Ogre Nation Conversation and let’s talk about it!Nerd Bonus! Guest host Frederic Poag and I spend a whole lot of time yapping about RPGs after the show. Ogre Nation News Update!3:03 - 9:23 Trump ramps up his attack on the free press because now that the legacy press is collapsing, he has to silence independent voices next. A sign of strength? Hardly.9:24 - 16:35 The regime raids the Fulton County election office in Georgia. Tulsi Gabbard was there, too. The regime is straight-up panicking about the midterms, and this is what that looks like.16:36 - 34:10 Nazis swarm the Opinionated Ogre newsletter because calls for accountability terrify the “party of personal responsibility” more than death and taxes combined.34:10 - 36:45 A bit of breaking news about a big tough manly MAGAt that got arrested in Texas after attacking a teenage girl and then getting his ass beat like a drum by her classmates.36:48 - 46:01 You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream Because of Fucking ICE46:02 1:15:05 Headlines for Short Attention Spans!1:15:06 - 1:20:50 Self-Care of the Week1:22:34 - 1:29:15 Ogre and Fred’s super nerdy aftershow discussion about different RPGs 1:29:17 - 1:36:07 Fred’s extended D&D selfcare segment Get full access to The Opinionated Ogre at opinionatedogre.substack.com/subscribe