Bill Whittle Network

Spacetime. Wormholes. Warp Drives…. 20th Century physics, old-timer. It’s all a projection of quantum data nodes called Qubits… and 21st Century physics lets you do all sorts of cool things that Old Albert E. would not like AT ALL.

The Beast keeps getting Beaslier! We’re about a week away from the 12th test flight for the Starship program, but this will be the first launch of what appears to be the final configuration: Starship Mark III atop the new SuperHeavy booster and the first launch from Pad 2. It’s been SEVEN MONTHS since the last flight — an eternity for SpaceX. Is this the configuration that will get us back to the surface of the moon?

There’s a rootin’-tootin, Old West, land-grazin’ conflagration going on out on them dusty plains. Bison are somehow involved.

The Mayor of Seattle, Washington has publicly stated that everyone in the city should boycott Seattle’s signature brand — STARBUCKS — until the company takes a knee to Seattle’s Progressive politics and allows unionization of its workers. Starbucks’ reaction? LATER, LOSERS! We are OUT OF HERE! We’re going to need a bigger Nashville…

The new Michael Jackson biopic raises some interesting — and disturbing —questions about the nature and the price of genius… none of which are in the film.

Well, there’s been another attempt on President Trump’s life… but this one, if anything, is even more disturbing. THIS attempted assassin seems perfectly normal — within the Progressive Left’s echo chamber of murder.

After four generations of falling standards of education and increasing levels of political indoctrination, a report from Yale University suggests that this might pose a problem at some point in the future. Do the dinosaurs not understand that the asteroid has already struck?

In the last several years, the fighting strength of Britain’s Royal Navy has not just eroded — it has collapsed. What was once a thousand-ship fleet and the envy of the world can now barely put a handful of vessels to sea. And one will never understand the soul of Great Britain without fully grasping the mythological power of the Royal Navy in that island nation’s national consciousness.

For forty-seven years now, Iran’s knife to the throat of the West was to cut off Middle East oil by closing the Strait of Hormuz. NO ONE was ready for the response Iran got when that long-feared card was finally played.

A viral image of a rescued American airman turned out to be AI generated… perfectly. People believed it because while the expressions on the faces of the men may not have been REAL, they certainly were TRUE.

After 77 years, the greatest alliance in human history is definitely showing its age. Can a rudderless and increasingly anti-Western Europe be counted on any longer to provide the money and effort needed to save itself?

When Apollo 8 returned from humanities first trip to the moon in 1968, they didn’t waste any time about it: there were two more complete Apollo missions to fly before Apollo 11, a mere seven and a half months later. Artemis II is finally headed to the moon — and that truly is wonderful! — almost three and a half YEARS after Artemis I. Even the trajectory of Artemis II — let alone the entire program — seems a little too chill.

Our own Scott Ott came away from a science fiction movie mightily impressed! Was it extensive use of practical effects and lack of dead-eyed CGI? Or is there a deeper magic that Hollywood has not only abandoned, but learned to despise?

Scott Ott brings us some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that more young people than ever are in favor of socialism over capitalism. The good news is, it’s not the economic theory; it’s the NAME that’s the problem.

Criticism of Operation Epic Fury continues to come in from the usual suspects… and some of the unusual ones as well. In this episode of Right Angle, Scott, Steve and Bill wrestle not with strategy and objectives but rather morality and historical wisdom. Many times life is not about good and bad options; many times it’s about bad and worse ones.

What if government cutbacks meant getting rid of the poor performers rather than the poorly connected? Isn’t the idea of a MERITOCRACY built into the fundamental assumption about how a free people’s government works?

There’s no charity like American charity: voluntary, local and deeply PERSONAL. Bill Whittle brings us a look at an organization that gives as much to its donors as it does to its recipients.

‘They seek him here, they seek him there Those Yankees seek him everywhere! Is he in Heaven? Is he in Hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel!’

It may be painful to admit, but Iran’s Shahed-136 drone is likely the state-of-the-art weapon for the mid 2020’s: simple, effective and CHEAP. There was a time when the Pentagon would not have stooped to produce something so basic. But Pete Hegseth’s War Department isn’t too proud to learn one of history’s most important lessons: when the enemy has a better weapon than you do, don’t deny it. COPY IT. Meet the SpektreWorks (!) LUCAS clone!

As we watch history being made on the other side of the world, it can all seem very clinical, very cut-and-dried. This time, however, Bill Whittle has skin in the game: his wife and stepdaughter were in Dubai when the attacks started, and are unable to leave until… well, nobody knows. Does having your closest loved ones in harm’s way affect the way you look at things? And what about all of our servicemen and women whose families have to deal with this every time someone ‘rolls the Iron Dice?’

Just the kind of itty bitty little thing that has already scrubbed several launch attempts and which NASA has only had THREE YEARS to fix.

It has been confirmed that Iran's (former) Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei did not survive the first few hours of Operation Epic Fury. As Bill, Steve and Scott discuss in this episode, Iran as a civilization is a clear step above that of Iraq and two steps above that of Afghanistan. President Trump has declared Epic Fury a gift to the people of Iran to throw off their oppressors. Will they take it?

Justice comes in many forms. Sometimes it something as simple as seeing a absolutely evil, rotten bastards get trolled so hard they completely LOSE THEIR MINDS. Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear telephone headsets. Check out Kitboga’s channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@KitbogaShow

While Democrat hopefuls Gavin Newsom and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sputtered and bumbled their way across Europe, Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a speech to the Munich Security Conference that was elegant yet simple, friendly yet firm, and deeply moral yet grounded in reality. It was the latest masterstroke from the most capable and effective Secretaries of State in living memory — and perhaps, of all time.

Now witness the intellectual firepower of this fully armed and operational Presidential candidate!

You can never be too sure about the future — mostly because it hasn’t happened yet. But absolutely lost in the background noise of a typical news week in 2026 was what might turn out to be one of the most important announcements in human history.

Britain’s own Virtual Joan of Arc is back again, and this time she’s singing a different tune. Amelia — product of a totalitarian state Reeducation Camp campaign gone horribly right — flips the script on the Left’s cruelty narrative in a remarkably kind and gentle way. This is political messaging at its absolute finest.

Suppose you have a nice SUV and That Friend Of Yours needs help moving over the weekend. Right now you have a great excuse… but with this revolutionary new idea from a car company called Slate, you could just… you know… CONVERT the SUV into a pickup and then back again. It’s quite a concept: and Scott Ott is a True Believer!

If you have spent any real time with Large Language Model (LLM) AI systems like Grok or ChatGPT, you probably know the pattern: ‘OMG this is AMAZING!’ ‘Okay, not ‘amazing’ but still really useful!’ ‘Can come in handy sometimes.’ ‘I probably should double-check all of this.’ ‘REALLY?’

As Scott Ott asks, ’How many times are we gonna have to rescue this dame?’ After yet another bailout attempt, The Washington Post has announced a leaner, more accurate version of itself is in the works. But the bigger question isn’t about the Post so much as it is about the entire idea of a ‘newspaper.’ Have they already gone the way of the Dry Goods Store without even realizing it?

Some people have seen it before, in action. Steve Green brings us the report of an American special forces veteran who knows how to recognize a deadly pattern — and the plan behind it — when he sees one.

Obama wanted someone who would not outshine him so he selected Biden. Biden wanted someone who would not outshine him so he selected Harris. Harris wanted someone who would not outshine her, so she passed on Josh Shapiro.

Due to the enormous QUANTITATIVE advantage held by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, US policy shifted to maximizing the QUALITATIVE advantages of Western technology when it came to weapon systems. And so the US Army built what was unquestionable the best tank in the world: The M1A1 Abrams, also known as The Beast due to its battlefield dominance. But that was 1980. So what now? Meet the M1E3. And baby, The Beast is Back!

So often in the darkest hours of a nation’s history, an unknown figure appears to rally a declining civilization and return it to its natural greatness — Joan of Arc being a notable example. But Joan of Arc was REAL. Is it possible, in the digital age, that such a hero could be VIRTUAL? Why, yes. Yes it is possible.

Prices are still too high for many Americans. Combine that with the usual historical trend for the House to flip parties two years after a Presidential election and November could be grim for Republicans. But could a projected SIX PERCENT economic growth for 2026 save the midterms?

For FORTY SEVEN YEARS now Iran has been at war with the United States. Never has the Islamic regime been more at risk. The remarkably successful US military operations against Iran’s nuclear facilities and Venezuela’s communist dictator have show them that their enemy not only has the capability, but also the will, to use these astonishing assets, without falling into a fatal quagmire of ‘boots on the ground.’ They sound worried. They should be.

He took the most boring, the most unglamorous, and the most important jobs in America and made them FUNNY. He had an unerring eye for institutionalized stupidity. And he departed this life with dignity and grace. He will be sorely missed.

She’s killed off more loved ones than the Bubonic Plague. She’s utterly wrecked what was once the most valuable IP in the world. For 13 years she has brought her venom, her bitterness and her feminism (but I repeat myself) to Lucasfilm and systematically destroyed what used to be the very heart of pop culture. Now, for the fourth or fifth time, she says she is about to step down. Is it too late?

When the small brushfire that would go on to consume Pacific Palisades (and kill 12 people) was just one hour old, an urgent request for bulldozers to create a firebreak to contain it was met with this response from the Los Angeles Fire Department: “Heck no! That area is filled with endangered plants!” The fire went on to consume 6,837 structures and burned for 24 days.

The Kansas City Chiefs are considering a move from Kansas City, Missouri to Kansas City, Kansas. Why? How does $2.75 BILLION of incentive strike you? Guess who’s paying?

You could buy entire FLEETS of oil tankers with the money that have already stolen, and it appears that we are only scratching the surface. Why did the mainstream media not catch this story? Why try so hard to discredit the regular American patriot who did? And most importantly: who in the Minnesota state government let them in, funded them, and benefits the most from this state-coordinated crime caper?

Back in September President Trump ordered National Guard troops into Washington DC to restore order — a move that was shocking in its effectiveness. But legally and constitutionally, DC is a unique case. The Supreme Court has blocked the President’s attempt to do the same in order to protect ICE agents in Chicago, and your Right Angle team takes a look at the problem from both a practical and philosophical angle.

Late one night last week, Bill was wondering — just in an offhand way — whether it would be cheaper to refurbish the four Iowa-class battleships (all are museum ships today) or simply build new ones. THE NEXT DAY, President Trump announced the first of the eponymously named BBGs: Guided Missile Battleships. After 80 years, the game not only changed… it looks like it actually changed BACK.

Last week was a tough news week: murders and mayhem everywhere you look. Steve Green brings us another homicide case currently being investigated: Lord of the Rings actor Andy Sirkis has decided to remake George Orwell’s classic take on the horrors of socialism, Animal Farm, and turn it into a fun-loving, family-friendly romp on the horrors of CAPITALISM. And there goes another actor whose work we all used to admire greatly…

New Media giant Netflix has made an offer to buy Old Media giant Warner Brothers for seventy-something BILLION dollars. Many are bemoaning it as ‘the end of the movies as we know them.’ But ‘the end of the movies as we know them’ is not due to some corporate acquisition: the problem is much, much deeper than that.

Not the kids — the devices. Specifically, the social media programs. Australia has decided that the harm caused to young people by apps like TikTok, Instagram, SnapChat and all the rest far outweigh their benefits. Should kids be kept away from social media? And perhaps more to the point: CAN THEY be kept away from social media?

Despite the thicket of regulations and choking corporate tax rates that were once the envy of the world, the good old U.S. of A. somehow keeps managing to not only stave off international economic competition — we’re actually pulling away and widening our lead. How do we do it?

Waymo, whose fully automated, self-driving cars are a common sight in Los Angeles, has recently released it’s raw data on several years of practical, on-the-road traffic accidents. It turns out that even first-generation self-driving cars are at least TEN TIMES SAFER than those driven by humans (and the true number might be much more than that). From a safety point of view, the future clearly seems to favor automation. But is there more to driving a car than just safety?

Elon Musk predicts that in the not too distant future, huge advances in productivity brought on by AI and robotics could create a world where WORK is entirely option. There’s a very good chance he’s right. But if he is, does this road lead us to paradise, or perdition?

How does one describe an existential horror too overwhelming to be put into mere words? YOU FEEL IT IN YOUR BODY! So says former First Lady Michelle Obama. Is she referring to the horrors of war? The mindless terror of genocide? The chaotic and unexpected fury of some natural disaster? Oh no amigos. It’s MUCH WORSE than that. Oh, the humanity!