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Veep?
With Donald Trump the not-seriously-challenged Republican candidate in 2024, is there a chance we could see a political outsider double-header? In a culture war of competing ideas, is a career politician really the best choice for someone on bottom of the ticket? Or would we do well to try someone who knows how to articulate and defend conservative ideas? Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

The Syphilis Surge
Syphilis -- one of the most horrible diseases ever to torment humanity -- is making a strong comeback. Whatever could the cause be? Progressives, true to form, say the problem is that we are not spending enough money on public health clinics. Conservatives, true to form, claim that whatever you subsidize, you get more of. This isn't a money issue. It is a morality issue. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

The Stratosphere Lounge Episode 376
Catching up on LONG overdue TSL posts. Recorded 08/24/23

Officer Friendly Kills Himself
Four LA County Sheriff's Deputies die within a 24 hour period...and each of them by their own hand. Bill, Steve and Scott try to get to the heart of the pressures that all police officers face, and most especially, how plummeting rates of respect for law enforcement are creating an environment where choosing such a career will soon be simply intolerable. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

Will This Finally Do it?
Perhaps the only thing more shocking to American Jews than the barbarity of the October 7th terror attack is the magnitude of the pro-HAMAS sentiment here in the United States. Will this finally be enough to convince American Jews to stop voting for the people that enable these atrocities? Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

Lights Out L.A.
"How bad is California's electrical grid?" "It's worse than you know." "It usually is...." Steve Green brings a California where the future's so dim, you'll need a solar-powered flashlight to find your way from the bedroom to the kitchen. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

The Horror of Homeschooling
Are you prepared for a dark dystopia where YOUR CHILDREN are educated WITHOUT government supervision? Well, that's how homeschooling is being described... by the failed public education system, once the envy of the world but now a very, very expensive joke. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

Progressive Indecency
We were about to release this the day the Israeli massacre occurred, but that horror eclipsed everything. Fortunately, there does not seem to be any evidence that today's subject's behavior is improving, so this is an evergreen, timeless classic. They really are such charming people. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

The Bodycam Revolution
After the George Floyd debacle, Police bodycams are becoming ubiquitous -- and it can't happen soon enough, because without them there is no doubt that some new outrage would have been concocted during the last three and a half years. Had police been wearing one in the Floyd incident, the proof that he couldn't breath before encountering the police would have been incontrovertible. But the bodycams do more than record the actions of suspects: they provide a profound insight into the astonishing patience, professionalism and courtesy of the police in the face of unimaginable slurs, insults and false accusations. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

Blood on their Hands
The New York Times -- the Grey Lady, the Paper of Record --went with the story of an intentional Israeli airstrike on a hospital in Gaza. Was there independent verification for a story of this magnitude?There was. It was confirmed by HAMAS, the people that concocted the story in the first place. With this single act of criminal negligence this fake atrocity has entered the history books, and much worse, it has entered the hearts and minds of Israel's enemies as indisputable fact. Who knows how much more hatred and bloodshed this stunning irresponsibility will lead to? Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

Shalom?
An elderly Israeli woman, who, with her husband, was taken hostage during the HAMAS Terror Invasion, is released with great fanfare. She thanks her kidnappers -- which seems understandable considering her husband and many others continue to be held hostage. But after walking out of frame, she returns, shakes the hand that helped murder 1,400 innocent civilians, and wishes him "Shalom" - 'Peace.' Stockholm Syndrome? A play for better treatment of her husband still held hostage? A spiritual victory over hatred? Or is it impenetrable naiveté? Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

Last Monday in Santa Monica
How far have the pathologies of the inner cities spread into the suburbs? Well, to judge from Bill's recent experience in Santa Monica, the answer seems to be enough so that rampant lawlessness is absolutely routine. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

A Livestreamed Nightmare
The bipeds that make up HAMAS are not just inhumanly brutal when gunning down women and children in their nursery... that have shown a talent for extraordinary emotional and psychological torture and cruelty as well. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

Democrat Praises Trump!
A (former) Democrat, venture capitalist and Facebook Executives says it's time for the left to stop hating the messenger so intently that they refuse to hear the message. Will this get through? Hard to say, but things seem to be crawling in that direction. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

CAN This Ever End?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that his nation is about to teach HAMAS a lesson that they will remember for decades. Will it fundamentally restructure the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians, or will it be yet another milestone in a bitter war of retribution that Israel has been fighting since 1948? Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

The HAMAS Terror Invasion: What Changed?
Steve Green points out that a mere three years ago, an American President had worked a miracle and pulled the entire region into an actual peace Treaty with the state of Israel; the idea being to increase the pressure on the Palestinians by dealing with them LAST. That President is gone. He may return. And while Joe Biden did not CAUSE either the war in Ukraine nor the HAMAS terror invasion, one does have to wonder how different things might be today with stronger and more competent American leadership. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

Israel's Pearl Harbor
In the minutes before Hamas murderers shot down hundreds at an Israeli music festival, one person managed to photograph -- quite by accident -- several small black dots in the sky, coming in from the east. Even as they passed overhead, I'm sure the Israelis thought nothing of it... with precisely the same innocent trust that Americans stationed at Pearl Harbor had as swarms of Japanese aircraft began their attack. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

Things to Come
Bill has spent a lot of time trying to figure out where the next great crisis will come from. He lays it out, and much else besides, in this one-of-a-kind edition of Right Angle.

California Schemin'
You might want to sit down in order to ease the shock of this one: California Governor Gavin "$800 Haircut" Newsom wants to slap a massive tax on the sale of legal firearms and then spend that money on things like outreach programs to LA street gangs... where for the first time, MS-13 members will have a chance to learn that murder, rape and theft are BAD and they shouldn't do them because it's not very nice. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

11% of Baltimore Students Don't Know What 11% Means
A recent survey found that 11% of Baltimore students were 'proficient' in mathematics for their grade level. The woman in charge of the Baltimore public education system has an annual salary of $445,000 per year. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

Lego My Planet
Lego, the enormously popular building-block set, has its famous bricks made out of -- brace yourselves! -- Earth-killing PLASTIC. Based in Euro-weenie Denmark, Lego has spent years trying to do something that violates the laws of both nature and of man, namely: they tried, and failed, to make Lego bricks out of recycled plastic. Nothing they have tried has the precise *snap* needed, and so the Earth is now doomed to be consumed in flames and floods, leaving future insectoid historians to wonder, millions of years from now: "Was it worth it?" Steve Green says yes. YES IT WAS. You too can be a sturdy brick in the wall against censorship! Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

So About That F-35...
Well, the missing jet has been located... or at least, the wreckage has been found. And fortunately, the pilot is safe and uninjured. But there are still a few things that are strange about this incident, and 1,000-hour, instrument-rated, military wanna-be pilot Bill Whittle has some questions about one thing in particular that doesn't seem to add up. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

No More Senate Slobs
After John Fetterman (and a few of his colleagues) decided that shorts and a hoodie were just fine for the World's Greatest Deliberative Body, Bill, Steve and Scott tore into this idea and trashed it so thoroughly that two days after the episode was recorded (and the raw footage sent to 100 Senators), the U.S. Senate voted unanimously to institute a dress code. THIS is the power of your Right Angle team, made possible by the members at BillWhittle.com. You too can bend the arc of history by joining us by clicking here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

Hasan Minhaj: The Jussie Smollett of Comedy
Hasan Minhaj -- a comedian of Indian descen. born in the remote, exotic and mysterious city of Davis, California -- includes many tales of emotional trauma suffered as a Person of Color growing up in Amerikkka. The only problem with this deeply moving tale of injustice is his recent admission that none of these things... you know... actually HAPPENED. Hasan refers to these fictional indictments of American culture as 'emotional truths.' Scott, Steve and Bill prefer a more accurate term: SLANDEROUS LIES. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

The Vivisection Epidemic
Viv·i·sec·tion: the practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of experimentation. Since the late 1800's there has been a strong moral protest against surgeries targeting healthy tissue of living animals. It was known as the anti-vivisectionist movement, and was in large part responsible for organizations like the SPCA and laws against animal cruelty. Ask a progressive if they are opposed to surgically dissecting living animals and they will be appalled. Apparently, however, when the test subjects are teenage girls then that is to be CELEBRATED. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

Will No One Help These Poor Unfortunates?
Despite our fundamental opposition to everything these women say and seem to believe, basic human decency demands that we do our best to rescue these poor, innocent Progressive women from the horrors of ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. In New York City!! Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

Mississippi Shows Us How
We live in an age of falling standards, and have been for quite a while now. The fear is that once lost, these high expectations cannot be recovered... but is that true? Well, the Great State of Mississippi -- education's perennial laughing stock -- has tried a radical theory: if you don't meet the graduation standards for a particular public school grade, then YOU DO NOT GRADUATE. And, mirabile dictu, it turns out that since neither the students, teachers, administrators and politicians want a child to repeat a grade... test scores and performance standards are GOING UP!! Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us
So let's see... 1. The Supreme Court legally overturns Roe v. Wade. 2. The Biden Administration, in violation of the Hyde Amendment, issues orders that any member of the military who wants an abortion will get time off and travel expenses paid. 3. Mr. Tuberville Goes to Washington. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

Sinking Fast Now
Well, for those who have been paying attention, Joe Biden's mental decline was shockingly apparent during the run-up to the 2020 election. Sometime later, those who had not been paying attention came to realize the same thing. This past week, however, his performance had degraded so catastrophically that even those determined NOT to see his incapacity could no longer ignore it. Alzheimers, the sinking of the Titanic and runaway inflation all have one thing in common: they begin slowly at first, then end very quickly, and Joe Biden is sinking fast now. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

The Most Dangerous Job in the World?
This is the man who has been badly beaten as a result of a now-routine occupational hazard: he referees little girl's soccer games. All over the country the epidemic of rage-filled, abusive and increasingly violent PARENTS are turning what was once a fun and valuable learning experience into a laboratory for disgraceful behavior and being the worst possible example to your children. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

Frankly Joe, We Don't Give a Damn
To date, books about Joe Biden have sold 81 MILLION COPIES! Just kidding; that was a completely random, ridiculous number. Actually, some of them are failing to break 5,000 total sales. Books about Donald Trump flew off the shelf because Donald Trump is INTERESTING. The Mediocrity in Chief is... not. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

Impeachment in Texas
Do you know what would make unique, riveting, and highly unusual television? One calendar year WITHOUT impeachment coverage of a major political official. This week's installment of the Cavalcade of Impeachments brings us to Texas, and Bill, Steve and Scott are there to talk about how what should be sad, sorrowful and RARE proceedings have become the norm, and the price that we pay for that as a republic. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

Life After College
It was inevitable, I suppose: everything that the progressive movement touches it progressively erodes, and then eventually, progressively destroys. There was a time when the term 'Harvard graduate' meant a guarantee of quality. Now, it barely covers 'minimally competent' and also brings all kinds of certain ideological baggage -- the kind of baggage it would take to destroy the number one beer brand in America, just as one example. The shift from academies of learning into centers of indoctrination means that brick and mortar colleges and universities are on their way out and they are not coming back. And it's a genuine shame. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

Crazy About Flying
The Washington Post -- where 'Democracy Dies in Darkness' is not just a motto; it's a mission statement -- breathlessly announces that FIVE THOUSAND PILOTS SUSPECTED OF HIDING MAHOR HEALTH ISSUES; MOST ARE STILL FLYING. Dear God, the planes must be falling out of the sky like the summer rain! Scott points out that, as usual, when it comes to a WaPo headline there is less to it than meets the eye. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

Too Late, Captain Buttmunch!
A twelve-year-old boy gets suspended for bringing 'a message of hate' in the form of the Gadsden flag on a backpack. When challenged on this by his mother, she was informed that the school prohibits the wearing of anything that promotes 'drugs, tobacco, alcohol or weapons...' Yes? AND? And the mental gymnastics continued as the school struggled to justify sending a kid home for wearing something the school officials didn't agree with. I suspect the American flag will be next. Here's a sample: https://youtu.be/Tb4Sy8PsfeA?si=-ky4vwv6ygps3bK_ Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

The Stratosphere Lounge Episode 373
Recorded 08/03/23

Electric China?
After decades of having the worst air pollution in the world, the Chinese have discovered that this idea of 'all-electric, all the time' is not as simple as Democratic politicians make it out to be. Is there anything we can learn from the troubles they having... like, just maybe, NOT buying an electric car? Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

In the Shadow of Trump
With the first Republican presidential debate behind us, surely it's safe to say that there were no indications that anyone on the stage was likely to approach -- let alone surpass -- Donald Trump in next year's primaries. Meanwhile, in Georgia, the former President turns himself in for the most epic mugshot in history, further emphasizing how far ahead of the pack he is. Did he make a tactical -- or moral -- mistake by refusing to take part in the debates at all? Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

Hilary Got Wasted
Yes, and it's happened more times than you could count. Hurricane Hilary -- the first hurricane-level storm to strike the west coast in 84 years -- turned into (for Bill at least) about 24 hours of mild Florida rain. And every single drop of that desperately-needed, expensive and scarce FRESH WATER just flowed right through Los Angeles, as it always does, and then straight out into the Pacific... as it always does. How hard can this be, Governor Newsom? Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

Fighter Jets
Flakes on a Plane: the number of fistfights inside commercial aircraft cabins while in flight is approaching epidemic proportions. But in a world where scores of people can flash mob and destroy a department store and then walk out with $100,000 worth of stolen merchandise, or where entire cities are rendered uninhabitable by crime, homelessness and drug addiction... is this really much of a surprise? Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

The Stratosphere Lounge Episode 375 SPECIAL EDITION
We could really, really use your help right now: https://billwhittle.com/donate-to-bill-whittle/ Oh, and Gary Sinise, Adam Baldwin and Tom Dreesen are CONFIRMED for the new interview show! More coming soon.

Oliver Anthony: Voice of a Generation
An utterly unknown singer/songwriter, recording with a single microphone and an acoustic guitar in his own back yard, now has the number one song in the nation and is about to surpass 25 MILLION views on YouTube. His name is Oliver Anthony, the song is 'Rich Men North of Richmond,' and the message is one that ALL politicians, from both parties, should (but probably won't) pay very close heed to, because Oliver Anthony is rapidly becoming the Voice of a Generation. The link to this remarkable track is here: https://youtu.be/sqSA-SY5Hro You can add your voice to this protest movement by keeping content like this on the air. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Coming soon to a live stream near you: The Puny Earthling Astronaut vs. The Cold-Blooded Lizard King! And it's not fiction! They mean to kill each other! That's NO EXAGGERATION!!! Steve Green provides the color commentary for the upcoming Fight of the Millennium! Join our elite squad of anti-elitists by becoming a Citizen Producer today: https://billwhittle.com/register/

Ham-Handed Surgeons
Medicine -- especially surgical procedures -- has improved remarkably over the last century. But lately, three hour procedures have begun to take up to six hours. Why? Well, because an entire generation of young surgeons, raised on tablets and smart phones, simply do not possess the manual dexterity of their screw-turning, sewing, musical-instrument playing teachers... and there doesn't seem to be much that we can do about it. Join our elite squad of anti-elitists by becoming a Citizen Producer today: https://billwhittle.com/register/

Speaking to the Dead?
Here's an interesting twist on the dream of uploading consciousness into an immortal, silicon-based brain: suppose we were to study your thought and speech patterns, and upload a relatively primitive SIMULATION of you -- how you speak, what you think, etc. That way, future generations could have a one-way conversation with "you," asking questions and receiving answers in your voice, in language and thoughts assembled from how you actually speak and feel. Is this, in fact, a form of Speaking to the Dead? Join our elite squad of anti-elitists by becoming a Citizen Producer today: https://billwhittle.com/register/

The Road to Hell...
...is paved with good intentions. The issue in this case -- which was up in the air at the time of recording and now isn't (we lost) -- was a specific one: namely, should Republicans use a fifty-one percent majority vote in a state election to amend the state's constitution so that it required a SIXTY percent vote to amend it in the future? The larger issue is, of course, should you use the unscrupulous tactics of your enemy in order to block them from using those unscrupulous tactics in the future? Join our elite squad of anti-elitists by becoming a Citizen Producer today: https://billwhittle.com/register/

The Horror of Having Children
The Washington Post brings us the Modern Liberal Nightmare Scenario: due to restricted access to abortion, a young couple IS FORCED TO HAVE CHILDREN -- even before they are forty and financially secure! The father had to join the military!!! Worse still, their love for their new child is keeping the couple together despite the fact that it would be more convenient for the mother to simply leave! This is the living Handmaiden's Tale hell of modern America. Join our elite squad of anti-elitists by becoming a Citizen Producer today: https://billwhittle.com/register/

The True Story of the Atomic Bombs
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended the Second World War. Don't take my word for it: hear it from the lips of the one person capable of making that decision. Recorded in 2009. Join our elite squad of anti-elitists by becoming a Citizen Producer today: https://billwhittle.com/register/

DeSantis, Rebooted
With a less than awe-inspiring initial declaration of his candidacy for President, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has seemed uncharacteristically low-key as of late. But as Steve Green reports, this Republican governor is a man with a plan, and that plan has a decidedly beautiful ring to it. Join our elite squad of anti-elitists by becoming a Citizen Producer today: https://billwhittle.com/register/

So Long, Pee-Wee
This little man in the grey suit and red bowtie was more than just a comic act. As Bill points out in this loving tribute, Paul Reubens -- who died on July 30th after a six-year battle with cancer -- managed to create our culture's Puck, our Pan, our God of Mischief... and he will be sorely missed. Join our elite squad of anti-elitists by becoming a Citizen Producer today: https://billwhittle.com/register/