The Adult in the Room

On today's edition of The Adult in the Room Podcast, Victoria welcomes two guests with a lot to say about mandates, government control and freedom. First up is radio host Todd Herman, who also gives his thoughts and memories of working with the late, great Rush Limbaugh. Then, she welcomes Dr. Chris Rake, an anesthesiologist with UCLA Medical Center who was recently escorted from his workplace for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. TOP STORIES: West Coast, Messed Coast: It's Hammer Time Twitter Censors Obit of Washington Woman Who Died From Covid ... Vaccine L.A. County Sheriff Says No to Forced, 'Politicized' Covid Shots for Cops Amid Already 'Catastrophic Shortages,' Oregon Nurses Get Ready to Walk Over Forced Covid Vaccines And Just Like That, Washington State's Fire Marshal Will Lose Job Over Forced Covid Shot MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

PJ Media's Stacey Lennox joins the program, and she has a lot to say about a lot of things, including parental choice in education curriculum, the continuing legal fallout from the January 6 Capitol riots, media fear-mongering driving political division & strife, and Trump's recent interference in Georgia's political process. Check out Stacey's work at PJ Media, and join her on the Loftus Party Podcast with comedian Michael Loftus! TOP STORIES: West Coast, Messed Coast: The Secular Taliban Wins DeSantis Orders Biden to Keep His Federal School Board Cops Out of Florida Now the FBI Is Investigating Your Google Searches. Here's What You Need to Know. Thank God (and Mitch McConnell) Merrick Garland Isn't a Supreme Court Justice The COVID Purge Begins: UCLA Med Center Doctor Escorted Out by Security for Refusing Shot MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

Pass the vinaigrette, because General Mark Milley is tossing a word salad worthy of Delta House as he's grilled by Congress over the disastrous pullout from Afghanistan. Plus, useful idiot (she's legally an adult, so don't even start) Greta Thunberg whines before a global warming handshake party masquerading as a conference about how we're all eating meat and how people in the Sahara are using air conditioning, but her arguments are anything but verbose. TOP STORIES: It Gets Worse: Look Who Worked Together to Frame Donald Trump With Fake Russia Hoax West Coast, Messed Coast: Redemption Edition FBI Narrative About the Jan. 6th Capitol 'Insurrection' Is IMPLODING Here's What We Did With Our California Recall Ballots The 'F*** Joe Biden' Chant Is EVERYWHERE Portland TV Station Cancels News for One Day to Deal With 'Stress.' Did Anyone Notice? Things Just Got Worse for the Marine Who Slammed Pentagon Brass for Afghanistan Disaster in Viral Video It Starts: Dem Leader Gives Biden a Pass on Disastrous Illegal Alien Policies Because of How He Identifies More Federal Indictments Issued Against Hillary's Lawyer for Russia Hoax Op Shots Fired: Iconic Gunsmith 'Smith & Wesson' Gets the Hell Out of Springfield, Massachusetts MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

Author, veteran, columnist and attorney Kurt Schlichter returns, as cantankerously as always, to discuss the aftermath of the California recall, why accusations of widespread fraud are ridiculous, and why -- despite his conservatism -- he has no desire to leave the Golden State. He also gives his thoughts on the disastrous pullout from Afghanistan, as well as the current generation of military leadership and why he's recommending that young people not join the military. PLUS: Victoria gets her California ballot -- despite not living there in over a year -- and another Trump conspiracy theory goes up in smoke. Shop books by Kurt Schlichter on Amazon! TOP STORIES: You'll Have Only One Question When You See This Hospital's COVID Shot Religious Exemption Form: Is This Thing Legal? Portland Activists Survey Themselves and Conclude Un-Woke Cops Are to Blame for Their Riots Latest Durham Indictment May Make Russiagate the Most Corrupt Scandal in U.S. History Antifa Activist Sues Portland Police for Livestreaming and Showing Faces of Rioters BLM Organizer Sues L.A. After Cops Surround Her House ... to Save Her. Then It Happens Again. MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

The recall is over, and unfortunately Gavin Newsom has managed to hang on to his seat as California governor. Red State's Jennifer Van Laar joins the program to talk the post-mortem...what went wrong? What went right? And will California ever manage to get itself free from under the treads of the Democrat party machine? MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

Joe Biden isn't hiding his motives anymore: "This is not about freedom or personal choice," he said while announcing his unconstitutional, unenforceable plan to force employers to vaccinate their staff or face heavy fines from the Department of Labor. But could that cause more problems than it potentially solves? Plus, it's judgment day for Gavin Newsom, as opposition frontrunner Larry Elder, an African-American, is attacked by a white person in a gorilla mask and somehow that isn't racist, because reasons. TOP STORIES: Joe Biden's 9/11 Legacy: Treating Terrorists Better Than the American People Man Gunned Down by Antifa Assassin During 'Summer of Love' Sues Portland for Millions Here We Go: Irregularities Reported in Newsom Recall Election 'Put a Stake in the Heart of Evil': #MeToo Actress Backing Larry Elder in California Recall MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

Retired Marines Scott Huesing & Mike Rosen join the program to give their thoughts on the Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco, including the deaths of 13 US warriors and Joe Biden's inexcusable behavior when their remains arrived home. Learn who they believe benefits the most from the retreat, and their own personal feelings as veterans seeing their work come to naught. PLUS: Teachers are busted discussing on video their intention to radicalize public school students! Purchase Scott Huesing's Echo in Ramadi: The Firsthand Story of US Marines in Iraq's Deadliest City on Amazon TOP STORIES: What Took You So Long? After Years of Antifa Assaults, Portland 'Journalists' Finally Muster Outrage at Latest Attack Military Brass Finally Fire Someone for Afghanistan Debacle ... the Marine Who Called Them Out 'America Hates You': Mom of Marine Killed in Kabul Writes Scathing Message to Joe Biden—and Is Silenced by His Big Tech Buddies Here's One Guy No One Thought Joe Biden Would Leave Behind in Afghanistan MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

Independent journalist Andy Ngô rejoins the program to talk about Portland's descent into mayhem in the past few weeks, with ANTIFA & the Proud Boys turning parts of the city into a warzone and citizens & journalists caught in the middle, often finding themselves targets for violence and intimidation. Andy discusses the city's recent attitude toward ANTIFA and why they are becoming increasingly aggressive through the summer. PLUS: We discuss the increasingly draconian policies being used to pressure people into getting vaccinated, including a bizarre questionnaire given to a hesitant health care worker to force them to "prove" their religious exemptions. Purchase Andy Ngô's Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy America on Amazon TOP STORIES: Fight Back: Here's How People Are Legally Resisting Dystopian Diktats to Get a Covid Shot or Be Fired 'Dangerous': John McCain's Scorching Message About Biden's Sec. of State in 2014 Show How Right He Was Portland Cops Announce They'll Sit Out Planned Antifa Assault on 'Pro-Freedom March' ... and Then a Gunfight Breaks Out Is It Any Wonder Americans Mistrust the Intelligence Community When They Pull Stunts Like This? Report: Washington School Puts Covid E-Trackers on Unvaxxed Student Athletes [WATCH] The 'Presidential Address' on Afghanistan Biden Should Give--If He Had the Guts MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

No one wanted or expected our troops to remain forever in Afghanistan, but the sudden pullout of US forces this week has led to a country in chaos, swiftly reconquered by the terrorist insurgents America and her allies spent 20 years trying to eradicate. Who's to blame, and can the disaster be salvaged? Retired US Army Major General Paul Vallely joins the show to examine the situation and share his thoughts. PLUS: "Do no harm," unless your transplant patient refuses a vaccination? TOP STORIES: West Coast, Messed Coast Wrap-Up: Who's the Bigger Tyrant? 'I Am So Sick to My Stomach Right Now': Retired Marine Reacts to 'POS' Joe Biden's Disastrous Bugout From Afghanistan Left Behind: Billions in U.S. Equipment for the Afghanistan Taliban to Use Against... Us Seattle Hospital to Heart Transplant Patient: Get a Covid Shot or Drop Dead West Coast, Messed Coast Wrap-Up: The Faces of FREEEEDOM! 'Dangerous': John McCain's Scorching Message About Biden's Sec. of State in 2014 Show How Right He Was MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

We're joined by author, economist & commentator John Lott, who was invited to speak at what he and others were told was an elaborate graduation for an online high school in Las Vegas, only to find out the entire setup was just a marketing ploy by a Madison Avenue agency on behalf of anti-gun groups, which edited his remarks to appear callous and dismissive toward victims of gun violence. Plus, one Capitol riot arrestee demands venue change because he believes he can't get a fair trial in DC, and a coda regarding the Mike Strickland Case! TOP STORIES: Did the Feds Lie About January 6? Navy Vet Capitol Protester Says So and Wants His Case Moved Out of 'Trump-Hating' Capital San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus Releases 'Pride' Song to Announce: 'We'll Convert Your Children' Biden and Dems Want a Global Cartel to Set a One-World Corporate Tax Rate. And Republicans Are Going to Help. Democrats Move to Take Over Your Credit Score and Go Full 'Woke' – Just Like Communist China Cubans Swarm Streets to Demand '¡Freedom!' and '¡Libertad!' but Biden Admin Claims They Really Want COVID Shots. It Gets Dumber From There... Whitmer Kidnap Plot Defendant Demands Info on the DOZEN FBI Informants and Paid 'Snitches' Involved IT'S HAPPENING: Biden Is Sending Community Organizers Door-to-Door With COVID Shots MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media