The Adult in the Room

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

Former Navy EOD specialist Tom Sauer recently caught a great deal of Twitter attention after a Memorial Day thread posted in tribute to those he served with. Today, he joins Victoria on this very special edition of The Adult in the Room Podcast to talk about his service and coping with the loss of several of his friends over the years. Now the owner & administrator of a substance abuse counseling & recovery center in San Diego, he also discusses in-depth the health crises facing many Americans but disproportionately affecting veterans: poverty, addition, and mental illness. Plus, Keith Olbermann is back to his antics, this time triggered by a federal court judge. TOP STORIES: Another 'Orange Man Bad' Leftist Lie Dies After Ridiculous Investigation Into Trump Bible Moment NBC Hilariously Thinks It Caught Rep Louis Gohmert in a Guam 'Capsizing' Moment and Gets Trolled Hard Chi-Coms 'Shame' 'Environmental Princess' Greta Thunberg Over Her Big Fat 'Carbon Emissions' 'Plexiglass Theater' to Fight COVID Is Being Given the Hook Dementia Joe Forgets Where He Is Again The Number of Small Businesses Destroyed by COVID Lockdowns Will ASTOUND You The Latest Tranche of Hunter's Text Messages May Be the Worst Yet MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

On this week's episode of Leaving California, Victoria talks with Ricky Bush, a former California resident who lost everything thanks to a devastating wildfire. Learn why he blames the state government for the fire and what his life is like after relocating to the opposite coast. Plus, Victoria chats with an Oregon mom who was treated like a criminal after demanding answers from her local school board. TOP STORIES: Moms Learn Lengths to Which a School Board Will Go to Silence Complaints About CRT and Masks. You'll Want to Sit Down for This... White Teacher Lectures That Not Teaching Critical Race Theory Is Child Abuse and Racist. Uh, Nice Daishiki, Lady Stop Everything and Watch This Cop Apologize for 'Robbing' a Kid 'They're Trying to Kill Me.' A Portland Antifa Death Squad Goes Head Hunting for Andy Ngo and Somebody Gets a Beatdown Police Investigate Portland Antifa and BLM Armed Militants Who Blocked Traffic in Armed Checkpoint Andy Ngo Beaten, Hunted Like an Animal in Portland How Low Will They Go? Now Washington State Backs Weed Giveaways for Getting COVID Shots Epic Troll: Rep. Lauren Boebert Smuggles Kamala Harris for First 'Appearance' at the Border and You Shouldn't Miss It MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

In this first episode of a new multi-part series, Victoria talks with Terry Gilliam, a soon-to-be-former California resident who has had quite enough of the state's draconian tax codes, wokeness-first education system, and ridiculous anti-freedom laws & regulations. Also, she talks with author John D. Trudel about their latest collaboration, an audiobook version of his high-tech supernatural spy thriller Raven's Redemption. Plus, Biden whiffs the Pledge, ANTIFA & BLM honor the memory of George Floyd with riots, looting and murder threats, and John Cena grovels to Beijing. TOP STORIES: Heroic Virginia Cop Lifts Car Off Head of Woman Pleading: 'I Can't Breathe.' Quick, Democrats, Cancel Him! Biden to Release Terrorists Including UBL's Guard, Al Qaeda Bag Man, and KSM Aide from GITMO. But Look Who's Still in Jail. U.S. Media Should Take a Lesson From BBC Apology for Fake News During Princess Diana Interview. They Won't. AOC's and Her 'Squad's' Love Fest With Hamas Gives the Head of Simon Wiesenthal Center a Shocking Case of Deja Vu The People’s Republic of Oregon Imposes First Vaccine Passports and Conscripts Businesses and Churches to Do Its Spying  George Floyd's Family Meets With Joe Biden On Anniversary of His Death. Will the Riots Come Up? WaPo Admits It Ignored 'Tin-Hat Nonsense' of COVID Lab-Leak Possibility Because ... Trump MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

On May 5, Portland-area handyman Joseph Hall was traveling to a work site when he encountered a BLM/ANTIFA protest blocking the road. After exchanging words and being threatened with weapons, he was pinned to the ground and beaten within an inch of his life. He joins the program from his hospital bed to talk at length about the assault, and why he's worried his troubles may be just beginning. We'll also talk with another local resident, Mark Dickerson, who was on his way to civil court when his own vehicle was accosted by Portlandia activists who tried to frame him for reckless driving, and was nearly ruined financially as a result. PLUS: The CDC says we should be wearing masks outdoors! Maybe! Sometimes! Probably! TOP STORIES: Governor Lockdown, Gretchen Whitmer, 'Borrowed' Billionaire's Jet to Fly to Florida While Demanding Her Subjects Stay Home Portland BLM/Antifa Draw Guns on Drivers to Enforce No-Go Zone in Broad Daylight 'I Thought I Was Going to Die' – Man Held at Gunpoint and Beaten by Portland's Antifa/BLM Terrorists Talks From Hospital Trauma Center Feds Dump More Charges On Derek Chauvin Figuring That Being in Prison for The Rest of His Life Isn't Long Enough Canadian Pastor Swarmed and Arrested by 'SWAT' Team for 'Inciting' People to Attend Church Man Beaten and Held at Gunpoint by BLM/Antifa Says Attacker Used 'George Floyd Restraint' on His Neck Governor Gavin Newsom Has a New Plan to Beat His Recall: Flat-Out Bribery MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media FRIENDS & SPONSORS: Anchor

Mike Strickland's attorneys dissect the verdict & sentencing and try to make sense of the case as they plan his appeal, but will politics and fear stand in the way of justice? Also, we take a look at the newest developments in the aftermath of the Chauvin trial, and the many reasons why his attorneys are demanding a retrial. TOP STORIES: Seattle Antifa Hate Group Threatens to Burn Down Church Over Event With Charlie Kirk After a Year of Riots, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Vows to 'Take Our City Back from Antifa.' Color Us Skeptical. Smarter-Than-You NYT Award-Winning Columnist Says Antifa and BLM Riots Were a Right-Wing Fever Dream Police-less in Seattle: Cops Are Leaving in Droves Chauvin Medical Defense Witness Is Now Being Investigated for Wrong-Think Here Are Down and Dirty Reasons Why California Lost a Congressional Seat and Texas and Florida Added in Census Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom's Clueless Reaction to His Recall Officially Going to Voters Explains Everything 8 Righteous Reasons Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial –– and That Juror's Shirt Is Only One of Them MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media FRIENDS & SPONSORS: Anchor

In this installment of ANTIFA Versus Mike Strickland, the sentence is rendered before a motley crew of freaks, anarchists, activists and slacktivists who are each craving a pound of Strickland's flesh. Plus...Andrew Branca of The Law of Self-Defense & Legal Insurrection joins the program for a post-mortem of the Derek Chauvin case, but a deadly police-involved shooting of a raging, knife-wielding teen in Cleveland publicized just minutes before the Chauvin verdict's announcement has the left-wing Twitterati foaming at the mouth. TOP STORIES: Dana Loesch Asks Some Excellent and Inconvenient Questions About the Shooting of Adam Toledo by Chicago Cop Welcome to Medellín, Minn., Where Elected Officials and Cops Are Afraid of BLM and Antifa Race 'Cartels' Did Wrecking Ball Maxine Waters Give Derek Chauvin Grounds for an Appeal? The Verdict Is in on Derek Chauvin. An Appeal Is Sure to Follow. Nancy Pelosi Celebrates Chauvin Guilty Verdict by Thanking George Floyd for Dying MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media FRIENDS & SPONSORS: Anchor

The shooting death of Daunte Wright has turned the Twin Cities into a powederkeg again as the Chauvin trial concludes, and James O'Keefe's Project Veritas strikes again with an exposé of a CNN tech director's admissions of bias! TOP STORIES: Officer Chauvin's Knee Was NOT on George Floyd's 'Neck' and 8 Other Things You Didn't Know About This Case After Open Borders, High Crime, and Defunding Cops – Joe Chooses Now to go After Guns to Defend Ourselves TX Rep Dan Crenshaw Suffers 'Terrifying' Medical Emergency Which May Leave Him Blind and His Haters Soulless 60 Minutes Tries to Pull DeSantis Hit Piece Story Out of the Crapper and It Backfires Spectacularly Chilling: California Senate Committee Votes to Make it Easier to Dox Citizens Who Sign Recall Petitions CA Governor Gavin Newsom Finally Admits He's Not Bigger Than Jesus Prosecution Rests in Chauvin Trial and the Jury Is Told to 'Pack a Bag' Former Cop Chauvin Won't Testify, Defense Rests in Death of George Floyd. Now, About Those Riots... Who Are the Jurors in the George Floyd Case – and Are They Safe? MORE INFO: VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media FRIENDS & SPONSORS: Anchor