The “shell game” is a standby in movies featuring someone deceitful. And why shouldn’t it be? The game features the dealer, who places a ball (ostensibly) beneath a cup and then shuffles the cups around. One generally has a 0.33 chance of finding the ball under the cup—with a fair dealer. But all too often, the dealer isn’t fair and manages to palm the ball before shuffling begins. This means the player has a 0.00 chance of finding the ball under any cup.

But at Right and Freedom, we deal in politics, not games of chance. So why mention cups? Well, if you look at it a different way, a crooked dealer’s only job is to convince the player that the ball exists under the cups that they are shuffling around. Just like…wait for it…the evidence required to impeach Joe Biden. In this context, McCarthy is the dealer, and you, the American people, are the patsies…I mean players. And right now, McCarthy and the Republicans are doing what the crooked dealer does: try to convince you that evidence is there when, in fact, it’s not.

The Republicans want to impeach Biden so badly that they kicked someone out of their “Freedom Caucus.” Here’s the deal: there are no high crimes or misdemeanors of which Biden is guilty to our awareness (and we definitely pay attention). These are prerequisites for an impeachment of a president. They argue that Biden's border policies (which, I remind you, mostly is extending the policies of Donald Trump) are allowing dangerous people to enter the US. They say this despite the fact that more migrants have been turned away under Biden than Donald Trump—which I’m officially against, but generally, Republicans go all gushy for.

We have in the USA this obsession with the charismatic extroverts who have often times questionable qualifications for for leading a country (i.e. Donald Trump). We keep electing these people repeatedly, act appalled that they don’t actually do what they say (ahem, where’s the infrastructure plan DJT said he would deliver?). Now, across-the-board among Republicans, these people blindly love Donald Trump. They claim he’s a Christian (if he is, he’s certainly never acted like one). They claim he’s a man who knows how to get stuff done (I guess if you count tax cuts for the wealthy, then ok). It’s gotten so bad in some red states and areas that preachers openly say that if you are a Democrat, you’ve got a demon inside and they're kicking Democrats out of churches.

This episode is about cults. More specifically, it’s about one cult: the cult of MAGA. Tune in and understand that the radicalization situation is worse than you think.