Where the Hell is My Recession?

Jason Pilaski opens his rambling, profanity-laced podcast The Blind Spot with self-deprecation and disgust at his decaying surroundings before launching into a wide-ranging monologue skewering both left-wing moral panic and Democratic Party incompetence. He dismantles the backlash against a Sydney Sweeney jeans commercial, mocking claims of white supremacist propaganda as emblematic of a broader intellectual rot. He then shifts to a realpolitik analysis of Trump's second term, declaring Trump is "winning" by brute force—dominating trade negotiations, pushing NATO allies to meet military spending goals, bombing Iran's nuclear sites, and imposing economically reckless but politically effective tariffs. Pilaski argues that, despite Trump's instability, he’s producing tangible results while the Democrats flounder with no coherent message, strategy, or vision. He scorns the EU’s military and economic impotence, supports aggressive immigration enforcement, lauds Trump's full-speed-ahead AI policy, and ends by warning that reflexive opposition to Trump without alternatives will cost Democrats power again. Beneath the bile and humor, Pilaski delivers a brutal diagnosis: America is being governed by a madman—but at least he's governing, unlike his opponents.