The Blindspot

Today on The Blindspot, Jason Pilaski breaks down Trump’s latest meeting with Putin—and tears into the stupidity of ceasefire culture, the moral vacancy at the heart of MAGA foreign policy, and the paralyzed impotence of Europe’s endless conferences. From Ukraine’s grinding battlefield math to the global stakes of letting Putin win, this episode is a flamethrower aimed at wishful thinking, isolationist cowardice, and the idea that ...

Jason Pilaski opens The Blind Spot by introducing “Big Balls” (Edward Coriston), a young tech whiz with a shady résumé who improbably landed high-level roles in the Trump administration and got carjacked in D.C. He uses the incident to pivot into a blistering critique of Trump’s recent move to seize control of D.C.’s police and deploy the National Guard under the pretext of fighting crime—something Pilaski opposes mainly because it...

Today on The Blind Spot, we zero in on Trump’s firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics — a petty, thin-skinned move straight out of the authoritarian playbook that shreds the credibility of every jobs report going forward. I walk through how the numbers actually work, why revisions are normal, and how this stunt poisons the well for business, government, and anyone who needs real data. From there we rip apart the flims...

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 ...

Today on The Blindspot, Jason drills into the Epstein files mess: why Trump and House Republicans are blocking their release, why that makes no political sense if he's clean, and how the MAGA base keeps swallowing contradictions to protect their guy. He covers the failed discharge petition from Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie, the House’s early recess to avoid a vote, and the Wall Street Journal’s unsettling Epstein birthday letter sup...

Today on The Blindspot, Jay returns hot and bothered, torching through the fog of political apathy to rip open the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill”—a thousand-page Republican fever dream that slashes taxes for corporations and the wealthy while setting up quiet, compounding cuts to Medicaid and food stamps. He drags Elon Musk for pretending to be shocked, skewers lazy pundits, and gets brutally honest about welfare incentives—includi...

Today on The Blindspot, Jay breaks down the most consequential foreign policy moment of Trump’s second term: the strikes on Iran’s nuclear program and the fragile ceasefire that followed. With brutal clarity and zero partisan fluff, he walks through how Trump’s bunker-busting offensive flipped the script on years of Iran diplomacy—and why Iran blinked. Jay argues this wasn’t just military success, but political theater that worked....

Today on The Blind Spot, Jason Polaski rips the lid off Saturday night’s U-S bunker-buster strike on three Iranian nuclear sites—tracking the fallout from Natanz to Wall Street—then unloads on the pundit circus spinning it. In one breath he explains why the hit slams Tehran’s bomb quest into reverse; in the next he skewers late-night liberals who cried “World War III,” MAGA isolationists who’d shrug at a massacre if gas stayed chea...

On today’s episode of The Blindspot, I dive into the protests erupting in Los Angeles—how they sparked, how they escalated into full-blown riots, and what the Trump administration did in response, including the deployment of federal troops. I break down California’s reaction, Gavin Newsom’s posture, and how the nation is processing—or failing to process—what’s happening on the ground. This isn’t just about LA; it’s about the collis...

Jay sets out to roast Beijing but derails into a blistering autopsy of his own party. What starts as a brief nod to Joe Biden’s new cancer diagnosis detonates into a rant on the age issue Democrats pretended wasn’t there—right up until the 2024 debate meltdown proved every “he’s fine” whisper a lie. From Biden’s mixed record to DEI crack-ups and the trans-athlete backlash, Jay shreds the echo-chamber reflex that tells voters they’r...

Near-miss nuclear showdown in South Asia, drone-packed chaos in the Red Sea, Gaza spiraling toward famine, and a president you love to hate unexpectedly chalking up foreign-policy points—this episode of The Blind Spot connects the dots you didn’t know were on the same page. I break down how a single VP sound-bite can spike global risk, why Europe’s token air-strikes won’t keep your shipping costs down, and what it really means to t...

On this episode of The Blindspot, Jay dives back into the world of large language models—what they can do now, and where they’re headed. He breaks down how the chatbots you’re probably using are already smart enough to walk you through building a boat, and why the cutting-edge models are operating on a whole different level—reasoning through frontier science, math, even leukemia research. Jay wrestles with being a humanities guy in...