A WORLD GONE MAD
A Progressive Liberal News Podcast
Veteran Television, and Radio Broadcaster Jeff Alan Wolf offers his Observations on the issues (many issues) of the week with a fearless liberal bent. His solid delivery, and dry common sense approach sets him apart from other liberals that populate Talk and Commentary Podcasts”
Jeff Does NOT Pull Punches.
He does NOT Make comments that are “SAFE”.
He tells the Truth.
(He Tells It As He Sees It)
He Is Very OPINIONATED!
He says the things Out Loud YOU’RE
already thinking.
Jeff is Unfiltered, Unspun, A little Unhinged, but offers a lot of Common Sense.
This Podcast could make you MAD.
This Podcast could make you SMILE.
Regardless, it WILL make you THINK!
A WORLD GONE MAD
America on a Leash of Fear … Trump Turns Fear Into Power
America is standing on a razor’s edge. Soldiers in the streets, allies thrown under the bus, truth traded in for propaganda … and the real danger isn’t just what’s happening in front of us. It’s what people are being conditioned to accept.
In this Monday Fallout, I take the mask off the chaos and show the pattern hiding in plain sight: intimidation paraded as “safety,” political payback dressed up as “law and order,” and foreign policy turned into little more than a trash-talk sideshow.
The headlines are radioactive, but what’s brewing beneath them is even more toxic. Armed troops in American cities, crime stats cooked to sell a panic, allies humiliated for a campaign clip … it’s not just incompetence. It’s a strategy.
At the center of it all is one weapon. Not tanks. Not rifles. Not even laws. The weapon is fear. And those in power know exactly how to use it.
This episode isn’t just a recap. It’s a warning. About how fear is packaged and sold like a product. About how it gets recycled through crime, immigration, and foreign enemies until people can’t tell the difference between real threats and manufactured panic. And about how once fear takes root, citizens don’t just surrender their freedoms … they beg for the chains.
I break down how the game works, why it’s so effective, and what it costs … not only at home, but across the world. Because fear doesn’t just make people compliant. It makes allies question America’s sanity and adversaries celebrate its weakness.
This isn’t a news cycle. It’s conditioning. And once you see the pattern, you can’t unsee it. That’s what tonight’s Monday Fallout is about: stripping away the distraction, cutting through the noise, and calling out the system for what it really is.
If you’ve ever wondered how democracies slide into something darker … not with a bang, but with the slow normalization of fear … this episode lays it bare. Fear isn’t keeping anyone safe. Fear is the leash.
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This is a world gone mad. This is a world gone mad, mad, mad, mad, mad. Hello, I'm Jeff Allen Wolfe. Welcome back to A World Gone Mad, and it's time for another Monday Fallout. The headlines are radioactive, the truth is buried in the rubble and I'm here to dig it out. Systems are breaking the truth, vanished Power plays everywhere, and I'm going to discuss two things that are going on that you need to know about, and please stay around for the rest of the episode. I've got a full, powerful, in-depth commentary that I'm going to share with you. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1:Trump weaponized the National Guard and put them on the streets of Washington DC. I've already talked about that. At first, the line was don't worry, folks, they're just here to help, just logistics, just standing around. Yeah, right, then the red state governors that you already know, I've told you about, start airdropping their troops into dc like it's some kind of mega summer camp. Suddenly, the nation's capital looks less like democracy and more like the set of a cheap, dystopian reboot. Then the Justice Department again something I informed you about, supposed to be about law and truth, right, so starts cooking the numbers like a meth dealer with a calculator. They take a city where violent crime is down. They sell you a horror story about streets dripping in blood just to justify putting troops on the corners in dc. And now, well, the charade is over. Listeners, the masks are off. The guard isn't just standing there anymore in washington dc. The Guard isn't just standing there anymore in Washington DC. They're armed, that's right. Pistols, rifles, military-grade firepower in the middle of Washington DC. Against who? Against us? Don't give me this bullshit about public safety. This isn't about crime, it's about control. It's about control. It's about optics, it's about intimidation. They want people to look at soldiers with weapons on American streets and treat it like background noise.
Speaker 1:And Trump's not hiding his playbook. He's already announced Chicago is next, new York, you're on deck. This isn't law enforcement. This is a traveling roadshow of intimidation, a reality TV strongman fantasy acted out with live ammo and taxpayer dollars. We're supposed to shrug and call that democracy? No, this is authoritarian creep in broad daylight, one little step at a time, until you wake up and realize the soldiers on the street aren't there to protect freedom, they're there to bury it. And, the most dangerous part they're daring us to get used to it, to normalize it, to stop reacting. That's the game, because once people stop noticing, once they stop caring, that's when democracy doesn't just die in darkness, doesn't just die in darkness, it dies right out in the open.
Speaker 1:So let me ask you, wolfpack listener, do you live in a blue state? Do you live in a city that voted the wrong way? Then congratulations, you're on the list. Chicago's already named, new York's already named. And don't kid yourself, if it can happen there, it can happen where you live. Your chances just went sky high because this isn't random. This isn't about crime. It's about punishing political enemies and showing everyone else what happens if you don't fall in line.
Speaker 1:So while Trump is busy militarizing American streets, not just in DC, but with plans to roll the same show of force into Chicago, new York and every blue state on his enemies list, he's also exporting this chaos overseas list. He's also exporting this chaos overseas. And what does he do? Right before sitting down with South Korea's new president, he torches that alliance hours before the meeting. Today he's out there running his mouth, blasting one of America's strongest allies, like they're the enemy. And of course he does. This is Trump's business as usual. He always blasts someone, he always belittles them. Donny boy always demeans them right before he walks in the room. Why? Because it's not strategy, it's fucking insecurity. Trump needs to knock someone down just to feel tall enough to shake their hand.
Speaker 1:The meeting with South Korea's new president, Lee Jae-yong, has now taken place. But let's be clear. The real headline isn't whatever was said behind closed doors, it's the clown show Trump staged on the way in Now. Hours before the summit, he trashed South Korea on social media, babbling about a purge and a revolution and hinting the US might cut ties. That's not diplomacy, that's not leadership. That's a president setting the building on fire before walking through the front door. Now, south Korea has been one of America's most loyal allies for decades. They've shelled out billions for US bases, defense systems, trade, tech, the whole damn package package. They're literally parked on the front line of North Korea while Trump was busy swooning over Kim Jong Un's beautiful love letters. And yet he paints them as freeloaders, like they're sneaking into America's fridge at night and stealing leftovers. No, donald, they're the ones keeping the lights on while you're playing footsie with dictators.
Speaker 1:And what did Trump really want out of this summit? Not policy, not partnership, not stability in Asia. Donald wanted a photo op, a clip for the campaign reel, a chance to say look at me, I made them pay. That's it. That's the depth of Donny Boy's strategy, a man who thinks foreign policy is just professional wrestling with worse lighting. Here's the cost.
Speaker 1:Every time Trump pulls this shit, allies start asking themselves Can we even count on the US anymore? Today you're the friend, tomorrow you're the punching bag. If that's the deal, why wouldn't they start hedging toward China? And that's the danger. Trump isn't just burning bridges, he's handing the bricks to Beijing. And don't buy the spin. You're going to hear. He'll sell this summit as a triumph. He'll claim he stood tall, he made South Korea blink.
Speaker 1:Trump dominated the room, but let's strip it down everyone. And what you actually saw was another hollow performance, a president desperate for applause, sabotaging an ally to feed his ego and calling it a victory. Because, at the end of the day, this wasn't about South Korea, it wasn't about defense or trade or partnership. It was about Trump staging a show where the only plot line is him trying to look 10 feet tall while standing on a mountain of his own bullshit. And I'll be honest listeners, I would love to be the one to push him off that mountain of bullshit. But let's be real. You're probably already saying it with me right now. Stand in line, jeff. All right, I wanted to talk about something important and this is my commentary, and I'm in a pissed off mood and I'm in a focused mood and I just went with the flow today, so bear with me. Okay, this is in depth, this is a little long, but hear me out, okay. Wolfpack Fear, that's it.
Speaker 1:That's Donald's entire strategy. If you could keep people scared, you could keep them controlled. That's not politics anymore, that's conditioning, that's shock collar government. Look at what's happening in this country. They scream about crime like it's Armageddon on every corner. They take one carjacking, one smash and grab one viral clip and they pump it through the system like it's oxygen or even dropping facts. Don't sell, fear sells. Fear gets eyeballs, fear gets votes and, most important, fear gets compliance. You terrify people enough. They'll beg for troops on their streets, for checkpoints in their neighborhoods, for cops with military gear looking at them like suspects. Fear makes people volunteer for their own handcuffs.
Speaker 1:Then there's immigration always the border, always the invasion, always the caravans of dangerous, faceless others supposedly charging towards us like extras in some apocalyptic video game. They never tell you the truth that most of these people are families, asylum seekers, laborers who will end up cooking your food, fixing your roofs, cleaning your hospitals? No, your hospitals. No, they sell it as a tidal wave of crime and drugs. Because fear of the other is the oldest trick in the damn book. It's divide, it's distract, it's demonize. While you're looking at the border with your knees knocking, you're not looking at the corporations that thrive on undocumented labor or the politicians who depend on the chaos. Fear drowns all that out, and when it's not crime or immigrants, it's foreign enemies China, russia, iran who's ever convenient? This week, they'll tell you, every problem is caused by some shadowy enemy thousands of miles away. Gas prices go up, blame China Election goes wrong, russia Unemployment, the immigrants again, it's always someone out there, listeners, some looming threat, because as long as they can make you feel surrounded, you'll never notice the rot right here at home.
Speaker 1:And here's the ugly truth Fear works. It's brutal, it's corrosive, but it works. People surrender their rights when they're scared. They cheer when liberties get shredded. They swallow surveillance, censorship, militarization, not because they want it, because they've been convinced they'll die soon without it. And once you buy into fear, you don't just give up power, you become dependent on the leash. You start believing the leash is the only thing that's keeping you alive. That is how democracy gets hollowed out Not in one dramatic explosion, but in a slow suffocation under a blanket of fear.
Speaker 1:Look at where we are right now. The National Guard is in Washington DC carrying weapons. Governors are shipping more troops into the Capitol like it's their private sandbox. The Justice Department cooks the crime stats to make it look worse just to justify the show. And the second you question it, you're told you don't care about safety, you don't care about law and order. That's how fear works. It boxes you in. You're either terrified and obedient or you're painted as part of the problem.
Speaker 1:And Trump, he's turned fear into performance, art. Crime, immigration, allies, enemies it doesn't matter. He'll sell you the nightmare. Then he'll step in as the hero who promises to stop it, except he never stops it. Because the fear is the point, he needs the crisis. Because the fear is the point, he needs the crisis. He needs the panic. He needs you waking up every day convinced the country is collapsing, so he could stand there and say only I can fix it. Fear is his currency, fear is his campaign slogan, fear is Trump's brand.
Speaker 1:Now, let's not kid ourselves. This doesn't just rattle America. The rest of the world sees it too. Allies look at this country and wonder if we've lost our mind. They see us militarizing our capital, demonizing immigrants, trashing partners like South Korea before a summit, humanizing immigrants, trashing partners like South Korea before a summit, and they wonder if America is a stable partner or some rabid dog off its leash and adversaries. They love it. They don't have to lift a finger Every time Trump or his cronies crank up the fear machine. America tears itself apart from the inside. That's the gift. That's the export Chaos packaged as patriotism. So here we are Fear is the weapon, fear is the leash, fear is the product. And the worst part, trump and MAGA are not even subtle about it anymore. They don't care if you see it, because they know fear doesn't have to be rational, it doesn't have to be real, it just has to be constant. And as long as they can keep you looking over your shoulder, they can do whatever they want with your future. This isn't safety, this isn't security. This is controlled by terror, one headline at a time.
Speaker 1:You've got thoughts, wolfpack? I know you do so. Stop yelling in Facebook groups and send your thoughts to me. Call anytime 833-399-9653, toll free, or you could email me Now. Over the past year and a half, listeners, some of you told me all the old me emails I had were too complicated, so I took care of that. So yes, here's another. Don't shoot the messenger. Here's another new email, but hopefully this one's easier for you.
Speaker 1:Now it's time for you, the listeners, the Wolfpack, to talk. So here's the new email WolfpackTalks. How simple can that be? W-o-l-f-p-a-c-k-t-a-l-k-s at gmailcom. Wolfpacktalks at gmail. Don't just listen, be part of it. Also, please leave a review on Apple or Spotify. It's the only way this podcast gets noticed. I show up every day to call up the people in the news for what they are. No dressing it up, no watering it down, no filter. This has been A World Gone. Mad Monday's Fallout edition. I'm Jeff Allen Wolfe. Mad Monday's Fallout edition. I'm Jeff Allen Wolfe. I'll be back Wednesday because someone has to say the shit that no one else will, and apparently that job's mine. Until then, wolfpack listeners, stay skeptical, stay focused and, most of all, stay hopeful. There is chaos in the world, can't you see? And most of all, stay hopeful. This is a world on men.
