The Daily Herold: 12/11/25 – When Nothing Is News & Everything Is Broken

Badlands Media

Jon Herold navigates a strangely stagnant news cycle, opening the show with a rant about the eerie “holding pattern” in politics and media before diving into what little is moving: record-breaking gold and silver prices, AI-driven layoffs, and the bizarre quiet from the White House as no new executive actions surface. He riffs with the chat about burnout, distractions, and why none of the current headlines, MAGA influencer drama, recycled foreign-policy stories, or congressional gridlock, push the country any closer to real change. Jon breaks down the bloated 2026 NDAA stuffed with Ukraine funding and constraints on Trump, laments the broken healthcare system, mocks Time Magazine’s “AI Architects” Person of the Year pick, and reacts to Disney’s billion-dollar OpenAI deal. Between sarcastic sponsor reads, couch jokes, and reflections on technology, psyops, and the normie world, Jon delivers a raw, candid episode on what it feels like when the news cycle stalls but the system’s dysfunction is louder than ever.