Well, howdy there, internet people, it's Bell again. And welcome to the roads with Bell.

Today is May 7th, and we're going down the roads to a Q&A. We're just going to go over some questions from y'all

that might not get answered otherwise, but would if we had a slower news cycle.

We get so many and a lot of good ones end up becoming stale as the news moves on.

People have asked how to send in messages. You can send them to Question for Bell at Gmail or via Patreon.

Our first question.

Hello, ranch people, and thank you for all that you do.

Last night, Heather Cox Richardson started her letter with some of the dump of posts

made by King Fool, late at night on May 1, and continuing into the early hours of Saturday.

They were truly insane. I mean more than usual, so much so, that I went looking to verify it,

and found that not one regular news outlet covered it. Also, he made another long phone call with

Putin, after which he was talking about even more troop drawdowns in Europe. Both of these things

are real national security issues. Why is there not more coverage? Or are they less of a big deal than they appear?

For the most part, the media is getting hammered with the flood the zone approach Trump is using.

There is just too many individual stories to cover, and y'all miss out when all the outlets choose to chase the same stories.

That's honestly why indie media is so important right now.

There's a limit to the troop drawdowns Trump can do.

Buried in the National Defense Authorization Act is a passage that prohibits total troop numbers in Europe dropping below 76,000 military personnel for more than 45 days.

Trump could try to weasel around it, but it would end up in court and tied up forever because it's a new law and he signed it.

Next.

I can't help but notice a couple of similarities in the news cycle of 2026 and 2008.

Back then we had high gas prices.

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