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This week, the New York Times thinks a fishing boat is a yacht — luckily, we have fishing and GOP politics expert (and Florida native son) Rick Wilson to get us back on course. He also gives us (that includes Troy Senik, sitting in for Rob Long) a high-altitude overview of the 2016 race, including Jeb Bush, Rick Perry, and Carly Fiorina. Also, are we going back into Iraq? And finally, courtesy of Ricochet member Matede, should parents of adult children let them move back in after graduation? Evidently, you can go home again.
Music from this week’s episode:
If I Had A Boat by Lyle Lovett
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James it’s Mate De. Mate as in a Third mate or howdy Mate, and De as in my name De. I guess I should separate the words
Ah! Thanks, Mate.
When Peter said “slash Ricochet,” did he use the same hand gesture that he always used when he said “forward slash uncknowledge” during his Uncommon Knowledge interviews?
Shouldn’t Peter have a sweater draped over his shoulders in the picture?
(No comment regarding the sleeves on James’s canary yellow shirt. I’m sure he’s sufficiently tired of that jest.)
He did. Promise.
I don’t think Rubio is terrible. I think he has the right stance on China, which I’m basing off of his past statements and speeches. However, what will Rubio say on questions such as infrastructure and the economy? It is a fact today that US infrastructure is decrepit. As president, will he press for Congress to allocate more money to infrastructure, or will he simply rely on philosophical platitudes while US infrastructure decays to the point that the US has no power in the world at all beyond its own shores?
So, are you a sailor, an Australian, or just really, really proud of being married?
I knew people that worked at HP, and I was told that the day Carly was sacked, there’s was vocal cheering in the hallways. No kiddin’. She was loathed there. If she starts getting traction, look for the likes of the New York Times to suddenly dig up hundreds of comments and interviews about Aunt Carly at HP. They’ll just keep the venom flowing from people that worked under her there, and sure enough, they’ll be picked up by CNN, MSNBC, et all. She’ll be Cruella deVille.
I can echo this. A co-worker who worked there said there were plenty of people singing “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead”
One last pleasant surprise, Mr. Lyle Lovett.
Douglas – I used to work as a mate on a ship, and Mate De is what the chief engineer called me
It made me think of an OJ joke–I think everyone knows the set-up, but the punchline was something like an e-mail, o j @ \ \ /
That’s outstanding.
Carly Fiorina is abrasive and people didn’t like working for her.
A telling point when we put her up against that furry, fuzzy ball of good feelings and bonhomie that is Hillary Clinton.
I know he isnt very popular, but one Presidential candidate has put a proposal and plan together for dealing with ISIL. Thas Lindsay Graham. Its pretty much the reason he is running from what I can tell.
Its not going to be a popular plan in any event. He also proposes hitting Syria and taking care of that problem to.
Can we please cast the blinders aside? Jeb Bush cannot bea serious candidate. W’s second term is remembered as a disaster, which it was. The Bush name is poison in the real world. Having Jeb in the race diminishes all the other candidates by association. Please, Lord, may he go quietly away.
While I’m at it, why can’t any commentator state the obvious about Obama and fighting Isis? Obama has no strategy because he does not oppose them. He wants them to win. He as much as said so last year in his “if I were Isis I would do so and so” comments.
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It’s interesting that one issue that the rank and file are interested in, immigration, never comes up in these discussions. To me, it is the one issue that inspires a lot of heat within the Republican Party and could tear it apart. Democrats are of one mind on this. It’s like the Big Elephant in the room, pun intended.
Can there be a half like? The first half of that comment is dead on. 50% + 1 of the country absolutely thinks the Bush name is mud. I don’t care what polls have to say about a recovering W reputation. If Jeb somehow gets the nomination, he’d get steamrolled in a general.
Obama doesn’t want ISIS to win, he’s just chronically indecisive on foreign policy and pathologically opposed to the use of force. Considering the country’s last experience with using force, it’s somewhat understandable. The whole dang thing (Iraq, Syria, the Middle East overall) is a giant mess and, although it might be the only way to improve things, using force would invite a total sh#*storm from the left and the media. What would Hillary do? Bernie Sanders would be all over it.