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Question Time: Summer Olympics Edition
A few times a year, we stash the guests on the flagship podcast and open the floor to you, our treasured members. Ask about anything you like: politics, culture, sports, fashion, the site, the weather — you name it. Leave your questions in the comments and join us this Thursday August 4th at 8AM PT/11AM ET in the chat room and listen live (or listen later the regular way).
The floor is now open.
It’s gold, EJHill. Gold.
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All three of you’ns are successful in careers that require networking, lot’s of networking. What was/were your first big networking success/es ?
It was good-guy Reagan v. bad-guy Communism; the quality of our Presidential candidate matched the universally accepted threat. Candidate quality seems in decline over the recent decades, even beyond what you think of the current ones. Can we not get good candidates because the world is actually in a reasonably good place, or has social interaction in the Internet age made it easier for the weasels to con the masses?
No matter who wins, is there a fear from any of you that due to the DNC email hack showing that the Democratic nomination was rigged to coronate Hillary, and her issues regarding national security clearance and a vocal never trump faction from the Republican side, also the fact that Obama has decided to throw in his two cents about Trump being unfit to be president, that neither candidate will be seen as legitimate by a large swath of the American people and there may not be a necessarily peaceful transfer of power from the current president to the next?
Since this is the “Summer Olympics” question time: what’s your least favorite Summer Olympic sport? How about Winter Olympic?
Because we know that as a NeverTrumper, you’re really a Democrat.
This is pure silliness by the way.
Has James weighed in yet on the new Star Trek film? I’m sure Rob would be anxious to jump in on that conversation.
When a new conservative party emerges, what will its identifying color be? Blue for Dems, Red for Republicans, Green for , well, Greens… Federalist Conservatives are which?
(If you say orange, you might as well hang a sign saying,”Irish need not attend”)
I interviewed Shatner yesterday. I’ll tell that story.
You asked them, not me, but I want to answer, so I will. I’d say the UK is probably one of the easier nations for Progressives to overrun “Classical Liberalism” due to their lack of written Constitution. The leftist case for Brexit is illuminating on this subject. The “Asian Tiger” economies will probably keep the economics of classical liberalism going for a while, since they’re getting filthy rich off it.
I just got so excited about both of these things. Trump’s concession speech could be over an hour of conspiracy-fueled shouting unless he gets the vaudeville hook.
Lileks, why did you stop watching Firefly before you got to the best episode and why do you hate me? Thanks in advance!
That’s too much concentrated nerdiness on a Ricochet podcast (I approve!) so we probably need to get Peter to do something cool – think we can get him to do a dirt bike jump?
Would any of our hosts like to propose new olympic events (demonstration or medal!) in which the other two would excel?
I’m imagining:
Obviously there needs to be a complete overhaul. Now that they’ve gone full Marxist, Democrats will fully embrace red. Conservatives will be Tory (i.e., Royal) blue, and what’s left of the GOP can be their traditional cowardly yellow.
In this election we might want to rephrase as “Why is there nothing rather than something?”
Who wields the hook? I guess it would be Ivanka Trump.
I have been tempted to slide into despair over the state of things. I know I’m not alone. Decided I would sleep the rest of the summer away, but got insomnia instead.
So what are you doing to keep hope?
I drink.
No really, I drink a lot. My doctor tells me I should stop because my liver is shot, but psssh, what does he know?
Seems to be a lot of this going around. On the bright side, we can think of the 2016 election as economic stimulus for the liquor producers. How do you say, “We’re all drunks now!” in German?
I’m struggling to come up with a good way to articulate my question so I hope this is clear…
It seems to me that the great Ricochet divide here in Trumpland is between those who believe that Left-Right is a real, permanent tug of war between two fixed points and those who believe Left-Right is general descriptive of a starry sky with many points.
For those who see Left-Right as real, leftward Hillary’s opposition must therefore be rightward. Any choice not rightward is a victory for leftward.
But for those who see a starry sky of ideas, Trump’s star and Hillary’s star can be equidistant from the conservative star. Just as Boston and Pittsburgh are two places that are 300 miles from Philadelphia but not both west of Philadelphia.
The concern of the former becomes victory of Right over Left with Trump playing the part of the Right. The latter, the victory of Conservative over all lesser stars with all attention and power in the hands of the lesser stars.
I don’t have a question exactly, but I think (I hope not unfairly) that Peter is in the former camp and Rob and James in the latter. So I’d like to hear you work this idea out. (Hopefully I’ve been clear enough to give you a start.)
FYI – I believe the first camp misses the mark.
KELLNERIN! ICH LIEBE DICH! ZUM WOHL!!!
Well… it’s not an exact translation but I think it’ll get the point across…
Rupert Murdoch has named you the new head of Fox News. What is your strategy to keep the station dominant and conservative for another 20 years?
I’d like to ask Peter the Charles Murray Question:
OK, many many conservatives, including my podcast mentor Jay Nordlinger, cannot stomach Trump. Got it. Who is the least worse candidate with the best worst potential POTUS behaviors, appointments, shenanigans, etc? Should we all just get along to Trump Hillary? I think so, but I can’t bring myself to buy the Trump bumper sticker…
Will we ever go back to the moon?
I’m already packed.
Blue Yeti, sorry for asking so many but I’m a new member, so cut me some slack! Feel free to pick one or all. Thanks.
I have two practical questions:
One of these days, Alice…