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This week, The Conservatarians — aka Ricochet Editor-in-Chief Jon Gabriel and Heatstreet contributor Stephen Miller — chat about the embarrassing Commander-in-Chief Forum, Gary Johnson’s geography pop quiz, and Castro-loving Colin Kaepernick’s fight against “oppression.”
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@Colin Kaepernick:
You have the same right to voice your political beliefs as does every American citizen but show some class – don’t do it at work. There’s always the off season and since I think yours is looking to be forever, you’ve got plenty of time to spout off and leave the fans to enjoy the game.
Notice your former boss Jim Harbaugh was not happy that the University of Michigan decided to remove the film “American Sniper” from showing at the campus theatre, but chose to complain pre-season.
Welcome to your wacky new Cold War comedy roast, comrades.
In a burning world where Moscow & Beijing are Kung-Fu hacking DC & America where the sun don’t shine; And where Vlad does low-budget imperialism & campy geopolitical stagecraft like a mafioso with media skills; We shouldn’t be surprised that we’re stuck “choosing” between Putin’s uranium supplier or his stablemate and a groggy libertarian who gave up weed a few weeks ago.
These are grim days in the West.
We are obviously losing this Cold War badly and Washington is gonna get paddled into the future with all the terabytes of blackmail fodder every bad actor in the world is currently binge-searching.
This circus 2016 election is like getting to choose between which circle of Dante’s Inferno you’d like to watch the End Times from.
Joking aside, Putin is making a huge move on Washington, and the quickness is taking everyone by surprise. And whether Clinton wins or Trump gets lucky, America will lose a major battle in this new Cold War regardless of the outcome.
Fortunately, we still have voting.
Even though Putin has been planning this stunt for some time, the outcome is not certain.
Americans looking at a bleak Clintonian-Putinian-Beijingo future could still remember to spell: Newt Gingrich and write it on the most important ballot of their lifetime.
This would end Putin’s march on Washington overnight & would send the Old Order sulking into the history books.
Guys, tighten it up. Your arguments are so all over the place all at once that it makes it impossible to engage in conversation.
But I’ll try with the national defense issue. Hillary appears to have been fully on board the Obama “abandon thy friends, appease thy enemies, fund sponsors of terrorism” train, as well as the “our military must be weak and we must purge it of non-progressives” road. She “loathes” the military, remember that, eh? She has an indisputable record of treating national defense from a purely personal aggrandizement perspective. Trump is unreliable and says foolish things about Putin. Perhaps you have a super-perceptive insight into what a Trump administration will hold and it will be indisputably worse than the above from Hillary (maybe because you don’t think the above Hillary is so bad). But not being able to understand why some of us have a strong preference for Trump over Hillary even with the vast uncertainties takes a tremendous and likely deliberate intention not to understand.
I loved this podcast. I kept saying, “Yes, yes, yes, yeeeeesssss!”
And the hosts are absolutely right.
All the disasters that will inevitably unfold for the next four years if either Trump or Clinton wins are owned by the exact same people who are yelling at me on a daily basis now that any loss is my fault despite telling me during the convention that anyone with my views should just shut up and take a hike.
I shrugged way back then and said okay. I’ve always liked hiking.
So where have I hiked to now?
As when President Obama was elected, I stand on McMullen Peak with a heavy heart about the consequences of decisions I did not make that I know will surely impact me and my country after November.
(Looking back, who’s fault was Obama anyway? Mitt? No. That’s at the feet of Bruce!!! :) )
Finally, before anyone says I am shirking my responsibility as a citizen in 2016, I have carefully weighed my options, and I do plan to vote. It’s just never gonna be for Clinton, and it’s never gonna be for Trump.
So… the good American citizen box is checked, even if people disagree with my choice.
But I’m still hiking.
This podcast is better than any Sunday Morning News show.
Yea, this is one of my favorite podcasts… and continues to be. I’m about 10 minutes, but I have to stop for one thing.
<dopesmacks Miller>
On the other side of those steps, and that statue, is the Philadelphia Art Museum.
I think I generally agree with you guys about Johnson being a terrible candidate, but I think the “Aleppo gaffe” is pretty far overblown. I’m pretty engaged – albeit not professionally – and I had never heard of Aleppo until this. Obviously I’m aware of “the Syrian refugee crisis”, as was Johnson. I still have not heard anyone explain how or why that particular town is “the epicenter of the Syrian refugee crisis” – so it comes across to me as snobbery over jargon that has no value-add quality to it.
It may be the case that Johnson will suffer politically because the media will be able to make this non-gaffe into a gaffe by over-reporting it in the most tendentious way possible, but it would be deeply unfair, in my opinion.
I’d rather Johnson politically suffer from his warm embrace of abortion.
You’ll get no argument from me on that.
If Libertarians were to be truly consistent with their “rational and free” approach, they’d see that, using purely scientific and secular standards, human life begins at conception. Additionally, if they were the radical individualists they preen they are, they’d be first in line to defend the weakest among us, even within the confines of the Constitution, i.e., the right to life.
However, in their fear of being associated with conservatives, the rhetorical smoke machines come over abortion and we hear all kinds of convoluted talk that closely mirrors when the left tries a hand at defending abortion.
This is why I refuse to vote for Johnson. And Weld hasn’t met an abortion he doesn’t like, either.
@fredhoustan
This is why I am grateful Evan McMullin gave me a differen option since I feel I can’t support the Republican, and I can’t support the Democrat.
I stopped taking the Libertarian party seriously a long time ago. It is a clown car whose only organizing purpose is the legalization of weed and prostitution (with the occasional Hayekian hiding out there for whatever reason).