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That was your best intro and outro music yet. More spaghetti Westerny music, less angst is my vote.
Good show. Y’all ought to drink tequila on every show.
I lasted about 15 minutes into yet another one of @exjon and Stephen’s snark festivals before pulling the proverbial plug. I’d call their routine tiresome, except I no longer have the energy…
I know you Never Trumpers keep trying to tell us you were right – you guys keep replaying the primaries almost as much as Hillary replays the general election – but you don’t understand: we didn’t vote for Trump because he was a deficit hawk.
We’re disappointed he signed the Omnibus because he didn’t get the Wall built and the illegals deported and it looks like he won’t.
Sure, he got money for the military, but he could’ve done that by cutting our self-destructive imperial commitments…and discharging all the females in the armed forces.
And you two True Conservatives have no standing to carp over spending. It was True Conservatives like Paul Ryan who wrote that Omnibus and put it in front of a Republican President willing to sign almost anything, which is just what all those True Conservatives in Congress begged us for, promising only then could they give us True Conservative governance after we had already given them the House and Senate.
Using a presidential non-entity like Rand Paul to try to shame Trump supporters is rich, boys. Next, Jim Geraghty will be telling us what an opportunity we squandered by turning our backs on Bobby Jindal.
You True Conservatives got a Jeb campaign in PA-18 and a Bush 6-month spending bill – why aren’t YOU cheering?
On the Second Amendment, Jon and Stephen take it for granted that the Supreme Court will always read the Constitution the way they like.
There’s been a Republican majority on the Court for a long time. It’s only human nature to assume whatever has been around for a long time will just go on forever.
And we’ve never seen a majority of modern progressives on the Court, with all that implies — including a complete disregard for the text of the Constitution, in favor of enacting their idea of social justice.
One of the existing asymmetries of the Court is that conservatives Justices accept liberal precedents, but liberals do not feel bound to accept conservative precedents. Thus, the Court acts like a ratchet: it either stands still, or moves to the left.
In other words, Jon and Stephen are wrong to assume that the current reading of the Second Amendment will always survive a public outcry/moral panic. We are just one Justice away from a Supreme Court that could rule, for example, that private ownership of guns must be outlawed because so many minorities are killed by guns.
I’d like to say I enjoyed the RedSteeze Hour of Talking, but….couple of things.
Complaining about people picking on what Stephen kept saying was a “17 year-old boy” was hilariously overwrought. This is the same guy who almost got in a fight with an old man over a pickup hockey game.
17 year-olds enlist in the Marines. Part of growing up is catching sh*t for the stupid sh*t you say, and this kid can’t shut up with the stupid, while preening for the cameras. Back in the day, growing up meant working on a mason tender crew the summer before college and getting yelled at by older guys every time I effed up. That’s life. Get a helmet.
Oh, and the memes. Golly. Well, as soon as Steeze writes up the Appropriate Time and Place to Use Memes Manifesto, I’m sure the world will collectively gasp and ask itself “Who the hell is that guy?”
Really. Feels like the show has been going in this direction for a while. So I’m taking a break. Let me know when reality has settled back in. Maybe I’ll listen again. Maybe not.