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In times such as these, the challenge is packing all the news into a single episode. James, Steve and Charles do their best to move with lightning speed through Biden’s shower of clemency, UFOs in New Jersey, then across the Hudson River for the hard left’s justifications for last week’s coldblooded murder in Manhattan side-by-side with their fury over Daniel Penny’s acquittal. All of this before sitting down with Noah Rothman to get an early glimpse at the change of management in Damascus.
… And did we mention Charlie Cooke’s restaurant explosion experience?
– Congressman Jeff Van Drew (R – NJ02) tells Fox News that the drones over his state belong to Iran
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Change is what we do with it.
Best restaurant explosion?
“Blue Thunder.”
Charles Cooke’s V-2 story is most amusing (not that one should chortle about the terror) and illuminating. Always good to have him on the podcast. I hope that he becomes clairvoyant about restaurants!
I am a regular reader of Nathan Rothman and was pleased to hear his most articulate voice. Syria? Yes, warily wait and see.
Charlie’s comment about the societal transaction in which we agree to solve our problems without violence, and then get a police force to control crime, an army to fight wars, etc – was brilliant.
The left has decided that they know SO MUCH BETTER how things should be that literally killing people over different ideas on how to solve societal problems is ok now.
It’s a great idea, but of course the problem is that those police forces and armies are made up of… what’s the word I’m looking for… PEOPLE! And we get examples probably every day of how bad many of them are at it.
Just 3 recent examples:
Yep, we do get some bad policeman. It isn’t the vast majority and they are needed.
A larger point is that the not-obviously-bad police still mostly protect the bad ones, which means the not-obviously-bad police are also bad. If they were actually good police, they would be leading the charge on getting rid of the bad ones. But they do the opposite.
Here’s another comment I saved, from a previous YouTube comment made by someone else, that I saw a while back:
Sorry, I don’t accept your premise. I don’t know what encounter caused you to be down on every police officer in the USA nor do I care at this point. They aren’t all bad because there are some bad ones.
They’re not ALL bad, at least not actively so, but, those who don’t help with dealing with the bad ones, can’t honestly be said to be good. It’s the same kind of problem as doctors who ignore/protect bad doctors, lawyers who ignore/protect bad lawyers… The people who suffer are the general public. And it doesn’t matter to you that “most” cops might be good, if you – or your spouse, or your child, etc – get a bad one, to the point where they might end up in prison or dead for no good reason.
Did anyone else visualize Charlie brushing dust off his shoulder and walking out of a blown-up restaurant while the Pink Panther Theme plays in the background?