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This week the Three Whiskey Happy Hour gang join James for a riotous good time, even as discuss and debate their beloved nation’s precarious situation. They cover Joe Biden’s visit to the border, Donald Trump’s appeals to the Supreme Court, the latest on the war in Gaza, and a silly journalist’s constitutional illiteracy. Plus there are whiskey recommendations and a must-hear story about apish antics on the high seas.
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– Soundbite from this week: dueling press conferences in Texas between the current and previous occupant of the Oval Office.
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First, I like McRib. John, if you are ever in Austin, try out the McDowell sandwich from Slabb BBQ. It is a half rack of ribs, deboned, on a bun with onions and pickles.
Second, all the land used to cross into Texas is under state jurisdiction. Would John be OK if the state had a law about trespassing anywhere along the Rio Grande with a 10 year prison sentence? State jurisdiction and state law.
The idea that states can choose to ignore Federal Law when they try to enforce it, but can’t enforce federal law is, to put it simply, nuts.
As usual, Jon is totally wrong on this.
The MSNBC talking head doesn’t understand Christian Nationalism. It is a real thing, they have some beliefs that are repugnant to US Constitutional government. Fortunately, they are a small fringe group for the most part.
Jon trying to compare what we have today with the early immigration is just foolish.
biggest there, there was no welfare state. you don’t work, you don’t eat.
2nd, all of the institutions was preaching the melting pot, telling the new immigrants that America is a good place and encouraged assimilation. Now, all of the institutions, tell immigrants that America is and always was a horrible place and you get to use your nationality to get your bit of grievance gold.
3rd, most of the immigration in the 1900 came through well defined ports (we still have my grandparents paperwork).
4th, the Federal Reserve constantly creates inflation, and you can’t let in a bunch of uneducated third world-ers to suppress wages.
I’ve heard all of the arguments. There is nothing good that comes out of the Fed constantly creating inflation.
The amount of central planning and centralized power we think we have to manage is a disaster. It’s patently foolish.
If you are talking about the Hillary Clinton, cattle future scandal, you really need to see the chart. It’s unbelievable. They got her in and out on every turn. Nobody can do that.
90% of them are going to lose their asylum case. They are lying. The whole thing has been turned into a very bad joke.
This is the problem with Central America, Mexico, and a lot of these countries. They have too much organized crime. All of those people need to be indiscriminately assassinated. Of course, Biden is doing the opposite because the Mexican cartels have never had it so good, from human smuggling. $13 billion every single year to organized crime. Then, if you do that, you have the problem of how business is organized. Most of those countries are organized around cartels, which is typically pretty bad for the lower level citizens you get down the chain. then, I suppose you could talk about education or something. You also have the problem of the root of the society is based on extraction and slavery, which is very different from how the United States and Canada was organized.
I’m not saying this is perfect analysis, but it’s pretty close and nobody talks about it.
There are indications that votes cast by non-citizens were enough to flip swing states in 2020–and did.
Indications, but not proof as such. It’s based on outdated sociology. Proof that it’s plausible (maybe even that it’s likely). Proof that it’s worth being concerned about. Just not proof that it happened.
https://ricochet.com/992200/intro-to-eight-election-fraud-and-related-claims/
This sounds like a very interesting discussion about federalism.
Could someone who has been able to watch the video tell me, from a neutral point view, what Jon is saying on the video?
What is the issue that he addresses, which side does he take, and what is his argument?
In other words, there’s no proof.
Not proof as such in this particular place. You want proof–look where it is.
You ever going to answer my questions about Teigen?
How do you read the following sentence?
Is it saying that all the snacks were spilled?
Is that the same as “no straw was enough to break the camel’s back” or “no raindrop is responsible for the flood”?
This was one of the most interesting Ricochet podcasts to which I have listened, with good points made by all. John Yoo, brilliant as ever, was a brave man in taking on his momentary role in the solitary minority…He was just three months old when I arrived in the land of his birth, which has contributed so many most welcome additions to American citizenry. He’s right about immigration. That’s America–and I say that as one who doesn’t live there and feels very strongly about illegal immigration anywhere, including the land where reside… But then I think that all of you agree on the fundamentals…Please have Lucretia back. She’s amazing.
We have the Democrats running the government trying to put their opponent who is in the lead, in prison.
Presidents should not be sued or products for actions in their job as President.
Jon seems to agree, but then hope for the opposite outcome .
I feel the conversion did not do well in distinguishing between legal immigration and illegal immigration. The problems of immigration are exasperated by the lack of civics in our culture. Too few people understand our founding and Constitution. Immigrants to American should be swimming in the Spirit of ’76 to be properly assimilated.
I think there is very little non-citizen voting. But the reapportionment and redistricting include non-citizens, legal and illegal. They mostly cluster in Democrat areas. The effect is to give “bonuses” to Democrats in legislative seats and the Electoral College.
Didn’t she make more than 100K off a $1,000 investment? Something like that. Then she held a press conference and explained that was she was a little girl, her daddy sat her down at the kitchen table and taught her all about investment.
As someone who partnered up with a few friends to dabble briefly in commodities futures trading in the late 1990s before running away with our tail between our legs, there’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that Hillary’s $100,000 gain was nothing but a very poorly disguised bribe.
I’m pretty sure you mean John Yoo, not Jon Gabriel who wasn’t on the show.
Ibid.
There was no Jon on this show.
For a guy who gets upset when people call him Brian, you should be more careful.
OK sure. That’s a substantial contribution to the discussion.
Like getting your name wrong is ever a substantial contribution to any other discussion? But you do it anyway. Although it doesn’t happen often since Gary is gone.
Don’t ask me, I have no idea. I am using Bryan’s spelling, and he is known to be meticulous about people spelling his name correctly, but I suppose he might not have the same policy with respect to other names.
Everything you need to know about Ibid.
I’m just using it in reference to “see my previous reply/reference.” Rather than “ditto” for example, which would mean “I agree with you/what you said/wrote.”
Cool, cool. I wasn’t confused about your comment. I just wanted to link to the cool Ibid story.
Can you name two? Can you name one Christian Nationalist?
I’m skeptical that Christian Nationalism is a real thing.
And the margin account was so vastly overextended based on her initial capital investment that any brokerage house – heck, probably even the SEC – would make a margin call, demanding more skin in the game from the “investor,” in this case Hillary Clinton.
Let’s also not forget that Hillary Clinton’s cattle futures investment was managed by an attorney for Tyson Foods, which was being investigated at the time by Arkansas Attorney General Bill Clinton.
“Nobody can do that” is right.