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We discuss the events of the week, we talk to AEI’s Yuval Levin about leadership in a populist age and Andy McCarthy about the 25th Amendment and pardons. One of our hosts is dealing with a medical issue which he discusses here and in some members only content with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (available here). Keep calm, carry on, and be nice to each other. This too shall pass.
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We can agree on that even if nothing else.
I’m just going to leave this here.
2 + 2 = 4 AND 2 +2 = 5
Got it.
As the mathematician’s joke goes, 2 +2 = 5, for large values of 2.
Interesting that they guy in NYC is lecturing the guy raised in Lexington, Missouri about being in touch with populism (defined as opposing coastal elites).
I will note that McCarthy sets the standard for resigning from office as “having used demagoguery”. Either he has TDS or he expects 99% of politicians to resign. It is a shame that he can say that without any push back from the hosts.
I find it interesting — all the Trump people fleeing the ship with less than a dozen days left.
Et tu Betsy DeVos? (Thomas Sowell came out of retirement to write a column supporting you. We had to delay in confirming Jeff Sessions as Attorney General as Mitch McConnell needed 50 votes plus Mike Pence to get you confirmed.)
It reminds me a tiny, tiny bit of when Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich on January 20, 2001, his last day in office. The Lefties went crazy. They suddenly hated Bill Clinton. What a show! Uh, you could have complained before the very last day in office.
I remember Glenn Loury’s great interview with Jon Shields two months ago about his book Trump’s Democrats. One of the things these people value above just about anything is loyalty. Not a lot of loyalty this week… Ann Coulter and others complained endlessly about Trump hiring his family members Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. But who could Trump really trust? Just about no one other than perhaps a few people he might have known beforehand like Wilbur Ross or people with integrity like Ben Carson, both outsider types from the non-political world…
There are others.
The policies were the ideas of others. Trump listened to them. He didn’t pick the judges or get them through and he didn’t think of the Abraham Accords. Trump did the love letter to Kim and the stupid flattery of dictators. And when the good policies came through Trump was always there stepping all over the good news with some stupid thing. That’s why he’s worse than worthless. He should resign.
They are right to flee.
I keep thinking about this. How many people working under President Trump were actually working for him? Seems like very few. The amount of backstabbery over the last four years is uncountable.
The whole situation was terrible, in this sense.
The deep state spent probably $60 million going after him. Then throw in the democrat controlled media.
Totally unfair and undemocratic.
Gary loves it.
I wonder why – lol. How many people did Trump turn on? Legions.
Did they back-stab because he turned on them, or did he turn on them because they stabbed him in the back?
I owe President Trump a hearty ‘thank you’ for the most conservative administration since Reagan, for preventing the most corrupt Clinton from occupying the White House in the form of Hillary, for giving us incredible judges and justices, for reducing regulations, for historic achievements in the ME, for returning the US economy to new heights, for reducing unemployment to record lows, for giving us a 4 year break between race-baiting presidencies, and so much more.
But sure, some (small) people can only celebrate those achievements if they are done by the morally spotless. Sorry, I’m not seeing those candidates around, so maybe we stop the moral preening and grow up. Defend the record boldly (assuming you consider the above to be positive developments), even as you recognize the imperfections of the one that helped bring them to reality. But so many on the Right are joining in being hysterical, as the Left has been for 4 years. Not a good look, and not the least bit conservative.
Uh . . . phrasing.
Who knew, sometimes offshoring is really a good idea?
In the latest “very special episode” of Classicist, VDH seemed like he might also be taking a safety stroll to the left.
Let’s hope they’re actually conservative, and not Gary Robbins “conservative.”
Remember too that Gary was actually quoting ROB LONG from The Ricochet Podcast.
If they incited actual violence/murder shouldn’t they be arrested and prosecuted?
Wonderfully stated. Thank you for a concise and insightful statement. The moral preening has become almost intolerable.
Rob consistently mis-identifies the “lick-spittle”. The establishment came to conservative voters years ago and told us, vote for us and we will reverse the slide toward socialism and oversized government. We gave them the House, “Oh we can’t do anything because we don’t have any real power. We need more.” We then provided the Senate “Thank you but we still can’t do anything. We’re afraid to act. The president will veto. Give us the presidency also”. Okay here is the presidency “Oh, you gave us the wrong president. We can’t possibly work with him. He might support the American People, the ‘lower unwashed classes’ go back to your hovels where you belong and how dare you not obey your betters” Until the Republican party starts actually working to limit government and restore our constitutionally guaranteed freedoms/rights there will be civil war within this party. The establishment Republicans wish to have the single-minded control that the Democrats seem to have. There is too much freedom of thought amongst the People according to the Establishmentarians.
What I have yet to hear is a cogent definition of Populism. The best I have been able to determine is Populism is whenever the People disagree with the elite ruling class and insist the “Public servants” really be servants and not rulers.
That’s pretty close.
See if you like this one: https://ricochet.com/861797/ricochet-and-the-republican-party-must-decide/#comment-5127974
“THERE … ARE … FOUR … LIGHTS!” Star Trek, The Next Generation.
He turned on them because they were not obsequious enough.
The song really blew me away. The video was even more overwhelming.
Drew, thank you for the link. A worthy definition.
Editor Note:
Gary's comment has been redacted as it is a thinly veiled claim that Trump supporters are Nazis. Gary you are advised to knock this off.What a great podcast!
Listen to Rob at 1:06:00.
If Republicans want to survive, they need to cut him [Trump] loose.
Start a bonfire, throw him on it.
But not just not talk about him, trash him.
Kill the demon. And then move on.
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Trash him, Cut him loose. Bury him 20 feet deep.This is more blood lust. If the President gets assassinated, you and Rob have incited it. You should both be ashamed.Running the gamut from Pelosi and Kerosene Maxine down to Rob and Gary, no one ever accuses any of them of incitement. Maybe it’s because no one takes them seriously even though they mean it.(Redacted)
I don’t think one is being “obsequious” if he supports the man who hired him. Obviously, opinions vary.
I know you are serious, but having been designated by you as one of your “special friends” I am under no obligation to take you seriously. Nor is anyone else for that matter.
Yes, we know you agreed with Dennis when he said we needed to exile the President, his family, his staff and his prominent supporters and execute them should they try to return to the US.
You don’t have to remind us how crazy you are. We know.