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It’s a big scary world out there–or so we’re told. But how do we sort what to worry about and what not to? We say: bring on some guys who know their stuff! That’s why Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is back. He wants to keep us calm, despite the return of variant hysteria; he and the hosts talk Omicron and a world limping its way back to normal.
Then, Seth Cropsey, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, joins the gang to take us through the vanishing power vacuum left by the US, Putin’s goals in Ukraine, and the future of American naval power. Abandon all hope? Or can we bounce back? Listen to find out!
Plus we’ve got James’ thoughts on the Golden State; Rob talks EU, sugar cubes and the creeping pace of bad policy and the disasters they create; Peter’s wife is none too pleased to see the Pelosi’s latest purchase; and the gang is happy to see that Democrats are losing ground with the non-crazies.
Music from this week’s podcast: Russians by Sting
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This column is a good reminder of how the past two Presidents dealt with Ukraine.
I haven’t listened yet, but I’m not panicked and don’t have any hysteria over this virus. What I am is P-O’ed about the constant fear mongering. I don’t need to be kept calm, I need to be kept sane.
I hope you address this.
I am going to count to three.
I dunno, that might just be the best “cover photo” ever.
Just fulfilling the boss man’s vision.
I thought it was ricochet.com/try?
Yes, but, as always, absolutely masterfully. Remember, you may not be good at anything else (tee hee) , but you are the Mike Ramnirez of Photoshopped podcast photos.
The last straw for Brexit was regulating electric kettles?
Huh. I would have thought it would be telling them they can’t use the F-word for cigarettes any more.
They had to say “derivative of a Latin word for a bundle of sticks,” which was a mouthful.
Two birds with one stone, as it were: (that is, the F-word, and a mouthful of words…)
For all the talk about Russian Collusion, who colluded more? Putin has his pipe line and will Ukraine under Brandon. I wonder if Hunter still has any of that Burisma money left
The euro is going to be a disaster because you can’t have separate legislatures etc. and one central bank. There are different ways this can end, but they are all bad.
The vaccine does absolutely zip for transmission. Anybody with a brain can see that.
Natural immunity works just fine on it’s own.
Getting more people vaccinated isn’t going to make a damn bit of difference.
Masks didn’t do a damn thing at the aggregate level and they aren’t going to do anything going forward,
Even insiders or former insiders, who know we lack strategic purpose or vision, don’t see why. Clearly the Chinese have power over Biden and the administration has power over the Pentagon from West Point etc. on. They will destroy our military capability as the top rots the middle will change.
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“Owners Equivalent Rent”. If that’s what I think it is…
Somewhere between 5 and 10 years ago I was “selected” to participate in a Federal survey of household consumer spending [might have been commerce department, I don’t remember for certain]. As I recall the first one was in person, then once per quarter they’d run me through a 30-60 minute telephone questionnaire of how much I was spending on various categories. I’m *very* organized about that stuff (It’s all part of the obsessive-compulsive disorder). I’ve been using Quicken for close to 30 years to keep track of all my finances and spending. And even then there were details they asked about that I couldn’t give more than a SWAG answer to. I remember one of the phone survey people telling me how much better organized I was than most people she talked to.
But the one that really got me was when they asked me to estimate how much my house would rent for. How would I have the slightest clue? I hadn’t been in the rental market since I bought my first house in 1992, and I’ve *never* been in the rental market in my current community.
The whole experience made me really doubtful of the reliability of government economic statistics.
The CPI is bogus.
Inflationism is a disaster for libertarians and conservatives. It can’t work or sell in this environment.
And that is assuming that the Federal Reserve can guess the right interest rate. They can’t, obviously. This whole system is as stupid as anything the Soviets did. The only reason we do it is because it facilitates militarism.
People in the political/media complex have no idea how vacuous they come across when debating the state of the economy. Government statistics are a complete nonsense. They talk “jobs created” without acknowledging jobs destroyed. They talk unemployment numbers without talking about labor force participation. They talk bankruptcies without talking about how many small business owners simply shut their doors and walked away.
88% of American businesses employ 20 or fewer people. They were devastated, not by Covid, but by the government-led panic to Covid. It has been the greatest transfer of wealth from the middle class to the wealthy in American history.
This is very good.
And some have been charged with crimes just for trying to keep their businesses afloat.
What a horrific story. The person who should be behind bars is Governor Walz and that A-hole judge should be disbarred.
They are trying to do rent control in Saint Paul. Why don’t they just float bonds and by the apartments and turn them into communist housing?
Great interview with Dr. Jay. We need apologies from the scientific, political and public health establishments, which sadly are probably not forthcoming. Hopefully, Sen. Rand Paul and others can lead the charge for firings, at least at the national level. These people that deviated from our pandemic outbreak playbooks must never be allowed to have power again. A great legislative effort also needs to start to create ironclad laws limiting state emergency powers. May I also suggest that we must consider criminal proceedings against those that went beyond being merely mistaken into fraud territory.
Except if you are old or have a bunch of co-morbidities, you should get the vaccine or you won’t make it to natural immunity.
I agree with that. My point is, riding people to get the shot at this point when it doesn’t stop transmission is madness. The number one priority right now should be getting the public to stop hating public health. They hate those people for good reason.
If doctors and hospitals TREAT patients, they are likely to make it. But you are right that if they do next to nothing for you (which is what the CDC protocols recommend at the moment), you might not make it. That’s true of a lot of diseases.
Sadly, no one should assume their doctor has a clue about how to treat this illness. Everyone should be asking their doctor what they would do if they got it. If the answer is a blank stare, or chicken soup and bed rest, they need to get a new doctor, at least for COVID. I highly recommend covid19criticalcare.com and/or Dr. Mollie James (MD that treated tons of COVID in NY).
Until the US secures its own border against human trafficking, drugs poisoning its population, murderers and pedophiles hurting their own women and children it has no business discussing the territorial integrity and sanctity of other borders around the world.
@roblong ‘s comment on how as TX got browner it got redder was fabulous. I didn’t have this as up-front and center in my mind as I should have. Excellent point. Only nit to pick is those “sane” consultants like Carville are only about 5% of the remaining consultants – only those with any name cred have survived. Full purge.
Since the loons have purged the Democratic party of most “normies” and all “Blue Dog” Dems and are continuing down the path that alienates everyone but status-seeking multiple degree holding Big City types – all is going well! Now I just need to see the continued forward progress in realigning the GOP to its new base and new direction. Talk about a flip! The way the D’s ran the 1900’s the R’s may the 2000’s.