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There are no crystal balls on Ricochet, but we can’t keep our eyes off the future. What’s to become of the GOP? Hard to say; but our guest David Drucker has written a book and launched his very own podcast to ponder these very questions. Rob and James put him in the interviewee seat for a change get his take on how candidates will have to navigate a climate that’s been permanently altered by Donald Trump.
How does the former president affect local and state elections? What should make of the upcoming election in Virginia? (What the heck’s up with those tiki-torchers?) And, most importantly, how do the members of the ever-growing crowd of Republican hopefuls get attention while living in Trump’s shadow?
You’ll have to listen to find out!
Also, Peter pops in to tell us about the Rupert Murdoch birthday celebration he attended, plus Rob and James debate the consequences of Zuckerberg’s hopes to take us all to the metaverse.
Music from this week’s podcast: Complicated Shadows by Elvis Costello
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They are going to outlaw what Zuckerberg did because it’s the right thing to do. It’s ***obviously*** un American or whatever you want to call it. It’s wrong. Trump won on the merits.
I am really underwhelmed by everything you are saying about this.
I don’t see street lights or lines on the streets.
The same way that Google wants to eliminate cookies from browsers and websites. Not to help with privacy and security, but because they’re using their quasi-governmental monopoly on information and technology to lock everybody else out of their new surveillance scheme, FLoC. Google is suddenly anti-cookie because they have something better, and they’re using the moment to choke out other comers in the info arena.
Democrats want big money out of elections because their own big money flows in different ways. Lobbyists and corporate contributions are so-o-o 1990s. Democrats use public sector unions and collusive lawsuits to simply commandeer money into politics. They want legal big money out of politics because theyhave no need for it — the ban only affects Republicans.
After the Great Blizzard of 1888, the City of New York required all electrical and communications wires buried. Stop lights and street lights can be seen on the corners. They’re not very big and the traffic lights only had red and green, no amber.
In my country what Zuckerberg did is completely illegal. Its an in kind donation and has gotten people thrown in prison.
We did not lose this election. Sounds like you are using a violent mugging as an excuse for not showing up on time. Guess you’ll just have to leave earlier to account for your daily mugging.
There is no reason to make this complicated. What Zuckerberg did obviously won the election. If you don’t think so, just listen to that academic analysis that Molly has.
Then throw in the fact that Georgia effectively admitted that they didn’t have proper controls on 400,000 ballots. What if the other states are just half as bad? The Elias Covid-19 lawfare did it’s job.
It’s disgusting.
Actually “True Names” (1981) by mathematician, science fiction writer, and libertarian Vernor Vinge.
When I listened to this podcast a few days ago, I might add, it struck me as daft.
This was like the Jeb Bush campaign committee plotting how High-Energy Jeb is going to take on that Bad Orange Man.
There may be a candidate (Evan McMullen? Lynn Cheney?) who is stupid enough to pull an Aaron Burr and challenge Trump for the presidential nomination, but the smart move is to run for Veep. After all, whatever happens, Donald Trump will not be running in 2028.
Though I think that the non-white candidates have the inside track, given how thoroughly the media have created the myth of Racist Trump.