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The Ricochet Podcast

The Fourth of July

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We were going to take this week off, but the opportunity to do a special holiday weekend edition of the Ricochet Podcast with just The Founders *and James Lileks, of course) proved to be too tempting. The guys talk about Presidential tweets, what to do about health care, what they like to do on the 4th, and life in the ten years since the iPhone debuted. Enjoy the weekend, everyone.

Music from this week’s podcast: Saturday In The Park by Chicago

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Hosted by James Lileks, Peter Robinson, and Rob Long

Discussion (82)

  • patpongmike@patpongmike

    So what I glean from Long is that, should Trump stop tweeting the lame-stream media will begin to cover the administration's policy initiatives? Let us all hold our breath on that. I underestimated Trump by a country mile during the primary and later, election. And two or three fellas on this podcast continue to do so. I find it difficult to listen and watch people who are consistently wrong.

    Robinson's take on the three governors was useful. I'm not renewing membership.

  • Mate De@MateDe
    had it occurred to ANYONE on this podcast, which needs to be a bit more ideologically diverse (peter tries but there is no one with any enthusiasm) that Trump MAY have learned from previous administrations that allowing these media criticisms to sit there without fighting back has not necessarily been beneficial to that administration. Look at Bush, Reagan and the golden ticket for the media Nixon. Trump might have realized that allowing these thing to sit and fester might not be good for him in the long run, best to fight back to show the media he won't let take it laying down. Now I am all for criticism of the president but the media has not been rationally critical it has been personal, insane attacks and he's responded. I don't know how would you handle this? In my 38 years in this country I have never seen this kind of reaction before. Chris Matthews equated Trumps son in law and Ivanka to saddam hussians kids and said that Mussolini might have been on to something in killing his son in law. I don't know I'm not thrilled with his tweeting but the media has been so insane I kind of like the smackdown. I think this needs to be done. The media does control the narrative and the country needs to be red pilled.
  • Mark Darris@MarkDarris
    Eggsactly right. It's time for the "never Trumpers" and the 'offended conservatives' to understand the essence of our struggle. We on the right get that Trump is flawed. Ok? We get it. But, we also get he's the only one that even remotely cares about the US. The Left, in all its incantations, is not only wrong, it's dangerous to this great Republic. In this culture clash, this battle for the soul of this "last, best hope on earth" means that threat prioritization matters. Period. Why can't you get that?
  • James Lileks@jameslileks

    Mark Darris (View Comment):

    We on the right get that Trump is flawed. Ok? We get it. But, we also get he’s the only one that even remotely cares about the US.

    The only one who cares about the United States?

    In this culture clash, this battle for the soul of this “last, best hope on earth” means that threat prioritization matters.

    Joe and Mika are not a top priority target in the battle for the soul of America. Imagine Reagan, at the height of the controversy over putting medium-range nukes in Germany, ripping off six tweets about how Sam Donaldson has a comb-over.

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