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Let it never be said that this show does not go out of its way to present all points of view on the issues. This week, not one, but two guests from the pro-Trump side of the aisle. First up, Heather Higgins, whose post My Money Is on a Trump Victory has been quoted far and wide. Will she be able to convince the non-Trump supporting podcasters on this show to support the Republican nominee for President? You’ll have to tune in to find out. Then, The Center for Immigration Studies’ Mark Krikorian joins to discuss the upcoming NFL season. No, of course not. He’s here to discuss immigration, Trump, Mexico, and that darn wall and who will pay for it. ¡Ay Caramba!
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Thank you so very much for Heather. How I wish she was on CNN.
Haven’t listened yet, but we’re sure going to need a whole bunch of that agave in its distilled form to make it through the
next 66 daysnext139 daysforeseeable future.Marco Rubio, 2010: “Well, we have a path for citizenship. It’s called coming legally into this country.”
Wow, Rubio sure sounded like he believed in what would now be called “Trumpism” during his 2010 primary. But you won’t hear much about how he has “evolved” (to being Ted Kennedy on immigration) on the Rubio Fanboy Network (National Review, Weekly Standard, Ricochet.com).
Reposted from National Review in response to Jonah’s article about why we need to talk about ethanol when the world is a raging inferno.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/439611/ethanol-subsidies-waste-money-supporting-harmful-inefficient-product
Part 1:
No, now is not the right time to talk about ethanol.
Biofuels are a sooty moot point if we lose this Cold War battle royale in the Fall.
We’re gonna have much bigger problems if the Clintonistas take power or if Trump gets accidentally lucky and fumbles into the Oval Penthouse of Power, as the Donald would see it. (Only then would he learn the hard way that this broken down White House jalopy is not as powerful as it used to be on the world stage).
I honestly think western media needs to start talking about these geopolitical events in real Cold War terms. Because the longer we postpone acknowledging what it is we’re up against… then the worse things will get for an already weakened West. And the pace of this bleakening change is quickening.
Assuming we survive, I think future historians will call it: Cold War I & Cold War II … with an interwar period ruled by the Bushes & the Clintons except when Obama took his place out of turn. It was supposed to be first Hillary THEN Obama, not the other way around. They can’t even keep the order straight.
Part 2:
But we could have some fun with informing citizens that the Cold War is back, full throttle, and it’s even more complicated. We could call it:
Cold War 2: The Wacky Sequel [in full HD & IMAX & ISIS experiences, with VLAD noise reduction]
Red Dawn II: Frosty Overdrive
Cold Wars: The Kung-Fu Empire Strikes Back
The Coldtrix: Reloaded
Mad Cold War: Beyond Nuclear Thunderdome
… and so forth.
Whichever way, this needs to be immediately added to the US media’s lexicon before we end up in a post-western dystopia that’ll make you long for 1984.
Part 3:
But you have to admire Obama’s audacity to blithely step over the Clinton Global Earthmover Initiative back in ’08. That’s a pretty powerful group to slamdunk in a primary.
And in Obama’s acceptance speech, he told the world in Roman reverb, “The ground has shifted under our feet.” indicating that the overambitious new leader represents “real change”.
Looks more like the geopolitical tectonic plates shifted under Obama’s two left feet instead. And he didn’t change much of anything in Washington. It’s even worse today, which is just another victory for the “losers” of the old Cold War… who are currently eating our lunch and hacking our election systems willy nilly n’ Hilly.
The ethanol lobby can go shove that corn husk in their corn hole… we have a civilization teetering on the edge of the precipice and some big historical gusts are blowing.
After we stop the Clinton & Trump dynastic duo from flooring it over the cliff, only then can we talk about ethanol til we’re blue in the face.
Right now, it’s like Def Con Orange… and America’s claxons are blaring.
Ah, the old “I don’t believe the polls” trick. I got cured of that for good in 2006.
At about 30 minutes, Heather says that in politics your choice is between candidate A and candidate B. This fundamental misunderstanding is why Heather is wrong about everything.
Elections are about candidate A and candidate B. Politics includes, but is not limited to, elections.
If one is conservative and wants to advance conservatism then one needs a conservative candidate. If one eliminates candidate B as not conservative, then one is not necessarily getting something more conservative by voting for candidate A. To believe so is to believe that there are only 2 possible political points of view and that every differing opinion differs only in degree along a line between those two points.
If this is not true and there are many points, then we can draw lines of opposition between any two points. Both Pittsburgh and Boston are 300 miles from Philadelphia but they are not near each other.
I know that candidate B opposes conservatism. But if I vote for candidate A who opposes conservatism differently, then I’m not only voting against myself, I’m also voting to place a new belief that I do not share at the head of the party that opposes candidate B’s party.
That’s politics.
I couldn’t disagree more. Heather is totally right. There are two teams on the field. You either cheer for one or the other. If you hate both teams, don’t go to the game; but don’t stand outside the stadium yelling that they’re both lousy.
I don’t disagree that there are only two teams on the field in this game. I’m disagreeing that this is the final super bowl.
There are two teams, they’re both awful. If enough of us sit out one them will have to pander to us.
There are no teams.
How unimpressed was Heather with Rob’s “Trump’s a Loser” set piece?
Well, remember F. Murray Abraham in Inside Llewyn Davis….
Superb show.
Good luck with President Clinton pandering to the losing Republicans. What planet do you liive on?
@peterrobinson we do indeed have a state fair in northern California. It’s in our state’s capital. You missed it this year, but you should visit it some time. Of course you’d have to leave your elite bubble in Palo Alto and drive across VDH’s part of the state to get there…
Peter sounds so EXCITED that Trump has shown an epsilon of Presidentialnessosity.
Peter, it is not that Trump is a vain vulgarian, with a faux conservatism and an absence of intellectual curiosity that makes me #NeverTrump. It is that he is a sociopath whose profound insecurities may lead us into a global catastrophe. Alas, all other issues then become secondary. That is the tragic nature of this affair.
I couldn’t agree more….with goldwaterwoman.
The problem I have with Rob’s arguments is that everything he’s saying boils down to “Trump is a horrible candidate and we shouldn’t (or shouldn’t have) nominate him”.
I daresay most of us agree. As Peter said, Trump was the 17th choice out of 17. But that ship has sailed. That’s not the argument to have anymore.
Trump is the nominee. Barring a sudden death or incapacity, the next President will be Trump or Clinton. Deal with that, not with I wish we had someone better.
Mark Krikorian hit it out of the park on H-1B visas. I’ve used the indentured servitude comparison myself before. You want to make the employers seeking H-1B applicants squeal? Reduce the time to get a green card to under three years, so that their “guests” could establish residence without needing a renewal on the H-1B.
Two wrongs don’t make a right. ;)
But three rights make a left.
Fantastic podcast.