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California is a dumpster fire of government corruption, bureaucratic ineptitude, and social breakdown–and it’s coming for a state near you! This is literally the future liberals want, as they have made plain this week in their spectacularly cringey remote National Convention. Plus: QAnon may be a kooky conspiracy theory, but are its adherents really wrong to fear a nationwide cabal of pedophilia? Our editors discuss.
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Democrats hold voters mostly by fear and hate. What are rolling blackouts, oppressive taxes, and crippling restrictions when the other party is a bunch of warmongering Nazis set on destroying the planet in ten years?
No, the next ten years. (We would be dead already if we were not eating veggie burgers, driving electric golf carts, and chopping birds-of-prey into mincemeat with windmills for the endangered plague rats below.)
The spore analogy is correct. Democrat cities are driving out Democrats who will continue to vote Democrat in Republican-enriched states. Federalism doesn’t work in a modern country with easy movement, national media, national education standards, and corporate enforcement of one-party politics.
Ocasio-Cortez has set herself up as a revolutionary leader. She’s the Che to Bernie’s Castro.
If Biden wins, he won’t be the one in charge. Kamala Harris seems to have been selected for the same reason, being an empty vessel in want of power for prestige. Who then will be the shadow Chief Executive?
I’m not sure if AOC expects to gain leadership by a backroom coup or an overt coup (ala Black Lives Matter). But both the DNC and American government are weakening rapidly. I don’t think AOC will need to rank up as Pelosi did. She’s a wolf waiting for the prey to let its guard down.
I am compelled to write a third comment not because I have more to say but because, having downloaded rather than streamed the podcast, you might otherwise suspect your third segment was neglected per usual.
The nod to pedophilia would prompt me to immediately cancel my Netflix subscription if not for the inescapable tragedy that every other provider of films and TV shows is also dependably deplorable. Entertainment culture be damned, said the songwriter.
Well said about conspiracy theories amid deliberate absence of explanations.
Great podcast! Superb blend of voices and ideas. Like @AaronMiller I am totally disgusted with Netflix. However, the simplest response is to not watch it. There are things on Netflix I do want to watch, so cancelling the service isn’t an option. I don’t cancel my internet access because porn is available, I simply don’t visit those sites.
The email address given during the podcast for feedback did not work. If anyone has been successful in sending feedback please post the correct address.
This usually is one of my favorite podcasts, but Poulos is out of control when it comes to saying “like”. I grew up in southern California but somehow never developed the Valley Girl practice of prefacing all my comments, a la Jonah Goldberg, with this annoying word. I had to shut it off because I couldn’t take it anymore. Claremont should do better, even if this particular podcast is geared towards the hipster crowd.
I think it’s <dbahr@americanmind.org>. Oddly, it isn’t listed on the American Mind website. I haven’t received an error for sending a message there, at least.
I also download the podcast, to my computer, and then transfer it to my MP3 player, so they probably wouldn’t know that I always listen all the way through. Thanks, @aaronmiller for clarifying the email address they provided.
Well, my email message to dbahr@americanmind.org has bounced back. I have written to AmericanMind@Claremont.org to ask for the correct address. We’ll see if I get any answer.
Young Klavan does it a lot, too (despite having an excellent radio voice). Public speaking is hard, and those verbal ticks can be tough to eliminate. Speaking in this format, or any format, gets better with practice. These are all young guys that are relatively new to this.
I got an answer about the email issue!! :
Thanks. I’ll resend my prior email attempt and add that they should include the real address — both in the podcast and in the podcadt description — next time.
Except that if you listen to them at length you will know they apparently have had a lot of practice speaking in public, between appearing at conferences or teaching in university, and somehow Spencer’s dad doesn’t seem to have any of these annoying traits at all. On the other hand, consider John Podhoretz and Jonah Goldberg who have been speaking in public for years, including podcasts, and they can’t complete a sentence without adding a “yah know” or “like”. I just hope they actually are working on improving their verbal skills and don’t simply think talking like the children of this generation is somehow endearing to the audience they are trying to reach. Klavan definitely has improved since he began podcasting; Poulos not so much.