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Well, it's crunch time now: we're into the final lap of the election and things are going to be intense for the next 8 weeks or so. But first, some personal business: one of our intrepid cast is sending his youngest child off to college. Is his purpose in life now over? We discuss. Then Mr. Flight 93 himself, Michael Anton joins to discuss his new book, The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return and to warn everyone that if Joe Biden wins, the country will turn into California (but without the weather, the beaches, and the surfing). For those of us who live in the Golden State, it's a weird way to sell a book (it's not that bad here), but hey, Michael's gotta eat too. Then, something of a departure for America's Most Beloved Podcast® -- a sports segment! And if we're going to do a sports segment, then we're going to get one of the best in the business to help us. That would be the great Sally Jenkins -- columnist for The Washington Post. We talk about college football, political activism in sports, and what's it's like to enter the family business when your dad was one of the all time legends. Finally, Nancy Pelosi gets a blowout and it blows up. Perfect.
Music from this week's show: I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair by Ella Fitzgerald
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Does anyone else believe that only Trump could beat Hillary Clinton? That seems like a pretty big stretch to me. She is super unlikeable and corrupt after all.
It's also hard for me to understand Sally Jenkins being OK with athletes going full BLM. BLM is destroying black America and trying to turn black-Americans against white-Americans. Being an aloof millionaire really isn't all that bad compared to that.
What's more, the NBA went out of it's way to kowtow to China. Most big American companies that make money in China aren't that egregiously pusillanimous.
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Won't be able to download the podcast and listen until Saturday, but Sally's been one of the wokest sportswriters out there for a while now, so this ought to be interesting. Or a train wreck.
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I do. A full 13% of Trump’s voters had pulled the lever for Barack Obama in 2012. Name me one of the other 16 primary candidates that do that. (Sanders voters stayed home.)
I don’t buy into this conventional wisdom crap that says we’re in a predestined pattern of alternating parties in the White House because of some mystical 22nd Amendment woodoo.
Every election is different because every electorate is different. Every election is different because issues are different. Every election is different because every matchup is different. (We haven’t seen a party renominate a loser since Adlai Stevenson was fed to the wolves twice by the Democrats.)
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She's so great I've never even heard of her...can't wait. Thanks for the heads up! What a terrible article. Before the last few months I never stopped listening to a Ricochet podcast halfway through, but now it's happening more often and I suspect I won't make it to the end of this one.
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One, Sally isn’t “woke.” I spend a lot of time on a college campus, and she’s Barry Goldwater compared to those folks.
Two — maybe listen to the segment instead of pre-judging it? She’s one of the most knowledgeable and articulate observers of the intersection of sports and culture out there. Do we agree with her on everything? No we do not. But that’s not a requirement to be a guest on this show. P.S We do not agree with everything Michael Anton says or writes either.
As for quitting the show halfway through, since you did provide any details as to what offended your sensibilities, I can’t respond to that. Did we book AOC or the Mayor of Portland recently? Don’t think so...Need to go check my emails.
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