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Can I Get A Witness?

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Do not adjust your podcast app or web browser, you are in fact seeing this week's Ricochet Podcast drop a day early. And we've got a good one for you: Chief Impeachment Pundit John Yoo stops by to grade Alan Dershowitz's impeachment defense arguments and then The Wall Street Journal's Kim Strassel gives no you-know-what's about the Democrats and their tactics. Also, our crew punditizes (we just made that word up) on the Middle East, Lileks gives Post of The Week honors to @HenryCastaigne for his Epic Crossover Event: Dr. Who Battles the Gods of the Copybook Headings, we've got a new Long Poll question, and a new jingle!

Music from this week's episode: Can I Get A Witness by Marvin Gaye

Hosts:
James LileksPeter RobinsonRob Long
Guests:
JYJohn YooKimberly Strassel

Discussion (43)

  • Icarus213@Icarus213
    I'm sorry, but James' "it was a quid-Pol-quo" pun at Minute 32 was unacceptably underacknowledged, and I insist that we go back in time and correct this immediately to give it the praise it deserves.
  • kedavis@kedavis

    And James posits that voters won't be willing to give up a booming economy to vote for Sanders or Warren, etc. Hopefully correct, but don’t underestimate the ability of people to vote contrary to evidence. I think many people believe that if Bernie Sanders won in November, the current economic success would continue, PLUS they could get all the free stuff he promises.

    I even have neighbors who seem to believe that the current booming economy, low unemployment, etc, are not actually due to Trump and/or conservative policies. They claim it’s actually due to “leftover Obama.” And if Warren or Sanders etc were elected in November and the economy crashes, they would believe that was “leftover Trump.”

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