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Can We Wake The President?

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This week, we start in California, which is the subject of two piece published by The Founders in the current issue of National Review. Then, all the way from South Africa, COVID sceptic Nick Hudson, CEO of PANDA, a collective of leading scientists, actuaries, economists, data scientists, statisticians, medical professionals, lawyers, engineers and businesspeople working as a collective to replace bad science with good science. Hudson and his group have done real research on lockdowns, their effectiveness and the various policies put in place around the world to mitigate COVID. Then, our old friend Tevi Troy joins to talk about Presidents, the coming financial crisis, electric cars, and more. Finally, we wrap up with some impressions of the ongoing Derek Chauvin trial in Minneapolis from someone who lives there.

Music from this week's episode: Behind the Wall of Sleep by The Smithereens

The video mentioned in the Nick Hudson segment may be viewed here. Part II is here.

Hosts:
James LileksPeter RobinsonRob Long
Guests:
Nick HudsonTTTevi Troy

Discussion (41)

  • kedavis@kedavis

    Rob makes his RINO mistake here too. The problem with RINOs is they aren't just "moderate." The main problem is that even if they campaign as "moderate" or a bit farther right, once they get in they don't follow through. So having RINOs "win" is not really a win, in most cases.

    Unless RINOs just give a slight numerical majority that allows serious conservatives to have more of a say, it's pointless to elect them. Ultimately they end up going with the Dims a lot of the time.

  • William Laing@user_680378

    Opening theme: Does anyone agree that doopa-doopa track underlying the otherwise witty audio-montage should go? It doesn’t really tie the other material together; it just sounds crude, and would-be modern. Yuk.

  • kedavis@kedavis

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Nick Hudson say things that, had he written them as a post on Ricochet last year, might have been "redacted" as some kind of "conspiracy theory," or at the very least not promoted to the Main Feed?

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