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Marco’s World

Episode length: 1h

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Peter returns to catch up with James of Snogadishu and Charles of the land of peace, prosperity, and enviable winter climate. It's good timing to have the ever-winsome Robinson back as the trio wraps their heads around another week of crazy that hits a little too close to home. They grapple with domestic disturbances revolving around another killing in the Twin Cities and the preposterous notion that journalists have special First Amendment privileges. There's also trouble abroad...all over the place, in fact. But we're feeling pretty good about a State Department left in Little Marco's hands.

Hosts:
Charles C. W. CookeJames LileksPeter Robinson

Discussion (15)

  • WilliamWarford@WilliamWarford

    Another great episode. Always nice when Peter can stop by, though I thought he should have signed off with his trademark, "Next week, boys!"

    Charles, as he often is, was correct about the futility of arguing with leftists on anything having to do with Minnesota. They have tunnel vision and cannot be bothered with trivialities such as borders, immigration law, obstruction of law enforcement -- it's Trump's Nazi Germany, and if you say otherwise, you're a Nazi, too.

  • DonG (Here.We.Go.)@DonG

    Very good podcast. I do think Charles is wrong, when he said ICE was morally wrong with the Renee Good shooting. Morals has nothing to do with it. He was defending himself as he was trained. I think the training could be much better, since ICE and CPB are trained in crowd control, but that is not a moral failing on the agent's part.

  • Taras@Taras
    ReplyingtoDonG (Here.We.Go.)

    DonG (Here.We.Go.) (View Comment):

    Very good podcast. I do think Charles is wrong, when he said ICE was morally wrong with the Renee Good shooting. Morals has nothing to do with it. He was defending himself as he was trained. I think the training could be much better, since ICE and CPB are trained in crowd control, but that is not a moral failing on the agent’s part.

    The Federal agent assumed a middle-class white woman wouldn’t run him over with her SUV. The middle-class white woman assumed a Federal agent wouldn’t shoot her, whatever she did.

  • DonG (Here.We.Go.)@DonG
    ReplyingtoTaras

    DonG (Here.We.Go.) (View Comment):

    Very good podcast. I do think Charles is wrong, when he said ICE was morally wrong with the Renee Good shooting. Morals has nothing to do with it. He was defending himself as he was trained. I think the training could be much better, since ICE and CPB are trained in crowd control, but that is not a moral failing on the agent’s part.

    Taras (View Comment):

    The Federal agent assumed a middle-class white woman wouldn’t run him over with her SUV. The middle-class white woman assumed a Federal agent wouldn’t shoot her, whatever she did.

    Considering that particular agent was dragged by an illegal 6 months before, I am betting he did not make that assumption. The other agent that approached the car to arrest her did not think she would drive off.

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