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The Democrats Pounce

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This week, we cover Liz Warren's plan to break up the big tech companies, Ilhan Omar's latent (or maybe not so latent) anti-Semitism from the perspective of an actual member of her district, and chat about the Democrats boycotting of Fox News for one of their upcoming debates. Oh, yeah -- we've also got the great Andy McCarthy on Manafort, Cohen, and what to expect on seemingly perpetual soon-to-come Mueller report.

Music from this week's episode: Mayor of Simpleton by XTC

Hosts:
James LileksPeter RobinsonRob Long
Guest:
AMAndy McCarthy

Discussion (72)

  • Taras@Taras

    You can explain a lot of what the big tech firms do, by positing that they pander to whoever can hurt them.

    They pander to progressives because progressives can hurt them while, as Rob lectures us, conservatives “don’t do that”; i.e., have unilaterally disarmed themselves. Thus, the more biased these firms get, pro-progressive and anti-conservative, the safer they are from government meddling.

    For the same reason, they pander to China far more than they do to the U.S. government.

  • JuliaBlaschke@JuliaBlaschke

    Taras (View Comment):

    You can explain a lot of what the big tech firms do, by positing that they pander to whoever can hurt them.

    They pander to progressives because progressives can hurt them while, as Rob lectures us, conservatives “don’t do that”; i.e., have unilaterally disarmed themselves. Thus, the more biased these firms get, pro-progressive and anti-conservative, the safer they are from government meddling.

    For the same reason, they pander to China far more than they do to the U.S. government.

    Well as Trump said, it is just business.

  • Charlotte@Charlotte

    If a Ricochet podcast listener were to toss his UNTUCKit shirt onto his Burrow lounge chair, brush his teeth with a Quip, climb onto his Casper mattress, draw back his Boll & Branch sheets, snuggle under his Calming Comfort blanket, queue up a Calm.com sleep story, and drift off to sleep inhaling Molekule-purified air, would the singularity finally be achieved?

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