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Let it never be said that this show does not go out of its way to present all points of view on the issues. This week, not one, but two guests from the pro-Trump side of the aisle. First up, Heather Higgins, whose post My Money Is on a Trump Victory has been quoted far and wide. Will she be able to convince the non-Trump supporting podcasters on this show to support the Republican nominee for President? You'll have to tune in to find out. Then, The Center for Immigration Studies' Mark Krikorian joins to discuss the upcoming NFL season. No, of course not. He's here to discuss immigration, Trump, Mexico, and that darn wall and who will pay for it. ¡Ay Caramba!
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Marco Rubio, 2010: "Well, we have a path for citizenship. It's called coming legally into this country."
Wow, Rubio sure sounded like he believed in what would now be called "Trumpism" during his 2010 primary. But you won't hear much about how he has "evolved" (to being Ted Kennedy on immigration) on the Rubio Fanboy Network (National Review, Weekly Standard, Ricochet.com).
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Reposted from National Review in response to Jonah's article about why we need to talk about ethanol when the world is a raging inferno.
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No, now is not the right time to talk about ethanol.
Biofuels are a sooty moot point if we lose this Cold War battle royale in the Fall.
We're gonna have much bigger problems if the Clintonistas take power or if Trump gets accidentally lucky and fumbles into the Oval Penthouse of Power, as the Donald would see it. (Only then would he learn the hard way that this broken down White House jalopy is not as powerful as it used to be on the world stage).
I honestly think western media needs to start talking about these geopolitical events in real Cold War terms. Because the longer we postpone acknowledging what it is we're up against... then the worse things will get for an already weakened West. And the pace of this bleakening change is quickening.
Assuming we survive, I think future historians will call it: Cold War I & Cold War II ... with an interwar period ruled by the Bushes & the Clintons except when Obama took his place out of turn. It was supposed to be first Hillary THEN Obama, not the other way around. They can't even keep the order straight.
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But we could have some fun with informing citizens that the Cold War is back, full throttle, and it's even more complicated. We could call it:
Cold War 2: The Wacky Sequel [in full HD & IMAX & ISIS experiences, with VLAD noise reduction]
Red Dawn II: Frosty Overdrive
Cold Wars: The Kung-Fu Empire Strikes Back
The Coldtrix: Reloaded
Mad Cold War: Beyond Nuclear Thunderdome
... and so forth.
Whichever way, this needs to be immediately added to the US media's lexicon before we end up in a post-western dystopia that'll make you long for 1984.
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