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Bobby Jindal, former governor of Louisiana, stops by to talk to the full crew about How Trump Wins the Populist Patriots and how that particular group has been ill served by Democrats and Republicans alike and what Republicans can do to win their support. The Jobs Report is out with "unexpectedly high" numbers: 266,000 new non-farm jobs. Remember when the reports were always "unexpectedly low" under Obama? Rob attempts to explain why Obama is responsible for Trump's great economy even though he hedges his bets by saying presidents can't control the economy. Then John Yoo, detainee at UC Berkeley, joins the podcast, again, to talk impeachment. John has the most beautiful suggestion for what Trump should do, should there be an impeachment trial in the Senate. You'll want to hear this one because it's a winner. Big league. And if you disagree, let us know in the comments.
Finally, congratulations to @GaryMcVey for winning the prestigious Lileks Post of the Week competition for his post, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: This Never Happened to the Other Fellow. We only hand out 52 of these per year, folks.
Music from this week's episode: Kokomo by The Beach Boys, because our regular producer, @BlueYeti, is vacationing in the Bahamas. Our fill-in producer, @Max, is currently looking out the window of his office at an actual snow storm in New Hampshire.
Have a great weekend!
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Rob Long
Bobby Jindal
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Can't really see it in the picture but it is snowing pretty hard.
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Wow. You're not in Texas, Dorothy. You're definitely not in Texas. :)
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Trump also had a major deregulation push, and businesses aren't worried that he is going to sink them with new regulations.
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Of course Obama gets some credit for the current employment boom, etc.
If Obama hadn't made things so bad, Trump couldn't have made them so much better!
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Not all deficits are equal. A Republican-administration deficit to win a war, or to actually DO things that Democrats mostly just talk about such as long-term infrastructure, is not the same as a Democrat-administration deficit just for current-year spending such as welfare, food stamps, etc. Or even the Democrat idea of "infrastructure" which usually ends up just being bribes to unions, maybe a few make-work "projects" that don't really do anything...
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