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The Ricochet Podcast

Why Can’t We Be Friends?

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This week on The Big Show®, we converse about the Kurds, talk about the limits of woke corporatism with David French, and get the low down on Kim Strassel's new book Resistance (At All Costs): How Trump Haters Are Breaking America (buy it!). Also, Ricochet member @DoctorRobert wins this week's coveted Lileks Post of The Week for his two (!) posts Why We Need People Who Have ‘Too Much Money’ and Memories of the Cleveland Orchestra, 10/4/19. Well done, Doc! Finally, can Ellen Degeneres and George W. Bush be friends? Some folks insist that they cannot. Weird. Hey, speaking of friends, don't forget to weigh in on this week's Long Poll as it asks a similar question.

Music from this week's show: Why Can't We Be Friends? by War

Hosted by James Lileks and Rob Long, with guests David French and Kimberly Strassel

Discussion (103)

  • kedavis@kedavis

    The Long Poll has not yet been updated.

    Which reminds me of a joke.

    A guy is walking down the sidewalk or something, and he sees another guy next to a pole in the ground, with a tape measure. He repeatedly tries to somehow fasten the end of the tape measure to the bottom of the pole, and then climb up the pole. But it comes loose, or the guy loses his grip on the tape end...

    Finally the first guy says, "Hey, why don't you just set the pole down flat on the ground, it would make things easy!"

    The second guy says, "What do you think I am, some kind of idiot? I want to measure it's HEIGHT, not it's LENGTH!"

  • kedavis@kedavis

    Rob says that China isn't a great place to sell, because they don't respect intellectual property, etc.

    A bigger reason might be that people who earn - what, $10 a day? - to assemble iPhones, couldn't possibly afford to BUY an iPhone.

  • Barry Jones@BarryJones
    All of the pundits commenting on the Kurds in Syria need to read up on who and what they are talking about. The Kurds in Syria are a subset of the Kurdish group that has been officially on the US terrorist list for nearly 20 years - they are avowed Communists and suck up to Russia. The US still has a healthy presence and a very active Embassy in Iraqi Kurdistan(the ones that are not Communists and don't suck up to Russia) who are NOT the same group! Please learn before you opine.
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