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The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Almost Live from Florence!

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So your three bartenders weren't able to assemble even virtually this week for our usual format—John is away on a clandestine mission stalking the elusive McRib, while Steve and Lucretia are also largely indisposed.

But fear not! We decided that in lieu of our usual snappy brickbats, we'd share with our insatiable fans the talks we gave a couple weeks back at the University of Florence about the American election. It was great fun and the student questions were great, but we're just offering here our introductory remarks.

This a short episode—barely over 20 minutes. But never fear: we plan to be back with our usual format mid week, probably Wednesday or Thursday.

Host:
Steve Hayward

Discussion (6)

  • Richard Easton@RichardEaston

    Steve, the presidential election was not a surprise. My wife guessed that Trump would get 290 EV and I guessed 310. Jim Rickards thought he would win all seven battleground states and got it exactly right at 312.

  • Steven Hayward@StevenHayward
    ReplyingtoRichard Easton

    Richard Easton (View Comment):

    Steve, the presidential election was not a surprise. My wife guessed that Trump would get 290 EV and I guessed 310. Jim Rickards thought he would win all seven battleground states and got it exactly right at 312.

    Yes, I was not surprised either, and thought it likely Trump would win by even more tha he did.* But John Yoo's conventionalism is just a cross we have to bear!

    * It is possible that Trump *did* win by more than the official tally, because. . . well, you know.

  • Richard Easton@RichardEaston
    ReplyingtoSteven Hayward

    Richard Easton (View Comment):

    Steve, the presidential election was not a surprise. My wife guessed that Trump would get 290 EV and I guessed 310. Jim Rickards thought he would win all seven battleground states and got it exactly right at 312.

    Steven Hayward (View Comment):

    Yes, I was not surprised either, and thought it likely Trump would win by even more tha he did.* But John Yoo’s conventionalism is just a cross we have to bear!

    * It is possible that Trump *did* win by more than the official tally, because. . . well, you know.

    Does John think that it was fortunate that Biden etc. prevented peace from breaking out in Ukraine back in April 2022? Nixon split China from Russia. Geopolitical geniuses like John have driven them together (per his comments last week). Hundreds of thousands of people have been needlessly killed and we’re out of ammo to defend Taiwan. Nice going Victoria Nuland and John Yoo.

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