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The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Bringing the Smoke and Fire (Brimstone to Come)

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Who needs Steve's peaty, smoky whisky this week when Canada is supplying a surplus for half the nation? (But it ain't Canadian Club they're serving.) After clearing the smoke from our eyes—and our whisky glasses, we get down to business on what is known so far about the Trump indictment (we recorded before the full details of the indictment were released), and wonder of the Dept. of Justice isn't blowing a lot of smoke.

And just how did the Supreme Court manage to botch the Voting Rights Act case?

Finally, we begin rolling out our listener-requested Essential Reading List, starting with a couple titles for the category of philosophy. Naturally Steve and Lucretia divide on a title to recommend. Next week we'll either do history or biography, which are also difficult categories, but that's part of the fun.

Host:
Steve Hayward
Guests:
JYJohn Yoo"Lucretia"

Discussion (12)

  • WilliamWarford@WilliamWarford

    Who wouldn't have tears running down their cheeks watching Kamala get nominated?

    Scored both book recommendations from Jeff Bezos. Steve's was free on Audible, a price I hope is not indicative of its worth. No, it sounds good and I'm sure I will like it.

  • Quickz@Quickz

    Pence's J6 comments are so easily waved away by playing his comments two days prior ....

    c-span.org

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    "...I SHARE THE CONCERNS ABOUT VOTING IRREGULARITIES. I PROMISE YOU COME THIS WEDNESDAY, WE WILL HAVE OUR DAY IN CONGRESS, WE WILL HEAR THE OBJECTIONS AND HEAR THE EVIDENCE. BUT TOMORROW IS GEORGIA'S DAY. SO FOR OUR FAITH, FOR OUR FREEDOM, WE NEED TO VOTE GEORGIA" (CAPS from C-SPAN site, not me, Lol)

    Yeah, so much for that. If he lies here (didn't support "our day in Congress", didn't "hear evidence," in fact he shut any hope of it down. So if he lied on 1/4, then he's untrustworthy. Oh well. C-SPAN is forever Miguel.

  • Quickz@Quickz

    This was a great podcast. I look forward to hearing more analysis from everyone. Jon appearance on Fox was short but powerful. Interesting times.

    Yeah the Alabama thing was strange. Throwing a bone to the lefties before Affirmative Action is overturned at SCOTUS? To draw forth from the CRA 65 the the concept of majority-minority congressional districts, as Jon so simply pointed out, is just again the court empowering the CRA regime. How are we to roll back other court-created legal regimes like disparate impact if they are *still* making things up? Justice Thomas is correct to point out that this is not what the plain language of the act is about. Disgusting that those 2 voted to support bigotry.

  • Quickz@Quickz

    I put both those books on my insanely long list of books to get - thanks for them. My professor recommended the same book as Lucretia, and as a primer told me to read the essay, "What is Political Philosophy?" as a first toe-dip introduction to Strauss. I found almost the whole thing on google books, its only missing the last 10 pages or so. Maybe someone knows where one can find the essay without buying a whole book?

    Google Books link:

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