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The hiatus for the rebooted 3WHH is over! We got the band back together, and to further paraphrase the political philosophy of the Ellwood brothers: It's 70 minutes to the end of this podcast, we've got a full glass of whisky, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. Just like Anthony Fauci in his glam cover shot for In Style magazine back in 2021.
Most of our changes are cosmetic, and it's still a work-in-progress. Still, the two main new features on display this week are a short "cameo" appearance from a slate of contributors we're signing up, and responding to the best reader/listener question. This week's cameo is from Alex Priou of the University of Austin, who has some definite opinions about The Odyssey.
Two main topics are on our mind this week: the mendacious Dr. Fauci, and what pathways for legal redress might still be open despite President Biden's pardon. Second, we spend some time discussing the "republican guarantee clause" of Article IV of the Constitution, which is usually overlooked and thought to be non-justiciable—if not in fact a nullity, similar to the 9th Amendment. We take up this question because of Glenn Reynolds' mischievous suggestion on his Substack that President Trump might be able to invoke the clause to justify sending federal authorities into states with high potential for vote fraud. The key passage from Glenn's article:
"So if President Trump announces that we have uncovered massive electoral fraud — as he almost certainly will — and that he is dispatching huge numbers of federal election watchers to oversee voting and counting in areas where fraud has occurred, he would be acting directly under a power that the Constitution has vested in him. For a state to have a “republican form of government,” it must have meaningful elections, and elections that are rigged are not meaningful. Stopping them from being rigged would be protecting a republican form of government. Congress has passed other election laws, mostly for reasons of combating race discrimination, but those aren’t strictly applicable to these circumstances. . ."
Could make for some fun times!
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The language example you should have cited is “illegal alien” versus “migrant”. Conservatives have mostly capitulated on this one and we are the worse for it.
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Welcome back.
Language we can still own....
When will a discussion of the DSA/Mamdani/AOC/Bernie lead to resurrecting Hayek's 'FATAL CONCEIT' ? (It's long overdue and missing.)
Catholics need to start talking about subsidiarity. (It ain't that tough to explain.)
Catholics in the age of Leo XIV also need to start a discussion of the previous Leo and his opus RERUM NOVARUM....and while not an explicit endorsement of capitalism, it WAS and IS a condemnation of ....socialism.
Since MAGA did fine with Catholics in 2024 all the above need to be tapped before we head off into 2 years of non-stop impeachment proceedings if the Left take the House.
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On Emily Wilson not liking the modified Odyssey, what you're telling me is a feminist gets what she asked for and found out it wasn't what she wanted. That's a 'dog bites man' story if I've ever heard of one.
You took me by surprise with the new intro music. I was skipping past the ad and well into the episode before I realized the song had changed.
Speaking of, there were what, half a dozen ads this episode? Maybe up to eight? Every last one of them was identical this week. One business, their ad repeated eight times. I'm not saying this is y'all's problem. I'm just saying they aren't getting full value for their advertising dollar.
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There were more ads than usual because we ran long since it was our first episode back (more than 10 minutes more than normal), and the number of ads we have to accept is dictated by length of the episode. And as the whole thing is automated and placed by algorithms of some kind, we have no control over what ads are dropped in (only where in the episode)--and I'm wondering whether other listeners also got repeat ads, which are usually customized to local location. Last week in Europe, for example, when I ran the Ricochet podcast I got all European ads in the local language. YMMV.
And the new background music (which will vary in the coming weeks) is actually a subtle dig at John and Lucretia that I am betting they won't be able to figure out. Stay tuned for more!
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Yeah, I get that. My best guess is that whatever service handles that has very few customers in my geographic region. I usually get multiples on any given ad. Thankfully the online casino sort has died out. Whatever life looks like on their backend I'm guessing they're having trouble hanging on to enough local customers to provide variety.
As we say on the Internet, Fixed It For You.
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