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The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Trump—A New Columbus?

Episode length: 1h 4m

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The week ended with President Trump issuing a proclamation celebrating Columbus Day, rather than Indigenous People's Day as the identitarians and western-guilt mongers have crammed down on us for the last generation, and it put us in the frame of mind of Leo Strauss, who called Machiavelli "that greater Columbus." Maybe Trump is a Columbus of sorts, sailing precariously into the Blue State oceans to drain swamps, etc. It's worth a shot.

But much of the show revolves around discussion of why so many leftists (like Katie Porter and Jay Jones) are such horrible people, whether we are in fact much closer to a civil war that we could have conceived, but also saving time to console John over the ignominious loss of his beloved Phillies, and—being certified dog lovers—honoring the passing of Lily, the beloved pet of one of our faithful listeners whose dog literally ate up one of our books.

Host:
Steve Hayward

Discussion (6)

  • Macho Grande'@ChrisCampion

    Had a thought or two on academia, while listening on my run here in gloriously cool Charlotte, NC:

    1. Colleges, in one share or form, need an ombudsman, or that kind of a unique role and organizational separation where the office's performance isn't subject to a lot of what was mentioned during the conversation. Think of it as an office needed to avoid the institutional capture that's now present in all dimensions of academia, and academic organizations.
    2. You won't get the status quo to change without The Iconoclast (tm). It's what Trump is doing right now to govt; that same approach, shake-up, flip-the-damn-apple-cart, it needs to happen within the long, winding, and sclerotic halls of academia.
    3. Trump demonstrated he can create change at the unchangeable institutions, by pulling the money. A similar approach could be used to break the 99% groupthink and worldview that's embedded in these institutions.

    Great pod, as always, and thanks to all of you for putting it together. Actually caught part of the live pod but that's a late night here for grampers.

  • davenr321@davenr321

    Lucretia and Steve were getting there on Jay Jones. The problem with a politician seeking electoral office letting loose a text such that he did is that school-age children who make the same kind of statements in texts and/or social media are investigated at the risk of suspension or worse. A grown-up adult running for office should not brazenly engage in such behavior. Lying, sure, it’s expected; cheating? if you’re caught, you’re not good enough at it; stealing? you do have a machine behind you doing that, right? But putting in writing and broadcasting something as base, as juvenile, as stupid as what Jay Jones did signals that his political ambitions must be crushed. Parents, and law-abiding adult citizens should be outraged.

    America is currently blessed with a crop of Democrats who are stupid, really stupid. Stupid in public. Dumb, too. Can the Republicans pounce accordingly? The hope is in the voters to make it to the polls and reject stupidity.

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