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2:02 Senator Bob Menendez accused of brazen corruption
6:46 The issue that could sink Trump’s campaign
17:29 Unpacking the mystery of America’s open border
24:47 Is Biden worried about a coup by Democratic Party elites?
34:35 Ukraine’s international support shows signs of waning
44:54 Democrats downgrade Senate dress code
49:48 Parrot Room preview: Marty Peretz’s new book; UAW strike; insidious AI sexbots
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded September 22, 2023.
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Ending the podcast is a bad decision. Just sayin.
What a waste of high I. Q.’s
I love that they're playing the old hits on the retirement tour. "Two Grumpy Antisemites Weekly" would be the name of this podcast if truth-in-advertising were the law.
Very much looking forward to Mickey's 90th birthday party next year! Maybe Lou Reed will play?
you're ending the podcast? sad 🙁
25:50 elite coup risk
These two are just fantastic, if only it could go on forever. Sad times but I wish Mickey all the best. Rob never stop
BOYCOTT DIVEST SANCTION ISRAELI APARTHEID!
"Attrition is a game that in the long run you would expect Russia to win". Is that the logic by which you would have expected the US to win the Vietnam War, or the Soviets or US to win in Afghanistan?
I will truly miss these conversations between these men!
Please don't go!!
Hearing these two guys strategize about how to rig the election against Trump is why most Americans don't believe the elections are valid.
I really enjoyed hearing these two gentlemen interact with each other. Great debates and disagreements, all approached with a very robust sense of humor. Damn shame, i can't think of another podcast like it.
I've been keeping eye on the gambling odds, and Trump overtook Biden this week as the current betting favorite (a month ago it was Biden).
Also interesting: Newsom has surpassed Ron DeSantis as third favorite, and RFK Jr. has never had better odds than Michelle Obama.
Hebron Betlehem Ramalla Jenin and Nablus
FDR weakened the populist demagogues Huey Long and Father Coughlin by taking away some of their issues, adopting some of their more popular economic policies. E.g., WPA, SS, wealth tax et cetera. That helped isolate them, drove them further to the extremes and alienated some of their supporters. Biden's failure to address the border is giving Trump a big issue to exploit. It's amazing to me that he and his people don't realize this. In order to beat Trump you can't just call all of his supporter racist extremists and dismiss their concerns. That's not what FDR did. You need to break some of it off. If Trump wins, the border will be one reason.
Bidens the monster!!!
My first thouht regarding all these migrants, most of them young men: "you want to become an American?, then you must fight our wars. They are war fodder.
You skipped Maine in your list of states with a Democratic governor. Profoundly insulting. No respect.
The fact that trump is a monster actually helps him with a large part of our population. Hillary pretty much nailed it when she called them deplorable. The race was always going to be close. As for not empathizing with republicans……wtf cares??
You guys detail a laundry list of potential replacements of Biden and don’t even MENTION Kennedy? Sure, he’s anathema to the Democrats but that’s more of a commentary on the party than it is about the candidate. He’s a serious candidate and you completely ignored him. Congratulations- you have both completely swallowed the corrupt system you appear to provide commentary on. I’m not going to bother fixing the grammar in the previous sentence as a token of how my respect for you has tanked.
I have no idea what Mickey's reference to the stadium crowd size was about. Is the idea the crowd that is about the listenership of the podcast?
41:00 "How did Menendez not get a piece of that?" 🤣
Funny! A Detroit politician back in the day was successfully bribed with a nail manicure.
Biden does not want photos of homeless people in large cities. Find them jobs, they are off the streets.
C Columbus murdered and tortured millions of Amerindians, He was Christian / Catholic / White. America's politicians built statues commemorating this event.. Not in history books in America or South America. Amerindians didn't matter in 1500 and they don't matter now…We're the good guys.
Mikey spent 48 minutes with a sticker on his glasses before launching into a tirade about how people (those he opposes) are sloppy and it's making the country go to shit or something.
Mickey is looking sharp this week!
The last few episodes feel like Monday Night Raw just before Stone Cold Steve Austin left 😢