Other than Ruy Teixeira, Ezra Klein is the only podcast I listen to or rather watch the video. It takes time, but I watched yesterday, and thought Ezra was pushing the envelope a little further than called for in his characterization of Vance.
There's a portion of the right called Heritage Americans who are probably a little too nativist for most of our tastes, and Vance is proud of his and America's heritage, but the two things are not interchangeable. Vance is also married to an immigrant of a different ethnicity and does celebrate her heritage. Their children, like most second gen kids will grow up very American, like most second gens who are often enough as much as, or more American than those of us who take nationality for granted.
Weekend Edition usually makes for a good wind-down for the workweek. Including Nate Silver excerpts doesn’t.
Maybe our biggest current problem as a society / culture / nation is the way people like Silver can casually lie, tell half truths, personally malign, and draw false conclusions from his elite perch of party approval . . and then have those lies, etc. spread (without question or comment) by others, such as TLP. The lies, fantasies, and propaganda, go on and on - repeated again and again . . . and it gets so tiresome.
"How did a utopian dream of shared prosperity mutate into one of the worst nightmares humanity has ever known? To understand this almost inconceivable mystery ...." How much stupidity did it take to compose these lines?
Since Trump famously doesn't read books, I doubt the book had much direct influence. An attempt to organize a philosophy based on observation seems like a better description
Do you have anything to say about Donald Trump appointing the sex offender Lawrence Taylor to his physical advisory board? More and more seems to me that Donald Trump seems to like to hang around a bunch of men who have records of abusing women or even worse. I guess we all knew thisfrom those Billy Bush tapes. Also, I recall his comments about his own daughter and how hot she was.
Other than Ruy Teixeira, Ezra Klein is the only podcast I listen to or rather watch the video. It takes time, but I watched yesterday, and thought Ezra was pushing the envelope a little further than called for in his characterization of Vance.
There's a portion of the right called Heritage Americans who are probably a little too nativist for most of our tastes, and Vance is proud of his and America's heritage, but the two things are not interchangeable. Vance is also married to an immigrant of a different ethnicity and does celebrate her heritage. Their children, like most second gen kids will grow up very American, like most second gens who are often enough as much as, or more American than those of us who take nationality for granted.
Weekend Edition usually makes for a good wind-down for the workweek. Including Nate Silver excerpts doesn’t.
Maybe our biggest current problem as a society / culture / nation is the way people like Silver can casually lie, tell half truths, personally malign, and draw false conclusions from his elite perch of party approval . . and then have those lies, etc. spread (without question or comment) by others, such as TLP. The lies, fantasies, and propaganda, go on and on - repeated again and again . . . and it gets so tiresome.
"How did a utopian dream of shared prosperity mutate into one of the worst nightmares humanity has ever known? To understand this almost inconceivable mystery ...." How much stupidity did it take to compose these lines?
Since Trump famously doesn't read books, I doubt the book had much direct influence. An attempt to organize a philosophy based on observation seems like a better description
Do you have anything to say about Donald Trump appointing the sex offender Lawrence Taylor to his physical advisory board? More and more seems to me that Donald Trump seems to like to hang around a bunch of men who have records of abusing women or even worse. I guess we all knew thisfrom those Billy Bush tapes. Also, I recall his comments about his own daughter and how hot she was.