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Mark W's avatar

His use of "Trump effect" seems a convienent way to explain the shift in voting patterns without admitting that people might be tired of the establishment policies.

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Mark W's avatar

Biden economy record? You mean his admin claiming huge number of added jobs only to revise them back down by 800k? Do you mean the Biden admin claiming all the jobs coming back after the shutdowns were him adding jobs? What? You don't get to kill small businesses, then when they return claim you made huge economic gains.

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Mark W's avatar

Replying to myself, faux pas I know.

Jobs report was just adjusted. 100k added jobs adjusted down to 12k nonfarm added jobs.

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Tanya Owen's avatar

How about talking about the way she was nominated?

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Sybil's avatar

Great convo. Tonight I realized I am watching 3 men with dark hair (well, there are Leighton’s whiskers). 😉You guys are a rare breed with great young journalistic minds! Very refreshing!

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Deidre K's avatar

Have any of you noticed a pattern that is so often repeated by your party, in a rather superior manner, that democrats are the party of college educated? I often sense a reason could be those who did not go to university were not brainwashed by leftist academics.

The nearly 100 percent statistics of professors supporting the left is a support of this theory. The strange and new ideologies like systemic racialism, oppressor/oppressed, gender theology and climate hysteria is all apparent in the suburban women you often claim.

In addition if you recall what the hive mentality of democrats did during covid to use authoritarian tactics to force mandates and vaccines and censor any question to their authority.

The demonizing of republicans or anyone who disagreed with the party line were swarmed like bees by the leftist machine. The democrats themselves caused the sharp turn in the trust in institutions. What the cdc, education, fbi, DOJ, the corporate media, libraries, universities, Hollywood, the boy scouts, our military. Every day another well esteemed institution falls to the DEI, the racism against white males, the fascism of esg policies. Aggression against our children. The dem party did this. All the while making all kinds of accusations against the other half of the country. As they fight for victim status to either stay relevant or to virtue signal.

Low information low information low information, do you hear your condescension?

Your assumptions? That working class people can’t read or be critical thinking? But who can fix stuff and are an important part of what makes this whole country work! And who are not part of the corruption class in Washington who treat our taxdollars as either open check book for their pet projects or to come out as multi millionaires by the secrets they learn about stocks? Both parties.

The dems have brought millions of immigrants in and dumped them in small towns, or poor Chicago neighborhoods as they diminish the services for them. But not in Martha’s vineyards or wealthy Subarus.

The hypocrisy and arrogance is staggering.

Honestly listening to this just annoyed me Lee.

Please ask your liberal friends and I suppose yourself to seriously look in the mirror and in your rather dogmatic thinking to get a better understanding and empathy into how the world works for everyone outside of the coasts.

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SW's avatar

Kamala is seen as shifty and dishonest because she won’t answer a direct question with a direct, honest answer. Her pathetic performance on the Anderson Cooper town hall showcased her ability to dodge important issues with TDS rants and endless streams of platitudes. Your guest got this right — she has to be fed her answers apparently by people who are paid to do her thinking for her since she can’t do it for herself.

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bestuvall's avatar

Really. HUffPo. rethinking my subscription

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Vicki C.'s avatar

I always enjoy hearing perspectives from a wide range of different personalities and backgrounds, etc. so did enjoy your podcast. I do however also agree with one of the other commenters as regards the constant implication that noncollege educated folks are less informed voters. I am college educated and have many many friends who are also college educated and the majority of those folks are very informed voters who 100% support Trump and his policies. I will note that I live in the mid-west and maybe that geographical difference might to a small degree explain the conflicting college educated/noncollege educated viewpoints from those who reside in the coastal big city areas, as for example many of those college educated people came from smaller communities who have or had family members that were negatively impacted by DC establishment policies these past many decades. Trump, who entered the political arena as a nonpolitician with plenty of his own faults, still comes across to those who believe they have been left behind by their elected representatives as an agent of change to the status quo. Thanks again for the informative podcast.....looking forward to the next installment.

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cjonsson1's avatar

Scott Walker is awful. I'm not surprised he is moving toward the Democrats.

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Charlie Goodnight's avatar

Great conversation. Loving the pod so far.

*Please* get these published somewhere that supports Apple Podcasts. Playing on Substack kills audio when your phone is locked or sleeps.

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Isaiah Wulfe's avatar

This was a refreshing conversation. It's nice to know that other people see the problem too.

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