Episodes
Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
Ep. 12.23.20: Immoral Hazard
Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
We continue our conversation of moral hazard, or how the rich avoid the consequences of their own bad actions, in the context of the latest efforts by Trump to sabotage America.
Dave discusses moral hazard and market externalities involving Trump's sell-off of US land to mining and oil and gas interests. The devastating consequences of the Russian hacking scandal become more real to everyone who isn't the President of the United States, who is too busy pardoning the swamp and trying to overturn elections to notice.
COVID continues to devastate the country as well, even as rich people and COVID enablers seek to buy their way to the front of the vaccine line. Finally, a discussion of the on-again-off-again government funding and COVID relief bills. Or, as Moscow Mitch calls them, the "keep the Senate republican" bills.
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Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
The Electoral College vote gives Joe Biden the presidency, after the Supreme Court refused to give it to trump. It's now official, even Moscow Mitch says so, but does anybody think this is over? Never overestimate the republican party or trump supporters, who will never accept Biden's legitimacy. And the violence may just have begun.
Americans begin getting the first of the COVID vaccines. Salvation is just around the corner...if the corner is 9 or 10 months away. Meanwhile, the virus rages out of control, in the mismanaged US, worse than ever. The US surpasses 300,000 dead.
Dave also explores the issue of moral hazard, or the justification for making people suffer the consequences of their own bad decision-making. Republicans have always demonstrated that this "tough love" only applies to the poor, never to the rich. But maybe it is time to start applying it to COVID deniers, like rudy giuliani, who take valuable hospital beds away from people who have made the better decision not to infect themselves and others.
Also, William Barr resigns and Russia hacks.
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Saturday Dec 05, 2020
Ep. 12.5.20: Dems Play the Weed Card!
Saturday Dec 05, 2020
Saturday Dec 05, 2020
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This Week’s Discussion:
Dems seek to give us legal weed as the GOP continues to seek to give us more reasons to need it. The Democratic House bill to legalize weed is a great political move to boost their odds of retaking the Senate, but it also happens to be good policy as well.
Meanwhile, trump and the republican criminal organization continue their assault on the government, the law and reality. With the help of the Supreme Court monster they created, they seek to destroy this country beyond the Dems' ability to repair it.
Dave talks about the big events of the week in light of this effort. Turns out trump didn't mean to drain the swamp so much as pardon it. As Covid rages, the president and his criminal organization refuse to do anything to help the sick or the US economy. Israel assassinates the top Iranian nuclear scientist, perhaps to start a war the US will have to fight, but perhaps just to sabotage the incoming Biden administration's efforts to negotiate with Iran. And the Frankenstein's monster that is the US Supreme Court announces its illegitimacy will not constrain it as it elevates religion above law, and fantasy above reality.
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