2024 Pre-Election Extravaganza (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
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🗓️ 31 October 2024
⏱️ 116 minutes
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0:28 Is Mickey all-in on Trump? 4:26 The “garbage” wars and their aftermath 7:54 Kamala’s path(s) to victory 10:29 Mickey explains the logic of voting for Trump 19:44 Why Trump sucks, why Kamala sucks 26:05 Bob doles out (p)recriminations 35:37 Will Israel-Iran escalate? 45:00 How Kamala could win Mickey’s vote 49:23 Why did Kamala go negative? 55:27 Mickey plays pundit defender 1:10:02 Which swing state looks worst for Kamala?1:15:55 How Biden made war in Taiwan more likely 1:21:24 Four Dem sex “scandals”1:30:53 Bob trashes Trump’s tariffs 1:41:55 Bob looks for a silver-lining to a second Trump term 1:47:31 Elon Musk, the oligarch’s oligarch
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded October 30, 2024.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's non-zero podcast. |
| 0:27.3 | Hi, Mickey. |
| 0:30.9 | Hey, Bob. |
| 0:33.0 | How you doing? |
| 0:34.0 | I guess with only a few days to go before the election, your man, |
| 0:36.8 | Don's right now favored to win. You must be feeling pretty good about the state of the world. |
| 0:42.8 | There's lots of time. Eons of time, according to Bruce Filer, right? |
| 0:48.4 | I don't know. I mean, you know, the direction has been pretty constant for the last two weeks. It's like the polls continue |
| 0:56.3 | to move in Trump's favor. Oh, I don't think so. I don't think so, actually. You know, as you know, |
| 1:01.5 | I'm a disciple of Mark Halper. And for weeks, he was hinting that the private polls showed movement |
| 1:07.1 | in Trump's direction. And they did. But if it continued, you would expect there |
| 1:11.7 | would be some polls that showed Trump having a significant lead over Harris. And we haven't seen |
| 1:18.6 | that. He's sort of flattened out and Harris has caught up a bit. And I would not say that |
| 1:23.4 | the recent momentum, like in the past week, has been in Trump's favor. |
| 1:28.4 | It's more like Kamala's caught up a bit. |
| 1:31.3 | Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what polls are showing her catching up? |
| 1:35.7 | Well, if you look at the real clear politics average, which allegedly is swamped by right-wing polls, if that means anything. |
| 1:42.7 | She is, she is gained in the last bit. |
| 1:46.2 | In the national? |
| 1:47.8 | In the national? |
| 1:48.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:48.7 | All her polls, |
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