Beyond Gun Control Binaries (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

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News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Mickey’s ingenious—and not at all far-fetched—solution to the Kamala problem ... Failures to unravel the Gordian knot of gun control ... Has Biden’s approval hit rock-bottom? Mickey hopes not ... The most plausible path to a ceasefire in Ukraine ... The Hillary Clinton-Cold War II connection ... Hillary lawyer Michael Sussmann acquitted ... Trump aide Peter Navarro indicted ... Inflation and Omicron: good news, bad news for Biden? ... Parrot Room preview: Depp-Heard verdict, the Ben Wittes defense of Michael Sussmann, what’s up with Tucker Carlson’s son?, Sheryl Sandberg’s political ambitions, prospective chief of staff replacement’s Harvey Weinstein problem, Ann Coulter starts a Substack, Freddie deBoer gets Ben Smith’d, making heads or tails of rising non-binary rates, Ukraine War spin, Dead End, Undone, Severance ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Blogging Heads TV.
0:08.5	Hi, Mickey.
0:11.3	Hey, Bob. Do you know this man?
0:15.2	No, I don't believe I do.
0:17.7	Is he related to me or anything?
0:20.4	Should I know? No, no, he's related to me or anything? Should I know?
0:21.5	No.
0:21.9	No, he's related to me.
0:24.9	In other words, where am I?
0:27.9	Where are you?
0:28.8	I think you're in Southern California.
0:30.4	Is he the mayor of...
0:31.2	This is the mayor of Los Angeles.
0:32.7	Here you go.
0:33.3	And he's up for...
0:36.5	He's about to lose office in, there's an election coming up,
0:42.2	and he's, he's not running, he's going to not be mayor and he's nominated to be ambassador to India.
0:50.1	This is my, this is my most crackpot scheme yet, okay?
0:54.7	Wait, you're nominating him to be ambassador?
0:57.5	No, he is nominated.
0:58.6	He's up to be...
0:58.9	Okay, that's not the crackpot scheme.
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