Disco Ball of Asininity

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🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

There are no more troops in Afghanistan, and President Biden is telling us we had no other option. The gang talks about all the problems with Biden’s speech from the White House at the end of the war in Afghanistan. Plus, as political violence seems to be ticking up recently our hosts debate whether or not that is something to worry about. And finally, creeping a little bit into Advisory Opinions territory, what’s going on with all of the big cases in the Supreme Court? Show Notes: -Biden’s speech on the end of the Afghan War -McConnell honors Joe Biden in 2016 -David’s latest newsletter on political violence -Sen. Ron Johnson is a closet normal -Eviction moratorium ends -Texas abortion law Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast.
0:02.1	I'm your host, Sarah Isger joined by Steve Hayes,
0:04.9	Jonah Goldberg and David French.
0:07.0	We are talking about, of course,
0:09.5	Afghanistan and the president's latest comments
0:13.0	on the end of the war.
0:15.5	We will also talk about the Supreme Court
0:17.6	brewing rhetoric of violence on the right
0:20.8	and the 2022 retirements on the GOP Senate side.
0:25.8	Let's dive right in. Steve, we watched the president's, well, several hour late speech
0:47.6	yesterday. What are we talking about today?
0:51.1	Yeah, so this I'm going to go right back to you on this, Sarah, to start.
0:56.0	President Biden gave a speech talking about the Afghanistan withdrawal, everything that
1:01.3	we've seen over the past several weeks, the policy going back 20 years.
1:05.3	And he did so in kind of a defiant way, saying the policy is right, the execution was sloppy,
1:13.4	but I'm, this needed to be done and I'm glad I had the fortitude to do it.
1:19.1	It was, in my view, a little awkward once again because Biden was at once using this speech
1:26.2	to celebrate the courage of his own decision and at the same time cast blame on all those
1:34.0	others who made contributions to the decision, the people he blamed for this moment, the
1:41.1	Afghan government, Afghan national security forces, Donald Trump.
1:47.0	Where you, I think, fear to say you've been most sympathetic to the case for withdrawing
1:54.4	generally. Lots of people who are Biden supporters or not Biden supporters, but sympathetic
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