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Lost Debate

Ep 15 | January 6, Pandemic Politics, Chicago Cancels Class

Lost Debate

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News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6607 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Ravi and Cory welcome new co-host, Rikki Schlott, to the show. Rikki is a contributor to Reason and the New York Post and brings a more libertarian, conservative. viewpoint to our debate. Together they reflect on the one-year anniversary of January 6 and all the alarming changes to our country since that day. President Biden is sticking with a Covid refrain: “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” Is the early data on omicron undercutting that narrative? Finally, classes are canceled in Chicago; conservatives and liberals agree we shouldn’t accept full-scale school closures at this point in the pandemic. [1:38] January 6, One Year Later [13:02] Pandemic Of The Unvaccinated [20:43] Chicago Cancels Classes Again Subscribe to The Lost Debate’s YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3Gs5YTF LOST DEBATE ON SOCIAL: Follow Lost Debate Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lostdebate/ Like Lost Debate on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lostdebate Follow Lost Debate on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thelostdebate

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0:00.0

When I think about January 6th, I don't really think necessarily just about the people who entered the Capitol.

0:06.0

The bigger problem for us as a society is the lie that led people into the Capitol and what's happened to it since.

0:17.0

Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for political eclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta and I'm Corey Brought.

0:22.4

Well, Corey, we have big news today. We have a new third co-host, Ricky Schlaught. Ricky, welcome to the show. Thanks so much for having me. I'm excited to be here. Well, Ricky comes to us from the New York Post where she's a writer and also at Reason Magazine. She's also a fellow at the foundation for individual rights and education.

0:38.7

And, you know, our show is the lost debate.

0:40.7

And part of the promise of this

0:43.0

show is that we're going to bring people together with different perspectives. And Ricky certainly

0:47.0

brings that. Ricky, we're super excited to have you on board. I'm super excited to join. I think it's a

0:51.6

really great mission fit. As a classical liberal, I think that

0:55.2

constructive disagreement and good faith debate is really what we're missing in the country and

1:00.3

really the only thing that can heal divides and bring us forward. So I have my finger on the pulse

1:05.2

of the libertarian kind of right crowd, and I'm excited to bring that perspective. Awesome. We're just so happy to have you here,

1:11.7

Ricky. And also, I'm personally proud that we now have a bona fide member of Generation Z at the

1:18.3

table. I'm really going to have to step my meme game up. But let's just get right into today's

1:23.8

topics. Coming up, Biden catches heat for saying we're still in a pandemic of the unvaccinated.

1:29.6

Is his statement accurate or a little misleading? Classes are canceled yet again in the city of

1:34.4

Chicago. When will school closures in? But first things first, today is the anniversary of January 6th.

1:40.2

So let's just discuss where we are a year later after that horrible event.

1:44.5

I think the first thing is to really clear up what exactly happened that day.

1:48.7

I mean, Ted Cruz just called it a terrorist attack.

1:52.2

We are approaching a solemn anniversary this week.

1:56.1

And it is an anniversary of a violent terrorist attack on the Capitol where we saw the men and

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