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Lost Debate

Ep 39 | Kushner & MB$, Brooklyn Shooter, Musk & Twitter, Gun Trade, NYT & Lorenz

Lost Debate

The Branch

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Ravi, Cory, and Rikki start with Jared Kushner’s big, beautiful, brazen payday from Saudi Arabia, raising $2 billion from the regime he stridently defended as the Trump administration’s lead man in the Middle East. Compensation for services rendered, or an investment in a second Trump term? The suspected gunman in Tuesday’s Brooklyn subway shooting is in custody, but the debate it’s renewed on NYC policing remains predictably heated. Elon Musk may be buying Twitter, if the platform’s board accepts a fittingly Twitter troll offer of $54.20 a share – emphasis on the 4/20. The “iron river” of U.S.-made firearms keeps on flowing south into Mexico. We’ll discuss how a longshot first-of-its-kind lawsuit from the Mexican government aims to stop the bloodshed by going after gunmakers. And the New York Times is telling its reporters to consider spending less time on Twitter, drawing the ire of the quintessential extremely online reporter, Taylor Lorenz. Finally, we wrap things up with a quick reaction to Bill Maher’s recent appearance on Joe Rogan to talk about centrism. [1:54] Musk & Twitter, [10:38] Kushner & MB$, [19:30] Brooklyn Shooter, [29:24] Gun Trade, [39:23] NYT & Lorenz Subscribe to The Lost Debate’s YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3Gs5YTF Check out our show notes: https://lostdebate.com/2022/04/15/ep-39/ Sticher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-lost-debate iheart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-lost-debate-88330217/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/752ca262-2801-466d-9654-2024de72bd1f/the-lost-debate LOST DEBATE ON SOCIAL: Follow Lost Debate Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lostdebate/ Follow Lost Debate on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lostdebate Follow Lost Debate on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thelostdebate

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0:00.0

People on Twitter talk to each other in a way that they would never do in real life.

0:05.0

100%

0:06.0

They would just never do.

0:07.0

It's why I hate it.

0:08.0

And it does feel like a high school cafeteria with adults who have professional jobs.

0:12.0

The way I see certain journalists talking on Twitter, I can't imagine Walter Cronkite hopping on some forum and insulting someone personally just because they disagree

0:22.6

on a particular issue in the news cycle.

0:30.7

Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for Politically Ecclectics.

0:33.1

I'm Robbie Gupta.

0:34.1

I'm Corey Barford.

0:35.1

And I'm Rake Shlott.

0:36.1

Well, Corey, we are experimenting with a remote

0:38.4

recording, so we're not on YouTube today. Because you went down south to see your family for Easter.

0:44.0

How was the trip down? The trip was interesting. As I got further south, I saw more of those

0:50.1

Joe Biden caused this stickers on the pumps at all the gas stations. So I knew I was getting

0:56.4

more and more South, the more of those I saw. So that was interesting. Most of them looked like

1:01.4

people tried to scrape them off, but you could still see they were visibly there. Well,

1:04.7

I'm glad you made it safe. What are we going to cover today? We got a big show. On today's show,

1:10.2

Jared Kushner gets a big, beautiful,

1:12.6

brazen payday from Saudi Arabia. And some are comparing this to the controversy surrounding Hunter

1:17.9

Biden. We'll discuss all of that. The Brooklyn subway shooting reignites the police debate in

1:23.0

New York City. We will weigh in on all the reactions damning the Iron River, why Mexico is trying a long-shot

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