Episode 90: Does the jobs report doom Trump? Why Kanye hates Biden. Tech and our Cold War with China
Politics Politics Politics
Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
- July jobs report is "meh" but will it be used as a weapon by Trump or Biden?
- Veepstakes Eve Part II! Has anything changed?
- Is Kanye running as a spoiler candidate? If so is it because he loves Trump or he hates the Obama administration?
- Mailbag including questions about the economy, local judges and the origin of the term "cuck" that will blow you away.
- Tom Merritt (@acedtect) discussing Trump's executive orders on TikTok and WeChat. Also, how our new Cold War with China will affect tech going forward.
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| 0:00.0 | The following is brought to you by Andy Beach, Nick Wood, Paul Boyer, Michael Bullock, and Will Harris. |
| 0:50.0 | Politics, politics, politics, politics, politics. Hello and welcome everybody to the politics, politics, politics, podcast, August 7th, 2020 edition of the program. Lot coming up here for you we are at Veepe Stakes Eve part de we got the job support a mailbag |
| 0:56.0 | We've got some kindier stuff and an executive order from Donald Trump about Chinese tech companies including |
| 1:08.4 | Tik-Tock and We-Chat and so if we're going to have a conversation about tech, |
| 1:15.0 | and it's going to be about politics. |
| 1:17.0 | Well, I mean, come on, we got to bring on our buddy Tom Merritt |
| 1:21.0 | from Daily Tech News Show, occasional co-host of this very program. |
| 1:27.4 | So Tom will come on in a little bit. You know, I'm starting to feel like Fridays are Fridays. Again, they're not the same Fridays. They are different Fridays. You know, Fridays used be we could I could meet friends and stuff |
| 1:45.1 | like that and I guess friends don't really exist anymore. Well he's not out here man. I'll tell you what. No joke the exodus is real. |
| 2:00.8 | Like we didn't exactly have an expansive social circle my wife and I but two of the people |
| 2:08.6 | that we would see the most are either gone or looking to go. |
| 2:15.3 | Seeing a lot more U-Hauls on the road these days, |
| 2:21.4 | people just getting the hell out of the city. |
| 2:24.0 | And I really can't blame them, |
| 2:28.0 | because a lot of the reasons why you would move to a city |
| 2:31.0 | are kind of gone right now you know the nightlife the the culture the arts you |
| 2:40.1 | know it ain't what it used to be. It doesn't exist, literally. |
| 2:44.8 | So who knows whether or not they move back, but um, for now, man, |
| 2:51.7 | gone, baby baby gone. |
| 2:54.0 | That's a really depressing note. |
| 2:56.0 | Let's get less depressed, |
| 3:00.0 | question mark in our |
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