Hostage Situations

The American Mind

Amanda Callanan

Philosophy, Declarationofindependence, Founding, Politics, Conservative, Limitedgovernment, Society & Culture, News, Constitution, Claremontinstitute

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Hunter Biden has been found guilty of lying about his drug habits on an application to obtain a firearm—does it matter? Is this a triumph of impartial justice or a smokescreen to cover up other Biden crimes? Meanwhile, Israel has recovered some of its hostages from Hamas, which you would think is cause for celebration—but not for useful idiots in the Western media. And Europe may be heading rightward as its immigration crisis worsens still further. The editors puzzle through it all and remind you to read the damn site.

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0:00.0	coming up on this episode of the roundtable.
0:03.0	There's this kind of demented sense in which not only does maintaining Biden
0:08.0	serve the interests of the party, but America at large has been placed into a situation where the racial politics point
0:19.6	sort of converge on as the only stable point like having a weak white male president like as
0:25.7	weak as humanly possible if you have a strong white male president like explosions
0:31.6	if you have a strong non white male president explosions if you have
0:35.9	Joe Biden until he's 200 years old then like well maybe we can just you know four
0:41.5	years at a time it.
0:42.5	And I think that that's a fairly ludicrous hope
0:48.4	to nurture in the bosom of one's breast.
0:52.2	But I also think there are still large large numbers of Americans
0:56.4	who are watching all this kind of you know unfold in this agonizing way and they probably are reasoning that you know we're
1:07.1	going to have just kind of shock after shock after shock to the system doesn't
1:11.8	seem like things are going to cool down or
1:13.4	stabilize anytime soon and so well at least Joe Biden is there in this sort of
1:18.4	almost like fixed like yoga pose. Just kind of, you know, the universe is pivoting off of this nullity that has been concentrated down into human form.
1:30.0	I do think that people are sort of catching that vibe and you know they can even like joke about it you know like oh it's like he's not even alive
1:41.2	But there's something deep there and and in some ways that may be like one of the bigger hurdles that Trump has to clear over the course of this campaign. pain. Hello and welcome once again to the roundtable your weekly publishers and
2:18.0	editors podcast here at the American Mind. I'm your host for today Seth Barron managing editor of the American mind. I'm joined
2:27.1	by publisher and president of the Claremont Institute Ryan Williams editor of the American Mind, James Bulos, and Spencer Clavin special editor of the
2:37.0	American Mind and associate editor of the Claremont Review of Books.
2:41.6	Okay, well the first son has faced the wheels of justice, and he got crushed by them.
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