Inching Toward Peace in Ukraine (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

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🗓️ 26 March 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The righteous indignation of the blue checkmarkless ... Is Russia preparing the ground for a peace deal? ... Why didn’t the US try to broker a deal earlier? ... How much restraint is Putin exercising? ... What shapes US public opinion on foreign policy? ... Reasons to think peace may not be near ... Mickey’s sympathy for Ginni Thomas ... Bob and Mickey do their best to get each other arrested ... The alleged tensions between Team Biden and Team Kamala ... Trump’s dimming presidential prospects ... Parrot Room preview: Bloggingheads rebranding news, more questions about Bob Saget’s death, midterm trouble for Republicans, more theories about why preschool sucks, the origins of symmetry, Dave Rubin’s children, Zemmour falters in France, Oliver Stone’s Ukraine doc, the dangers of loose talk about chemical weapons, both Glenn Greenwald and Chris Hayes retweet Bob, how the Ukraine war is winning converts for the Blob, more OJ Simpson, and the documentary My Architect ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Blogging Heads TV.
0:08.8	Hey, Mickey.
0:10.8	Hey, Bob.
0:11.8	Hey, that's Andrew Sullivan.
0:13.1	You're holding up on your iPad, a picture of Andrew, not Andrew himself.
0:16.8	Correct.
0:17.3	And it's not going to morph.
0:19.7	Well, lucky him.
0:20.7	He's not going to turn into Michael McFall, the way I did last week. Correct. And I'm not going to morph. Well, lucky him. He's not going to turn into Michael McFall the way I did last week.
0:23.8	Correct. And I'm not trawling anybody. But you probably can't guess why I'm holding him up.
0:30.8	You're correct. You are correct.
0:33.3	He's a non-blue checkmark Twitter user who managed to get his message out without a blue check mark,
0:42.1	and therefore is the exception that proves the rule.
0:45.6	The rule being?
0:47.1	The rule being, if you don't have a blue check, you're wasting your time on Twitter.
0:50.8	And I've reached that conclusion.
0:57.5	I suddenly realized that all, you know, I tweet,
1:03.0	I've spent a lot of time tweeting way too much because I want to reach like reporters for,
1:09.4	you know, and experts and people who have blue check marks. And they're not reading me anymore.
1:11.7	And there are three possible reasons for that.
1:14.6	One is they just turned off me.
1:15.7	I'm a hopeless case.
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