Midterms, Missiles, and Musk (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

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🗓️ 19 November 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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0:00 Why Mickey’s not unhappy about the midterm results 7:12 Can Trump go the distance against DeSantis? 11:48 The Pelosi era ends 18:54 Zelensky invites NATO to join the war 24:48 Is a peace deal on the horizon in Ukraine? 33:27 Elon update 39:47 SBF's fall takes wind out of the sails of effective altruism movement

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded November 18, 2022.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast.
0:08.4	Hi, Mickey.
0:09.9	Hey, Bob.
0:11.3	What you got there, look, it's a sign.
0:13.3	Trumpism deniers equal victory.
0:16.6	Now, is that a hyphen between Trumpism?
0:18.6	It's a minus sign, Bob.
0:20.1	Trumpism minus deniers equals victory.
0:23.8	Okay.
0:24.9	Victory for who?
0:25.9	Victory for Trumpism or for Trump?
0:27.7	Correct.
0:28.7	No, Trumpism.
0:29.8	Well, it could be Trump too.
0:31.6	But I mean, Trump has some other problems.
0:34.2	But my latest line is on the election is it's all going according to plan, Bob.
0:41.2	Congratulations, then.
0:43.4	Republicans got enough power barely to block Biden's agenda once they get it, once the new Congress comes in and they and and miraculously the deniers
0:58.6	were really pretty soundly defeated and the people that were the you know the john meacham
1:04.4	uh won the election he managed to he and and and and that and the saved democracy uh pitch managed to, he and, and the save democracy pitch managed to sway enough
1:15.0	independence, and they hate the people who they thought, and they did pose a threat to democracy.
1:21.9	So they're not going to do that anymore. Blake Masters conceded, everybody's conceding.
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