Musk ‘Interviews’ Trump, Musk Lawsuit, Lowering Drug Prices

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Jay, Justin, and Mike open with a discussion of the X conversation between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. They consider the ties between Musk and Trump, Musk’s move from left to right, and whether the event was a violation of campaign finance law as well as illegal worker intimidation. This moves into a conversation of Elon Musk’s recent lawsuit alleging that an advertiser boycott of X violates antitrust law. Jay points out that it’s a strange claim in that there’s no apparent harm to consumers. Justin doesn’t see the lawsuit as having much likelihood of success, while Mike mentions that it’s an example of even more judicial forum shopping. They close with the recently announced Medicare drug price reduction agreement. Jay has a problem with the nature of the negotiations but agrees that Americans have been paying more so that pharmaceutical companies can make up for lower prices in most other developed countries. The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Check out the Sustainable Planet podcast, as well as the free Sustainable Planet Substack. Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.5	Love the government, hug the government, love the government, hug the government, love, the government, hug the government, love the government. Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
1:18.9	I'm Northern Kentucky University political scientist Michael Barronowski.
1:22.7	I'm joined today by not one, but two co-hosts.
1:26.7	First, we have University of Northern Iowa political scientist,
1:30.1	Justin Holmes, and of course, my conservative counterpart, Cleveland area attorney and defender
1:36.4	of freedom. Jay Carson, welcome, guys. Good morning. Now, I should say before we get going that
1:44.0	I called Jay and Justin my co-host, but today
1:47.5	they're going to be driving, running the show.
1:50.2	I'll be the one in the, I don't know, in the back seat, sort of occasionally kicking
1:53.9	the back of Jay's seat back there and maybe having him say, don't make me come back here.
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