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News, Politics, Military, War, History

4.8 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week we do our best impersonation of the Georgetown set recording from 1789 and lamenting the world gone to hell. We break down Pompeo's trip to North Korea, Theresa May's Brexit woes, and the NATO summit which has already been overrun by chaos Muppets. With so much White House mayhem, we focus on Trump's upcoming meeting with Putin, and Radha gets on her soapbox about MAVNI and suitability screenings. Need a pop-culture escape? We suggest Crazy Rich Asians and Sharp Objects.

Dahlia Lithwick, "Chaos Theory," Slate
Daniel Russel, "The Singapore Honeymoon Is Over," Foreign Policy
Jane Vaynman and Vipin Narang, "There are signs North Korea is still working on its nuclear program. Here's why 'denuclearization' is so problematic." Washington Post
Nick Wadhams, "Inside Pompeo's Fraught North Korea Trip," Bloomberg
Alex Hunt and Brian Wheeler, "Brexit: All you need to know about the UK leaving the EU," BBC
Silvia Amaro, "There's now a real chance the UK won't get a Brexit deal—here's what that means for markets," CNBC
John Cassidy, "Boris Johnson's resignation can't disguise the harsh reality of Brexit," New Yorker
Robert Hutton, "U.K. Labour Open to Brexit Referendum If May's Deal Fails," Bloomberg
Mark Newton, Rachel Rizzo, Julianne Smith, and Jim Townsend, "More Than Burden Sharing," CNAS
Kathleen Hicks, "Press Briefing: Allied and Partner Contributions to NATO: Redefining Security Investment," CSIS
Heather Hurlburt, "Even the Best-Case Scenario for What Trump Does at the NATO Summit Is Pretty Grim," New York Magazine
Victoria Newland, "In Two Summits, a Moment of Truth for Trump," New York Times
Tara Copp, "Here's the bottom line on the future of MAVNI: Many foreign-born recruits may soon be out," Military Times
Jeff Schogol and Adam Linehan, "No, President Trump Is Not Purging The Military Of Immigrants," Task & Purpose
Beth J. Asch, Jennie W. Wegner, Troy D. Smith, "The Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI) Program," RAND
Ben Mathis-Lilley, "The Pentagon Says It's Not Purging Immigrant Recruits, but Some Evidence Says Otherwise," Slate
Alex Ward, "Why Trump may not be to blame for immigrants being booted from the military," Vox
Alex Horton, "ICE is moving to deport a veteran after Mattis assured that would not happen," Washington Post

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson. I'm Lauren DeYoungman. I'm Rada Aingar. And we're all in one place. We sure are. Not only we in one place, we are in the 1789 restaurants. Drinking bubbly. Drinking bubbly. What did you
0:21.7	order us, Lauren? This is Prosecco. It was the first bubbly thing I saw. Whatever. It's either
0:27.4	$100 or $7. We'll find out later. She said, bring me all the bubbles in the land. Well, we have a great
0:34.8	deal of bubbles and a great deal to talk about.
0:38.5	But before we get going, we don't have an interview today, but I do have like a unifying theory of the universe I'd like us to discuss.
0:45.8	What about gravity?
0:46.8	It's not gravity.
0:48.1	String theory.
0:49.0	It's not string theory.
0:50.1	It's about Muppets.
0:51.9	That tracks.
0:52.9	So many years ago, Dahlia Lithwick on Slate wrote an article about Order Muppets and Chaos Muppets.
0:57.9	And she was ostensibly referring to the Supreme Court, which of course has been in the news this week again.
1:02.8	But we are not that podcast.
1:04.5	And so we don't have to talk about that.
1:06.9	And but Order Muppets and Chaos Muppets.
1:09.9	And really the world is just divided into those two
1:12.2	categories. Can you explain what is an order Muppet? Yeah. So Rada and I are order Muppets.
1:19.2	We are. We like, we spontaneously alphabetize things. We would like their order Muppets may not
1:26.2	necessarily themselves be particularly tidy, but desire there to be an order enforced by someone else.
1:32.4	That could be the enforcer, but not necessarily.
1:35.3	Then there are chaos Muppets.
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