PG112: Charlottesville, North Korea, Opioid Emergency, Climate Report

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

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4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week's show starts with the tragic events in Charlottesville, VA where there were multiple clashes between white nationalist protesters and counter-protesters, the most horrific by far being a young white man deliberately ramming his vehicle into the counter-protesters, resulting in one death and 19 injuries. President Trump condemned the violence, but made no specific mention of white nationalists or other hate groups by name, instead pointedly saying that there was violence 'on many sides'. Later on Saturday, the Justice Department announced that it would be starting a civil rights investigation into the the circumstances of the deadly car ramming. Next, it's a look at the situation between the United State and North Korea. As President Trump doubles down on his bellicose rhetoric in response to North Korea's typical semi-lunatic public pronouncements, Mike and Jay consider whether President Trump has a strategy and what options the US has. After that, the Guys discuss the opioid crisis, which President Trump has declared to be a national emergency, as well as a new draft climate report that government officials leaked to the media for fear that the Trump administration might downplay or possibly even bury their findings. We hope you'll check out the sponsors of this episode: Blue Bottle Coffee. Go to https://www.bluebottlecoffee.com/TPG for $10 off your first coffee subscription order. Casper. Politics Guys listeners get $50 dollars toward any mattress purchase by going to https://www.casper.com/tpg Dollar Shave Club, where new members get their 1st month of the Executive Razor with a tube of their Dr. Carver’s Shave Butter for ONLY $5 with FREE shipping by going to https://www.dollarshaveclub.com/TPG Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. If you’re interested in supporting the show, go to http://www.politicsguys.com and click on the Patreon link.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.
0:29.4	With me today is my co-host, Cleveland Area Attorney and Republican strategist Jay Carson.
0:37.5	We begin the show with the tragic events in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white nationalists and other racist hate groups came together in a so-called Unite the Right rally centered around opposition to the planned removal of a statue of Confederate
0:43.5	General Robert E. Lee. There were numerous clashes between protesters and counter-protesters,
0:49.0	with by far the most horrific being a young white man deliberately ramming his vehicle into counter-protesters
0:55.2	resulting in one death and 19 injuries. President Trump condemned the violence but made no
1:00.8	specific mention of white nationalists or other hate groups, instead pointedly saying that there
1:06.1	was violence on many sides. Later on Saturday, the Justice Department announced that it would be starting a
1:11.8	civil rights investigation into the circumstances of the deadly car ramming. So, Jay, what are your
1:18.2	thoughts on this? Both, I guess, what happened and also how President Trump and his administration have
1:23.4	responded? Well, you know, as far as the first of all, what happened, obviously this is,
1:29.4	it's a, it's a tragedy. It is, you know, to say that this kind of stuff goes on in our country
1:39.1	in 2017 is really sort of a ought to be a source of embarrassment for our nation.
1:47.4	And especially, I'm going to make a call out to any, I mean, conservatives who listen to this and who listened to the show and say, look, this is obviously not what a mainline conservatism Republican thought stands for.
2:09.2	And there was a time when the conservative movement took some really pretty strong steps to get this this element out and away
2:21.6	from from any sort of respectable public debate and treat them as the you know priors that they
2:29.6	ought to be and I think the time to come, it has come for that again.
2:35.2	And, you know, in terms of Trump's remarks, you know, look, this is Trump being Trump.
2:42.1	It's almost like he starts off the statement as he ought to, if we condemn this in the harshest
2:49.4	terms, and this is terrible, and we won't accept bigotry. And then he this in the harshest terms and this is terrible and we won't accept
2:52.3	bigotry and then he throws in the buy a lot of people and just kind of makes it completely
2:57.7	fuzzy I think there's plenty of time to argue about and I'm a big you know argue about this
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