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The Politics Guys

PG88: CPAC, LGBTQ Rights, Kudos to POTUS, Mexico, Town Halls

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5772 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week's episode starts with a look at the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference, headlined by President Trump himself. Mike and Jay take a look at the president's stridently anti-media rhetoric as well as discuss someone who wasn't there: conservative provocateur and former Breitbart senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos, who was disinvited after video surfaced suggesting that Yiannopoulos wasn't entirely against pedophilia in some circumstances. After that, the Guys discuss the recent Justice Department rollback of the Obama rule concerning the right of transgender students to use the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity. Mike sees it as a setback for LGBTQ civil rights, while Jay questions the extent to which this is a right in the first place, and argues that states should have greater say in their education policies - including bathroom access for students. Mike surprises himself by actually complimenting President Trump - for his choice of H. R. McMaster as his appointee to replace Michael Flynn as National Security Advisor. Both Mike and Jay agree that this was a great pick, though it remains to be seen how much President Trump will rely on McMaster's advice, as opposed to that of Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner. Then it's a look at the state of our immigration policy in light of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration enforcement. Mike and Jay consider this in the broader context of our current relationship with Mexico, with Mike pointing out that while Mexico relies on the United States, the relationship works both ways, and that should President Trump decide to come down hard on Mexico, the Mexican government could take significant action of its own in response. Finally, the Guys turn to the Town Hall meeting protests that many Republican members of Congress met with during their 'week off'. Neither Mike nor Jay thinks that protests alone can make a huge difference, though Mike believes (hopes?) that his Democratic Party has learned the organizational lessons of the GOP, and will combine public protests with plenty of behind-the-scenes organizing.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

Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, wherever you are. And welcome to the politics guys with your host, Jay Carson and Michael Baranowski.

0:17.2

Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Barronowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.

0:23.4

My co-host this week, as always, is Cleveland Area Attorney and sometime Republican strategist Jay Carson.

0:30.2

We start with a look at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, which held its annual meeting this week.

0:37.0

It was in the news even before it started,

0:38.8

thanks to the conference disinviting conservative provocateur and now former Breitbart senior editor

0:44.7

Milo Yanopoulos, after video surfaced in which he seemed to be condoning pedophilia. Now, at the

0:51.0

actual conference, the headline speaker was President Trump himself, who once again alternately attacked and mocked the fake news media.

0:59.5

He again stated that the media is in fact the enemy of the American people, but emphasized that only the fake news media is the enemy.

1:07.8

So I guess presumably Breitbart Fox and the Washington Times are okay. Now, he went on to

1:13.2

point out at length what a mess he inherited, what a terrific job he's been doing so far and cleaning

1:19.2

it up, and basically reiterated that he planned on keeping all of his campaign promises about

1:24.9

immigration, crime, health care, trade, and jobs. So, Jay,

1:29.2

what did you think about this? First, the Unopolis thing and then President Trump's speech.

1:34.2

You know, I think we should probably equate our listeners a little bit with CPAC. I've never been

1:40.2

myself. I have a number of friends who have gone. It is the conservative political action

1:46.0

committee. And it's, you know, when you have these sort of meetings, these sort of conventions,

1:51.8

they are always necessarily a little bit silly. You get the most strident, the most, I don't want to say fringe because I don't think it's

2:02.4

really fringe, but the people who are the serious activists and spend a whole lot of their

2:07.5

time focusing on conservative philosophy and policy and so forth.

2:13.7

So it's sort of a funny, a funny group.

2:19.0

Uh, again, no offense.

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