Rousing America’s Sleeping Giants

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 7 August 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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The Attorney General of New York, Letitia James, is suing the National Rifle Association and seeking the group’s dissolution. But, politically, the issue of gun rights has always favored gun owners, and the effort may backfire on Democrats. Also, Donald Trump is seeking to force Chinese firms with holdings in certain apps to sell their stakes, but those firms also have a stake in several popular... Source

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0:00.0	upbeat.
0:00.8	and
0:07.5	music
0:08.7	music
0:23.7	Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Friday August 7th 2020. I am John pop words the editor of commentary magazine with me as always
0:32.7	Senior writer Christine Rose and high Christine. Hi John
0:36.5	Executive editor a greenwald. Hey, hey John and associate editor Noah Rothman. Hi Noah. Hi John. There is too much to talk about today
0:46.3	We have the attorney general of the New York State
0:51.2	actively seeking to
0:52.7	Disband the National Rifle Association
0:56.1	Using the fact that it was chartered in New York as a nonprofit
0:59.8	148 years ago as the means to claim some form of jurisdiction
1:05.7	and the utterly preposterous claim that because of the financial malfeasance of its directors it has become and it has become a non-functioning organization this the most successful lobbying organization in the history of the United States of America
1:23.9	We don't have to be a fan of it or if it's directors or its leaders or anything like that to look at this as one of the most
1:30.9	insane examples of
1:33.9	press hoggary overreach
1:38.5	political interference and
1:41.3	suppression of speech
1:43.3	Almost of a of a comic
1:45.5	nature
1:46.9	So this is the first thing we're going to start with
1:49.8	Okay, so what is the play here?
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