S14 EP149: Hour 1 - Playing With Fire
The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Erickson
4.5 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The right playing a dangerous game by satisfying their short term gain and ignoring the long term pain of recent decision plus Howard Lutnik the Secretary of Commerce is basically a socialist and needs to be ignored.
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| 0:34.1 | Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, hour one. |
| 0:42.5 | Greetings, conversationalists. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome, it's Eric Erickson across the United States of America. |
| 0:47.2 | The phone number is 87797793745. |
| 0:52.5 | Should you wish to be on the program, delighted to have you with me today. We've got to begin |
| 0:57.2 | with the breaking news. Lisa Cook's lawyers have run to court to say that Donald Trump cannot fire |
| 1:04.9 | her from the Federal Reserve. I actually suspect he can, but in the process, I'm increasingly concerned that due to |
| 1:14.5 | social media, the right is playing with fire. And let me, let me just back up. A lot of people |
| 1:23.0 | in the right diagnosed social media, particularly Twitter back in the day, as being a social contagion for the left's thinking. |
| 1:30.0 | The left started saying these outlandish things on social media and intensely began bullying people on their own side into shutting up any dissent. |
| 1:41.4 | And ultimately, it led the left into embracing nonsensical positions like boys should be okay in |
| 1:47.9 | girls bathrooms and boys should be allowed in girls sports and in their bubble where they silenced |
| 1:54.9 | any dissent internally they they had no pushback and they began to believe it was such a great |
| 1:59.8 | thing they tried to mainstream it and the public pushed back against them. |
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