SIO434: Biden Is Failing On Israel-Palestine. So What Do We Do?

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Thomas Smith

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🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It feels like this comes up precisely every 4 years, but once again I find myself having to point out that the way to make things better isn't to make them worse. That math just doesn't work. But what should we do? A campaign to vote "Uncommitted" for the Democratic Primary Election went viral. Lydia Smith from Where There's Woke joins as we discuss what this movement is, what kind of impact it could have, and whether or not a vote can be a "message".

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0:00.0	And the Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode 434 I'm your host
0:20.9	Thomas Smith and brought a pal, brought a friend, brought a plus one.
0:26.0	A buddy. This party. Yeah, it's Lydia.
0:29.0	Hi. Hi, good. Thanks for having me.
0:31.0	Yeah, I wanted to do something a little different. I wanted to do kind of a commentary episode, but then I thought, eh, I miss you too much. So,
0:39.1	A. That's nice. I just like having you around. Yeah. No, I always think it's better to not have one person talking the whole time,
0:47.0	but then again, I also am going to talk most of the time.
0:51.0	But you probably have a lot to say though. A going to say though but I wanted to include you and I also it might be helpful to have a sounding board if anything I say doesn't make sense to you or you know you disagree with it feel free to let me know this is
1:04.5	something I wish I had been able to record earlier obviously we've been a little
1:09.5	busy here at the company. Serious Pod Headquarters.
1:14.0	Yeah, been a little busy, but this is really important to me and it's something that I don't think I ever hear what I think is an honest discussion or at least an accurate discussion of kind of the incentives, the game theory, and the frustration of the situation we're in.
1:32.0	And it's something that, you know know I'm sure I've talked about before
1:35.3	but it has I think a new relevance and maybe a little bit of a different analysis
1:40.8	when it comes to Biden and Israel. So gonna get into it of course after a short
1:47.6	commercial break for non-patrons if you'd like to skip that go to patreon.com
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1:53.0	Gosh, that was fun last time.
1:55.0	Oh yeah, that was fun.
1:57.0	House.
1:58.0	House.
2:00.0	Every time.
2:01.0	Yeah, House is the best. I can't wait to do that again. Well, I'll have to find something equally fun for this month.
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