Welcome to Solve the political discussion show for people with attention spans and those looking to develop on.

My name is Jay and our other resident solvers are Amanda Dion and Aaron, who will offer a greeting now.

Hey there.

Hello.

How's I going?

Collectively, we produce the venerable, indispensable, not to mention award-winning podcast, Best of the Left, where humans, that's us, curate progressive media on a chosen topic, creating episodes that are greater than the sum of their parts.

On this show, we use those same curation skills to pull together stories and ideas to help us solve some of society's biggest problems because if we don't tell you how to think someone dumber on the internet will. Today, we're going to be looking at the pros and cons of Trump running the government, not so much like a business, but as like an activist investor and mafia boss rolled into one by having the country take

ownership stakes in large companies like Navidia and Intel in exchange for government favors.

And the range of reactions to these moves are actually quite fascinating.

So we're going to go through a fair number of them from right to left. Spoiler alert, basically everyone hates what Trump is doing just for

different reasons, and so that's why it's interesting. And I'm going to be issuing a challenge

today to the three of you on this show with me. Are you ready to be challenged?

Yeah. Are you excited to be challenged? Yeah.

Are you excited to be challenged?

Ready?

No, excited.

Absolutely.

I never know with you.

So we'll see.

We'll see.

The challenge is that I would like for us to have a conversation with more nuance than Time Magazine was able to muster in their ideas piece.

Okay.

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