The Balloon Gap
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
As extremely dangerous chemical spills are happening across America, and as UFOs get shot down day after day, our editors (joined by Helen Roy!) discuss whether malice or incompetence predominates in our present climate. Meanwhile, the cult of D.I.E. continues to install itself in our educational institutions, as demonstrated by Columbia University's recent CRT chant for medical students, complete with bowed heads and silent reverence. Plus: our editors recount their favorite essays of the week and implore you to read the damn site.
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on this episode of The Round Table. |
| 0:02.9 | We're fans of Dr. Strangelove and it's wonderful spoof on the missile gap. |
| 0:07.6 | We have to do something about this balloon gap. |
| 0:09.6 | The balloon gap. |
| 0:10.4 | Yeah, we're lagging behind in balloon technology. |
| 0:16.6 | I think, well, you know, they say never attribute to malice that which is |
| 0:22.2 | adequate, adequately explained by stupidity. |
| 0:25.5 | And my answer tends to be with all of these things. |
| 0:28.3 | Oh, it's probably stupidity just all the way up and down always. |
| 0:32.3 | But if it were malice, it's either a false flag to distract us from what's happening in |
| 0:37.8 | New York or it's going to be a good episode. |
| 0:42.1 | Go on, yeah. |
| 0:43.7 | Or it is definitely actually |
| 0:48.0 | interdimensional entities that are praying on our godlessness and fear. |
| 0:54.8 | Yeah, it's got to be that. |
| 0:55.9 | I mean, they really aren't. |
| 0:57.6 | Same more. |
| 0:58.4 | I mean, there are definitely interdimensional entities |
| 1:00.7 | praying on our godlessness and fear. |
| 1:02.4 | But I associate them more with like the statue now by Shazia, |
| 1:06.7 | Sickenata in the New York courthouse, like the kind of idols that we raised to abortion. |
| 1:13.1 | But you think that it's possible that these UFOs are also somehow associated with the demons. |
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