The “Korea Culpa” Edition
Rational Security
The Lawfare Institute
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott went guestless to discuss the week’s big national security news, including:
- “Ne Me Quitte Pas.” The nearby island nation of Haiti is hitting new levels of instability, as paired economic and political crises have given way to open gang warfare in broad swathes of the country. While the events have some calling for external intervention, others have expressed major reservations with such a step, given its past failings in the country. Where might this crisis lead?
- “I’m Rubber, You’re Su(ing).” Last week, the Fifth Circuit released a real barn-burner of an opinion in the matter of NetChoice v. Paxton, wherein it adopted a narrow reading of the First Amendment in order to resurrect a Texas law severely limiting how social media platforms can moderate content. What will this case mean for platforms moving forward?
- “Flying Worst Class.” Florida Governor Ron Desantis became the latest Republican governor this week to fly undocumented migrants to northern cities in purported protest of the Biden administration’s immigration policies. But his move has sparked unexpected furor among Florida’s Cuban and Venezuelan immigrant communities—as well as at least one criminal investigation. What was he thinking and where will this controversy go next?
For object lessons, Alan endorsed his and his wife's new favorite seasonal sweet treat: salted maple ice cream. Quinta highlighted a recent judicial opinion that appeared to mix up two of the judge's favorite philosophers: Plato and Donald Rumsfeld. And Scott celebrated his most recent homemade hot sauce success: turning tabasco chilis into "peppa sauce."
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| 0:49.9 | So where do we land of this whole Korean royal family thing? |
| 0:59.2 | I thought that there turned out that there was one. |
| 1:01.3 | Yeah I think what we land is that I was right and you were all wrong too we skeptical |
| 1:06.1 | and I'm amazing. Is that all right? We seem to get some feedback to the contrary via the |
| 1:11.7 | interwebs after the last episode suggesting that there is not a current Korean royal family at |
| 1:18.7 | least not involved in the government in the way of a monarchy. Like maybe there's a royal family |
| 1:24.4 | but not a monarchy. From the Wikipedia page so apologies to all listeners you actually know |
| 1:30.9 | anything about this. It appears that after the Japan Korea Treaty of 1910 in which the empire |
| 1:40.2 | of Japan annexed the Korean peninsula some members of the Jandu Yiklin who so that's that the |
| 1:46.2 | Royal dynasty were incorporated into the imperial House of Japan this lasted until 1947. |
| 1:52.8 | The treaty was nullified then okay it seems like they are not part of the government but according |
| 2:00.0 | to Wikipedia they quote continue to be given preference and constitute a favored symbol in South |
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