Trying to Stop the Game

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Today's podcast discusses all the efforts to end things in DC—negotiations over border legislation, the Nikki Haley campaign, the process by which the Republican Party functions—and why everybody who's working to stop things might be acting in a short-sighted and self-destructive manner. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hope for the best.
0:09.0	Expect the worst.
0:11.0	Some bring champagne, some die of furs.
0:15.0	No way of knowing which way it's going.
0:19.0	Hope for the best expect the worst of all the... Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast. Today is Friday
0:27.0	January 26th, 2024, although I need to confess to you that we are actually
0:32.4	recording this Thursday night January 25th for various reasons so
0:39.2	we will get the days all screwed up and you're just going to have to accept that we are projecting
0:45.9	ourselves 12 hours into the future as we speak, but we will forget that we're doing that.
0:53.0	Just a heads up.
0:54.4	So we're also very loose.
0:56.2	We've all had dinner.
0:57.8	It's dark out.
0:59.7	You know, it's not the morning.
1:01.2	Seth hasn't been kept up all night by his 27 children I haven't been kept
1:06.0	all night up all night by my dog it's commentary after hours it's commentary after
1:11.0	dark and you never know I was waiting for someone to say it. I'm usually the one of us
1:15.8	No, what is going to happen, but the people who will make it happen are of course executive editor Abe
1:21.7	Greenwald hi Abe.
1:23.0	Hi, John.
1:23.9	Senior editor Seth Mandel.
1:25.3	Hi Seth, Seth, Seth, Seth,
	...

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