Willow Oil Project, DeSantis & Trump on Ukraine, American Happiness

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.4 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Mike & Jay open this supporters’ midweek episode with a look at the Biden administration’s approval of the Willow oil project on Alaska’s North Slope. Mike isn’t crazy about it due to environmental concerns but feels that the administration probably couldn’t have legally halted the project. Jay agrees, but would like to see even more drilling, as he doesn’t entirely share Mike’s environmental concerns. After that they turn to recent comments made by GOP presidential frontrunners Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump concerning Ukraine. Mike and Jay are both supporters of aiding Ukraine and find Trump’s and DeSantis’ positions troubling, though they wonder the extent to which the views are simply opposition to whatever the Biden administration supports and not necessarily an indication of what their policy would be if elected. Then it’s the next segment in their American Greatness series. This week, they consider how the United States does in world happiness & life satisfaction surveys as well as what our suicide rate says about the happiness of Americans. The Politics Guys on Facebook | Twitter Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo, we’re @PoliticsGuys. Interested in starting your own podcast? Check out RedCircle, home of The Politics Guys. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Atheists, agnostics, long-haired, weirdos, short-haired widows, vandal,
0:05.6	Gula.
0:05.8	I'm the government, hug the government, love the government, hug the government, love the government,
0:11.8	hug the government, hug the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
0:17.7	I'm Michael Baranowski, Professor of Political Science at Northern Kentucky University.
0:22.2	I'm joined today by my conservative counterpart, Cleveland area attorney and defender of
0:26.4	freedom, Jay Carson. Hey, Mike. Hey, Jay. How are you? Good. I'm doing okay myself. So there was a
0:34.3	bunch of, there were a number of things. Actually, we didn't get a chance to get to on our weekend show.
0:40.2	I kind of expected that because I figured we'd be talking about the Silicon Valley bank failure
0:44.6	a lot.
0:45.2	And we were complicated.
0:46.2	Yeah, definitely.
0:46.8	There's a lot going on there.
0:48.1	But there are a bunch of other things we wanted to get to.
0:50.3	And one of those things is the Willow Oil project. Now, Jay, I would say it's fair to say,
0:57.6	you're generally not a fan of the Biden administration, but I think this is a decision I expect
1:04.5	you'll like. And one that I'm maybe a little less crazy about. It is. I i was pleasantly surprised so yeah and on monday of
1:13.3	this last week the biden interior department announced it approved conoco phillips's multi-billion
1:19.3	dollar willow drilling project on public lands in alaska's north slope and this is one of the
1:25.6	biggest new projects in in in in Alaska and really in generation,
1:29.6	a generation or so. And the decision comes after years of delays and lawsuits from environmental
1:36.0	groups as well as some Alaska native groups. And it's a pretty significant reversal for Biden,
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