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2024 Pre-Election Extravaganza (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
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2024 Pre-Election Extravaganza (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

0:00 Is Mickey all-in on Trump?
4:28 The “garbage” wars and their aftermath
7:56 Kamala’s path(s) to victory
10:31 Mickey explains the logic of voting for Trump
19:46 Why Trump sucks, why Kamala sucks
26:07 Bob doles out (p)recriminations
35:39 Will Israel-Iran escalate?
45:02 How Kamala could win Mickey’s vote
49:25 Why did Kamala go negative?
55:29 Mickey plays pundit defender
1:10:04 Which swing state looks worst for Kamala?
1:15:57 How Biden made war in Taiwan more likely
1:21:26 Four Dem sex “scandals”
1:30:55 Bob trashes Trump’s tariffs
1:41:57 Bob looks for a silver-lining to a second Trump term
1:47:33 Elon Musk, the oligarch’s oligarch

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded October 30, 2024.

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