Listen now | 0:00 Is Mickey all-in on Trump?4:28 The “garbage” wars and their aftermath7:56 Kamala’s path(s) to victory10:31 Mickey explains the logic of voting for Trump19:46 Why Trump sucks, why Kamala sucks26:07 Bob doles out (p)recriminations35:39 Will Israel-Iran escalate?45:02 How Kamala could win Mickey’s vote49:25 Why did Kamala go negative?55:29 Mickey plays pundit defender1:10:04 Which swing state looks worst for Kamala?1:15:57 How Biden made war in Taiwan more likely1:21:26 Four Dem sex “scandals”1:30:55 Bob trashes Trump’s tariffs1:41:57 Bob looks for a silver-lining to a second Trump term1:47:33 Elon Musk, the oligarch’s oligarchRobert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded October 30, 2024.
The talking point about Mehdi being a Qatari shill is overplayed by the Right– NY Post "journalist" Jon Levine levied this accusation during an Open to Debate live show in NYC (debate was with Eylon Levy), and Mehdi completely shut him down , noting that Zeteo is viewer funded. Highly recommend taking a look at 01:04:40 time stamp (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQzKw30LeTA&t=585s&ab_channel=OpentoDebate)
What's wrong with Podhoretz saying (as everyone said about Stephen Millier after Madison Square Garden) that Mickey's betraying his people by opposing immigration? This sounds like...a good criticism of Mickey? Why isn't this a perfectly good and persuasive point? Who hears this and sympathizes with Mickey as opposed to sympathizing with the immigrants?
Mickey thinks Kamala won't be a good administrator? Come on. Trump is explicitly trying to gut the administrative state. Speaker Mike Johnson said he "wants to take a blowtorch to the regulatory state." Deeply unserious.
The talking point about Mehdi being a Qatari shill is overplayed by the Right– NY Post "journalist" Jon Levine levied this accusation during an Open to Debate live show in NYC (debate was with Eylon Levy), and Mehdi completely shut him down , noting that Zeteo is viewer funded. Highly recommend taking a look at 01:04:40 time stamp (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQzKw30LeTA&t=585s&ab_channel=OpentoDebate)
What's wrong with Podhoretz saying (as everyone said about Stephen Millier after Madison Square Garden) that Mickey's betraying his people by opposing immigration? This sounds like...a good criticism of Mickey? Why isn't this a perfectly good and persuasive point? Who hears this and sympathizes with Mickey as opposed to sympathizing with the immigrants?
Mickey thinks Kamala won't be a good administrator? Come on. Trump is explicitly trying to gut the administrative state. Speaker Mike Johnson said he "wants to take a blowtorch to the regulatory state." Deeply unserious.