Post-Election Jumbo Ep
Added 2024-11-07 04:47:59 +0000 UTCSo much content.
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Great ep. Jordan Peterson content never gets old
sarah
2024-11-14 17:15:24 +0000 UTCeat your veggies, then you'll get dessert!
David Cannon
2024-11-12 20:44:02 +0000 UTCniche and cheap. Netflix wants in!
David Cannon
2024-11-12 20:36:31 +0000 UTCFolks, is there hope for our lifetime?
Orb
2024-11-12 17:19:58 +0000 UTCYeah I didn't think about it earlier, but whatever wholesale purveyor they're spending that grant money with, Sysco or it's regional equivalent probably, definitely sells pre-cut fresh fruit. I kinda think the poor nameless bureaucrat Gluesenkamp-Perez is mocking was right, that the daycare owner or manager simply didn't want to deal with the expense, chance of spoilage, refrigeration, labor etc. that fresh fruit necessitated and fudged the rule to get the employee to stop asking, never suspecting it would send their Representative on a Veep-like quest to Make This A Thing.
Ian H
2024-11-12 16:47:04 +0000 UTCI liked that she said her proposed legislation would support the viability of small farms in her community because 1) I don’t think they have banana farms in Washington state 2) the regulation she took issue with apparently did not prevent bananas from reaching the daycare anyway. As far as the regulation she referred to, it must be either state or local, because there is nothing in the federal legislation she is proposing amendments to—the Childcare Block Grant—about food prep. And to your point about the reason food prep regulations exist, her amendment to this piece of federal legislation reads “the State shall not create any barriers on the simple preparation of fresh fruits and vegetables.” Her amendment gives a definition of what “simple preparation” might include, but doesn’t list any exclusions; one can easily imagine someone arguing cooking is simple prep.
Josh
2024-11-12 13:11:53 +0000 UTCYeah, a few things don't add up about her claims too. Like, I've been a restaurant cook for 17 years and I've never seen a kitchen with *7* sinks. There's usually only 3, one for handwashing, one for prep tasks and a 3-basin for dishes. Also, how does the supposed peeling ban prevent them from just handing the kids a fruit and letting them handle it? My two-year-old does just fine with whole mandarin oranges, apples, and bananas. I also kinda question how misguided the policy really is. Like, sure, just opening a banana or orange peel with your hands is one thing, but what about taking a peeler to an apple, or cutting up a melon? At that point you pretty substantially *are* doing food prep, and the consequences of failing to properly sanitize those RTE food-contact utensils (because none of these educators have food handlers or ServSafe Manager licenses) could be pretty dire.
Ian H
2024-11-12 03:16:17 +0000 UTChttps://x.com/DemocraticWins/status/1855400696524279848/ Matt’s take on the antitrust people couldn’t have been more apropros to this video. Great, you identified a slightly flawed piece of policy. But it reaches a pitch of absurdity when she starts claiming this is going to have huge transformative effects on children’s health and “the viability of small farms”
Josh
2024-11-11 11:43:27 +0000 UTCRe: illegal immigration there is just a type of person who is (selectively) incensed at the idea of rule breaking even absent negative consequences. "The law is the law" etc with no thought to whether strict enforcement of every law in every situation is wise
Jack Brownfield
2024-11-09 00:05:54 +0000 UTCFascinated by the way Matt says “ice crEAM machine”
Josh B
2024-11-08 22:44:41 +0000 UTCPeople who made their high school teachers cry stand UP
Micheline
2024-11-08 20:21:21 +0000 UTC+1
Jonathan Hurd
2024-11-08 18:42:31 +0000 UTCthis is very astute
The Bruenigs
2024-11-08 18:22:45 +0000 UTChave any of u guys ever had the jack in the box chicken teriyaki bowl? i used to love those things...i would still eat one
The Bruenigs
2024-11-08 18:22:00 +0000 UTC🙈
LP3
2024-11-08 17:32:25 +0000 UTCAlso, I'm curious what you think about how to best present the combo of welfare state + strong labor movement to the electorate. From a "vibes based" perspective, those two seem like oil and water. Strong labor movement with its spirit of personal responsibility and hard work, and on the other hand welfare state being derided by the right as handouts for the lazy. Is there a single encompassing vibe that can elegantly package all three of the left-pop pillars?
Sean Noah
2024-11-08 15:27:31 +0000 UTCRegarding the question of who the next democrat candidate and standard bearer should be. How about Shawn Fain?? I think he clearly has the cultural cachet to appeal as a populist. He can easily bring home two of Matt’s three left populist pillars: strong labor movement and wage compression. Feasibly could get behind welfare state too but admittedly harder to imagine. Maybe a surrogate (AOC?) could shoulder that messaging.
Sean Noah
2024-11-08 15:24:37 +0000 UTCNice but not surprising to discover Liz owns the means of Christmas production in the Bruenig home.
Emmanuel Arce
2024-11-08 13:56:18 +0000 UTCHonestly, Matt, even though I’m not an employment lawyer, I enjoy the NLRB info re clauses and enforceability. It’s good shit.
NYCM&AHole
2024-11-08 07:20:19 +0000 UTCI think another part of the problem for Shor/Yglesias/etc. is that winning elections is the *only* stated motivation for their policy preferences. Leftists argue that left policies like expanded child welfare, ending wars, or building labor power are electorally popular, but also that they're just morally good, helpful interventions into people's lives whether they win elections or not. The "popularist" types position themselves as hard-headed pragmatists who care about winning above all else, so when they eat shit it's especially devastating.
Ian H
2024-11-08 01:04:37 +0000 UTCMy nominal anchor, and what I think the value of the dollar should be pegged to, is that a chicken teriyaki meal should cost $9.99
Justin Hubbard
2024-11-07 23:25:42 +0000 UTCI went back to listen to the “Liz calls Jen Psaki (not) a hag” bit after I finished the ep and stopped when the Joy Reid clip started, then switched to TrueAnon’s latest ep where they open with the exact same clip lmao
TL
2024-11-07 22:16:18 +0000 UTCReal unforced error to give any response to those three questions that isn’t “how the hell should I know”
TL
2024-11-07 22:10:18 +0000 UTCAre biweekly jumbo eps the new norm? Fine if so! But when navigating the infernal desert (doomscrolling during work hours), it just helps to know how far apart will be the tranquil, verdant oases (podcast episodes).
LP3
2024-11-07 19:55:26 +0000 UTClol at the extremely long silence as Liz decides whether Jen Psaki is hot. When I was in law school in DC, she lived in the same building as me. Saw her name on packages in the package room, then later saw her on TV as Obama’s state dept spokesperson. Then matched her face up with the lady I would always pass in the hallway.
Joey Trimboli
2024-11-07 19:25:21 +0000 UTCMatt you need to find a TV exec and pitch a labor law procedural
andrew
2024-11-07 19:14:41 +0000 UTCMatt, on the theodicy debate strategy - why would your opponent concede the existence of God? Just because it’s Texas and they sincerely felt that way? I would think the right answer to “is there a God?” In that context is just to say it’s unknowable.
Gabe Stanton
2024-11-07 18:58:10 +0000 UTCThis is one of the blindspots of the tism...Trumps shtick is racism, or at least racial unease.
Eric Neal
2024-11-07 18:53:46 +0000 UTCFrom rebel to ruler is also good
Payton McDermott
2024-11-07 18:45:38 +0000 UTCI've been told there are advisors working behind the scenes to encourage him to do it. We'll see!
The Bruenigs
2024-11-07 18:33:09 +0000 UTCAOCIA is so funny lol. i love it
The Bruenigs
2024-11-07 18:32:49 +0000 UTCMatt, I can tell you're getting bored with the welfare state and maybe some of the Nordic stuff. That's why I keep trying to put you onto China! It's not that I think we should opt for one over the other, I just think the Chinese are doing a lot especially from a developmental and governance perspective that is worth understanding. Check out the new China playbook by Keyu Jin
Payton McDermott
2024-11-07 16:52:24 +0000 UTCLiz, is there any movement or person working specifically to have Biden commute federal death sentences before Trump can start another killing spree?
RS Walker
2024-11-07 16:44:27 +0000 UTCWas just listening to the Racism Factory episode and thought the same thing.
Ivan McGillicuddy
2024-11-07 16:06:33 +0000 UTCAOCIA will never get my vote
NYCM&AHole
2024-11-07 15:52:47 +0000 UTCLiz's dad getting worked up about the Cowboys is funnier when you know they have been mostly futile since the Clinton administration.
Tim Masterson
2024-11-07 13:31:00 +0000 UTCCan’t agree with this more. I started listening during Covid lockdown April 2020; going back over the primary while it was fresh and hearing the policy takes/args felt like putting glasses on my brain. I was also 26 then and am 30 now and the pod has made me a much happier (less neurotic) person and probably a better one.
Jacob
2024-11-07 13:20:55 +0000 UTCWe’re a vibes-based polity
Nick
2024-11-07 13:11:28 +0000 UTCFeel the same way. This podcast provides viewpoints rarely heard anywhere else, an oasis in a desert of lazy thinking. That's why episodes often age like fine wine rather than perish with the next news cycle like most other stuff.
Otto Laakso
2024-11-07 11:03:35 +0000 UTCReally huge ep I’ve been idly listening to past episodes in reverse chronological order for a bit now and I just made it back to when Matt first really shared the FFP in 2019. I basically just finished listening to you guys talk through the 2020 primaries as they happened & it was kind of surreal And now I find myself in a weird flashback to the last time shit felt like this (for me), I feel like I feel compelled by anything at all for the first time since biden’s super tuesday This election happens and I don’t know if it’s just me, but it felt different to hear you guys talk about policy and the cultural state of politics in a more concerted way than you have in a while, and I really really appreciated it Call it maladaptive or parasocial but you guys have helped me so much over the last several years as I’ve navigated my mid to late 20s I really appreciate the pod and I hope you don’t stop it anytime soon, and I hope Matt gets some seat of power one day, and I appreciate Liz being a primary source of any faith in modern journalism I’m just a little crossfaded right now and felt like it was worth going out of my way to be earnest
Jonathan Hurd
2024-11-07 09:23:50 +0000 UTCMatt opening a podcast today with an extended NRLB update. The man is undefeated. No one like him.
Michael Wear
2024-11-07 05:22:57 +0000 UTC
