We are now in a world that every podcast needs to have a creation date and time stamp in the description. This discussion was clearly done before 8:45pm EST time on Tuesday Nov 12. Which makes it hard to listen to, I usually find these discussions incredibly valuable, but timing is everything. It is clear they were too early with their discussion, but the failure of imagination is striking, not realizing who Trump might nominate for Secretary of Defense and Director of National Intelligence, just to name two. I would very much like to hear a discussion about these picks. I would also like to hear if they are still of the opinion that people need to take a deep breath and calm down. I am not as interested in listening to them opine about what VP Harris did right or wrong, but I would very much like to hear what kind of damage could occur if the Republican Senate steps aside for Trump to make recess selections. Or just votes these non-qualified people into these positions.
Agree on the timing. I’m listening to this Monday morning. Gabbard, Hegseth and Gaetz happened since they taped - I look forward to the next episode and hope to hear Eliot explain how he’s just going to “take one bad decision at a time” when there’s a shitstorm of bad decisions coming at us.
They also described Thune as reassuring possible senate leader. Yet Thune has already suggesting going along with recess appointments if the Democrats are uncooperative.
I just listened as well (Friday AM) and echo your sentiments on timing as well as the sense that--even when taped--the level of alarm is short of where I think it should be. On the domestic front, I am less concerned with specific policies (which can be undone) than I am with the *possibility* of much continued and much great erosions to the norms of governance that have been part of the system of checks and balances. We are seeing that elements of the Constitution that give the Executive Branch much greater power (recess appointments, the ability to adjourn Congress, the fact that the 22nd Amendment amazingly does not foresee the possibility of a two term President running as VP) are elements that apparently assumed people of good character to be in the office which is clearly not the case. And in foreign affairs, policies and actions can actually be quite dangerous and in many ways cannot be undone (I.E. the weakening of US resolute support of allies).
I hope and trust that Eric and Eliot will start to see that more clearly and realize that even policies with which they agree may also create risks for the Republic based on the manner in which they are decided upon and executed.
We are now in a world that every podcast needs to have a creation date and time stamp in the description. This discussion was clearly done before 8:45pm EST time on Tuesday Nov 12. Which makes it hard to listen to, I usually find these discussions incredibly valuable, but timing is everything. It is clear they were too early with their discussion, but the failure of imagination is striking, not realizing who Trump might nominate for Secretary of Defense and Director of National Intelligence, just to name two. I would very much like to hear a discussion about these picks. I would also like to hear if they are still of the opinion that people need to take a deep breath and calm down. I am not as interested in listening to them opine about what VP Harris did right or wrong, but I would very much like to hear what kind of damage could occur if the Republican Senate steps aside for Trump to make recess selections. Or just votes these non-qualified people into these positions.
Agree on the timing. I’m listening to this Monday morning. Gabbard, Hegseth and Gaetz happened since they taped - I look forward to the next episode and hope to hear Eliot explain how he’s just going to “take one bad decision at a time” when there’s a shitstorm of bad decisions coming at us.
They also described Thune as reassuring possible senate leader. Yet Thune has already suggesting going along with recess appointments if the Democrats are uncooperative.
I just listened as well (Friday AM) and echo your sentiments on timing as well as the sense that--even when taped--the level of alarm is short of where I think it should be. On the domestic front, I am less concerned with specific policies (which can be undone) than I am with the *possibility* of much continued and much great erosions to the norms of governance that have been part of the system of checks and balances. We are seeing that elements of the Constitution that give the Executive Branch much greater power (recess appointments, the ability to adjourn Congress, the fact that the 22nd Amendment amazingly does not foresee the possibility of a two term President running as VP) are elements that apparently assumed people of good character to be in the office which is clearly not the case. And in foreign affairs, policies and actions can actually be quite dangerous and in many ways cannot be undone (I.E. the weakening of US resolute support of allies).
I hope and trust that Eric and Eliot will start to see that more clearly and realize that even policies with which they agree may also create risks for the Republic based on the manner in which they are decided upon and executed.