Ask A Genius 707: May You Live in Interesting Times
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2022/02/01
[Recording Start]
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What’s the most interesting thing happening in the U.S political situation right now?
Rick Rosner: All this stuff has surfaced about Trump really going to extreme lengths to hold on to the presidency using illegal means. He tried to issue some kind of order to have voting machines confiscated in Battleground States; states where the election was close. All this obviously illegal stuff and so far the justice department haven’t moved against Trump even though Trump is giving clear indication of illegality to a degree that hasn’t been seen in any other president. The Republican Party continues to get more a loathsome and accepting of racism. Biden said that he will be appointing a black woman to the Supreme Court, he hasn’t picked her yet. And the Republicans are going crazy saying “It’s going to be somebody who’s unqualified because you’re only choosing from a limited segment of all possible candidates.” Even though Reagan said he was going to pick the first woman to the Supreme Court and Trump said he was going to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court, they didn’t have any problem with that.
So you’re looking at racism to a degree that hasn’t been seen since the early ‘60s coming from the Republicans attempted election tampering. Things are a mess, nobody’s sure whether the House is holding public hearing into January 6th deal which into Trump’s illegality basically and a lot of other people’s. Nobody knows whether that will accomplish anything. 700 bit players have been arrested for participating in The Siege on The Capitol but a few big shots has been arrested nobody knows if they will be. Some people are urging patients other people are saying that Merrick Garland shouldn’t have been appointed attorney general because he’s too conservative in the old-fashioned sense, that he’ll hesitate to indict anybody who’s too big in the interest of some kind of propriety. So, everything kind of seems up for grabs right now.
Nazis marched on down the street in Orlando a couple days ago. Things seem kind of dire at the same time the quality of everyday life hasn’t been changed. And the shit that Republicans get worked up about remains kind of stupid non-serious. A school district in Tennessee decided that eighth graders can’t see the book Mouse which is a graphic novel about the Holocaust presented as cats versus mice or the cats are Nazis and the Jews are mice and there’s some mild rough language in it and one mouse you see naked and so on the basis of that this Tennessee school board decided the eighth graders shouldn’t be allowed to see it. So, that’s where we stand politically. Oh and Biden’s approval rating is almost at Trump levels of not goodness even though the economy is doing really well, even though Biden got 63% of the population fully vaccinated, it’s mostly just partisan animosity. We’re 10 months away from the midterms where the Republicans could take over the House and the Senate in which case they’ll shut down the investigations into the seditious action of Trump and the people around him. So yeah I think everything seems a little bit dire.
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