Month: December 2024

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It Could Happen Here - Kash Patel: Trump’s FBI Pick

Garrison and Robert discuss Patel’s plans for the FBI and his storied career of grifting. 

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/us/politics/kash-patel.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/10/kash-patel-trump-national-security-council/679566/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/us/politics/kash-patel-bravado-baggage-fbi.html 

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-trump-patel-fisa-russia-2d215ded96ad8a08689b6f7f0b2d49ec

https://www.mediamatters.org/truth-social/how-devin-nunes-and-kash-patel-appealed-qanon-extremists-build-truth-socials-user-base

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/kash-patel-fbi-trump-maga-merchandise-b2657380.html 

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The Economics of Everyday Things - 73. Used Bookstores

Americans throw away 320 million books every year. How do some of them find a second life? Zachary Crockett is just browsing. 

 

  • SOURCE:
    • Francisco Hernandez, owner of Leaves bookstore.

 

 

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Consider This from NPR - The enormous consequences Trump’s tariffs could have

You never know if president-elect Donald Trump is bluffing, but when you have billions of dollars on the line, you have to take him seriously. So car companies took notice, when Trump announced a plan for huge new tariffs in a social media post before Thanksgiving.

A 25 percent tax on imports from Canada and Mexico would have a major impact on the car industry, which depends heavily on cross border trade.

Trump's tariffs could have huge consequences for the people who make cars, and the people who buy them.

Even if he's bluffing, he has other big plans to shake up the auto industry.

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Motley Fool Money - Introducing the Dividend Seven

Motley Fool Senior Analysts Matt Argersinger and Anthony Schiavone join Mary Long to discuss: 


- How a company enters into the Dividend Seven.

- If Home Depot can still be a growth stock.

- The metrics that dividend investors need to understand. 

- Companies that have raised their dividend for decades.


Companies discussed: PLD, JPM, PEP, HD, ABBV, MCD, BLK


Host: Mary Long

Guests: Matt Argersinger, Anthony Schiavone

Producer: Ricky Mulvey 

Engineers: Desireé Jones, Rick Engdahl

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Lex Fridman Podcast - #454 – Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics

Saagar Enjeti is a political journalist & commentator, co-host of Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar and The Realignment Podcast. He is exceptionally well-read, and the books he recommends are always fascinating and eye-opening. You can check out all the books he mentions in this episode here: https://lexfridman.com/saagar-books
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) – Introduction
(09:47) – Why Trump won
(14:48) – Book recommendations
(18:24) – History of wokeism
(25:54) – History of Scots-Irish
(32:32) – Biden
(36:34) – FDR
(38:36) – George W Bush
(40:59) – LBJ
(46:15) – Cuban Missile Crisis
(53:48) – Immigration
(1:25:46) – DOGE
(1:52:27) – MAGA ideology
(1:55:39) – Bernie Sanders
(2:04:00) – Obama vs Trump
(2:21:00) – Nancy Pelosi
(2:24:14) – Kamala Harris
(2:40:00) – 2020 Election
(3:03:49) – Sam Harris
(3:14:55) – UFOs
(3:20:47) – Future of the Republican Party
(3:27:24) – Future of the Democratic Party
(3:35:21) – Hope

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It Could Happen Here - CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2054: Reports From the Dino War: The War in Review

Margaret comes back from the future with a podcast episode from the year 2054.

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The Daily Signal - Nelly Roach: ‘God Pulled Me Out’ of Planned Parenthood

At age 18, Nelly Roach sat in a Planned Parenthood clinic with $246 to pay for an abortion.  

“I found myself there, as many many people find themselves, in a place where they don't feel that they have any options,” Roach says.  

Roach was born into a Catholic family on the small island nation of Palau in the Pacific Ocean. When she was 13, her family moved to Missouri so she could receive a better education. She says she was raised with a sense of cultural responsibility to help and serve her family and her people, known as Palauans. 

Waiting in the Planned Parenthood, Roach recalls, her mind raced. She felt she had to have the abortion for “the great good” of being able to help fellow Palauans one day, but also that what she was about to do was “wrong, but maybe I don't care.”  

When her name was called, Roach stood up. “Had I turned left ... I would have had an abortion in a matter of minutes. But, you know, God pulled me out, and so I turned right [and walked out], and my baby is now 32 years old.”  

After giving birth to her son, Roach entered the field of marketing and eventually had her own marketing company. For 25 years, Roach kept her story of nearly aborting her son private. In fact, her mother was the only one who knew she had ever visited Planned Parenthood.

But when her son was 23, she spoke at a marketing conference and was approached by a pro-life organization about how to reach more women who are considering having an abortion.  

“I still believe that it was a divine conversation because it's such a polarizing topic. I wasn't talking about being pro-life, yet they felt comfortable coming to me,” Roach says.  

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NBN Book of the Day - Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, “Did It Happen Here?: Perspectives on Fascism and America” (W. W. Norton, 2024)

Today I’m speaking with Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins about the new, edited volume, Did It Happen Here? Perspectives on Fascism and America (W.W. Norton, 2024). Danny is Assistant Professor in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University and the steward of a fantastic interview series in The Nation magazine. Did it Happen Here? presents a snapshot of the fascism debate being waged on American campuses, in magazines, and on social media. The most recent iteration of the fascism debate began, as with many debates about the state of American politics, with the election of Donald Trump. Since his first term in 2016, speculation about the true nature of Trumpism has generated countless think-pieces and books. Did It Happen Here? is the definitive summary of the major scholarly views on whether fascism has come to America. As Danny puts it, “the fascism debate is Rorschach test for understanding what is truly ailing American society.”

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins is Assistant Professor in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University.

Caleb Zakarin is editor at the New Books Network.

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