I just wanted to say that I can never get enough of listening to or reading Anne Applebaum. I'm working on an International Relations degree and her writing paints pictures that other writers in the same field do not....
Great podcast. But on the “Does China REALLY have a preferred candidate in 2024?”… I mean:
Trump has said—as reported in several articles that didn’t make the front page, and wouldn’t be remembered even if they did—that he expects China “will” take over Taiwan, and that nobody can stop them. He’s suggested that the U.S., more to the point, should not try to stop them.
Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s invasion is the main example keeping China from trying. If Trump wins, the U.S. will almost certainly cut Ukraine off from aid, and Russia will likely win, which would give them the green light.
Biden has vowed to protect Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion. He is the main person responsible, outside Zelensky himself, for Ukraine surviving.
Another great podcast! Tim, how about a podcast about the Supreme Court and what individuals can do (if anything) to encourage ethics reform? I know a judge who was challenged and removed from a case because his child plays on the same sports team as a child of one of the attorneys representing the defense - even though he didn’t even know the kid or the kids parents. It’s disturbing that Supreme Court justices are held to no standards at all while local trial court judges are held to a ridiculously high standard. I’m disturbed by many things today, but nothing more so than the imperial conduct of the US Supreme Court.
Tara McGowan, who ran a full digital $42 million campaign against Trump in 2016, is concerned now as she was then. There is 2xs the amount of pro Trump than pro Biden content on Tic Toc. We have to find a way to flood tic toc with information about what Trump would do if elected. Tic Toc users are a demographic that Biden may have a brand problem with but Trump’s policies would disgust them more. Tim, could you get Tara on the show or maybe Annie Wu, who ran Fetterman’s digital and now works for AOC?
"The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any."
“The point of propaganda is not to make people believe it. It is to foster cynicism so that we don’t know what to believe and come to believe that nothing is true, no facts are reliable, and the world is simply a battlefield for partisan ideas. In such a world, truth retreats behind success as the value to be sought. What matters is victory, no matter the cost. Arendt understood that when factual truths are denied and substituted for by lies, the result is
"an absolute refusal to believe in the truth of anything, no matter how well this truth may be established." Such cynicism is the true goal of totalitarians.” Hannah Arendt
Thanks for the throwback to Chris Issak on the Extro.
Since you checked out the "Batman" TV series of the 60s, Check out "The Chris Issak Show," from the early aughts. Sort of a ":Reality Show meets 'Spinal Tap'" homage on Chris's adventures of being on the road...more satire than comedy with great music! Especially the scenes of him having "conversations" with a mermaid in a San Francisco restaurant's fish tank.
Despite what the WSJ Editorial Board claims, there is NOTHING normal or acceptable about an upside down flag displayed at the home of a sitting Supreme Court justice following an attempted coup.
As one of the handful of listeners in Eastern Europe I love me some Anne Applebaum content - thank you. Echo-system and nutgraph are my two new words for today.
I think it's a mistake to want a Liz Cheney in the white house... We're just desperate for a return to the two party (where one is not a christo-facist lunatic kkkult) normal system?
Great episode. Anne Applebaum is on my "do not miss" guest list.
As a contractor, I worked on a tech project (unclass) to visually track the spread of disinfo campaigns. The "ukrainian biolab" and "Zelensky is a Nazi" campaigns were what we used for proof of concept. By tracking specific metadata and when things appeared in news sources, we could watch a timeline of the disinfo starting in Russia and moving to China, Africa, and then to Europe and US primarily via Social Media and right-wing news outlets. It was fascinating to see.
Fascinating, yes, but also horrific because of how once it hits the US social media feedback loop it gets amplified exponentially. I was thinking that one of the brakes on this would be local, I'll call it "classic" media, mainly the local paper. But the collapse of such media leaves very little else out there to counter the barrage. We are in trouble...
"Tin Machine was a British–American rock band formed in 1988. The band consisted of English singer-songwriter David Bowie on lead vocals, saxophone and guitar; Reeves Gabrels on guitar and vocals; Tony Fox Sales on bass and vocals; and Hunt Sales on drums and vocals."
The Sales brothers were the sons of the beloved "Soupy Sales" (of NYC and LA afternoon television), he who incorporated Borst-Belt comedy patter, silly commentary, along with Jazz, R&B, and Rock music to we impressionable teeners.
Being offered to us just before dinner, our parents had no idea that Soupy was a great teacher by incorporating a feeling of being "in on the joke" because the production incorporated the crew laughing at gags that face-planted.
With lots of double-entandre and hip references, Soupy never played down to we kids as his audience. He actually helped us become more culturally sophisticated.
I just wanted to say that I can never get enough of listening to or reading Anne Applebaum. I'm working on an International Relations degree and her writing paints pictures that other writers in the same field do not....
Should Section 3 of the 14th Amendment be invoked on Alito and Thomas?
Great podcast. But on the “Does China REALLY have a preferred candidate in 2024?”… I mean:
Trump has said—as reported in several articles that didn’t make the front page, and wouldn’t be remembered even if they did—that he expects China “will” take over Taiwan, and that nobody can stop them. He’s suggested that the U.S., more to the point, should not try to stop them.
Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s invasion is the main example keeping China from trying. If Trump wins, the U.S. will almost certainly cut Ukraine off from aid, and Russia will likely win, which would give them the green light.
Biden has vowed to protect Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion. He is the main person responsible, outside Zelensky himself, for Ukraine surviving.
Yes, China wants Trump to win in November.
They’d be ignorant if they didn’t.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trumps-taiwan-remarks-spark-fury-concern-1862602
Another great podcast! Tim, how about a podcast about the Supreme Court and what individuals can do (if anything) to encourage ethics reform? I know a judge who was challenged and removed from a case because his child plays on the same sports team as a child of one of the attorneys representing the defense - even though he didn’t even know the kid or the kids parents. It’s disturbing that Supreme Court justices are held to no standards at all while local trial court judges are held to a ridiculously high standard. I’m disturbed by many things today, but nothing more so than the imperial conduct of the US Supreme Court.
Tara McGowan, who ran a full digital $42 million campaign against Trump in 2016, is concerned now as she was then. There is 2xs the amount of pro Trump than pro Biden content on Tic Toc. We have to find a way to flood tic toc with information about what Trump would do if elected. Tic Toc users are a demographic that Biden may have a brand problem with but Trump’s policies would disgust them more. Tim, could you get Tara on the show or maybe Annie Wu, who ran Fetterman’s digital and now works for AOC?
"The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any."
“The point of propaganda is not to make people believe it. It is to foster cynicism so that we don’t know what to believe and come to believe that nothing is true, no facts are reliable, and the world is simply a battlefield for partisan ideas. In such a world, truth retreats behind success as the value to be sought. What matters is victory, no matter the cost. Arendt understood that when factual truths are denied and substituted for by lies, the result is
"an absolute refusal to believe in the truth of anything, no matter how well this truth may be established." Such cynicism is the true goal of totalitarians.” Hannah Arendt
Thanks for the throwback to Chris Issak on the Extro.
Since you checked out the "Batman" TV series of the 60s, Check out "The Chris Issak Show," from the early aughts. Sort of a ":Reality Show meets 'Spinal Tap'" homage on Chris's adventures of being on the road...more satire than comedy with great music! Especially the scenes of him having "conversations" with a mermaid in a San Francisco restaurant's fish tank.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268789/
I’m wondering if Russian/Chinese/Irani state propaganda fed Brexit the way it influenced our 2016 elections.
Yes, it did.
Tim, can I get a trigger warning next time you play "Wicked Game"? 😉😭😭😭
Despite what the WSJ Editorial Board claims, there is NOTHING normal or acceptable about an upside down flag displayed at the home of a sitting Supreme Court justice following an attempted coup.
As one of the handful of listeners in Eastern Europe I love me some Anne Applebaum content - thank you. Echo-system and nutgraph are my two new words for today.
Anne is so insightful, and her reality of knowing eastern Europe is so scary for us here.
Imagine a ticket with Liz Cheney and Anne Applebaum. What I would give to see the two of them in the White House.
I think it's a mistake to want a Liz Cheney in the white house... We're just desperate for a return to the two party (where one is not a christo-facist lunatic kkkult) normal system?
Great episode. Anne Applebaum is on my "do not miss" guest list.
As a contractor, I worked on a tech project (unclass) to visually track the spread of disinfo campaigns. The "ukrainian biolab" and "Zelensky is a Nazi" campaigns were what we used for proof of concept. By tracking specific metadata and when things appeared in news sources, we could watch a timeline of the disinfo starting in Russia and moving to China, Africa, and then to Europe and US primarily via Social Media and right-wing news outlets. It was fascinating to see.
Fascinating, yes, but also horrific because of how once it hits the US social media feedback loop it gets amplified exponentially. I was thinking that one of the brakes on this would be local, I'll call it "classic" media, mainly the local paper. But the collapse of such media leaves very little else out there to counter the barrage. We are in trouble...
Apple Music Playlist is good to go for the weekend.
https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/bulwark-pod-songs/pl.u-0embfxV15e
Excellent. Thanks Jake.
Sure thing - happy to do it!
Tim, if you want to turn your oppo research brain cells on to the foreign disinformation fight, check out NAFO - Kinzinger is one of us: nafo-ofan.org
RE: The Soupy Sales Influence on David Bowie
"Tin Machine was a British–American rock band formed in 1988. The band consisted of English singer-songwriter David Bowie on lead vocals, saxophone and guitar; Reeves Gabrels on guitar and vocals; Tony Fox Sales on bass and vocals; and Hunt Sales on drums and vocals."
The Sales brothers were the sons of the beloved "Soupy Sales" (of NYC and LA afternoon television), he who incorporated Borst-Belt comedy patter, silly commentary, along with Jazz, R&B, and Rock music to we impressionable teeners.
Being offered to us just before dinner, our parents had no idea that Soupy was a great teacher by incorporating a feeling of being "in on the joke" because the production incorporated the crew laughing at gags that face-planted.
With lots of double-entandre and hip references, Soupy never played down to we kids as his audience. He actually helped us become more culturally sophisticated.
Check out this example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcb87xi8cVg
OMG - had completely forgotten about Soupy Sales - thanks!!