On not becoming a journalist; high-status-low-income reporters covering the ultra-rich; the Epstein files; and why obvious frauds keep getting passes from people in power.
It wasn’t that long ago that I was assured that Trump’s immigration crackdown was just about getting rid of violent criminals.
When it turned out there weren’t enough violent criminals to hit the quotas, the focus changed to illegal immigrants more generally.
When that proved to be too difficult, they started rescinding legal status and picking people up while they were in the process of following the rules.
Now, apparently, it’s about getting rid of freeloaders (pay no attention to the people they are detaining while they’re at work) and people who aren’t “integrating” (I guess living here for years, marrying a citizen, raising a family, and having kids that volunteer for the military isn’t American enough).
And oddly enough, when ICE or Border Patrol accidentally detain a citizen, they’re almost always non-white.
Come on. Have the courage to face the truth - Trump (really Stephen Miller) set deportation targets that are untethered from the number of actual violent criminals, ands now they are going after anyone they can to reach their quotas.
And it is about race. To claim that it’s not because people also hated the Irish’s is both historically misinformed and irrelevant to what’s happening today.
She herself said that she’s looked into deportations a lot, so she’s either not a great learner, she’s rationalizing for partisan reasons, or she’s being deceitful.
And even granting that she’s right about Europe (not saying it’s good, just that I have my doubts that the situation is as bad as she says - but I’m also not in a position to strongly refute it), America is not Europe. We just aren’t. That used to be seen as a strength. Unfortunately, there’s growing support on the right for making America an ethhnostate (not accusing her of this, but it’s tied up with the anti-immigration agenda).
Drink every time the right of center/libertarian guest mentions healthcare costs in passing and then mumbles something about hospitals or Obama without adding anything substantive…
Not sure scrolling twitter to establish a view of European migration dynamics is great journalism. Still, while I disagree on a few things she was arguing, it was a good listen. If she can pop in occasionally so we never again have to listen to the likes of Megan Kelly pretending to be a journalist that would be a win.
Agreed. I would ask for her to do some Twitter scrolling on the viciousness of the deportations. The only real fly in the ointment with her. I honestly struggle with anybody who can look at the masked men demanding peoples papers, shooting people in the middle of chicago, throwing old Mexican ladies around… and honestly say, yeah we need more of that. I truly wonder if they're a good human.
When Lydia talks about how wealth basically insulates you from the shitty parts of NYC, that’s how I feel about San Francisco as well. Those two cities are some of the absolute best places in the world to live if you have the money to insulate yourself from the shitty parts. The problem is that there are too many people there that can afford to insulate themselves from the shitty parts that they don’t mind if those parts get shittier.
I think it’s a little more obvious with San Francisco and NYC too just because of their geographic hard barriers that NIMBYs utilize to keep so many of the people that work there from living there.
Was listening to this today and really identified with the frustration on trying to educate people on basic economics such as the aforementioned Mark Perry AEI chart on inflated prices.
But then I am reminded about the George Carlin bit about thinking about the average person and half of them are stupider than that, which is why we end up with populist candidates such as Trump and Bernie.
Apropos of nothing except that this is the first time I've seen this on video. The intro music says "We know of..." and not "We now have..."? There is nothing else to this other than I thought there was a typo in the animation, but now I feel like an idiot
This prompted me to search for the entire quote. Kind of strange I have been listening to the pod for many years and never thought to do so before:
In a fireside chat, President Roosevelt explicitly stated: “Today's threat to our national security is not a matter of military weapons alone. We know of new methods of attack—the Trojan Horse, the Fifth Column that betrays a nation unprepared for treachery. Spies, saboteurs and traitors are the actors in this new energy”.
Before I started listening to this I was like: “Wow, Moynihan’s daughter looks mature for her age.”
Come on Megyn, at least have the courage to post under you real name.
I found her, and the conversation, interesting and delightful. The lads just cranking out bangers around here.
It wasn’t that long ago that I was assured that Trump’s immigration crackdown was just about getting rid of violent criminals.
When it turned out there weren’t enough violent criminals to hit the quotas, the focus changed to illegal immigrants more generally.
When that proved to be too difficult, they started rescinding legal status and picking people up while they were in the process of following the rules.
Now, apparently, it’s about getting rid of freeloaders (pay no attention to the people they are detaining while they’re at work) and people who aren’t “integrating” (I guess living here for years, marrying a citizen, raising a family, and having kids that volunteer for the military isn’t American enough).
And oddly enough, when ICE or Border Patrol accidentally detain a citizen, they’re almost always non-white.
Come on. Have the courage to face the truth - Trump (really Stephen Miller) set deportation targets that are untethered from the number of actual violent criminals, ands now they are going after anyone they can to reach their quotas.
And it is about race. To claim that it’s not because people also hated the Irish’s is both historically misinformed and irrelevant to what’s happening today.
She herself said that she’s looked into deportations a lot, so she’s either not a great learner, she’s rationalizing for partisan reasons, or she’s being deceitful.
And even granting that she’s right about Europe (not saying it’s good, just that I have my doubts that the situation is as bad as she says - but I’m also not in a position to strongly refute it), America is not Europe. We just aren’t. That used to be seen as a strength. Unfortunately, there’s growing support on the right for making America an ethhnostate (not accusing her of this, but it’s tied up with the anti-immigration agenda).
Drink every time the right of center/libertarian guest mentions healthcare costs in passing and then mumbles something about hospitals or Obama without adding anything substantive…
Not sure scrolling twitter to establish a view of European migration dynamics is great journalism. Still, while I disagree on a few things she was arguing, it was a good listen. If she can pop in occasionally so we never again have to listen to the likes of Megan Kelly pretending to be a journalist that would be a win.
Agreed. I would ask for her to do some Twitter scrolling on the viciousness of the deportations. The only real fly in the ointment with her. I honestly struggle with anybody who can look at the masked men demanding peoples papers, shooting people in the middle of chicago, throwing old Mexican ladies around… and honestly say, yeah we need more of that. I truly wonder if they're a good human.
It doesn’t take much wondering….
Whoa! With all the Candace–Tucker stuff, I’d forgotten there were normal conservatives out there. Dozens of us!
Didn’t realize I was subscribed to the Moynihan Report
She seems ever so slightly too old for Michael to be her father, but good for him for helping his daughter's career.
Long-lost niece
Moynihan is a pretty good looking guy. The off center nose actually gives him character.
A literal tear welled up in my eye when I heard this beautiful, intelligent young woman just articulate this:
government=bad expensive, inept;
private= good, cheap, efficient
Thanks for a renewed sense of hope
Same! She’s not one to be underestimated.
When Lydia talks about how wealth basically insulates you from the shitty parts of NYC, that’s how I feel about San Francisco as well. Those two cities are some of the absolute best places in the world to live if you have the money to insulate yourself from the shitty parts. The problem is that there are too many people there that can afford to insulate themselves from the shitty parts that they don’t mind if those parts get shittier.
I think it’s a little more obvious with San Francisco and NYC too just because of their geographic hard barriers that NIMBYs utilize to keep so many of the people that work there from living there.
Was listening to this today and really identified with the frustration on trying to educate people on basic economics such as the aforementioned Mark Perry AEI chart on inflated prices.
But then I am reminded about the George Carlin bit about thinking about the average person and half of them are stupider than that, which is why we end up with populist candidates such as Trump and Bernie.
Finally a guest that doesn’t make me want to blow my brains out 😅
There's a joke about Moynihan on Moynihan violence somewhere in there but I am not funny enough to render it properly
Violence is not where my mind went.
Great- now she’s getting unsolicited lemon pics
Hey, someone -- ask MM for some feet pics, so he doesn't feel left out.
I did, he blocked me
Well, at least now we know.
Apropos of nothing except that this is the first time I've seen this on video. The intro music says "We know of..." and not "We now have..."? There is nothing else to this other than I thought there was a typo in the animation, but now I feel like an idiot
lol I always heard “with no new methods…” which didn’t make sense, but I never bothered to investigate further…
This prompted me to search for the entire quote. Kind of strange I have been listening to the pod for many years and never thought to do so before:
In a fireside chat, President Roosevelt explicitly stated: “Today's threat to our national security is not a matter of military weapons alone. We know of new methods of attack—the Trojan Horse, the Fifth Column that betrays a nation unprepared for treachery. Spies, saboteurs and traitors are the actors in this new energy”.
Michael Stipe traced his ancestry back to FDR. Now you know the rest of the story.