Trey and Ken start the show with Biden’s immigration order. President Biden has announced a sweeping executive action on immigration, authorizing U.S. immigration officials to deport large numbers of migrants without processing their asylum claims. This new policy, seen as one of the most restrictive border policies by a Democratic president, marks a significant shift in the administration’s approach to border security. Ken partially defends Biden’s order, even if it looks similar to past Trump policies. Trey argues that Biden issued it as a proclamation instead of an executive order because he recognizes it is not inherently constitutional.
Next, Attorney General Merrick Garland faced intense scrutiny from Republicans this week. Garland was grilled on Capitol Hill and has seen his standing on both the right and the left fall. Ken argues that Garland has overemphasized neutrality and has not properly pursued former President Trump and allies. Trey argues that the left’s attacks on Garland are nearly identical to those from Republicans and are no more founded than those from the Republicans.
Finally, the pair discuss Dr. Anthony Fauci’s testimony before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, where he addressed critical issues related to the U.S. response to COVID-19. Fauci admitted that the “6 feet apart” social distancing recommendation lacked robust empirical support and it was more of an arbitrary guideline. He also acknowledged that the lab leak theory regarding the origins of COVID-19 should not be dismissed outright, a significant shift from his earlier stance. Both Trey and Ken continue to agree he largely did well in his capacity during the pandemic, however, Trey faults him for wrongfully downplaying, primarily for political reasons, the possibility of a lab leak in China.
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many agree the conditions in Gaza where that of an open air prison camp or an apartheid similar to south Africa. if the people in the aushwits camp rose up and had a violent rebellion against the Germans people like the conservatives in this episode would be considered blood thirsty antisemites. Isreal has killed more people in Gaza in the last month than America did in the whole Iraq war. hamas is evil but when slaves killed plantation owners and kids the actions were evil but justifiable.
the meth billboards in my state are designed to produce a negative response. same with abortion billboards that depict dead babies. the fact that you are offended by a capitalistic billboard is comical. anyone ever notice how much of snow flakes conservatives are?
Ken is so funny 🤣, continuously wrong but keeps on going, like a negative energizer bunny
Progressive Social Scientists explain to a Liberal that Conservatives are terrible but this is how we can convince them to do what we want
Kuhn is someone who starts paying attention to politics in 2016. Unsurprisingly he it is the noob level of argument from a committed member of The Resistance.
Ken's an idiot
With the Hunter Biden laptop the left MSM immediately called it Russian disinformation without even attempting to verify the information and brought their security state people to say it was Russian disinfo or to back up that statement.
Obama was a joke. lifted by partisan media.
I have one thing to counter Jay's point about giving the Polish Migs to Ukraine. Poland didn't want to directly transfer their fighter jets to Ukraine, they wanted to transfer the planes first to a US (NATO) base in Germany and then have US pilots fly the planes to Ukraine. Poland doesn't want to draw the ire of Russia and wants to shift the focus of the aircraft transfer to the US, that is why the Biden administration is correct in rejecting facilitating the transfer. The planes can be transferred from Poland to Ukraine and be under NATO protection until they land in Ukraine, there is no reason for the US to be involved in the transfer
Ken is just a left wing idealogue and doesn't fit the show.
Why does the US not simply automatically give every 18 year old the right to vote and requirement to show up at the polls like Australia?
I was getting annoyed with Mike continually talking about how Trump was ineffective legislatively. The President is the head of the Executive Branch and constitutionally has no legislative function in regards to the crafting of legislation. The fact the we have become used to the executive dictating the terms of legislation to the Legiative branch shows the break down of our system of government.
Doc might want to rethink that "I'd go to work for Trump in a heartbeat" comment given how many of his associates end up under investigation or in prison.
As someone who brags to their friends about the bipartisan approach to your podcast, I have to say that the "Election 2020" series was a bit of a disappointment. Doc was the only viewpoint with a conservative approach. While I don't doubt his intelligence, he could have used support from a more eloquent ally in these discussions. That being said overall this is a fabulous podcast. I reference it regularly when engaging in political discourse with my friends and family. Keep up the good work and I look forward to more ( better balanced) student contributions in the future!
Did Doc just equate the relative safety of New York City and Chicago with Honduras and Mexico?
To Mike's point regarding faithless electors and the word vote in Article 2 section 3 that can make sense. However, Article 2 Section 2 I believe would allow states to bind electors in addition to the tenth amendment saying how states choose is a state prerogative.
Political Guys is only useful if both sides are well represented. Trey and Ken are essentially representing the same side though Fry a different angle. 😞
ok, that's is, thank you, but no thanks anymore, unsubscribing. Reading recommendation Heather Mac Donald on the topic of race and policing? Really, you mean the author that wrote The Diversity Delusion?
my bad, if you tried, if you tried.
you couldn't get to weaker "Convective's" if you tried!