The Terrible Thing That Trump and Elijah Cummings Agree On

While the president was launching yet another culture war, the combatants were agreeing to blow the federal budget sky high.

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The Terrible Thing That Trump and Elijah Cummings Agree On

Poor Mick Mulvaney! Just kidding—the White House chief of staff (and director of the Office of Management and Budget) is, according to Nick Gillespie, a bald-faced and balding "liar." And that was just within the first 10 minutes of today's Editors Roundtable edition of the Reason Podcast.

Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Matt Welch take swings at bipartisan budget awfulness, Federal Reserve debt monetization, David Simon grumpiness, and—yes!—President Donald Trump's swipes at Rep. Elijah Cummings (D–Md.), the City of Baltimore, and its residents. The editors also discuss what they learned on their summer vacations, tiptoe into the bi/trans wars, and even say nice things about you, the listening public!

Audio production by Ian Keyser.

Temptation March by Audionautix is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Relevant links from the show:

"The House Just Passed a Budget Deal That Will Add $1.7 Trillion to the National Debt," by Eric Boehm

"Once Again, Uncle Sam Shirks Fiscal Responsibility in Budget Deal," by Veronique de Rugy

"Can the Freedom Caucus Convince Trump to Derail This Awful Budget Deal? If Not, Fiscal Conservatism Is Truly Dead," by Eric Boehm

"Republicans Are the Party of Trillion-Dollar Deficits," by Matt Welch

"Rush Limbaugh Abandons Fiscal Conservatism," by Billy Binion

"Why Elizabeth Warren's Wealth Tax Won't Work," by Peter Suderman and John Osterhoudt

"White Identity Politics, Not Trump's Racist Tweets, Is National Conservatism's Real Problem," by Steven Greenhut

"Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Is a Nostalgic Defense of Movie Violence," by Peter Suderman

"Video: David Simon on Treme, New Orleans, the Drug War, Obama, The Wire—And Disappointing Libertarians," by Nick Gillespie and Jim Epstein

What are we consuming this week?

Matt Welch

• The Brothers Steve concert
• Disneyland

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• We are Legion (We are Bob) by Dennis Taylor

Nick Gillespie

• Black Mirror
• Norm MacDonald Has a Show

Peter Suderman

• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

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Comments

[John]

http://pjmedia.com/trending/who-will-liberals-back-veiled-muslim-woman-goes-at-it-with-lgbt-rainbow-flag-marcher/

Muslims and gays dook it out in England. I am betting on the Muslims in this one. They have numbers and ruthlessness on their side.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Gays for the win. At least that's what happened in MD with black preachers when it came to the state recognizing gay marriage. I am sure Cummings and others Dems explained that some of that grant money might disappear if they don't learn to share (or least shut their mouths).

[John]

Blacks are taken for granted and don't cut people's heads off.

[mad.casual]

Can't believe 'Chick Inn' (please, please, please be LGBTQ) doesn't constitute a banned sexist advert in the UK.

[mad.casual]

I suppose I didn't consider that it could be an urban farming business where they lease space to incubate baby chickens.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Yet another AITA post with an ESH answer.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

I think they both agree Baltimore is a rat infested city. Cummings is just pissed Trump said it.

[NashTiger]

Well, Fox is running deceptively edited videos intending to show Bernie Sanders, the BBC, the former mayor of Baltimore, etc saying the same things.
It’s only racist when you criticize a democrat

[John]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7298307/Hateful-final-Instagram-posts-Gilroy-Garlic-shooter.html

Gilroy Garlic festival shooter, 19, who quoted white supremacist book on Instagram moments before opening fire on terrified crowds with a legally bought AK-47, killing three including a six-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl.

[John]

Apparently someone hacked my account, all to post this. I really do live inside some people's heads.

[mad.casual]

When asked why he was firing into the crowd, witnesses say he replied: 'Because I'm really angry'

I understand that people under duress do all kinds of crazy shit but WTF? Return fire, neutralize the threat, then question the survivors.

[Juice]

Motherfucker. The media can't help themselves. They're completely powerless against the urge to post the name, life story, and list of grievances of every spree shooter. Fuck. Stop fucking doing that.

[Juice]

Mestizos is a racist slur

Really, Daily Mail?

[Jerryskids]

a legally bought AK-47

I actually heard someone make that claim, most reports are disingenuous or ignorant enough to refer to an AK-47 style assault rifle, you know, like the way a Schwinn is a Harley-Davidson style vehicle.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

Another culture war? Sounds great! Even after a half-century of smacking conservatives around in the culture war, it is never a bad time to stomp some more right-wing preferences, especially the ignorance, backwardness, and bigotry.

Gun nuts, anti-abortion zealots, and racists hardest hit this time around.

(Gay-bashers and misogynists are all but vanquished.)

[Ryan (formally HFTO)]

"Gay-bashers and misogynists are all but vanquished"

Plenty more Muslims to import though

[Ryan (formally HFTO)]

I can't say I'm excited to see a democrat as president, all I can say is that all this republican bashing for increasing the debt ceiling while democrats are openly calling for 80 trillion dollar socialist takovers, will not be forgotten. I'd love to reduce the national debt, as would many here, but running on responsibility is not how politics works these days.

I can't wait for the Reason articles attempts to "both sides" open borders, a vast welfare state, and citizenship to all. I'm sure someone will find a way to blame conservatives. It's the only thing you all seem to be consistent at these days.

[Weigel's Cock Ring]

Always remember that Welchie Boy is not really a libertarian. He’s an insane left-liberal Obamatard who openly fantasizes about murdering conservatives in cold blood “Game of Thrones” style:

https://twitter.com/mattwelch/status/1102654202545913857?s=12

[BigT]

What an awful, ignorant podcast. These fools project their own racist thoughts on Trump. WTF is wrong with pointing out that Cummings district is at least partly a rat infested hell hole, when it clearly is? Apparently the truth is racist, just like pointing out that different racial groups have different IQ scores, levels of education, incomes, single parent households, etc. Trump is rude, vulgar, and uneducated. But not racist.

For shame, KMW. YOU need to fire Suderman and suspend Gillespie.