The 'Whack Jobs' Were Right

Plus: A listener asks the editors to weigh in on a hypothetical executive order to establish an American Climate Corps.

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The 'Whack Jobs' Were Right

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman sprint through a buffet of topics including government shutdowns, Mexican fentanyl, the second GOP presidential debate, and the death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D–Calif.).

1:04: The government didn't shut down.

10:03: Fentanyl and the border with Mexico

25:05: Reactions to the second GOP debate

38:18: Weekly Listener Question

42:52: Death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein

Mentioned in this podcast:

"Congressional Clown Show," by Liz Wolfe

"The Government Won't Shut Down," by Eric Boehm

"The GOP Can Always Get Worse—And It Will (Midterm Election Copout Edition)," by Nick Gillespie

"Josh Barro: A Republican Presidential Debate Detached From Reality," by Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe

"Despite Debunking, Rainbow Fentanyl Myths Continue," by Emma Camp

"The Truth About Ron DeSantis' Fentanyl Horror Story," by Joe Lancaster

"Ban Teenagers From Social Media, Vivek Ramaswamy Says, Because Fentanyl," by Jacob Sullum

Ronald Reagan vs. 2024 Republicans on immigration, by Bess Byers

"The 5 Best Arguments Against Immigration—and Why They're WRONG" by Nick Gillespie and Todd Krainin

"Vivek Ramaswamy Is Wrong About the National Debt," by Nick Gillespie

"Vivek Ramaswamy: Why He's Running for President—and Against 'Woke Capitalism,'" by Zach Weissmueller and Nick Gillespie

"Vivek Ramaswamy Proposes a (Probably) Illegal Plan To End Birthright Citizenship," by Fiona Harrigan

"Ron DeSantis and Chris Christie Call Out Trump for Adding to Federal Debt," by Eric Boehm

"DeSantis Says He Would Use Justice Department To Bring Civil Rights Cases Against 'Soros-Funded Prosecutors,'" by C.J. Ciaramella

"On Guns, Drugs, and National Security, Dianne Feinstein Was Consistently Authoritarian," by Jacob Sullum

"Social Security, Snoopy Snoopy Poop Pants, & Alan Simpson: Ultimate Enema Man Remix," by Austin Bragg and Nick Gillespie

"The Noid," Domino's pizza 1986 ad

Send your questions to [e-mail]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.

Audio production by Ian Keyser; assistant production by Hunt Beaty.

Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve

What are we consuming this week?

Nick Gillespie

• Bottoms

Peter Suderman

• Stop Making Sense

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• The Economics of Everyday Things

Matt Welch

• New York Renaissance Faire

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Comments

[Minadin]

What is hypothetical about this executive order? I thought it had been announced.

[Longtobefree]

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/09/20/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-launches-american-climate-corps-to-train-young-people-in-clean-energy-conservation-and-climate-resilience-skills-create-good-paying-jobs-and-tackle-the-clima/#:~:text=Train%20young%20people%20in%20clean%20energy%2C%20conservation%20and%20climate%20resilience,tackle%20climate%20change%20%E2%80%93%20including%20restoring

No mention of the authorization process for the 20,000 or more jobs – – – – – –

[Longtobefree]

But then, this is the Reason site, so . . .

[JesseAz]

Why do you expect a blogger writing something for you to read over coffee to do basic research?

[Longtobefree]

Blogger? What blogger?
Please to be noting the “whitehouse.gov” part of the link.

[JesseAz]

Was a dig at Mike for his excuse as to why Reason ignores major stories.

[Mother's Lament]

Invocation of White Mike.

[Stuck in California]

I miss the days when whitehouse.com was a porno site.

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD 2: Steampunk Boogaloo]

A Google search is too much to ask.

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

Authorization process? Does Biden not have a phone and a pen or something?

[Trollificus]

Authorization, schmautherization. You don’t need no steenkin’ authorization to take credit for them, mang.

“Biden Announces 43 Million Jobs Created in 2nd Quarter, Unemployment Down to “Negative Vermillion””

[Public Entelectual]

Only a Climate Corps can save America from the hegemony of hereropatriarchic Glacism.

https://vvattsupwiththat.blogspot.com/2016/03/save-cisgendered-glaciers-throw-virgin.html

[Mother's Lament]

Shill your scam site somewhere else, Shrike.

[JesseAz]

Shrike is still in the other thread being wrong about the vaccine study.

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD 2: Steampunk Boogaloo]

When ISN’T he wrong?

[Public Entelectual]

Far more often than you idiots dare imagine:

RNA vaccine pioneers win Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to biochemist Katalin Karikó and immunologist Drew Weissman for discoveries that enabled the development of messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines against COVID-19. The vaccines have been administered more than 13 billion times, saved millions of lives and prevented severe illness in millions of people. Karikó and Weissman discovered a way to deliver mRNA into cells without triggering an unwanted immune response: by swapping one type of molecule, uridine, in the genetic material with a similar one called pseudouridine.

In 2021, Nature Chief Magazine Editor Helen Pearson recommended a profile of Karikó in The New York Times.

“First for showing how the spectacularly fast production of COVID-19 vaccines actually rests on decades of meticulous basic research into mRNA, and second for highlighting the difficulty that many scientists face when moving precariously from one temporary position to another to pursue the bench research they love.”

Later that year, Karikó and Weissman won one of the most lucrative awards in science: the US$3-million Breakthrough Prize. Karikó recalled the scepticism surrounding her work in the 1990s that led to numerous grant-proposal and paper rejections (including the 2005 paper for which she is now being recognized), and forced her to take a demotion and a pay cut.

[Mother's Lament]

Funny how the actual inventor of the mRNA vaccine process, Dr. Robert Malone, didn’t share in the prize.

Can you guess why, you midwit shill?

[philip_caviness]

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[JohnZ]

As president I would use the full force of the Dept. of Justice to prosecute George Soros and his little bastard son for as many crimes as possible. Civil asset forfeiture and pretrial sentencing, along with revoking passports and and seizing all bank accounts.
Up next would be the leaders of Black Lives Matter who would get the same treatment. ANTIFA leaders would also not be sparred.
All support for Ukraine would end and Zelensky’s villa in Miami would be seized.
I would have the teacher’s unions outlawed, bring full force of the law against any teacher who attempts to brainwash children with woke LGBTQXYZ+ crapola.
I would re-open all oil fields for increased production.

[docduracoat]

I agree with every single thing John Z said

[LIBertrans]

To grasp the excellence of the podcast, compare it with ANY other discussion on the planet. Even Matt seems unembarrassing in that context. But the prize goes to Katherine Mangu-Ward for realizing that libertarian planks and spoiler votes are the life-saver those pathetic, superstitious, girl-bullying prohibitionist Trumpanzees grope and grab for when sinking under the chains of their National Socialist platform. It is a win for the Gary Johnson campaign. Every LP vote has packed YUGE law-changing clout from 1972 to 2016.

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[Jayburd]

How much ammo will the Climate Corps need?

[Mataratones]

“He wants to shut the border, even though he’s the son of immigrants.”
Do you not understand that the concern is over illegal immigration, which is many times larger than legal immigration?

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