Don't Believe Janet Yellen's Shoddy Wartime 'Girl Math'

Plus: President Joe Biden’s weird economy and Rep. Mike Johnson as the unlikely new speaker of the House of Representatives.

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Don't Believe Janet Yellen's Shoddy Wartime 'Girl Math'

In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman assess the latest batch of troublesome responses to the Israel-Hamas war, discuss Janet Yellen's shoddy wartime "girl math," and check in on the weird economy under President Joe Biden.

1:25: Distressing responses to Israel-Hamas war

24:17: Biden's weird economy

34:24: Weekly Listener Question

43:47: Rep. Mike Johnson (R–La.) is the new speaker of the House of Representatives

50:36: This week's cultural recommendations

Mentioned in this podcast:

"Should pro-Hamas students be blacklisted?" by Nick Gillespie

"The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous and False," by Simon Sebag Montefiore

"What Should Israel Do Next?" by Ian Bremmer

"3 Myths About American Decline," by Nick Gillespie

"Feeling Good About the Future After an Ugly Election," by Nick Gillespie

"Joe Biden's Endless River of Debt and Regulation," by Nick Gillespie

"The Debt Crisis Is Getting Real," by Eric Boehm

"'Bidenomics' Is Failing Everyday Americans," by Veronique de Rugy

"Inflation Jump Highlights Biden's Vulnerability on Energy," by J.D. Tuccille

"New Speaker Mike Johnson's First Good Idea: A Debt Commission," by Eric Boehm

"Mike Johnson Is the Unlikely New Speaker of the House," by Eric Boehm

"Salman Khan: The Education Visionary," by Nick Gillespie

"'Micro-Schools' Might Be the Next Big Education Thing," by Nick Gillespie and Ian Keyser

"Saturday Night Live Fires New Cast Member Shane Gillis for Using Offensive Language," by Robby Soave

"In French Thriller Anatomy of a Fall, the Law Is No One's Friend," by Peter Suderman

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

Check out the new podcast The Best of Reason Magazine. Every Tuesday, listen to a curated selection of some of the best writing from Reason, read aloud to you by a robot voice modeled off Editor in Chief Katherine-Mangu Ward.

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

Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve

What are we consuming this week?

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Loki: Season 2

Nick Gillespie

• Julia: A Novel by Sandra Newman
• The Men by Sandra Newman

Peter Suderman

• Anatomy of a Fall

Matt Welch

• Shane Gillis: Beautiful Dogs

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[Mother's Lament - Professional Shrike Sock Spotter]

“Rep. Mike Johnson as the unlikely new speaker of the House of Representatives.”

Where’s Diet Shrike to tell us about the wonders of ranked choice voting this time?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I think he's still crying in the corner, realizing the people he's excoriated and made fun of lo these many years are literally on his team.

[SRG2]

I am not so cretinous - as you appear to be - to think that people I make fun of or excoriate necessarily disagree with me about everything, nor do I adopt the cultists' position that just because someone I strongly disagree with in general has a specific opinion that I should agree with, I must reflexively disagree with them on principle.

But if you think I'm going to give too much credit to people who support Israel on the twin grounds of weird Christian Eschatology and delight in the killing of Mooslims, you are very much mistaken.

[JesseAz]

Weird and long way to get to your own bigotry and biases.

[SRG2]

The right-wing anti-Semitic Zionist is not a new thing. There really are Christians who want a Jewish state because they think it's a precondition for the Return of The Jesus

And see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_antisemitism#United_States

[Truthfulness]

That article is nothing but a POS POV fork. This user put it best:

This article is filled with misinformation about what Zionism is & is promoting hate. Zionism is NOT anti-Semitic.

It’s anti-Semitic to call a Jewish person a “Zionist” in a negative way.

Zion was a hill in Jerusalem & Zionism is a political movement named from that. A movement for the re-establishment and the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel. It was established as a political organization in 1897 under Theodor Herzl, and was later led by Chaim Weizmann.

As with any political movement, sub sects will emerge that may differ & act on that from what it’s main goal is/was.

It DOES NOT represent the organization as a whole.

In 1975 Palestinian leaders passed a policy that “Zionism” was a form of racism AGAINST Palestinian people. It was overturned in 1991 because having a policy like that was, in fact, anti-Semitic as it implies that Jewish people didn’t have the right to exist or have a homeland (because this is what Zionism was about). It was called “Resolution 3379.” - Accuratefacts19

[Mother's Lament - Professional Shrike Sock Spotter]

"people who support Israel on the twin grounds of weird Christian Eschatology and delight in the killing of Mooslims"

Yeah, your hated enemies can't possibly support Jews because they were repelled by the barbarity of Hamas. It's got to be because they're weird strawmen.

[SRG2]

I am sure that the vast majority on the right were appalled by Hamas and support Israel's efforts to wipe them out.

But I am not talking about merely support for Israel's response, I'm talking about the general attitude over a long period of time. After all, these end-of-times crazies didn't just hit on these being the Last Days on 10/7 - these views have been out there for decaded. And see my link above.

Strange that both you and JesseAz used the word "weird" in consecutive posts, when it's a word neither of you uses frequently. That would be classified by both of you as a "tell" for sock-puppetry. Hence you have demonstrated according to your own approach to sock identification that one of you is the sock of the other.

[Ben of Houston]

Except the vast majority are not supporting Israel due to some religious or magical belief, but the reasoned argument that since they were expelled from their homes after World War 2 and the fall of the Ottoman empire, setting up a homeland is reasonable. Additionally, there is a widespread belief Israel's actions are justified (or at least understandable) due to an open war being declared and openly fought on their existence since the country's founding.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Except the vast majority are not supporting Israel due to some religious or magical belief, but the reasoned argument that since they were expelled from their homes after World War 2 and the fall of the Ottoman empire, setting up a homeland is reasonable.

Whether it was reasonable is probably begging the question, as I've noted elsewhere that Balfour largely established the mandate as a means to try and incentivize the Jewish populations of Europe to leave those nations and move back to the Middle East, as they were largely distrusted and seen as subversive, particularly after they became more notable within the broader anarchist and marxist/socialist revolutionary movements of the late 19th century.

Once they established themselves and actually beat the Palestinians and other Arab nations in combat for control of the area, however, it's not unreasonable to expect that they would exercise whatever means they had available to maintain control of the place, irrespective of post-modern shibboleths about "colonialism" or strawmen like end-times Christian fundamentalism. The main reason the US still supports them is because they took our side in the Cold War, while the Arabs picked the Soviets.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I have no idea what you're talking about. My comment didn't refer to you.

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[prfd1]

Democrats are swarming Ivy League college campuses…. calling for the “final solution” for the jews. Even chucky shumer is siding with iran against capitalism. Russians storming an airport hunting jews they heard were coming on a plane from israel. The democrats have turned 2023 America into nazi germany. The democrats used to own all the black slaves in the south but the republicans forced them to give up slavery (Abraham Lioncoln)….. now (2023) they (democrats) want track down and kill every jew.

[windycityattorney]

Time to take the meds and lay off the internet for awhile, eh?

[Truthfulness]

On the contrary, he's correct. Left-wing academia has a massive antisemitism problem.

[SRG2]

Just because I don't like a democratically-chosen person doesn't mean I get all butt-hurt and whiny like you lot and blame the voting system. If RCV would have got Johnson elected, so be it.

[Truthfulness]

So why are you whining about Johnson?

[damikesc]

I must wonder why Yellen is so anxious to flush her rep down the toilet.

[Dillinger]

anyone not in the Ruling Class believe her anything, let alone her math? I wouldn't agree with her recipe for chocolate chip cookies.

[mad.casual]

You use low-carb cookie dough so that you come out ahead when you frost them with the coconut caramel pecan glaze.

[Dillinger]

glaze sounds good but I don't low carb anything ... I'll sugar-bomb any cookie recipe

[JeremyR]

What rep? As the O Really meme lady?

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Her rep was flushed and pumped out of the septic tank years ago. Current location unknown.

[Eeyore]

It was so toxic they had to superfund the previous tank and dig a new one.

[R Mac]

She’s part of the ruling class. Her reputation among the plebs means nothing.

[Bill Falcon]

She is calling that idiot Powell to fire up the presses..she needs to deficit spend over $1.5T to fund govt for the next three months..

It really is time we deport any Keynsian economicst back to central or eastern europe. Why anyone took these degenerate fools seriously is beyond belief.

[Thomas L. Knapp]

Any chance of getting the actual podcast instead of just a bunch of information about the podcast (I've reloaded the page in two different browsers and with ad blocker turned off)?

[Thomas L. Knapp]

Ah, and now it's there. Thx.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Putin claims without proof that airport riots targeting Israelis were staged from Ukraine

Oh NOW the press questions if their mother loves them.

[Bill Falcon]

How's Zelinsky doing? Seems the people of Ukraine realize his concern isn't for them given their draft protests but for his corrupt buddies. And the globalists running US foreign policy seem to have turned their attention to Israel. Hmmm...interesting..Zelinsky didn't turn out to be the reincarnated Trotsky, Putin wasn't the Czar or Stalin after all and now the new country is calling for their usual use of US treasure to avenge old world grievances...

How about we leave a war between two corrupt eastern European countries alone. And do the same for the middle east where the people on all sides have little regard for human life and lack Christian values.

[middlefinger]

Our president is on it- the Israel visit. Does anyone, anywhere really believe China gives a rats ass about climate change? They care about the BRICs alliance, reserve currency and enslaving the west. WTF is wrong with these people.

[middlefinger]

Forgot the link…President Newsom visits Israel, the China Climate changehttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/california-gov-gavin-newsom-to-make-a-one-day-visit-to-israel-en-route-to-china/ar-AA1iwG8r

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

The correct take on this is that Xi will meet with the mayor Peoria, while refusing Biden's phone calls. It's not that the mayor of Peoria is important, it's that Biden is is a babbling, dementia-riddled idiot that is utterly useless.

[Square = Circle]

Putin claims without proof

Oh, look - "without proof" is back!

[Vernon Depner]

I thought that was only for Trump.

[Eeyore]

Isn't "girl math" a little misogynistic? Shouldn't that be "retard math"?

[Stuck in California]

What's the difference?

[Don't look at me!]

Tranny math?

[Vernon Depner]

Dictating a single correct answer to math problems is white supremacy.

[Bill Falcon]

$1.5Trillion the US Govt has to borrow to continue the enriching of the grifter class and pay interest on those bonds already sold in just the next three months. Janet Yellen is a fing stupid moron who can't do basic math. Call the Fed and have them print more? JC this stupid NYC bolshie academic needs to be deported asap. "Girl Math"..more like neolib pedo Keynsian math. Please go to Ukraine and be your boy Trotksy "Zelinskies" Treasury Secretary. Time the entire neocon and neolibs economists were deported from the US. F Janet Yellen

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I can't WAIT for Suderman's review of this.

[NOYB2]

Don't Believe Janet Yellen's Shoddy Wartime 'Girl Math'

Yellen may be a mediocre diversity hire suffering from incipient senility, but she still has somewhat above average intelligence. She isn't engaging in "shoddy wartime 'girl math'", she is engaging in propaganda and indoctrination.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

But with a nod to diversity and inclusion.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

The "decolinization" narrative is true and dangerous. Fucking kill yourselves you Marxist simpling cancers

[Vernon Depner]

Who will stand with me and my fellow Saxons in forcing the usurping Germans out of our homeland?

[Mataratones]

To be fair about letting Turkey into NATO, at the time they were avowedly secular and the military seemed prepared to enforce that. Erdogan managed to get around that and now has the military under his thumb.