In 2024, Teens Will Get Pregnant in Driverless Cars

Plus: State officials attempt to ban Donald Trump from 2024 election ballots.

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In 2024, Teens Will Get Pregnant in Driverless Cars

In this year's first episode of The Reason Roundtable, editors Peter Suderman and Katherine Mangu-Ward welcome special guests Elizabeth Nolan Brown and Zach Weissmueller to make predictions for 2024 and take one last look at 2023.

02:31—2024 predictions

20:08—Lessons from 2023

32:05—Assorted resolutions

36:32—Weekly Listener Question

43:22—State officials attempt to remove Donald Trump from the ballot.

46:24—This week's cultural recommendations

Mentioned in this podcast:

"The Year of Bad Vibes," by Liz Wolfe

"Prediction: 2024 Will See Deadly Political Violence in the Streets," by Matt Welch

"Was Biden's Social Media Meddling Illegal?" by Zach Weissmueller

"Florida Gov. Scott Rejects Federal Funding for Flawed Orlando to Tampa High-Speed Rail Plan," by Robert Poole

Just Asking Questions podcast

"Milei Brings His Chainsaw to Argentina's Regulatory State," by Katarina Hall

"1972: The Year That Made 2018 Seem Sane," by Brian Doherty

"Jeb Bush: What He Thinks of Trump, Biden, DeSantis, and 'Florida Man,'" by Nick Gillespie

"Who Decides Whether Trump Can Run, and What Sort of Evidence Suffices?" by Jacob Sullum

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

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

Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve

What are we consuming this week?

Zach Weissmueller

• May December

Elizabeth Nolan Brown

• Thai? Dai!

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age by Dennis Duncan

Peter Suderman

• Slow Horses

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[InsaneTrollLogic]

In 2024, Teens Will Get Pregnant in Driverless Cars

That is, if they can figure out what sex/gender/orientation they feel like today.

[Vernon Depner]

I’ll predict that 2024 will be the year we’ll turn the corner and genderism nonsense will begin to recede. It’s already happening in Europe.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul. they/them)]

Well, it was largely an import from America. Easier to say no to something you didn’t invent.

[TheReEncogitationer]

Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought it was a measure of progress that there are fewer teen pregnancies anywhere. .

[NOYB2]

but I thought it was a measure of progress that there are fewer teen pregnancies anywhere

It’s not progress if it is accomplished via forced sterilization, castration, or frontal lobotomies, the way progressives historically have liked to do it.

[Vernon Depner]

25 is the new 17.

[LIBertrans]

Once an untreated, unwanted pregnancy has killed the host, thanks to mystics coercing government-licensed physicians, that kinda closes the door on sexcrime “recidivism,” no?

[sarcasmic]

Just say yes to risky sex!

[Chumby]

In 2025, preteens will get sex reassignment surgery in taxpayer funded driverless electric cars.

[Vernon Depner]

That’s forward thinking! The GenderMobile next to the BookMobile!

[Chumby]

Blowing the trans in this vehicle is an event some yearn for.

[Vernon Depner]

Transphobic Lesbians say they wouldn’t blow a trans.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul. they/them)]

taxpayer funded driverless electric cars.

Unburdened by Trump tariffs! And when it wrecks, the Silicon Valley Car Company will be immunized by section 230. What users do in their platforms is on them! And In them!

[mad.casual]

And when it wrecks, the Silicon Valley Car Company will be immunized by section 230. What users do in their platforms is on them! And In them!

In 2024 a driverless car company will abort a teen… aborting a baby. My autonomous vehicle, my choice.

Don’t fuck with Gen X or, wear a rubber, or whatever.

[Eeyore]

Lol

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

Only if they are illegals

[Dillinger]

>>In 2024, Teens Will Get Pregnant in Driverless Cars

genX did it while driving, losers.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

Well, we had to do something while driving. We couldn’t exactly play with our phones.

[Dillinger]

>>We couldn’t exactly play with our phones.

I liked girls more is the reason I give for not being a millionaire programmer.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul. they/them)]

And we didn’t even spill our drinks.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul. they/them)]

In 2024, Teens Will Get Pregnant in Driverless Cars

One of those predictions will come true.

[NOYB2]

Let me guess: “2024”.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul. they/them)]

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

What if one doesn’t have a social media handle?

[Longtobefree]

Be careful what and how you handle – – – – – –

Of more concern is knowing the correct pronunciation of the pronouns, since they get to make them up.

[Chumby]

If they ask you how you feel, respond with “My hands.”

[Diane Reynolds (Paul. they/them)]

I’m still trying to research if this is real. If it is, America is done for.

[Mother's Lament]

It’s real. It was all over Twitter a couple of weeks ago. Job number one for whoever tries to rescue everyone from this mess, is fire all the Obama (and Biden) generals. Every single one. No exclusions, no exceptions.

[Chumby]

Any service member tapping that would be eligible for a dishonorable discharge.

[A Thinking Mind]

Nice.

[DesigNate]

That’s a man, baby.

[mad.casual]

I am the living end, the logical conclusion, of an earnest “There are no stupid ideas.” ethos.

[Mother's Lament]

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[Chumby]

Olaf Scholz may leave the post of German Chancellor early in 2024, writes Bild.

According to journalists, Scholz may retire early in 2024, and he will be replaced by Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, who recently topped the ranking of the most popular German politicians.

“The reason for the Chancellor’s resignation may also be the 2020 scandal associated with Wirecard and its boss Jan Marsalek (he is now hiding in Moscow). At that time, it was Scholz who headed the Federal Ministry of Economics and “did not notice” the greatest fraudulent scheme in German history since World War II,” the article says.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul. they/them)]

It’s early 2024, he’d better get cracking.

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[Brandybuck]

Until convicted of insurrection, Trump is not banned by the 14th. Sorry haters, I hate him just as much as you do, but we are a nation of laws not of feelz, and we need to follow that same Constitution that Trump worked so hard to damage.

You open that door and states will just refuse to put other candidates on the ballot for whatever reason, just so long as they call it insurrection. And yes, this is exactly what the Alt-Right wants. Don’t play into their game.

[LIBertrans]

Orwell wrote an essay on the fallacy of appeals to “playing into the hands of (insert totalitarian thugs here).” Then again, despite Henry Miller’s warnings, he bore arms for the Marxist Workers’ Unification Party and got shot through the throat for his troubles. Some of his conclusions were at least drawn in the light of actual experimental data.

[LIBertrans]

Was it Suderman who hyped Silent Night? If so, he and Wu need remedial physics. Gangsta cars go 0 to 60 mph in 5 seconds, then are at 88 feet a second. Bob Hayes ran 30 feet a second. So this angry guy breaks a windshield and spends 23 seconds outrunning a gangsta car on foot in a hail of bullets. Anyone familiar with related rates can see the car would run over even Bob Hayes three times before he could reach the forklift. This destruction of disbelief ruins the movie in the opening scene. Someone else needs to play critic.

[LIBertrans]

“In the year 2424…” this sounds like a verse from the psych-opera “Hair,” but I don’t remember it being in the play.

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