Re: "American kids have enough toys already", It's interesting that Trump is posing this in his usual hurting-the-right-people framing, "I know this will hurt Americans, but it will hurt the Chinese more".
Even conditioned on this being true, starting off your argument with "I know this will hurt Americans, but"--nobody fucking hears anything after the "but", and so long as this isn't goddamned WW2, they shouldn't!
Josh, please do another pod with Mike Pesca, Megan et al. I miss your left right and centers at NPR and I like the right-center, left-center, and center even better.
Re: "American kids have enough toys already", It's interesting that Trump is posing this in his usual hurting-the-right-people framing, "I know this will hurt Americans, but it will hurt the Chinese more".
Even conditioned on this being true, starting off your argument with "I know this will hurt Americans, but"--nobody fucking hears anything after the "but", and so long as this isn't goddamned WW2, they shouldn't!
Conveniently, the creator of the Grinch was on the anti-Nazi side.
It's all a zero-sum game. Make ourselves 10% poorer, but make the other guy 20% poorer.
I'm constantly shocked how much the modern GOP is using the leftist excuses for communism from 30 years ago.
Josh, please do another pod with Mike Pesca, Megan et al. I miss your left right and centers at NPR and I like the right-center, left-center, and center even better.
Seconded
Another vote for the pod reboot! Really enjoyed the others.
Also enjoyed Josh's appearance on The Dispatch podcast this week!
As a father of a daughter named Naomi (and as a holder of a sociology degree), I lol’d at footnote 2.