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Trump TV, the Mar-a-Lago Rumors, and Obama's Drone Tone
from Bribes and Bruschetta · #19
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2 minDiscussion of whether Trump secretly just wanted a media empire, comparisons of Obama's and Bush's foreign policy tone versus substance (drone strikes, targeted killing), and the futility of caring about who's president given entrenched systems.
- 37:52Tim says the country might be too broke to really fix and we're circling the drain, but nobody wants to hear that.
- 38:10Pointing out systemic problems makes you a bummer at parties because the fatalism leaves no room for action.
- 38:28Tim argues that wars don't solve economic depressions—they just realign the economy, and the perpetual war machine has kept the U.S. economy propped up for 70 years.
- 38:56When he tried this argument at a party recently, people agreed but then pivoted back to lesser-evil arguments about Hillary and presidents.
- 39:17After agreeing the system is broken, people change the subject to veal piccata because there's nowhere productive to go in the conversation.
- 39:40Telling people the economy is a house of cards and America is a bloated, rotting empire leaves them with no constructive path forward.
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