Kamala Harris is the VP nominee for President on the Democratic ticket...we discuss the selection Joe Biden made, and whether it is a good choice.
It was also pretty easy to predict that busing (forced busing or desegregation busing) would make its way back into the spotlight as a result of this VP selection.
Busing has been in the news the last few days. You might remember that this was not the first time busing became a hot topic.
The second round of the first Democratic primary debates on June 27 2019 included a fiery exchange between Biden and Harris.
Harris, in that debate, said to Biden “You also worked with [those segregationist senators] to oppose busing,”. Biden responded by saying "“I did not oppose busing in America,” Biden, who represented Delaware in the US Senate from 1973 to 2009, responded. “What I opposed is busing ordered by the Department of Education. That’s what I opposed.”"
But despite the harsh disagreements between them on this issue and others, not only did Joe Biden still select Harris as his VP...but these two have a history of acting one way while portraying to the public a different image. They might not be all that different after-all?
Finally, On August 8, 2020, President Trump signed an executive order to suspend federal student loan interest and payments until December 31, 2020...the left is shocked that Trump would do such a thing.
A little clip from a recent episode of the podcast. We discuss the book, 'The Tyranny of Experts'. In the the clip I discuss the left labeling Friedrich Hayek a right-winger just because he didn't hold all their beliefs. One word might have really enraged them.
Today, we discuss a book by American economist William Easterly called 'The Tyranny of Experts'.
The book focuses on describing the different visions of two giants in economic development, Friedrich Hayek and Gunnar Myrdal. The main question is, what makes some nations poor and other nations wealthy?
Easterly makes a compelling argument that focusing on free markets vs. state power often misses the big picture, as even if free markets do lead to wealth, free markets are not what ensure continued prosperity.
The Democratic National Convention is over, and thank god for that. Biden was officially endorsed as the Democratic party nominee for President, along with Kamala Harris for Vice President. Biden generally garnered good reviews from his speech from both sides of the political spectrum.
#Cuties and #CancelNetflix was trending recently on Twitter. Netflix made a major error in the way that they presented an upcoming French film via their cover and description. Cuties is slated to be released in September on Netflix.
Finally, maybe Goodyear Tires did not want the spotlight..but they certainly had the spotlight when an image leaked out from what appears to have been a diversity type training program. What did the image say?
In this episode, Elvis and Ermin make that argument that self-development is largely realizing that change starts and finishes with you, not any external force, including the government. And that there is only one way to find out how you should live your life: aggressive trial and error. You need to learn what you like and what you don't like by being active in the world and stumbling around.
Without this mindset, we aren't really developing our potential, and we are forever a 'slave' to our environment.
Hello,
You can continue to interact with us on Twitter..but we will only rarely do updates here. This is a great place to send people ONCE you have a community of people who consume your content but not an ideal place to build an audience. We get much more engagement on other platforms.
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For those of you new to our community.
Elvis and I are brothers...and we have a podcast called 'Politics In Its Place'. We record two episodes per week where we try to focus on the role of govt/politics in people's lives.
We were born in Bosnia (what was then Yugoslavia). A civil war broke out when I was about 7 years old and Elvis was 11. We had to flee with our mom. Our father was taken to a concentration camp but thankfully survived and is still alive today and doing well. We believe that socialism had a lot to do with the fall of Yugoslavia. We discuss fleeing Bosnia in Episode 3.
We were both leftists at some point in our life but gradually shifted right for a number of reasons. We often mention why in our episodes.
That is just a little introduction so you know who we are.
If you are able to support us..it is just $5/month. We would gladly appreciate it. We put about 10 hours a week into recording 2 episodes (on average about 38-40 minute episodes). We do not get paid for ...
