Mark and Carrie - The Putative, Possible, Potential End of the Pandemic

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Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

3 жыл бұрын

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown's Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and associate director of Brown's Annenberg Institute, share their take on the week's news.
On this episode: the G7's shaky promises on taxing the rich, and shaky relationships with China and Russia; regional variations in the Covid-19 recovery in the US; making sense of the tight US labor market; the Supreme Court talks Snapchat and labor organizing; Justice Stephen Breyer's work/life balance; voting rights, critical race theory, and the 2022 midterm elections; can Jeff Bezos just stay in space?
You can listen to Mark on Watson's podcast Trending Globally here: [Watsoninstitute - Earth-day-special-whats-missing-from-the-climate-discussion]

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@paulpeterson4216 3 жыл бұрын

On social issues the supreme court may be 3-3-3, on economic issues the court is at least 6-3 pro-corporate-anti-worker. The Republican justices are not there to decide abortion or gun or religion cases, they are there to make it impossible for the government to regulate business, and to enforce the standard that Corporations have rights, but People don't.

@PikachooUpYou 3 жыл бұрын

Bingo.

@jimbraatz4514 3 жыл бұрын

This guy gets it

@jimbob-robob 3 жыл бұрын

Yes. I thought Carrie was WAY too kind to the SCOTUS.

@nowthenzen 3 жыл бұрын

@@jimbob-robob This why I stopped regularly listening to the podcast; it is essentially a centrist platform with occasional rhetorical support to something more left.

@tonywilson4713 2 жыл бұрын

I just came back to review a something else Mark said recently. Its Early September and SCOTUS just abdicated its responsibility with Roe V Wade and Texas. So that part of your comment wasn't just right it was staggeringly right. But then it should have been predictable because this is exactly what Mitch McConnell and the Federalist Society have spent the last 20+ years working towards. And that has some very scary implications not just America but America's allies, trading partners and security partners. I'm Australian and if SCOTUS is going to be singularly focused on giving a fraction of America what it wants while ignoring the rest of the country WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO US? America is a major trading partner and our most important security partner. We've tied the next 20+ years of our national security to the F35 program. Mark comments about Europe being unsure about America (just before 9 minutes). What do you think we feel? We just spent 20 years supporting America in Iraq and Afghanistan for what? What did we get for it? The SCOTUS stuff, America's recent political history, Afghanistan, NAFTA and all the rest ties into 1 giant question. *Can anybody in the world trust America to be responsible and or keep agreements going forward?* And that's compounded by 1 fact that's rarely mentioned. America is not only nuclear armed its the only country to have ever used nuclear weapons against another nation.

@devinfaux6987 3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't expect *any* American institution, private or public, to do anything meaningful about bullying. There's a disturbingly large part of our population that seems to consider bullying to be a proud American tradition; enough to elect one of their own to President in 2016.

@stidecolon 3 жыл бұрын

Here in Canada supreme court Justices are required to step down when they reach 75 years of age. I reckon they should lower it to 65-70 years old. I never got why democrats elevated RBG to a saint, as she was obviously a disease away from the grave. If she had been a wise justice, she should have stepped down 10 years ago in the interest of not having such politicising when she eventually kicked the bucket.

@direwolf6234 3 жыл бұрын

yes selfishness ... a lifetime job is ridiculous...

@tonywilson4713 2 жыл бұрын

I'm Australian but went to college in America and if Canada has that 75 limit then I'd tend to think they have it right. You want as much experience as possible on your highest court and most people (particularly these days) still function pretty well up to 75. The real problem the Americans have is the staggering influence of the Federalist Society in appointing judges particularly to SCOTUS. If you go and just do a basic review on them its kind of staggering what they have done. They got away with telling George Bush he couldn't nominate Harriet Miers because she lacked judicial experience but were fine getting Amy Barret appointed despite a similar lack of judicial experience. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Society#George_W._Bush_administration

@pcuimac 3 жыл бұрын

I am 55 and in Germany. My experience is that schools never can do anything about bullying inside and outside of school. You just need to a) avoid such idiots or b) start your own club of people who can defend themselves by acting together. There is also always the option to escalate it to the police level. We also have no police of any kind in schools of any kind and it works pretty well. A campus police and incarceration of pupils in school is not happening in Germany.

@1873Winchester 3 жыл бұрын

In Finland we're doing better. Kids are taught about inclusiveness and what bullying is and why it's wrong from kindergarten age and up. As a parent I find the attitudes of kids today to be lightyears away from when I was a kid during the 80s and 90s. School here nowadays seems to be a much friendlier and warmer place and kids seem to be more decent people overall than the shits they where when I was a kid.

@CatastrophicNewEngland 3 жыл бұрын

It probably results in Germans having slightly thicker skins too. Stopping every instance of uncomfortableness and adversity will have unintended negative results, which need to be seriously considered. That isn't at all the same as saying that it's okay for jerks to be jerks. Schools exist to teach children. They have no business monitoring childrens' communications outside of school. If there is a problem outside of school, it is up to parents and law enforcement. Nobody should have smartphones and social media accounts anyway, they are a net negative for society. From what I've personally witnessed, letting children younger than teenagers have unlimited access to anything with a screen should be considered child abuse.

@PikachooUpYou 3 жыл бұрын

Why do economic discussions around labour shortages post-ish pandemic always ignore the number of low socioeconomic labourers that died?! This peeves me off so much. Consider 1 million+ excess dead and the effect that has on the availability of low paid labour?

@landontesar3070 2 жыл бұрын

since the global death rate has not increased, the problem of governments to keep the populace employed has not abated

@azeclecticdog 3 жыл бұрын

Don't make us wait all summer for another talk. This is my favorite WI combo.

@PikachooUpYou 3 жыл бұрын

The supreme court judges don’t actually work that hard. That’s the key. They have more than enough minions doing all the hard work and research for them while they kick back in comfort and when ready read all the documentation and make their corporate biased decisions.

@Jrood1989 3 жыл бұрын

Perfect timing for my drive.

@aved2000 3 жыл бұрын

On the head-spinning confusion over contradictory uses of "structure" Toure Reed is clarifying on this in Toward Freedom. Also Zine Magubane has some really interesting stuff to say about the hollowing out of materialist analyses of structure (thanks to Cold War politics) in American Sociology.

@redrockcrf4663 3 жыл бұрын

On vaccination - "we are way ahead of everybody else" ? Mark, please tell me you haven't succumbed to American Exceptionalism. Have a good look at our world in data charts as of today. Canada, Israel, UK, even Italy doing better.... Of course the US is indeed doing very well on vaccination compared to the global average....

@anthonyatkinson4381 3 жыл бұрын

Love mark and carrie taught me so much ❤️

@yaceya 2 жыл бұрын

G7 was supposed to be major western (developed countries). Russia was included there to be in G8 for some time on an expectation that it would become another western developed country. That is the reason why no one talks about extending G7 with China. It's not a question of how big China is.

@folknboat69 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Mark it is true about the government in the UK being a giant corruption scheme. However the PCR test my wife took last week returned in 24 hours.

@tracyleighbasham 3 жыл бұрын

Always a great listen.

@SirinxDumplings 3 жыл бұрын

You did not know about Fujimori in Peru? How? I still love you both...

@troywalkertheprogressivean8433 3 жыл бұрын

21:21 in america thousands of bars/restaurants closed permanently and not all the people who are eligible for any kind of stimulus, are receiving it. also theyre (we unemployed) not getting richer, theyre simply spending less on food, transportation, daycare.....

@troywalkertheprogressivean8433 3 жыл бұрын

theres something there between mark and carrie. they both know its there, whether spoken or unspoken i cant be sure. something missing from my existence for far too long. unfortunately, im pretty sure its going to stay missing. at least in this lifetime, on this plane.

@drakekoefoed1642 3 жыл бұрын

usa counts bank overdraft fees as part of gnp. china, by a real world measure, is probably the world's largest economy.

@PhoenixProdLLC 3 жыл бұрын

Not even close, sorry.

@CatastrophicNewEngland 3 жыл бұрын

Michael Hudson talks a lot about just how phony and meaningless GDP numbers are.

@troywalkertheprogressivean8433 3 жыл бұрын

38:58 if i had a space travel company, i'd invite the rich, then give them a tour of the sun.

@jeff__w 3 жыл бұрын

A _doge_ was an elected lord and Chief of State in several Italian city-states, notably Venice and Genoa, during the medieval and renaissance periods.

@NLuck-eh5cd 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I always think of that whenever I see the 'doge' spelling.

@jeff__w 3 жыл бұрын

@@NLuck-eh5cd I knew _doge_ was _something_ Venetian around the 15th century but I had to look up exactly what.

@NLuck-eh5cd 3 жыл бұрын

@@jeff__w Haha, yeah. The Doge's Palace in Venice was what attached that pronunciation to that word for me.

@enric-x 3 жыл бұрын

Doge comes from Roman Dux, commander, and nowadays evolved to the name of the Duke nobility title

@brianjennings7644 3 жыл бұрын

only in Blue States..my State is at 31% vaccinated...but, in the words of Hank Williams Sr, "nobody gets out of this world alive."

@jimbob-robob 3 жыл бұрын

This was good...

@jmdoe5822 3 жыл бұрын

Guess they figure since you're coming from the states you'll be okay with paying massive markups on medical services.

@cev12 3 жыл бұрын

Did Americans really learn to stop and smell the roses because of the pandemic? "Rest and reset," Blythe said. That would be consequential.

@sailormann1 3 жыл бұрын

Carrie: “the age of the (Supreme) court is nine billion”. Lol!!!!!!

@direwolf6234 3 жыл бұрын

who wants to go back to a crummy abusive job for meager pay..?? it's the rich complaining that good 'help' is hard to find and that the service peons need to wait on them .. now.. !!!

@tauIrrydah 3 жыл бұрын

The irony of Canada burning down.

@soundmixervegas 3 жыл бұрын

@davidford694 3 жыл бұрын

Mark: some people have a public duty not to retire. Sorry.

@johnpearce353 3 жыл бұрын

Re: Supreme Court retirements. Thurgood Marshall should have stayed on the court until his death 4 days after Clinton took office.

@1873Winchester 3 жыл бұрын

Climate disaster going on and Carrie and Mark talk about traveling by air to Britain and Finland.... FFS!

@RapidAssaultEuro 3 жыл бұрын

lmao, eat the bugs and stay in your pod, peasant.

@roc7880 3 жыл бұрын

I do not think we see the end of the tunnel, this delta is not the last variant we will see. and I am not sure we can go again through another round of lockdowns, there is no fiscal oxygen for that anymore.

@landontesar3070 2 жыл бұрын

maybe if I can get my booster shot on the way into the bar....

@stidecolon 3 жыл бұрын

«Early retirement fantasy» is probably the biggest millenial fetish at the current rate.