Mark & Carrie- Far Too Clever and Overthinking It

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Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Жыл бұрын

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news.
On this episode:
Unpacking the Inflation Reduction Act
What this summer's good news for Democrats means for the midterms
Liz Cheney's political future, and what it could mean for Democrats and Republicans
Trump's Mar-a-Lago drama. What matters, what doesn't, and why it feels like we've been here before...
Multiple US Congresspeople head to Taiwan. Grand strategy, or ego-trip?
Mega droughts in Europe and California

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@cev12
@cev12 Жыл бұрын
No, it's not a reasonable interpretation... because trump should be held to the same legal standards as everyone else. The old "nobody is above the law." It's clear how his base will view this, as they never veer from trump's line. But that doesn't matter. What matters is that he's held responsible for the laws he's broken.
@pauldi7268
@pauldi7268 Жыл бұрын
Clearly, based on history, all american presidents are above the law.
@patrickvangelder3349
@patrickvangelder3349 Жыл бұрын
indeed the argument when one party does this, the other will do it too is useless, it all comes down to the judges, did he really do something illegal or not, you can try to sentence a president as much as you want, if nothing happened, no punishment
@cev12
@cev12 Жыл бұрын
@@patrickvangelder3349 Well, I don’t believe for a second that judges are impartial. But the fact remains that someone who breaks the law should be held responsible (especially if it was egregious). The outcome, actual justice, may be beyond our control, but that shouldn’t play into the decision to seek justice.
@wavell2000
@wavell2000 Жыл бұрын
Mark and Carrie need their own channel or some way to notify based on them
@justice4keanu
@justice4keanu Жыл бұрын
Carrie needs to put her empty head to use and snag a gig at MSNBC. She brings nothing to the table. And Mark needs to stick to economics because anytime he strays outside of his expertise (foreign policy, mass vaccination, etc) he comes off dumber than Carrie.
@FuckYourSelf99
@FuckYourSelf99 Жыл бұрын
Every Democrat who thinks they're a character in The West Wing needs to be instantly sent to a reeducation camp and replaced by someone who's actually worked for a living or that party is dead meat.
@josephdibello846
@josephdibello846 Жыл бұрын
Love listening to you, but I think You might be overthinking the authorization for the return of material to the National Archives. Garland is acting as an attorney general and a former judge. The issue of returning the documents was settled by the courts and and subsequently by the US Congress in the 1970s. Trump was basically refusing to return the documents. A very different scenario than the Mueller investigation. It was clear-cut, and for the Attorney General NOT to act would’ve been a violation of his oath of office.
@davidbarry6900
@davidbarry6900 Жыл бұрын
Agreed. It's basically like repossessing some overdue library books, that Trump should not have still had on his property after leaving office. (HIGHLY sensitive/top secret "library books", of course). Whether any actual prosecution (and for what offences, if any) arises out of this afterwards is unknown at this time.
@tinoyb9294
@tinoyb9294 Жыл бұрын
Rationalizing not holding anyone accountable for wrongdoing. It's the American way.
@stuckp1stuckp122
@stuckp1stuckp122 Жыл бұрын
I love your podcasts!
@stephenphillips6245
@stephenphillips6245 Жыл бұрын
Suburban garden / lawn waterers, in California /Arizona, use like 60-75 percent of water ,use, keeping lawns in the desert. Just turn the lawns into cactus and road gardens....some municipal governments are giving money to get rid of lawns...heard a guy got 25k to do so and used it to pay half of the cost to artificial turf.
@Life_as_Game
@Life_as_Game Жыл бұрын
Astro turf creates an awful heat island effect. Do not recommend unless you want a giant lava patch! Just rewild it to native stuff - help bees and butterflies
@stephenphillips6245
@stephenphillips6245 Жыл бұрын
@@Life_as_Game That is how I feel ..pocket the money and let nature take over, for that natural look.
@buzoff4642
@buzoff4642 Жыл бұрын
@@stephenphillips6245 It's intermittently beautiful, as the wildflowers go through their natural cycle. The occasional clip/clip/clip, step the deadhead flowerseeds into the soil, far less work than a lawn.
@stephenphillips6245
@stephenphillips6245 Жыл бұрын
@@buzoff4642 Lawns are overrated
@MrKansaitim
@MrKansaitim Жыл бұрын
If hindsight was foresight, we'd all be better off by a damned sight. ~Big Bob Rutherford, Perth, Ontario
@MrScientifictutor
@MrScientifictutor Жыл бұрын
Everything is fine. Keep going about your lives.
@daviddauphin838
@daviddauphin838 Жыл бұрын
Yea number 1 today - here is to you guys.
@johnnycto7576
@johnnycto7576 Жыл бұрын
Why don't they just call the next bill "The Great-America building, jobs creating, everyone's a winner Act"?
@samuelglover7685
@samuelglover7685 Жыл бұрын
After the "Patriot" Act... After the "Defense of Marriage" Act.... After Operations "Just Cause" and "Iraqi Freedom"... Christ, I'd say the name of this bill is almost an exercise in understatement.
@stavroskarageorgis4804
@stavroskarageorgis4804 Жыл бұрын
How much a federal tax "gets" the US Government is irrelevant, at best. The tax on stock buybacks is a Pigou tax. Set the tax rate high enough so that the activity in question becomes prohibitively costly, and "revenue collected" from it tends towards zero. Framing matters
@costeris35
@costeris35 Жыл бұрын
Is that title a review of your own podcast? (Totally kidding, I love your conversations)
@paxdriver
@paxdriver Жыл бұрын
"finally it's coming this fall..." - I was convinced Carrie was going to say the ethereum changeover lol
@jimbob-robob
@jimbob-robob Жыл бұрын
This was good...
@dynamitecity9667
@dynamitecity9667 Жыл бұрын
Why the hell are people so upset about the student debt reductions?
@funpolice4416
@funpolice4416 Жыл бұрын
A lot of folks are under the impression that it’s coming out of their paychecks to pay for worthless education, history, and liberal arts degrees. Or are in the “I served and suffered so you should too crowd”.
@phillipsiebold8351
@phillipsiebold8351 Жыл бұрын
The droughts in Europe, US and China are likely due to Hunga Tonga eruption overtop anthropogenic climate change. Geologists are raising the alarm to the meteorologists that Hunga Tonga released 150 million tons of H2O into the stratosphere with minimal (½ million tons) of SO2, very unlike what Tambora, Krakatoa, or Pinatubo did.
@JJ-ic6pn
@JJ-ic6pn Жыл бұрын
Overthinking but with little forethought. Dangerous cocktail.
@ericbruun9020
@ericbruun9020 Жыл бұрын
Perhaps this is covered in another recent episode, the infrasructure bill looks like it is turbocharging sprawl, which is offsetting reductions in emissions that could happen from the more recent IRA. And it will aggravate the inefficiency and poverty in the economy by further increasing auto dependence.
@moonshoes11
@moonshoes11 Жыл бұрын
Mark Hammel and Carrie Fisher? ;)
@dinozaccagna8730
@dinozaccagna8730 Жыл бұрын
Anyone know what climate change map Makr was referring to? I can't find anything that sounds like he described.
@williamwaldmann3009
@williamwaldmann3009 Жыл бұрын
Where are you at! You are off in never never land!
@davidwilkie9551
@davidwilkie9551 Жыл бұрын
One of those examples of where I agree with you totally so have to fight because it is still only the tip of the trouble, how can we de-convolute that? Nailed it on the "tit for tat" strategy and war of war game attrition techniques. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. The more gross consequences of MAD Mentality are beginning to stand out, failures of the fiat economies in which pure emptiness is accumulating behind the most worthless weapons conceivable, only possible with the greatest economic sacrifice and inversion of sanity in technology. Chinese Generals are like their counterparts everywhere in responses to threats, threats are worse to deal with than actual responses because of having to deal with expensive possibilities.., to match the opposing expenditure. The principle that brought down the Soviet is continuing to do the same thing to the rest of the world. Putting off dealing with an inevitability:- : It's always NOW", all things are dealt with in the present time, the Universe is an instantaneous Event Singularity, Holographic Principle Actuality. "Don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today".
@davidpearn5925
@davidpearn5925 Жыл бұрын
More than a whiff of false equivalence today………IMHO.
@landontesar3070
@landontesar3070 Жыл бұрын
US Consumer debt is up recently.
@kirstenmadsen2628
@kirstenmadsen2628 Жыл бұрын
If it's yellow let it Mellow, if it's brown let it drown,,,,, saves each house hold of between 8-12 gallons of water DAILY Good place to start 👍
@bfetoile2955
@bfetoile2955 Жыл бұрын
And yet nothing - NOTHING - can compare to giving up meat and dairy in terms of water consumption. Look it up. You'll be astonished. Yet no one wants to talk about it... A bunch of young Maori made a documentary about how "sustainable" dairy is sucking up and polluting NZ's water that came out this year. It's called Milked and it is free on KZfaq.
@lauramcconney9367
@lauramcconney9367 Жыл бұрын
Or maybe we smokers keep smoking because it's the only part of life we really have control over and Everybody is going to die of something. At 75 it doesn't matter what because I'm ready to leave this world run by imbeciles. I believe in a life in God's Perfect Kingdom and in his forgiveness of my sins through His Son, Jesus Christ, so I'm ready when He calls me ! You can have this War laden hell hole! Insanity!!!
@johncale1849
@johncale1849 Жыл бұрын
Is Carrie just there to make Mark look smart?
@potomafia
@potomafia Жыл бұрын
“There’s lots of stuff and other stuff that affected some stuff.” Now back to you, Mark.
@webdeuce
@webdeuce Жыл бұрын
What carrie does to English is just outright criminal 😂
@spitezor
@spitezor Жыл бұрын
Case in point "LatinX"
@justice4keanu
@justice4keanu Жыл бұрын
That's because she's a groupie for big brained men. She's an idiot, but wants to exist in intellectual circles in the hopes some of it might rub off on her. It hasn't.
@stavroskarageorgis4804
@stavroskarageorgis4804 Жыл бұрын
Has Carrie managed to learn *anything* from doing these podcasts with Mark? Unless it's an act, that's depressing. If it's an act, it's infuriating.
@julianshepherd2038
@julianshepherd2038 Жыл бұрын
I've had a long think about this and you are overthinking.
@justice4keanu
@justice4keanu Жыл бұрын
How have you two not figured out that Democrats and Republicans are just two branches of The Corporate Party? Near identical donors, near identical policies. Neither is trying to "win" because it doesn't matter which wins as long as Corporate doesn't lose. Any perceived competition is the result of theater, dummies. It's called Oligarchy and America has been one for at least 40 years. Look it up and get it right already.
@cyberslim7955
@cyberslim7955 Жыл бұрын
23:00 Pelosi visit was the smartest move in a long time. 1. Politician talking is NEVER an aggressive move: WTF CCP? 2. Showing support for Taiwan with aggressive CCP is massive propaganda win! 3. CCP PLA exercise did show, it is much more likely they will have war with Japan, Korea, too! 4. CCP showed the world, they are like Putin 5. Long list of US political wins. For Taiwan it's a win, too. They now know, after HK, the day of doom is coming! It's better to be much better prepared than Ukraine.
@stavroskarageorgis4804
@stavroskarageorgis4804 Жыл бұрын
No such thing as "CCP".
@samuelglover7685
@samuelglover7685 Жыл бұрын
@@stavroskarageorgis4804 It'll sure come as news to its tens of millions of card-carrying members that the Chinese Communist Party is a fiction.
@Vanderearden
@Vanderearden Жыл бұрын
Cyber Slim: Your theory makes sense, only if your posture is itching for war.
@cyberslim7955
@cyberslim7955 Жыл бұрын
@@Vanderearden No, hate war, will run away, never participate! What I think and will do, does not change the fact, that a lot of commi officials think war is coming, because once the economy is in tatters and the people are super fed up with gov, the only way to stay in power is with a massive distraction: war.
@Vanderearden
@Vanderearden Жыл бұрын
@@cyberslim7955: The U.S. has been distracting with war around the globe for over a century. And who are these "Commi's" you speak of?
@patrickvangelder3349
@patrickvangelder3349 Жыл бұрын
Mark Blythe is mostly wrong about everything outside economics and since I don't know anything about economics I wonder if he is even right about that
@matthewo2261
@matthewo2261 Жыл бұрын
I have always appreciated Mark's economic, political, and geo-political analysis but it always ends up being implied.. "vote blue no matter who". Mark will always tear apart liberalism but then make statements like "well the fox is better then the wolf in the hen house"... this makes his very informative talks, which should help educate the population who the enemies are, moot at the end because he implies that the dems are in some way acceptable. Wtf man?
@richardmayger2716
@richardmayger2716 Жыл бұрын
When will the US default??????
@jamesg3141
@jamesg3141 Жыл бұрын
Never?
@PikachooUpYou
@PikachooUpYou Жыл бұрын
As soon as Russia and China finish signing up the majority of the oil rich nations to the BRICS economic and security pact. So very soon. Death march is playing and the west are crying and fighting hard to stop them.
@davidfoust9767
@davidfoust9767 Жыл бұрын
Unlikely in our lifetimes. Won't happen unless the US government collapses which could happen but most likely is still 100-200 years away.
@stavroskarageorgis4804
@stavroskarageorgis4804 Жыл бұрын
Never.
@samuelglover7685
@samuelglover7685 Жыл бұрын
Sorry to disappoint you, but likely not for a long long time.
@pgohearn
@pgohearn Жыл бұрын
Two sets of books, Mark lost me here 18:15, a rather aloof regard for investigating trumps corruption. Comparing an fbi investigation into the Mar-a-Lago top secret papers raid, with restaurants deleting entries, is the dumbest thing I have heard him spew in a while.
@notdoneyet7785
@notdoneyet7785 Жыл бұрын
Just leave trump alone?! FU very much.
@yclept9
@yclept9 Жыл бұрын
It was pretty hot and dry in the Dust Bowl through the 30s. It seems like such stuff comes and goes. At the moment, climate science has no adult peer review, no data and no models. But lots of money. Peer review is by climate scientists instead of by experts in the tools that they're using, which just sanctions early mistakes as standard scientific practice. It doesn't take a climate scientist to cast doubt on their results, but just an expert on fluid dynamics, or an expert on data reduction. A "Hey you can't do that" flag is needed.
@scriptguru4669
@scriptguru4669 Жыл бұрын
remind me which fossil fuel industry you work for.
@martinjacket2637
@martinjacket2637 Жыл бұрын
gees you're a muppet
@breft3416
@breft3416 Жыл бұрын
One thing's for sure that we don't need a peer review for- you've been freeze-dried for quite awhile.
@brianryden6045
@brianryden6045 Жыл бұрын
The dust bowl was also man made.
@yclept9
@yclept9 Жыл бұрын
@@scriptguru4669 My checkered career intersected climate science a couple of times in stuff I knew about. 1. You can't solve the Navier Stokes equations in 3D, owing to 3D fluid flows (atmosphere) cascading to shorter and shorter scales, so any numerical grid spacing is inadequate. But the shorter scale motions feed back strongly on the larger scale motions, so you wind up with no solution. The sub-gridscale motions act as an ersatz viscosity for larger scale flows (transport of x momentum in the y direction, so I suppose it would resemble a tensor, not even a scalar). Nevertheless simulations include it only as a term like "effective vicsocity." This isn't physics any longer and the model is garbage. You can solve the Navier Stokes equations in 2D pretty easily since a quantity called vorticity is then conserved. Where it breaks down in 3D is that vortices kink and break up. It takes a couple of days for large 2D weather vortices to kink and break up, so that's how long weather forecasts work. 2. You can't distinguish a long cycle from a trend with data that's short compared to the long cycle you're wanting to eliminate. A long cycle of course isn't man-caused, so it's wanted to be eliminated. The mathematical reason is that the eigenvalues of the linear system blow up, think ten to the thirtieth power or so, so any noise in the measurement immediately swamps the signal and you get no information. So you don't know that there's a trend. (1) says there's no model, and (2) says that there's no data. Me? Just a science guy. I ride a bicycle to work, have no air conditioning at home. No fossil fuels except 3 in 1 oil on the bike chain.
@NSResponder
@NSResponder Жыл бұрын
4:15 lost me right there. You need some remedial economics classes. Inflation is not consumer demand increasing prices, inflation is theft by diluting a currency.
@carycunningham9510
@carycunningham9510 Жыл бұрын
The dollar index is the highest its been since 2002.
@tinoyb9294
@tinoyb9294 Жыл бұрын
New-clee-ur. Military Industrial Complex needs saber rattling with trips to Taiwan to justify increases in the military budget.
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