02/29/2024 - Let’s close up shop and go home

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Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

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Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news.
On this episode:
• Democrats' and pundits' concern over the growing realization that President Biden is old
• Why, despite Biden’s weaknesses and the tough map for Democrats in 2024, control of Congress will likely still be up for grabs in November
• The Alabama Supreme Court rules that frozen embryos are people, and the Republican Party's toxic politics of reproductive rights
• Why Trump’s legal troubles might not be as financially damaging as they seem…
• The continued tragedy and impossible politics of the War in Gaza
• Sanctions, military expenditures, global isolationism, and the forces shaping the Ukraine War two years in
• The UK’S dysfunctional economic agenda, part 78
Learn more about the Watson Institute's other podcasts (home.watson.brown.edu/news/po...)

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@Madaboutmada 4 ай бұрын

I'd love to hear a discussion on Yanis Varoufakis' book Technofeudalism next month.

@landontesar3070 4 ай бұрын

Good discussion, Mark and Carrie. Thanks

@rabidbigdog 4 ай бұрын

I believe the observations about the Michigan uncommitted commentary comes from someone posting WAY TOO EARLY that the numbers were approximately the same as Obama's (~20k). In fact, once the count completed the uncommitted count ended up as 100k. Five times higher than the last three elections. A resounding message to Biden. It would be great if Mark could issue a correction. The Humanist Report did a great explanation of this claim.

@whazzat8015 4 ай бұрын

Michael Marx's presentation and discussion on Starvation as a Weapon of War at Watson was taken down. Where is it available now and could you discuss why this occurred? I hope that isn't too close to home.

@macrosense 4 ай бұрын

I would not call a reluctance to get into a full scale war with Russia to be “isolationism”

@tarnopol 4 ай бұрын

It’s so funny and snarky, the daily horrors!

@kornaktanker7633 4 ай бұрын

so good

@julianshepherd2038 4 ай бұрын

Glasgow used to be the way to New York and we think we are a bit American. American music is big in England but there are more influences, particularly West Indian.

@TheFamousMockingbird 4 ай бұрын

the uncommitted was proven more than noise when minnisotta voted 20% when their campaign had a goal of 5%.

@blackbeard00 4 ай бұрын

Mark is wrong about the 2008 primary, Obama wasn't on the primary that's why his campaign urged voters to vote undecided and they only managed 11%. Clinton won the Michigan primary in 2008.

@RKarabeckian 4 ай бұрын

I've heard Michigan primaries hover around 10% uncommitted anyway. The Truth Social bit was worse. Twitter peaked in 2022 at ~360 million users worldwide. The merger will be yet another flop.

@blackbeard00 4 ай бұрын

@@RKarabeckian in 2020 dem primary uncommitted earned 1.2%. this new notion of uncommitted always getting 10% is a lie to downplay the current results in 2024.

@MrAdhs11 4 ай бұрын

21:00 would you look at that, Yes Prime Minister from the 1980s is still accurate.

@mmmhorsesteaks 4 ай бұрын

God no there's enough reality without needing to make up more of it.

@mmmhorsesteaks 4 ай бұрын

I dunno... Given what happened to twitter or X or whatever, I really wonder if 4 billion is even realistic at this point. Also, I don't think you'll see this discourse on the right as much anymore after the Carlson interview. Even the right isn't so blind, not to see Putin as a loony at this point. Furthermore, shell production is set to reach quite decent levels, and add to that the Czech shell shopping it might not be quite so bad as all that. Poland now wants to move to 8% of GDP; French and German spending is going quite high now. As for aircraft carriers - that's a misunderstanding. Nobody is stupid enough to pu a carrier inside missile range without significant missile countermeasures The whole idea of a carrier is that your planes will demolish anything that can put a missile your way before that happens. A lot of misunderstanding here.

@landontesar3070 4 ай бұрын

Does a missile have longer range than a plane from a carrier?

@mmmhorsesteaks 4 ай бұрын

@@landontesar3070 that very much depends. Planes can carry missiles as well, of course.

@breft3416 4 ай бұрын

Great stuff! trump (I can't bear to ca[italize his name) will walk from any and all debt, one way or another. He always does.

@460mas 4 ай бұрын

Mark needs to talk to the journalist Haviv Rettig Gur because that’s a bad take from him.

@benday1218 4 ай бұрын

Is Mark advocating for the re-militarisation of Western Europe?

@marybusch6182 4 ай бұрын

Putin is Nobodys Friend.

@mrjozo-pr6ih 4 ай бұрын

I think there is a tendency to allways stay corrected on the stuff that`s new and untested in real circumstances. The guy driving in third gear has a thing going of which the other side doesn`t know if it would start at all. One can have all the computers but then a windows update flies in.

@macrosense 4 ай бұрын

I have been watching KZfaq channels about abandoned towns in northwest texas and the panhandle. Palestinians like places without a lot of water. Perhaps the Palestinians can all move to northwestern texas.

@julianshepherd2038 4 ай бұрын

Come home to Scotland and do some politics instead of pontificating from afar.

@macgonzo 4 ай бұрын

He has already consulted with the SNP on economic policy, although no details have been discussed publicly as far as I'm aware.