Michael Moynihan
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842 appearances
21 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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But Cory Booker could have, if you think of what is happening this week in the Senate, in American politics, in American life today on National Liberation Day, which is an absolutely comically ridiculous way to describe the imposition of import taxes in a nearly unprecedented sense. But the Senate right now has a bill on the floor co-sponsored by Rand Paul.
And just as we were talking now yesterday, endorsed by Mitch McConnell, very interestingly enough, to undeclare a national emergency, which is the fake reason that Trump is using to do tariffs against Canada, the national emergency of the 19 kilograms of fentanyl that came across the border last year.
So he could have been working with Republicans who are defecting right now on a bill that would actually limit the president's power in a meaningful way, in a way that also would have some symbolic repercussions
resonance because you would see for the first time really any republicans showing any spine in opposition to trump and instead he gave a 25-hour speech and talked about his water tablets and whether he like pooped on his own shoes um it's not as effective look at me yeah it was a lot of detail about like how he hadn't eaten in a certain amount of time before and then suddenly you're thinking about cory booker's colon and supposedly it's supposed to be inspirational to you you're like
He lacks tact in the most profound way. That is actually the thing that makes him uniquely annoying and frustrating. And I think Matt is exactly right. He could have used this in a way more tactical way
If all he's trying to do is engage in this kind of project of self-aggrandizement and strengthen his bid for supremacy in a leaderless party that is apparently was being drug around by the nose by Jasmine Crockett for about a month and a half. So at least that moment seems to have passed for now. But I will say if I could say one positive thing, it's that he broke Strom Thurmond's record here.
and Trump's record from the 1960s is when he was filibustering.
The Civil Rights Act, yeah. So, you know, along the grounds of states' rights, defending the rights of the states to actively discriminate, and of course, the Southern way of life, as Trump described it as the time. Trump seems to have found religion on these matters later in life, so I don't, you know, whatever, hold it against him.
But I'll give him points for having at least dislodged that record. This is a slightly less embarrassing thing for someone to have done publicly.
I'm nothing if not generous.
I want the best for everyone.
We love you strong.
I agree with most of the explication of the situation. And it's one of the things I love about you, that you get all of the details with respect to the kind of nuances of the case. And that's totally appropriate and important. But I want to draw a quick analogy to free expression.
And I'm on the board of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, America's premier, perhaps the planet's premier civil liberties organization. And people like us, and I mean us collectively, all four of us, and most of the people watching, I'm sure, are rabid free speech defenders.
And what that means is that in many instances, you find yourself defending people who are saying awful things or awful people who are saying things that are just fine and ought to be okay. And it becomes a difficult circumstance when most of the time that's greeted with a kind of disingenuous, Well, you think Holocaust denial is great. And it's not that at all. We know that the procedure matters.
We know that the marginal kind of edge cases matter a great deal. And here we have a somewhat edge case, like a guy with a somewhat dodgy record, an uncertain circumstance with respect to the kind of his legal status and situation, but an admitted mistake on the part of the Trump administration, at least by the Justice Department,
that there was a clerical error of sorts and they probably shouldn't have done things the way that they did it, which is at the core of much of the consternation about these deportations. It's easy to kind of talk about this in apocalyptic ways that are perhaps too absurd, but it's also important to just acknowledge what is happening here. We do have a circumstance where
people who work for the US government will show up, they will tell you what agency they're from, but sometimes they're in masks, sometimes they're in unmarked vehicles, and they will kind of spirit you away. And they'll move you around to different facilities in order to make it hard for you to kind of marshal, mount a legal defense for yourself.
And then they'll ship you off to a country where we have very credible reports of systematic human rights violations and all sorts of other bad things. Is that the kind of America that we want to live in?
I don't know. I don't know. There are all sorts of nuances here. And I think just in general, all I'm trying to underscore here is at a minimum, it's relevant that there are technical issues here. It's relevant that there are court objections. And it's relevant that there are kind of public relations issues. But at the core...
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