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Sharon McMahon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
964 total appearances

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

I live near an oil refinery that gets its crude oil from a pipeline from Canada and they refine it and then put it on trains and trucks put all over the world. And gas is like 285 near my house, right? And we don't have $4 in state taxes, but neither do we have 35 million people trying to occupy a very small area of environmentally fragile land. It's complicated. It's very complicated.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Anybody who tries to reduce the economy into the words a president speaks into a microphone or a telephone either does not have an understanding of how the economy actually works and thus we shouldn't be listening to you. Or they do understand how it works and they're lying, in which case we shouldn't listen to you. Yes.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Anybody who tries to reduce the economy into the words a president speaks into a microphone or a telephone either does not have an understanding of how the economy actually works and thus we shouldn't be listening to you. Or they do understand how it works and they're lying, in which case we shouldn't listen to you. Yes.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Anybody who tries to reduce the economy into the words a president speaks into a microphone or a telephone either does not have an understanding of how the economy actually works and thus we shouldn't be listening to you. Or they do understand how it works and they're lying, in which case we shouldn't listen to you. Yes.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

So that person should be regarded with suspicion if they're like, well, such and such had low gas prices. Why? Explain the mechanism by which gas prices were low under their presidency then.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

So that person should be regarded with suspicion if they're like, well, such and such had low gas prices. Why? Explain the mechanism by which gas prices were low under their presidency then.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

So that person should be regarded with suspicion if they're like, well, such and such had low gas prices. Why? Explain the mechanism by which gas prices were low under their presidency then.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

I think it's really easy to feel like on the internet criticizing people, it creates this heightened emotional state. A great example of this is Hurricane Helene. Absolutely devastating to people in North Carolina in particular, Florida, Georgia, six states that have been affected by this hurricane. So many people have lost everything.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

I think it's really easy to feel like on the internet criticizing people, it creates this heightened emotional state. A great example of this is Hurricane Helene. Absolutely devastating to people in North Carolina in particular, Florida, Georgia, six states that have been affected by this hurricane. So many people have lost everything.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

I think it's really easy to feel like on the internet criticizing people, it creates this heightened emotional state. A great example of this is Hurricane Helene. Absolutely devastating to people in North Carolina in particular, Florida, Georgia, six states that have been affected by this hurricane. So many people have lost everything.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

And people look around and they see what they view as an inadequate female response, federal government emergency response to this natural disaster. And they feel like if I am mad about it, And I'm posting about how mad I am about it, or I'm posting about how they're not doing enough. But that is in some way activism. That being mad on the internet is activism.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

And people look around and they see what they view as an inadequate female response, federal government emergency response to this natural disaster. And they feel like if I am mad about it, And I'm posting about how mad I am about it, or I'm posting about how they're not doing enough. But that is in some way activism. That being mad on the internet is activism.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

And people look around and they see what they view as an inadequate female response, federal government emergency response to this natural disaster. And they feel like if I am mad about it, And I'm posting about how mad I am about it, or I'm posting about how they're not doing enough. But that is in some way activism. That being mad on the internet is activism.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

They feel like it is because they feel a heightened emotional response. They feel like by criticizing the federal government or criticizing the governor of such and such, blah, blah, blah, that they're doing something. I think it's worth remembering that there's nobody in our history book who went down as somebody who really changed the world.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

They feel like it is because they feel a heightened emotional response. They feel like by criticizing the federal government or criticizing the governor of such and such, blah, blah, blah, that they're doing something. I think it's worth remembering that there's nobody in our history book who went down as somebody who really changed the world.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

They feel like it is because they feel a heightened emotional response. They feel like by criticizing the federal government or criticizing the governor of such and such, blah, blah, blah, that they're doing something. I think it's worth remembering that there's nobody in our history book who went down as somebody who really changed the world.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

And that person was somebody who just wrote mean tweets or somebody who just wrote letters being like, your response is terrible. I don't approve of anything you've done. The people who history smiles kindly upon are the people who actually did stuff. They're the doers. I think it's important for us to realize that, like, did anybody get clean drinking water because of my post on X today?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

And that person was somebody who just wrote mean tweets or somebody who just wrote letters being like, your response is terrible. I don't approve of anything you've done. The people who history smiles kindly upon are the people who actually did stuff. They're the doers. I think it's important for us to realize that, like, did anybody get clean drinking water because of my post on X today?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

And that person was somebody who just wrote mean tweets or somebody who just wrote letters being like, your response is terrible. I don't approve of anything you've done. The people who history smiles kindly upon are the people who actually did stuff. They're the doers. I think it's important for us to realize that, like, did anybody get clean drinking water because of my post on X today?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Does anybody go to bed with food tonight because I've left some mean comments on Facebook? Probably not. Nothing has changed.