Biden’s cognitive shrinkflation | Reason Roundtable | February 12, 2024

[@bradquigley81]

I am not sure what this is but it's excruciating.

[@RichardKing-sx6xc]

"I'm Boe Jiden and I sniff little girls' ice cream cones" ~ Let Go Brandon 😎👍

[@josephsmith9130]

Thank you for this intellectual conversation on the status of the current state of affairs. In many instances, it proves that the 3 branches of government have no idea what they are doing. God help us

[@Giant_Meteor]

The new Biden fried chicken ad is priceless.

[@cluisdotorg]

As a longtime LISTENER this is the first time I have seen Matt do the ad read for better help and I have to say it has done more for my mental health than any such program could do. When did Reason blow past everyone production level wise? Well done, and good call!

[@Caleb-90]

Love having the video version of the podcast. Huge get with Emma Stone on the cast this week!

[@tyshekka]

Lol

[@SparkyFinch]

Finally, confirmation that Peter's kitchen is mostly booze and his freezer is some frozen biscuits stuck between clear ice blocks

[@dimitrikorsakov2570]

Very glad you guys decided to go video

[@alexanderchenf1]

Homelessness is directly associated with housing cost.

[@HardcoreFourSix]

I love flybys! As far as polls, I have never responded to one, and nobody that I know has (I am 60 years old, and a "conservalibertarian", as are most of my friends).

[@JWForce1059]

I'd be curious to see whom Biden believes to be president

[@staninjapan07]

Sad, but so funny!

[@jmf5246]

Corn pop forever!

[@woodchuck003]

I am dumbfounded that the host can all agree that people have crazy opinions on Trump and then seconds later agree that Trump wants to be president for life.

[@VeniVidiVid]

Love these on video. 🙂 (unironically)

[@Boethius411]

The best argument for student loan forgiveness is actually a conservative argument. What these guys aren’t mentioning here is that the default rate is an already huge and growing problem. There is no leaving it alone option that is better for working class taxpayers, but that’s apparently what they are saying here. Truth is it is a bubble more catastrophic than the 08 housing crisis and when it pops, the pain will be very real and fall on the working class. Do they really believe the multinational banks are ever going to be the ones who suffer? It really boils down to bailing out the borrowers sooner or bailing out the banks again later and the latter will cost way more than the former. Someone has to have the balls to go after the universities and their endowments, but that’s not any more likely than letting the banks fail.

[@nedhill1242]

Don’t forget the massive credit card bubble and the housing bubble that is developing in the south. Yes it’s driven by supply and demand. But just because tons of people are moving into an area and there’s limited supply doesn’t mean a house that was $80,000.20 years ago should be $500,000 now. But it’s also extremely expensive to build a house today also because of the ridiculous artificial inflation.

[@OfficialCrashnet]

92% of the US student loan debt is Federal not private. So what you are suggesting as this best argument is to short the Feds $1.56t. You are right though, Big Government isn't going to go after Endowments propped up by it's donors.

[@nedhill1242]

@@OfficialCrashnet Exactly. American universities have endowments worth billions and billions and billions. Most American colleges could operate for years without a penny from students or the government. Elite universities and large well-known institutions could probably operate for decades without a penny from the government or intuition. But they keep jacking up prices because of the student loan program, becoming nationalized and taking over by the federal government regulations, and becoming nothing but a free credit card for people. I’m a mortgage broker and I have seen how ridiculous prohibition student loan debt is for people that got all that money didn’t need it didn’t really use it and have nothing to show for it. Didn’t even use it to at least buy a house. They just pissed it away. Now they want to be bailed out. BS!

[@OfficialCrashnet]

@@nedhill1242 I'm in Michigan a few years back I did some back of the napkin math for UM & MSU, lets just be nice and say they only make 8% return on their endowments. They can both afford to pay for every student on campus and still get 1/3 of their return.

[@nedhill1242]

@@OfficialCrashnet Exactly. It’s insane! And what’s really upsetting maybe more than anything else is these are taxpayer funded institutions. And they jacked up their prices and they know that probably today 60 to 70% of kids should not be going to college and are getting worthless degrees. They know that students are getting into tremendous amounts of debt to pay money that they don’t need they being the university and these people are never gonna get a job that we’re allowed them to pay that money back. There should be widespread class action lawsuits against universities.

[@rcking4084]

If every episode was as funny as this one 😂😂😂

[@TheWhitehiker]

Give me the Puppy Bowl.

[@glennmitchell9107]

Are non-overdose deaths not tragic too? Where can I get an "Addicts Lives Matter" yard sign?

[@tyshekka]

"A-B testing" and "unprincipled" aren't the same as "deranged." I'm about halfway through listening to this and I'm trying to follow where "deranged" is coming from.

[@GilesMcRiker]

So two first term presidents are running for a second term as president, one of them having served eight years as vice president and his entire working Life as a politician in washington, yet it's Trump that wants to be dictator for life? I don't care if someone criticizes or insults Trump or any other politician, but if I wanted to hear 24 year olds spell stupid opinions I could just log on to TikTok

[@garthor]

I think you should be able to get a full refund for college, including the interest on all loans if it doesn't turn out that you have a career in the field that you studdied in within 5-10 years. The promise of college is that you will have a successful, rewarding career at the end, and too often that's just not the case... sometimes even if you pick a good degree. Any college that doesn't live up to that promise is guilty of false advertising. You should also 100% absolutely be able to declare bankruptcy on and/or refinancecollege loans. They are predatory AF, and there needs to be recourse if you find yourself upside down. Getting taxpayers to pay for it? Naw fam... no bueno... gets a no-vote from me.

[@jeff-hh9mc]

Yeah America is fucked.

[@AkhtarSharmeen-qe3vy]

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[@99guspuppet8]

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[@zyzzer]

If this group is in charge of saving anything other than a seat at the theater may God help us all.

[@glennmitchell9107]

I subscribed to Reason because I thought I was going to get reasoned arguments. Instead, most of what I hear is Trump is a madman.

[@ToMBrlcKeR]

I think I'll be returning to the audio-only version. I'm kidding of course, although I'll usually listen while I'm driving or working around the house. #bringbackthegillespiestauche

[@alienvalentine]

46:44. Everyone in both parties is doing something about this. They're all making it worse.

[@davidgalloway5598]

this is a podcast to miss because a few minutes I spent listening to it insured my IQ would plummet at least 45 points.

[@zyzzer]

Yeah I still can't believe how much these guys talk with such political correctness when it comes to Biden's obvious dementia and talking about his "second term." Think whatever you will about 2020, but if Biden is going to win again there is ZERO PERCENT chance of him winning without cheating. He's the worst president in any of our lifetimes and we're watching the US collapse all around us and 80% of people don't even want him to run again, let alone vote for him. But these guys skirt around it all as if this is a CNN talk show. WTF is going on with Reason?!

[@sunnyla2835]

​@zyzzer yes! They sound exactly like democrat establishment apologists! So glad I'm not the only one seeing this bullcr*p.

[@Vorpal_Wit]

I love this Moar Surlier Than Thou edition of the podcast. Also, Emma is just 24, so when she says" this policy will have the exact opposite effect to what is intended." she may not realize that she is describing every progressive policy ever, so she may need to be more specific. hehe.

[@ryanbuysse8867]

How does a contributor to Reason magazine make the claim "Trump wants to make himself a dictator for life" without explaining why she believes that or citing some proof to the claim. Someone please explain the claim

[@sunnyla2835]

There is NO shortage of workers, Emma, there is a shortage of WELL-Paying jobs!!! Pay workers a decent wage and #SecureTheBorder #RemainInMexico #FreeAssangeNOW

[@anonygrazer3234]

Jesus didn't go around washing _everyone's feet_ and neither should we...it was a huge intersectional diversity propaganda piece.

[@nedhill1242]

I have been hearing radio commercials, and sometimes TV commercials for that organization for a couple of years. It was obvious from the very beginning they were not anything remotely Christian, but very woke Christian. Jesus taught forgiveness. Jesus taught love. But contrary to what they think, and promote, Jesus did not promote tolerance. It’s my understanding that God it owns Holly lobby is an Evangelical. That he’s very conservative. I can’t see him being involved with this organization. Is there something that I’m not aware of that Nick Gillespie was referring to? He said this organization is owned by the guy That owns Holly lobby. I have not seen or heard anything of that before.

[@nedhill1242]

Did a little research. The family that owns Holly lobby donates 50% of their revenues pretax to Christian organizations. They have donated so far over half $1 billion to Christian organizations. It looks like maybe they gave money to an organization that then gave money to, the people that made that ad. Or possibly they gave them some money directly but it’s very difficult to know how much. Gillespie said that organization is owned by Holly lobby. No. That is a blatant flagrant lie. It looks like Holly lobby might’ve given some money to them. And if you understand how these things work when you don’t have direct records and people are giving away that much money to dozens and dozens and dozens of organizations, it’s no way to know exactly what they’re all doing and keep track of it. It’s quite possible that the family that owns hobby lobby is not even awarethat they gave money to the people that Randalls commercials. If they did, I would be extremely disappointed. And I’m not trying to defend them per se. I just think what Gillespie said was reckless and I wanted to do some research for perspective in context.

[@mac7943]

Hope Emma was joking about the Super Bowl comment!

[@glennmitchell9107]

What is the life expectancy for a drug addict who only uses safe doses of fentanyl?

[@cluisdotorg]

If Emma is representative of educated 24 year olds these days who may at some point run this country, I think I can safely return most of my bunker supplies.

[@woodchuck003]

She makes me want to upgrade my bunker

[@jameslane2326]

38:27 You definitely could not of read a similar email or any email in 1933.

[@sunnyla2835]

Neither my husband NOR I, ffs, yall are "journalists!" Talk like it!!!!!

[@iSeedless]

ELVIS IS EVERYBODY... ELVIS IS EVERYTHING...

[@focuspulling]

The endless rave about Mr. & Mrs. Smith was surprisingly banal in this enlightened discussion: it's mainstream cliched episodic teevee crafted for gullible fantasists. #notmynewyork

[@robhaynes4410]

Liking the new video format. Interestingly, Peter is much less punchable when you can see him!

[@mattcat83]

Please stop making jokes; it's just unfunny.

[@AkhtarSharmeen-qe3vy]

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[@jayweaver1142]

The pilots don't hate flyovers. Maintenance does a little because of the extra work. FYI if you haven't suited up or laced up boots you can shut up about what we like and don't like.

[@ablinkin65]

I don't care that the squids had to get the blue angles going for the Superbowl. They're awesome. Also, if there is no flyover, that's perfectly fine as well. Haha

[@tcuster55]

Nicki Haley vs Kamala Harris is possible

[@mortagon1451]

the horror

[@dennytuma]

that girl has a very annoying way of talking

[@TopDog8762]

I did not watch the super. I do not watch anything that has anything to do with the nfl. Question, are the players still on their knees pleasuring the owners and execs of the NFL?

[@vincentbernal635]

You have stopped watching football entirely? Sorry to hear that. That was an amazing game between the niners and chiefs. You are missing great football.

[@Boethius411]

Don’t you think Kap would have gotten a job instead of being locked out of the league if the owners were the problem? Anyway the answer to your question is no; kneeling isn’t a major problem anymore.

[@vincentbernal635]

​@Boethius411 Politics aside, Kap wasn't a good quarterback. He was reliant on his legs and never improved from being a one read guy. And there were rumors that he was barely watching film. There was a reason Blaine Gabbert played over him.

[@Boethius411]

@@vincentbernal635 I didn’t say he was a good QB. But he was better than most back ups in the league and a few starters as well. Without the controversy headache he would have been on a roster somewhere.

[@vincentbernal635]

@@Boethius411Here’s the issue: he had chances to try out and have scouts watch him throw. But for some reason he canceled it on that day and moved to another place to throw just so he can have cameras. That was a bogus thing he did. If you want a team to acquire you, follow their terms, not yours. Scouts from many teams were there at the planned spot before he bolted in the last minute.