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Mike and Jay begin off this week’s present with late-breaking information in regards to the emergence of the Omicron COVID variant. Jay brings up the inherent non-political nature of viruses, whereas Mike argues that responses to viruses are inherently political, and that the US and different rich nations can and ought to be doing extra.

Subsequent, they talk about President Biden’s launch of fifty million barrels of oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve in coordination with oil reserve releases in different nations. They agree that this transfer is each political and largely symbolic. Jay believes the administration ought to make it more easy to extract fossil fuels, whereas Mike focuses extra on what he believes to be the numerous damaging local weather ramifications of fossil fuels.

Then it’s a take a look at the decision within the Ahmaud Arbery case. Mike & Jay each help the jury’s verdict, and agree that there could also be widespread points with favoritism and even corruption in native legislation enforcement. However they differ on hate crime legal guidelines, which Mike helps and Jay believes to be pointless.

After that they provide two cheers to President Biden’s nomination of Jerome Powell to proceed chairing the Federal Reserve and of Lael Brainard to function vice chair. Mike is extra supportive of the nominations than Jay, largely as a result of Jay takes difficulty with the Fed’s reluctance to taper asset purchases and lift rates of interest. They each agree that whereas Fed independence might rankle presidents and members of each events in Congress, it’s a very good factor.

Subsequent is a dialogue of Fox Information host Tucker Carlson’s “Patriot Purge” video. They each see it as egregiously deceptive propaganda and lament that some legitimate factors about federal energy are buried beneath a mountain of hyperbole and atrocious logic. Mike sees the video as additional proof that even when Donald Trump fades from the scene, poisonous Trumpism isn’t going away anytime quickly and, if something, could also be gaining energy. Jay is extra hopeful and factors out that when comparable movies have been made by Michael Moore, he was praised – Mike agrees, however feels that it’s a false equivalence.

They finish the present with listener questions on whether or not Joe Biden is extra like Jimmy Carter or Gerald Ford and why The Politics Guys listeners skew left.

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