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there’s a saying “you’re known by the company you keep”. in the case of covid and poor leadership, the US is looking at some pretty bad bedfellows. from the absurd to the disturbing, tom and rp look into the direct effect leaders have on the people they are meant to lead. at tnp, conversation rules. tnp.us
EPISODE NOTES
INTRO // HEADLINES
Covid Vaccine – logic of going through the pain
0 people have died from adverse effects of Moderna and Pfizer
Social media is ripping our country apart – sharing facts across the nation now hijacked with people who have embedded interests
Tristan Harris Social Dilemma Problem
National Security
Sway interview with Tara Kisher – Mossberg; Android biggest violator of privacy
Relationship between big news media and social media
Unemployment rate
916,000 jobs were added in March
Unemployment rate is 6%
8.4 M less jobs in the US right now than there were pre-pandemic
Capitol police officer killed
Rand…...more
there’s a saying “you’re known by the company you keep”. in the case of covid and poor leadership, the US is looking at some pretty bad bedfellows. from the absurd to the disturbing, tom and rp look into the direct effect leaders have on the people they are meant to lead. at tnp, conversation rules. tnp.us
EPISODE NOTES
INTRO // HEADLINES
Covid Vaccine – logic of going through the pain
0 people have died from adverse effects of Moderna and Pfizer
Social media is ripping our country apart – sharing facts across the nation now hijacked with people who have embedded interests
Tristan Harris Social Dilemma Problem
National Security
Sway interview with Tara Kisher – Mossberg; Android biggest violator of privacy
Relationship between big news media and social media
Unemployment rate
916,000 jobs were added in March
Unemployment rate is 6%
8.4 M less jobs in the US right now than there were pre-pandemic
Capitol police officer killed
Random and unrelated tragedy?
The murderr was affilated with Nation of Islam; so if we are going to look at the next school shooting and say the person had a MAGA hat on and that is an exmaole of far right violence, than we cant say that this
US and Iran are having indirect meetings right now
What does that mean?
Bi-lateral negotiations
Track 2 diplomacy
Indirect: Another country who are representing our interested to a fourth party of Iran
Purpose? We believe in the US gov. That when the US meets with a foreign entity, you are bestowing a certain amount of prestige on that person (foreign leaders beg to have White House dinners/meetings) in some countries that is a very big deal, in other countries its the opposite (makes you loose an election)
Its a start, we are getting there; we did a lot of damage to ourselves; the way we left was messy and harmful
Yes or BS
Yes or BS: Countries where authoritarian leaders have done terrible job: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...
Donald Trump – US
Javiar Bolsenaro – Brazil
Horrible leader
Worst C19 response
Puts the whole world at risk, because of the mutant strains that come out of that reservoir
Alexander Lukashenko – Belarus
Totalitarian
Very poor response
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow – Turkmenistan
No one has gotten C19
Can't use the word “Corona”
Full mask ban – can't wear them
Yes or BS: Janet Yellen – Global Minimum Tax Rate, will this protect race to the bottom?
Will there be one in the next 10 years? No. Would it prevent the race to the bottom? Sure.
Will there ever be a Global Minimum Tax Rate? Maybe.
If you are Janet Yellen you want that money back, making it unattractive for it to be anywhere else – we are all playing at the same level
Problem: its almost like the War on Drugs… the demand will never go down, until you get everyone to come on board the demand will always be there and there will usually be one outlier
Big spending on infrastructure?
Yes or BS: Voting and Georgia
Georgia Bill: Is this a nontroversy?
Thematic: “it is my view of the spirit of democracy that as many people as possible should be able to vote”
How can we create a system where as many people as possible can vote AND ensure the security of the vote itself
Georgia has liberalized up? Maybe due to COVID?
Sacrosanct; Votes are very secure; Republicans believe more votes = more democratic victories (SCIENCE DOES NOT AGREE)
Are they able to display the virtue of saying “even if its against my self interest I am going to make sure every vote is sacrosanct and there is minimal fraud”
Yes or BS: Publix Picked As Vaccine Provider After Giving $100,000 To Gov. DeSantis PAC: ‘60 Minutes’
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-wa...
The headlines mad me feel “wow this is going to be a big reveal” – not what I saw
Wow that is a big problem, you would think we want to solve that
Vaccine across the country is not going to the people who most need it by a racial basis, its going to those who tend to be whiter and richer
There was a decision that DeSantis made (Jan 15) some states decided we are not going to make the next round to frontline workers – just go down the age brackets
Minorities are way underrepresented in Vax roll out…
State by state… this is real.
Hard to get vax anyway…
Poverty = no computer, no car..
Florida was there when it was free for all
Did different communities get early access or not?
Did it correlate to wealth, or not?
***US 3RD WORST RESPONSE = FAILURE/INCOMPETENCE OF LEADERSHIP
Yes or BS: there’s nothing wrong with pharmacies making money while they’re providing a public service.
https://fortune.com/2021/03/26/cvs-wa...
Yes or BS: its OK for pharmacies to collect data
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04...…...more