On this week’s The Motive Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman reminisce on the supposed pleasure and freedom on supply throughout final week’s Democratic Nationwide Conference (DNC) and assess Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s determination to basically drop out of the presidential race.
02:36—On the DNC, Democrats showcase their misunderstanding of freedom.
25:05—RFK Jr. suspends his marketing campaign for president in 10 key states, endorses Donald Trump
41:22—Weekly Listener Query
48:27—Telegram founder Pavel Durov is arrested in France.
54:02—The continued fallout from Matthew Perry’s loss of life
56:14—This week’s cultural suggestions
Talked about on this podcast:
“Thank God It is Over,” by Liz Wolfe
“Manufacturing Pleasure on the DNC,” by Matt Welch
“Democrats Are Speaking About ‘Freedom’ As a result of Voters Actually Like Freedom,” by Eric Boehm
“Occasion of COVID-19 Authoritarianism Improbably Rebrands as ‘Occasion of Freedom,’” by Matt Welch
“Democrats Aren’t the Freedom Occasion,” by Liz Wolfe
“Prison Justice Reform Took a Again Seat on the 2024 DNC,” by C.J. Ciaramella
“An Over-Orchestrated Riot: Dispatch From the DNC,” by Nancy Rommelmann
“America Is Prepared To Occasion,” by Matt Welch
“No person Cared About Bernie’s Speech,” by Liz Wolfe
“Democrats Simply Cannot Stop Saving Our Souls,” by Matt Welch
“Industrial Coverage Is Alive and Effectively on the Democratic Nationwide Conference,” by Joe Lancaster
“The Anarchist Goals: Dispatch From the DNC,” by Nancy Rommelmann
“Muted Outrage and Aspirational Crowds: Dispatch From the DNC,” by Nancy Rommelmann
“Democrats Unburdened by What They Have Carried out to Chicago,” by Matt Welch
“Kamala Harris’ Plan To Hike Company Revenue Taxes Would Fall on All People,” by Eric Boehm
“Trump and Harris’ Financial Plans Are Depressingly Related,” by Veronique de Rugy
“Kamala Harris’ Affordability Agenda Is a Good Concept Backed by Horrible Insurance policies,” by Peter Suderman
“The Dumb and Dumber of Kamala’s ‘Greedflation’ Narrative,” by Jason Sorens
“Who Is the Actual Kamala Harris? A Massive Authorities Liberal.” by John Stossel
“Financial Liberty Now Has No Place in Both Occasion,” by Peter Suderman
“RFK Jr.: The Motive Interview,” by Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller
“RFK Jr. Unfold Some Libertarian Concepts, Then Offered Out to Trump,” by Robby Soave
“At Rally, RFK Jr. Says He’ll Cease Ceaselessly Wars, Seed Oils From Trump’s Cupboard,” by Christian Britschgi
“Chase Oliver: Q&A With the Controversial Libertarian Occasion Candidate,” by Nick Gillespie
“Storm Over the Rockies: The West Is at Warfare With Itself,” by Karl Hess Jr.
“Battle Over Western Lands Is Far Greater Than the Bundy Controversy,” by J.D. Tuccille
“Why do the feds spend a lot to make our Western wilderness theirs?” by Leonard Gilroy
“Is Pavel Durov the Subsequent Julian Assange?” by Nick Gillespie
“Putin and the Ayatollah Wished To Censor This App. Now It is Macron’s Flip.” by Matthew Petti
“Matthew Perry, Drug Abuse, and Prohibition,” by Nick Gillespie
“Matthew Perry’s Loss of life: Docs, Perry’s Assistant and Extra Charged in Drug Investigation That Revealed ‘Underground Prison Community’” by Ethan Shanfeld and Ellise Shafer
“Charlie Hustle Agonistes,” by Nick Gillespie
Who would have guessed going into this yr’s RNC and DNC that aesthetically the Dems would have introduced as extra @WonderBreadUSA, church-and-family-loving, mom-and-apple pie & the GOP was like a JV model of the Gathering of Juggalos? pic.twitter.com/wPrROYpYzn
— Nick Gillespie (@nickgillespie) August 23, 2024
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Audio manufacturing by Ian Keyser; assistant manufacturing by Hunt Beaty.
Music: “Angeline,” by The Brothers Steve
- Video Editor: Ian Keyser
- Producer: Hunt Beaty
