The Russia Game

[Musburger1]

Listen to the whole thing. Fascinating analysis, particularly the last half.

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/fromalpha2omega/episodes/2017-07-11T13_16_28-07_00

 

[Joe Fan]

Paul Begala, who once lost a student election at UT to a hallucination, wants to bomb Russia

 

[Musburger1]

Paul Begala, who once lost a student election at UT to a hallucination, wants to bomb Russia

America suffers from mass hysteria. We must pre-emptively destroy the rest of the world in order to save ourselves

 

[Joe Fan]

America suffers from mass hysteria....

That must be the world's widest brush you use for your painting

 

[Musburger1]

Ok, half of America suffers from mass hysteria.

 

[Mr. Deez]

Paul Begala, who once lost a student election at UT to a hallucination, wants to bomb Russia

Part of the problem with this is that liberals are using very hyperbolic rhetoric on this to make it sound a lot more existential than it actually is - something a responsible media shouldn't let them get away with. They use language like "hack the election," when no such thing happened. Russia hacked somebody's email and leaked it - something that's bad and criminal. It warrants criminal prosecutions, sanctions (if ordered by state officials), etc., but military action is absurd. There's nothing in John Podesta's email box that's worth going to war over.

Hacking the election would mean doing something to actually manipulate the vote counting so that the actual winner lost. That could justify military action, because it truly is a threat to democracy, but until someone presents evidence that the Russians did this, the idea of war should be thoroughly laughed off.

 

[Brad Austin]

Half of America has no clue how sobering the Cold War was and what it felt like doing 'duck and cover' drills as a kid at school.

Hell even the fictional movie 'War Games' was entertaining but also felt creepy and tense knowing we were a malfunction away from guaranteed death.

These clowns warmonger at Russia under false belief their locked doors and warm blankies are impenetrable fortresses.

All the while believing nuclear would be like a video game or watching a documentary on soldiers in Iraq. Neither of which threatens their safety one ounce.

 

[Joe Fan]