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People, Personas, and Politics 24 – North Korea & Ivanka Crying Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner April 12, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So one concern is the Trump Administration in the United States building militarily and provoking seemingly with little cause. Rick Rosner: Well, when you say little cause, they continue to develop missile systems and weapons. SDJ: I’ll correct what I said. For instance, the USS—the aircraft carrier into sensitive areas to North Korea. They have begun to prepare for the firing of an intercontinental ballistic as well as preparing a 6th nuclear test. Something like that. RR: Trump governs by reflex. He governs by what he thinks will give him the most approval. There were messages that he launched missiles into Syria when his daughter Ivanka saw children suffering and cried. It is an understandably human reaction, but it does not reflect a cohesive foreign policy. SDJ: You read this in the news, right? That she cried. RR: Yea. SDJ: It sounds more like media narrative. RR: It is a trending hashtag on Twitter too: #IvankaCried. Given the way he runs the White House, that seems entirely within line of how things work there right now. He also got a lot of praise from the news channels from various pundits. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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People, Personas, and Politics 23 – The New GerryManderings Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner April 11, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: For democrats to win back either the Senate or the House, it will take continuing Republican overreach and incompetence for the next, pretty much, 17 months to even have a shot at taking even one of those legislative bodies. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Right. RR: Also, 2020 offers the next chance at large-scale redistricting because redistricting is dependent on results of the 10-year census, which happens in years ending in 0. Not only is 2020 a presidential election year, it is also a census year that offers the possibility of redistricting and now that the democrats should be ‘woke’ about being fucked over by the redistricting of 2010. We’ll see if lawsuits can be brought to stop super-biased redistricting. But it is going to be tough because Republican legislatures and governors own something like 37 out of 50 states. So we have 2 opportunities. 2018 and 2020 to see if we can get anywhere close to democracy starting to work as it used to work, which was not bad – before the 90s. Also, there’s one more chance for things to turnaround, and that’s if Trump leaves office for before his 4-year term is up. That’s been look not terrible if you look at the bookie odds. They have been as high as 50-50 for Trump leaving before the end of 4 years. But I don’t know. He just bombed Syria and then the media decided that he looked presidential. He may be able to pull off 4 years and it is not inconceivable that he could get 8 years in which place healing democracy looks like it may not happen until the 2030s if at all. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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People, Personas, and Politics 22 – “Gerry” Meet “Mander” Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner April 10, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: And almost everybody is in a safe district. It is a district that cannot go to another party due to the demographics, and it’s gerrymandering that has led to the polarization because in a district that is safe, I believe, close to 90% of congressional districts are safe for one party or the other. The general election doesn’t matter because it is the winner of the primary for that district who is going to win the general. In the primary, it is the bigger partisan lunatic who wins. So unless gerrymandering is gotten rid of, and is seen as unconstitutional or there is legislation passed to turn redistricting over to non-political bodies, there may be a number of states who are stuck being brutally gerrymandered, and given the court is now 5-4 Conservative-Liberal. It may not be possible to win anti-gerrymandering cases when they reach the Supreme Court. But we’ll find out on two dates on whether it will happen at all or whether representative democracy will be truly representative again. We have 2018. Mid-terms are usually won the party that doesn’t have the presidency, but in the Senate, which is owned by the Republicans 52-48. There are 25 democrats and only 8 or 9 Republicans running for re-election. So the democrats out of 33 seats up for grabs. The democrats are running for re-election in ¾ of them. So the democrats will have to win more than ¾ of the Senate elections, 28 basically out of 33 elections, to flip the Senate, which is a crazy number to have to come through with. That’s almost 85% of the Senate that will have to go to the democrats. So it’ll be tough to take the Senate back. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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People, Personas, and Politics 21 – The Red Map Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner April 9, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: The Red Map was Republican Party realizing that by flipping state races, which are cheaper to win than national races, they could gerrymander the states and make sure Republicans are disproportionately represented in the national House of Representatives. So it has only been since 2010 that things have gotten really, really bad. Though things have been trending worse and more towards polarization, political polarization for probably 30 years. Where there almost no centrist politicians left in our national political bodies, Congress and the presidency and even the Supreme Court, where there are some leftover centrist justices, but it may become impossible to get those people onto the court in the future. Where if it turns out that only when the Senate and the presidency are owned by the same political party, as now, that you can get a Supreme Court justice onto the court, which might not be the case. We only have one example so far, Gorsuch, but if that turns out to be the case. Then the Supreme Court will – not that it isn’t polarized now – become just as polarized as the presidency and Congress. The gerrymandering this, which is – gerrymandering is where – every party in the House of Representatives have states divided into districts, congressional districts, that are members of their respective parties. For the party in power, it ends up with more safe seats for them than the opposition party. In a state like Virginia, I don’t know how many they have. But let’s say they have 12. The Republicans in charge of gerrymandering figure out how to divide the states so that you have 9 safe Republican districts. They consistently win by 55-45% margins and 3 safe democratic party districts, where the democratic candidate wins by a margin of like 70/30. It’s like ghettoes for the democrats. They’re crammed into these districts. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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People, Personas, and Politics 20 – The Supreme Court Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner April 8, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: After the Supreme Court thing, which was a bold denial of Obama’s ability to nominate a Supreme Court justice and have that justice voted on, plus a bunch of other stuff, I have been wondering whether representative democracy in America is irretrievably broken, but first let’s talk about the justices, people like to say that Gorsuch is 49-years-old and may get 39 years on the bench. The average age of the last 10 Supreme Court justices to leave the Supreme Court has been 87 years. So if he holds to that average, he will be on until 2048. But that ignores advances in medical science. He could easily get 45 or 50 years on the bench if not more. I don’t know. If people start living to 120, 130. I don’t know whether they will change the rules to the court. There will be a bunch of other stuff going on. That will be disruptive of democratic traditions. So maybe, justices serving for 80 years, starting when they’re 50 and going until they’re 130. I don’t know if that will be an achieved weirdness of the system. But whether the system is completely broken and whether it can be fixed, we’ve had two of the last 3 presidents. They didn’t win the popular vote. They got fewer votes than their opponents. Bush in 2000 and Trump in 2016. Trump lost by the popular vote, by 2.8 million. And the Senate and House, one of them – if you look at the number of people, anyway – the House is strongly Republican, and has a number of representatives. I believe more people voted for house democratic candidates than republicans. Even though, two of the last three presidents did not win the popular vote, at least Bush in his first election didn’t. Things didn’t get really bad until Red Map. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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People, Personas, and Politics 19 – Earnest Babies Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner April 7, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I have heard a perverse form of optimism from the perspective of much of the political Left in America. And I want to get your perspective on this as well. Rick Rosner: Okay. SDJ: Where the hope in terms of the voting demographics is that older Republicans with “outmoded ideas” ad other such phrases will die and leave room for more votes of democrats to weigh more heavily into the possibility of a democratic election victory, to me, it seems like a dark form of optimism and a little cruel. RR: That’s one of several demographic trends. Another is that the US becomes less and less of a white nation at some point. In the next decade, white people will become less than 50% of the population and non-whites tend to not vote Republican. I’ve heard that every presidential cycle. The democratic advantage goes up by 2% because Republicans who tend to be older tend to age out of the population. Because of immigration and reproduction, the democrats slowly gain an advantage, but it is not an advantage that democrats have been able to exploit over the last 20 years because democrats are earnest babies who don’t play as mean as the Republicans. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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People, Personas, and Politics 18 – Next Election, Again Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner April 6, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: To go back to the next election, democrats, to beat whomever is president at the time – though that is contrary to everyone who hates Trump’s wishful thinking, you need somebody – a candidate – wit charisma. That’s the lever that was largely missing in this election. This was, 2016 was, one of the least charismatic elections in recent history. Where you had the two least popular candidates going against in each in American history. Trump has a sloppy charisma when it comes to winning the votes of older white people, but it is a shaky charisma because it is super creepy and somebody like a Cory Booker on the other side – who might have a less creepy charisma – could leverage that into a democratic victory. And a democratic victory is a demographic victory. In that, more people vote for democratic candidates than vote for Republicans, but because of gerrymandering and the electoral college. Republicans are overrepresented. There’s also the chance that the democrats will star getting their crap together when addressing demographic manipulation. Democrats get their asses kicked in 2010 with red map, when the Republicans figured out if they could manipulate congressional districts they could win the House of Representatives even though fewer people vote by manipulating the shape of congressional districts to concentrate democrats in their districts and spread Republicans out across a bunch of districts so more Republican congress people get elected. For 20 years, people have said sheer democrats are going to strangle the Republicans. That the Republican Party is a dying party because there are more and more people who vote democratic due to demographic trends, but the Republicans managed to survive and win due to increasingly sophisticated means of manipulating the electoral process. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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People, Personas, and Politics 17 – Strip Joints Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner April 5, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I do say this in a very important context. And it is only 1-point long. Canada is 1/8th to 1/10th – or 1/8th to 1/9th - the size of America. We don’t have the critical mass of talent. So America has more and more talented people. Rick Rosner: You have something very important. You have Windsor, Canada, which has some of the finest strip joints in North America. SDJ: Okay [Laughing]. RR: And the world’ young entrepreneurs love strip joints. SDJ: Okay, I could see-- RR: Also, you have a number of super starchy and sugary baked goods. And some of the world’s best coffee at Tim Horton’s. SDJ: We have Tim Horton’s. We have poutine. We have maple syrup. We have beaver stuff. We have the stereotype of being polite. And people going away from a belligerent president and attracted more to an assumed polite culture and people will find that an additional attraction in terms of especially working and living conditions. Also, Canada needs that. We have too few people. Therefore, compared to China, India, and America, we have fewer people. We have fewer talented people. So we need smart immigration policies – as we do. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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People, Personas, and Politics 16 – US Brain Drain Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner April 4, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Trump also says that Obamacare will fall apart and the democrats will come to him to fix it. It’s not really—wat may happen is Obamacare has problems and the Republicans try to exacerbate the problems by refusing to extend Medicare. Trump cancelled advertising that reminded people that the deadline for signing up for this year was like January 31st this year, which led to 4% fewer signups than had been estimated because people tend to wait until the last minute to sign up. Obamacare will continue to have some issues. But he may be willing to work to address those issues and he – with the democrats – will sell it as the democrats have a broken thing and then they came crawling to me. The democrats will think he is an asshole and will say things in an asshole way, but if we can fix things then we can afford to eat some shit about it. All of this is assuming Trump survives for 4 years as a president and may have another shot at another 4 years as president. Which would be bad, he would make it a less pleasant place for the world’s smart people to come and work. He is making it easier for other countries to begin to remove us from our place of technological dominance. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Canada is taking advantage of this. RR: You’re sucking up all of our smart people that want to come to America. SDJ: Not necessarily, but possibly, I saw some mainstream discussion in Canada to adapt mainstream programs to take advantage of the brain drain from American. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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People, Personas, and Politics 15 – Sliver of a Chance Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner April 3, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Imagine a president that comes down with frontal lobe dementia, where somebody with frontal lobe dementia loses their superego and become capable of just about anything. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So that would be an exaggeration of the ‘it becoming worse’ phenomena. RR: Well, frontal lobe dementia is not that common. SDJ: Well, it seems functionally equivalent to becoming worse in terms of his personality. RR: But I mean, what could be just personality traits now, four years from now could be pathologies. SDJ: What about a sliver of a chance of having a broader vision of society and getting over himself? RR: That’s one of the possibilities. One of the possibilities with Trump, who wants to be liked, could start governing as a centrist, or saying what he actually thinks about stuff, which may contradict Republican orthodoxy. He could say anything. He could say Republicans are full of shit on certain things. SDJ: Do you see hints of this at time? RR: No, only in the defeat of Trumpcare or Ryancare. He doesn’t seem to be that devastated. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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AuthorAccording to semi-reputable sources, Rick Rosner has the world’s second-highest IQ. He earned 12 years of college credit in less than a year and graduated with the equivalent of 8 majors. He has received 8 Writer’s Guild Award and Emmy nominations, and was named 2013 North American Genius of the Year by The World Genius Registry. He has written for Remote Control, Crank Yankers, The Man Show, The Emmy Awards, The Grammy Awards, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. He has also worked as a stripper, a bouncer, a roller-skating waiter, and a nude model. In a TV commercial, Domino’s Pizza named him the World’s Smartest Man.He was also named Best Bouncer in the Denver Area by Westwood Magazine. He spent the disco era as an undercover high school student. 25 years as a bar bouncer, American fake ID-catcher, 25+ years as a stripper, and nude art model, and nearly 30 years as a writer for more than 2,500 hours of network television. He lost on Jeopardy!, sued Who Wants to Be a Millionaire over a bad question, and lost the lawsuit. He spent 35+ years on a modified version of Big Bang Theory. Now, he mostly sits around tweeting in a towel. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and daughter. You can send an email or a direct message via Twitter, or find him on LinkedIn. ArchivesCategories |