I hope for a different result, but I don't expect one.Ġ2 - Brace for impact. It's just the best deduction I can make from the best data I can find. I'm not I think it would be a disaster for the U.S.A. So please don't email in to complain that I'm rooting for a Trump loss. Wishful thinking is the enemy of sound good sense, as our social policies this past few decades show all too clearly. If the conclusions go against our wishes, we should bear the disappointment stoically.Īll the evidence tells me I shall die one day but I don't want to die. We should examine the facts that are available to us, apply our powers of reason, and draw what conclusions we can. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. I don't want him to I voted for him in 2016 I shall vote for him on Tuesday I regard control of our government by the Democratic Party with fear and apprehension It just looks to me like the more probable result. I have been saying for a year and a half that I think President Trump will lose his bid for re-election. Please, members of that subset, reflect on how elementary your error is. That I can believe something will happen without at all wanting it to happen - perhaps in fact desperately hoping it won't happen - is a thought some people cannot think. When I try to prognosticate and say that, based on the facts I've seen and my own powers of reason, I think X will happen, they somehow take that to mean that I wish for X to happen. There's a subset of listeners - a small subset, I should say - who seem unable to distinguish between thoughts and feelings. If it's OK for listeners to chide me, I can chide back. Fair enough, and if I judge my error to have been of sufficient gravity, I'll correct it in a later podcast. Listeners sometimes email in to chide me for something or other, usually some point of grammar or error of fact. I'd tell you the name of the broad who helps put these bulletins together but she is a employee and prefers anonymity.īefore I begin, a little gentle chiding. This is of course your tirelessly genial host John Derbyshire, bringing you commentary on all the latest news from home and abroad. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners. NOTE: We usually wait until Wednesday to post the transcript, but as a public service, we're posting it now.Ġ1 - Intro. (Kazakhs get it right.)Ĥ4m57s Red Guards target Grease. (Murder in the cathedral.)Ĥ1m53s Owning the insult. (A Darwinian winner.)ģ2m01s More on Mongolia! (The Quad goes courting.)ģ8m13s Importing social problems. (The Nice White Lady menace.)Ģ5m14s Philadelphia story. (They'll take your bank account.)ġ9m11s SCOTUS back to nine. (Into the Singularity.)ġ1m03s Towards the beggars' democracy.
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