The Questions You Should Be Asking
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TOPIC: The Buffalo shooting and guns in America.
THE QUESTION EVERYONE IS ASKING: How could it be that leading Republican elected officials cannot bring themselves to put out public language along the lines of what the Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote?
There’s no doubt that a racist subculture exists in America and is spread on social media. Politicians and media figures have an obligation to condemn it and such conspiratorial notions as “white replacement theory.”
THE QUESTION EVERYONE SHOULD BE ASKING: What are the obligations of citizenship and leadership now?
THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION EVERYONE SHOULD BE ASKING: Focus on solutions, not blame, even if you think blame is part of the solution, which it is.
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TOPIC: President Biden’s trip to Asia.
THE QUESTIONS EVERYONE ARE ASKING: When is he leaving and what is he doing?
THE QUESTION EVERYONE SHOULD BE ASKING: In the short term (a/k/a pre-midterms), will this trip be more of a strain on Team Biden or more of a substantive and political victory for the American people?
THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION EVERYONE SHOULD BE ASKING: You know the answer.
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TOPIC: Rumors about the health of Putin and Xi.
THE QUESTION EVERYONE IS ASKING: Are they going to die?
THE QUESTION EVERYONE SHOULD BE ASKING: What happens if they die?
THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION EVERYONE SHOULD BE ASKING: No one knows but the United States government has plans to exploit both situations for the good of the planet.
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TOPIC: President Biden’s midterm shift to partisan rhetoric over bipartisan rhetoric.
THE QUESTION EVERYONE IS ASKING: How can this sentence from an essential reading Politico story demonstrate that President Biden is simultaneously both absolutely right and absolutely wrong?
But privately, Biden has expressed frustration with media coverage of his administration and believes that the press — and Americans at large — have been too quick to gloss over the damage Trump did to the country.
THE QUESTION EVERYONE SHOULD BE ASKING: How much longer can the wrong track and Biden job approval numbers stay like this and have the party’s two most muscular truth tellers about intra-Democratic flaws stay on the reservation, despite what they really think privately? (via the Associated Press)
“You have Democrats out there telling other Democrats that Biden hasn’t done anything. And they believe it,” said veteran Democratic strategist James Carville. “We need to be more consistent and more united.”
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said that Democrats would be in a better position heading into the fall if there was clearer leadership from Washington Democrats, who have struggled to coalesce behind an agenda or a message in the weeks since Biden’s domestic agenda stalled.
THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION EVERYONE SHOULD BE ASKING: October 18.
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TOPIC: The baby formula shortage.
THE QUESTION EVERYONE IS ASKING: Is Team Biden going to actually solve this?
THE QUESTION EVERYONE SHOULD BE ASKING: How is it that Pete Buttigieg did better messaging on this matter in one Sunday morning than the rest of the administration did over an entire week?
THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION EVERYONE SHOULD BE ASKING: The guy is wicked smart and a great communicator (now let’s see him go from talk the talk to walk the walk).
Face The Nation @FaceTheNation
Transportation Sec. Buttigieg blames the nationwide baby formula shortage on the Abbott plant shutdown: “It’s got to be safe and it’s got to be up and running as soon as possible. This is the difference between a supply-chain problem…and a supply problem.” https://t.co/CuAvpKMQuB****
TOPIC: Tuesday’s Republican Senate primary in Pennsylvania.
THE QUESTION EVERYONE IS ASKING: Who will win?
THE QUESTION EVERYONE SHOULD BE ASKING: How big a boost will it be for Donald Trump’s hold on the party if Oz wins this over the more MAGA choice?
THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION EVERYONE SHOULD BE ASKING: Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty big.
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TOPIC: The strokes of John Fetterman and Chris Van Hollen.
THE QUESTIONS EVERYONE ARE ASKING: Are they are ok and if they are not ok what are the implications?
THE QUESTION EVERYONE SHOULD BE ASKING: Are they both being fully forthcoming about their conditions?
THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION EVERYONE SHOULD BE ASKING: Let’s have journalists who are medical experts (not political reporters or GAs!!) interview their respective doctors stat.
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TOPIC: The Monday start of John Durham’s case against Michael Sussmann.
THE QUESTIONS EVERYONE ARE ASKING: Why should I care and why does the right care so much about this?
THE QUESTION EVERYONE SHOULD BE ASKING: What are Durham’s objectives beyond a conviction in this case?
THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION EVERYONE SHOULD BE ASKING: No idea.
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TOPIC: This video.
THE QUESTION EVERYONE IS ASKING: Why have you included this video?
THE QUESTION EVERYONE SHOULD BE ASKING: What do you think of this video?
THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION EVERYONE SHOULD BE ASKING: It is spectacular on so many levels.