Home Depot
I’m a Home Depot employee and I truly believe that this company lives it’s values by putting our store / front line associates first. Listening to Vince’s comments I was appalled at a call to unionize. I don’t oppose unions, but at THD, we have an open door policy and issues are resolved by speaking directly with regional managers (RMMs) or others. Plus Vince misquoted how big a company we are. We are not 300B (although that’s a goal), we are 150B. I feel these are very specific one-store related issues and do not reflect all 200 THD stores in general. I would ask Vince to escalate these issues to corporate. But unionization, which may be a legit solution in other companies is a rather silly recourse in the case of THD. K&S - Do you agree there are exceptions for unionization if a corporate actually values compassionate capitalism v raw greed? BTW - it was a pleasure seeing you guys in ATL - THD HQ. Best wishes, as always, but I disagree with you guys on this one.
Featuring 3rd party coverage on breaking points
As an independent news coverage show, wouldn't it be great to feature more 3rd party and independent party coverage as the election cycle heats up. I have written off the 2 major parties and I would like more information on alternatives. Not looking for koolaid coverage just the pros and cons on alternatives.
Serious Question about Car Culture
Saagar, your point about this country not asking serious questions was a good one. I also hear you defend car-culture as being American. My question is what would we do as a country if car-culture, and suburbia, was causing all municipalities to become bankrupt? Would this a federal problem or a widespread local problem? There is a policy group, Strong Towns, that are talk about this topic in a serious manner. This podcast, https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-2ygyr-12cd3d2, might be a good entry point because it discusses many of their nuanced views through the lens of the Jackson water crisis. As a civil engineer, these guys are very critical of engineers and I agree with a lot of their critiques. I wish we, as a country, were able to talk the affects of our development model in a critical way instead of immediately defending the single family home as a display of wealth. This might not be directly applicable to DC but maybe College Station.
Database
Do you guys have a centralized location for all of the shows you've done to date, separated by segment with all of the background material etc? If so, it would be awesome if that was publicly available. There are lots of segments that I want to share with people, but it typically takes me while to find them on youtube. If you haven't already created this, I would highly recommend doing so. I think it could go a long way towards expanding your audience.
Are Biden's recent comments on Taiwan explicitly part of the "strategic ambiguity" doctrine?
Is it possible that the multiple recent instances of President Biden explicitly declaring that the US would defend Taiwan in the case of an invasion, and then immediately being countered by his staff, an explicit, intended, instance of our "strategic ambiguity" doctrine? If nothing else, the recent messaging out of the executive branch with regards to all of this has been.. ambiguous. What credence do you lend to the the idea that this might not just be a Biden gaff, and is actually intentional? I don't particular trust our security state to operate in our best interest, or generally with competence, but its undeniable that in many circumstances they do in fact operate with extreme competence. I would think that one gaff by Biden would be immediately corrected by the people around him, but multiple consistent statements to this effect? I'm really not sure I see any way that this keeps happening, where he doesn't tell his advisors/whoever makes the counter-statements to stop contradicting him, unless this is intentional. I guess unless he's just not in control at all, which is definitely an option.