Why I won't be a premium member anymore.
Hey Krystal and Saagar.. I have been following you guys for more than a year now and signed up to be a premium member the day Breaking Points was announced. I am canceling my premium membership but will still be your subscriber on youtube for the videos. Before going I wanted to let you know why I am doing so.. 1- No real difference between the free youtube videos and the uncut podcast. I have watched both multiple times and realized that the only difference in the uncut video- is pure repetition. There is not a single substantial point that anyone would be missing in the free youtube videos. 2- No real debate. I feel even though both of you are great at what you do- you are sort of are becoming just a single point of view. You used to have more differences on "Rising" and that was great to watch. Now both of you say the same thing endlessly and even if Saagar differs with Krystal (or vice versa) ..he ends up saying "I completely agree with you 100%" 3- None of your guests ever challenge you. A healthy podcast/discussion is when people can say things that you may not like. Which is why Rogan is so popular because he invites people who may not agree with him but listens to them and gets into a healthy discussion/debate. Wishing you more success.
UAW Top Leadership negotiations with Deere
I appreciate your strike coverage and especially your interviews with local union presidents(real people not top union leadership). I grew up in Northern VA and have lived in Baltimore City(three mayors are busted for corruption since I've been here) over the last decade. In my experience from living in Baltimore City, the top union leadership(MESA, MFOP, etc) is just as corrupt as our politicians. I think you see that in the response from the local union president for Deere about the initial deal that UAW Top Leadership negotiated with John Deere. He said that 90%..... 90% of union members voted "no". That's a deal that was already negotiated with Deere and the UAW Top Leadership. The local president isn't in the negotiation or even given updates based on his comments from your last interview. Why don't you interview the UAW Top Leadership and ask them what happened? How did they get to that initial deal? As you can tell based on the local president's comments, not that he can actually say this but UAW has let them down over the last five years. They trusted their union leadership and the policy decisions change by a big international company like John Deere. Both of them failed American workers and one of them gets money to represent them.
Defining Saagar's Political Ideology
Krystal and Saagar, thank you for what you do. This show is a breath of fresh air. My question is for Saagar. I recently heard Krystal describe your political philosophy as "anti-establishment, populist right." What does that mean to you? How does that translate into a worldview, supported policies, and a lens through which you view culture? I believe you have said you support police, are disenchanted with globalism, support workers over manager, and have a distain for woke-identity politics and culture wars. Is there more to is than that? (Education, healthcare, trade, etc.) It's clear you're not a part of the Reagan Right, but I don't feel like you fit neatly into the Trumpian world-view either. Who is a political figure you most align with? It's clear that Krystal most closely aligns with Bernie as an anti-establishment, populist on the left, but I would love to hear you elaborate on who you advocates most for what you care about. Take care, you two! Will
Is Haiti the target for the next US Intervention?
Haiti has been going through a lot recently with their president being assassinated, the deadly earthquake, kidnappings, and even more overwhelming gang rule/corruption. The Washington Post recently had an opinion piece that had this alarming statement: “Yet for all its unintended consequences, outside intervention could also establish a modicum of stability and order that would represent a major humanitarian improvement on the status quo, and with it, the prospect of lives saved and livelihoods enabled". Clearly we haven't learned from history (Especially in Haiti where we "curb" corruption & violence while hurting the country in the long run like in the 94 coup when the president had to sign letters with the World Bank and IMF first) but if the US was to intervene militarily again, what event/call to action would be presented to the public? Its often very hard to argue against the action, not the intent in our mainstream discourse (with Afghanistan being a recent example). How do we truly break this cycle of intervention? Sorry for the excessive wording I just wanted to make sure the context was there.
Is this Relevant To Gain of Function Research?
I work in patents and came across this article from 2018. It seems to directly refute that there was no gain of function research. I may be misunderstanding as there is a pay wall for the majority of the article. Is this further evidence that there was gain of function research? https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/cen-09602-govcon2 Best regards, Richard