With politics, I always want to talk to people with different opinions to help me understand their perspective—and maybe my own.
With the election coming up and being in LA, I asked my friend Mike Brock to discuss the issues at hand with me.
Listen: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7ctwzuybCbZJw4sjnRTAYV?si=6d3dbc8c53eb42b5
This was very frustrating to listen to.
On one hand, I agree that Trump deserves blame for not cutting spending (though, one of the main reasons I didn't and still won't vote for him is that he has never given any credible indication that he intended to cut spending anyway).
On the other hand, Mike Brock was very insistent that the Trump tax cuts (signed into law in 2018) "collapsed" tax revenues. Huh?:
...and there were many other very dubious assertions.
He was wrong quite a few times. Even when he got fact checked just repeated the same thing. It's like he just doesn't understand or he doesn't believe anything other than the media narrative.
Was very hard to get through. Love a good alternative perspective, but I'll be avoiding Brock in future.
It's hard to take someone seriously on the economy when they're citing something called "vibecession". LOL
