HeyJaredFinding Common Battle Grounds
Finding Common Battle Grounds is an attempt by two brothers - one conservative, the other progressive - to have civil conversations about politics, with a little help from their friends.
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S05E17 - Vote By Mail and Canada Trade War (opens the original)
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In this episode of Finding Common Battle Grounds, we tackle two topics. We start with the Trump Administration's efforts to restrict voting by mail. We note that elections are governed by the states, and we all agree that the federal government should have no involvement in elections. Tommy and Josh continue to be convinced there is widespread voter fraud, though they are not able to muster evidence. Ryan is not convinced voter fraud is common at all (see here and here ), but is convinced that T
S05E17 - Peak Anti-Woke and Democratic Socialists (opens the original)
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In this episode of Finding Common Battle Grounds, we tackle two topics. First, we discuss the decision by Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation, to label bike lanes "DEI bike lanes" and remove them from the Department of Transportation's website and cut funding for them . We all agree that this is absolutely absurd. It strikes us as the Trump Administration looking for things that are associated with progressive countries in Europe, labeling those things "DEI" to poison the well, and then tryi
S05E16 - Balogun's Bump, Fauci's Fraud, and Iranian Irascibility (opens the original)
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We tackle three topics in this episode of Finding Common Battle Grounds. We start with the intervention by Donald Trump on behalf of the US Men's National Soccer Team in the World Cup on behalf of Folarin Balogun. We all agree that FIFA is corrupt. We also agree that it's harder to get more corrupt than Trump. Our general conclusion is that we want a World Cup that is just about the sport, and that Trump's intervention added a taint to an event that was wholly unnecessary. We then turn to outgoi
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