What podcasts say about Megan McArdle
Every statement, with the speaker, the exact quote and the moment it was said.
What Megan McArdle has said on podcasts
38 statements · 7 positive · 28 negative · 3 neutral
Trump has damaged U.S. alliances and civic institutions.
“He has ripped up our alliances. He has done a bunch of damage to our civic institutions”
Open the episode · President Trump’s Influence Continues to WaneListen at 9:22
Treasury bond yields have exceeded 5% for the first time since the early 2000s.
“Treasury bonds now comfortably over 5% for the first time since the early 2000s”
Open the episode · President Trump’s Influence Continues to WaneListen at 9:43
Trump’s presidency has failed.
“I don't think he knows he's got a failed presidency, but I think it's pretty obvious that he's got a failed presidency”
Open the episode · President Trump’s Influence Continues to WaneListen at 10:21
The remaining two years of Trump’s administration will largely be a waiting-out period.
“what we do for the rest for the next two years is try to wait it out and see what happens next”
Open the episode · President Trump’s Influence Continues to WaneListen at 10:27
Trump’s administration will not produce major policy initiatives.
“There's not going to be a major policy coming out of this administration”
Open the episode · President Trump’s Influence Continues to WaneListen at 10:35
Trump will focus on the ballroom and react impulsively to events.
“what he's going to do is fixate on the ballroom and react impetuously to events as they unfold”
Open the episode · President Trump’s Influence Continues to WaneListen at 10:54
Trump is unlikely to carry out an autocratic coup because he lacks popularity and institutional power.
“I think that we're now beyond that risk because he's so unpopular and he doesn't have a consolidated power base like in the military or in the courts the way that you need in order to pull off an auto coup”
Open the episode · President Trump’s Influence Continues to WaneListen at 14:25
Trump’s declining future prospects are weakening his political power.
“that is that, too, is is depleting his power”
Open the episode · President Trump’s Influence Continues to WaneListen at 15:02
Traditional media outlets have less political influence than previously.
“these outlets are not as influential as they used to be”
Open the episode · President Trump’s Influence Continues to WaneListen at 29:46
The White House’s media restrictions will not meaningfully restrict information or press freedom.
“I don't think this is going to go anywhere in terms of meaningfully restricting the flow of information. or meaningfully curtailing the freedom of the press”
Open the episode · President Trump’s Influence Continues to WaneListen at 32:17
No establishment-media consensus now determines public knowledge and sentiment.
“There is no establishment media consensus that is driving what people know and how they feel about it”
Open the episode · President Trump’s Influence Continues to WaneListen at 41:26
Interest rates are high and inflation remains above target.
“Interest rates are high. Inflation is still above its target.”
Open the episode · President Trump’s Influence Continues to WaneListen at 42:15
Trump’s perceived electoral weakness may reduce Republicans’ fear of opposing him.
“when Trump looks like a loser, do you become less afraid that he's going to come into the primaries and hurt you with your voters?”
Open the episode · President Trump’s Influence Continues to WaneListen at 53:07
Preference cascades can rapidly accelerate Republican opposition to Trump.
“you can get a very rapid progression of events”
Open the episode · President Trump’s Influence Continues to WaneListen at 54:23
The Last Ditch’s target community cannot sustain a profitable bar.
“this is a community that you cannot profitably serve”
Open the episode · President Trump’s Influence Continues to WaneListen at 1:13:13
The Last Ditch Bar is unlikely to survive financially.
“There's no way this bar is going to survive as far as I can tell”
Open the episode · President Trump’s Influence Continues to WaneListen at 1:14:59
Trump would face investigations if Democrats win the House.
“I don't think he really wants to spend the next two years tied up in investigations, which he is definitely going to if Democrats take the House.”
Open the episode · Why GOP Candidates Are Ignoring TrumpListen at 8:43
Trump will not restrain himself strategically to help Republicans retain Congress.
“he's not going to make any effort that would require him to restrain himself or behave strategically in order to help Congress.”
Open the episode · Why GOP Candidates Are Ignoring TrumpListen at 10:55
Trump’s political coalition began relatively small.
“Trump's coalition was not that big to start with.”
Open the episode · Why GOP Candidates Are Ignoring TrumpListen at 23:05
Post-midterm replacements will be more ideologically extreme.
“The people who are going to replace whoever leaves after the midterms are going to be even more in that direction”
Open the episode · Why GOP Candidates Are Ignoring TrumpListen at 25:37
Downranking Asian applicants in affirmative action was profoundly unjust.
“the affirmative action system, as it was being practiced, where you're downranking Asians as having crappy personalities in order to keep them out of your school, is ferociously un-American.”
Open the episode · Why GOP Candidates Are Ignoring TrumpListen at 37:49
Republicans’ repeated culture-war messaging is not working.
“I don't think it's working.”
Open the episode · Why GOP Candidates Are Ignoring TrumpListen at 45:23
More radical Democratic nominees would benefit Republican campaigning.
“if Democratic primary voters keep nominating people who are more and more radical, who push the party platform in a more radical direction, then things like al-Sayed will be good campaigning for Republicans.”
Open the episode · Why GOP Candidates Are Ignoring TrumpListen at 47:10
The current midterm election cycle is primarily about Trump.
“This cycle is about Donald Trump.”
Open the episode · Why GOP Candidates Are Ignoring TrumpListen at 47:25
Rapid growth in data-center opposition indicates a moral panic.
“I think you have to call it a moral panic in part because like the shift is so fast, right? It's like a 30-point shift in the number of people who oppose having data centers built near them in a year.”
Open the episode · The AI Data Center Moral PanicListen at 6:20
Claims that data centers warm nearby air by multiple degrees violate basic physical laws.
“they warm the air by multiple degrees near them, which is insane, like violates physical, basic physical laws”
Open the episode · The AI Data Center Moral PanicListen at 7:06
Data centers do not use more water than nearby communities.
“that they use more water than nearby communities, which is not really true”
Open the episode · The AI Data Center Moral PanicListen at 7:13
Flexible data-center power use can offset rate hikes and potentially lower grid costs.
“they can actually shape themselves to help actually offset rate hikes and actually make the fixed cost of running the power grid. They can help amortize that and actually conceivably lower costs.”
Open the episode · The AI Data Center Moral PanicListen at 11:58
Electricity-price increases do not correlate with data-center concentration across states.
“it doesn't look like there's any... correlation between states where electricity prices have risen a lot and states that have a lot of data centers.”
Open the episode · The AI Data Center Moral PanicListen at 12:11
Data centers will probably be built despite local opposition.
“I think one way or another, these data centers are probably going to get built.”
Open the episode · The AI Data Center Moral PanicListen at 14:57
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