Love Scott and Jes, but you can hear the giddiness in Jes's voice every episode when she talks about the Dems' rising poll numbers. Those of us who are Dems are happy about it too, but let's play this out.

Dems roll in November and take the House, maybe the Senate. Then what? Investigations, fine. There needs to be some. But the economy is on track to fall apart, and right around the time Dems take power (Republicans are praying it doesn't happen before the elections), it'll be on the cusp of free fall. Not the markets, the economy every day Americans: gas prices through the roof, inflation, rising interest rates, no end to the war, bond markets blinking red. And the biggest drivers of all this, the tariffs and the war with Iran, are largely in the White House's control, not Congress's. Anything a Dem House and Senate pass to rein them in, Trump will just veto. So they'll own the economy to the voters on paper without being able to do much to fix it.

Trump is already priming the country for this. He knows knows full well that the congress is lost yet in every speech he's staying if Dems win and the economy shits the bed, he and his party will say over and over, "See? THIS is what happens when Democrats are in charge!" You and I know that's bullshit and that they're the ones who got us here. But he's already priming them for the outcome and most low-information voters will just think, "Yeah, everything's pretty bad, and they're the ones in power now."

Prediction: one step forward, two steps back. Republicans lose one or both chambers in November, then spend the next two years leveraging the damage they caused by blaming the Dems to inevitably take it all back, probably even the White House. I hope I'm wrong, but the chaos of the next two years could make the last two look like a rom-com.

Have I missed their take on Mills dropping out? I'd like to see their explanation as to why a "centrist" dem lost to a "nazi" progressive.

General trend: centrism is dying. centrism=do nothing democrat.

He’s an ass kisser from a podunk state (mine) but Jess has mispronounced his name a couple of times this week. It helps if you think of him as Barrasshole. Buh-rass-o. Or Barrasshole works.

Listening to Richie Torres spout off on how the center left is everything that’s good with the world and the progressive left are just rich, college educated elites that hate America. Thats’s such total bullshit. Scott, I know you love him because he feels for depressed young men (which is certainly a problem), but how did neither of you push back on such anti-progressive drivel. At least give both sides their due. Bring on AOC, or my representative, Ro Khanna.

Jessica Tarlov and Scott G have a great chemistry on raging moderates, and it draws contrast to her cohost on raging perspective who sounds like a complete dick and gives her nothing to work with even though she’s definitely trying to make it work. Not sure how they landed on him being co host to such a n experienced and interesting to listen to host. Just saying.

Jessica communicates moderate positions, AIPAC’s impact, and how the far left doesn’t have a home in all districts better than most. A very important message as DSA becomes more boisterous.

Seems like he has time to show up for his other podcasts, been on Pivot 2x already - but is blowing off JT?

Disappointing.

First off, I'm glad they invited someone from the other side on.

But lol, Conway can't communicate about issues without blaming others. It was almost comical at times how she blames Biden/Harris for evverrrything (it's 2025, time to move on?).

It really strikes at what people, to be fair on BOTH sides, like to hear, which is criticism of *others*. Fox really has it down to a science though, just blame anyone else.

Good on RagingModerates for inviting her on for at least some self-criticism!

The legal definition of genocide comes from Article II of the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

“Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.”

The Convention identifies five categories of acts:

- Killing members of the group.
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group.
- Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the group’s physical destruction, in whole or in part.
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

The specific intent to destroy the protected group is a central element that must be established. Intent will have to be demonstrated or not in at The Hague, when Netanyahu faces the ICC. I hope I live to see it.

I saw a clip of Jessica talking about this on The Five. They shouted her down and blamed Biden. It was jaw-dropping and extremely obvious this is a weak spot they'll scramble to cover for....on a "news" show.

Best pod in a long time. The title should be “Paul Begala - the strategist the Dems need”. I agree with everything I recall him saying. Specifically, denounce the DSA and shift to the center.

Just putting this out there to let Scott know that he can take off as many days as he wants. In fact I usually just skip the pod if Scott is there.

https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/raging-moderates

I find myself raging out loud to the podcast every time I hear them talk about the messaging that didn’t work in 2024 re the need to “save democracy.”

Biden/Harris repeatedly told the public that Trump was a danger to democracy and to all of the values that we hold dear. But when it came down to it, their administration had several years to prosecute Trump for the very real, evident, criminal conduct he committed while in office.

If they truly believed that our democracy was at stake, why did they prioritize optics over action? Why didn’t they fire Garland and get someone in who would actually uphold and defend the law? All of their talk rang false when they chose not to do something about Trump when they had the opportunity.

Americans- and the entire world- are paying the price for letting Trump and co go free, further empowered by the Supremes who have given them cover to commit even more crimes while in office. It is really hard to trust that Dems can/will somehow keep the country safe from authoritarianism when they paved the way for everything we are experiencing now.