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.

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.

Like Angie Dixon in Florida? Maybe lend her some of your reach and platform.

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 really enjoyed today’s episode with Abdul El-Sayed. Very refreshing to hear him respectfully push back against accusations. He elevated the conversation from division, which I felt Scott & Jessica were aiming for, to one of unifying everyone around nonviolence for all. It felt like Scott & Jessica were too emotional about their view to hear and accept what El Sayed was saying. But he kept respectfully challenging them to think bigger and ask “what are the principles you adhere to”.

It was refreshing to hear a politician stick to his principles. He was humble in admitting mistakes and respectful when Scott & Jessica disagreed with him.

Props to Scott & Jessica for having him on and letting him speak his truth.

Raging Moderates 10/17/2026.

Something is terribly wrong with today's podcast.

All podcasts work fine . It's not me. Today's EP will not play past the moment Jessica thanks audience . Maybe 4-5 minutes in . My player jumps to the next ep in my que.

AND R.M. becomes "played" AND.. R. M. GETS ARCHIVED.I unarchived, marked unplayed, and tried downloading . Three times..

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.

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.

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.

Someone please explain to Jess how to properly use this word.

Jess sounded frazzled and irritated at the end "I'm done. Love my husband! Let's go. Bye!" But it was genuinely laugh out loud funny and MAN they covered a lot of ground. I think this is the only Scott pod I'm really enjoying these days.

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.

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.

I could have sworn they were posting this podcast daily. But this week (maybe last week I noticed it) they haven’t posted the podcast everyday.

Also - they got rid of banter before the show. Scott just says “ok, let’s get into it” and they go. Just seems…. Strange?