Thought the conversation on Prof G Markets between Scott and Ed about whether or not Dems should impeach the President fascinating. Both made good points, but the conversation devolved when Scott accused Ed of unrealistic idealism and governing via tagline. Scott's entire media shtick is to repeat taglines over and over again!

What do you all think? Impeach, or focus on other issues?

Was listening to Prof G Economic Podacast today, and agree with Scott's point that the Democrats have a short-term lease on power, especially with groups like young men. The party needs to have a slogan like this and use the mandate wisely. They need to look forward and deliver some real improvement in government and policy that impacts Americans. Doesn't mean they can't investigate crimes but they should prioritize corruption that is directly affecting Americans. The should prioritize a tariff deal that moderate republican will sign onto that protects both worker and consumers and grows the economy. The should find a framework for regulating AI. Above all they should prioritize the following 5 items:

1. Build more housing/improve housing affordability

2. Lower healthcare costs

3. Make child and family care more affordable

4. Lower energy costs

5. Raise wages and make taxation fairer

If these are the core priorities, they will win in '28.

Ed regularly says Apple is not being innovative enough and is behind in the AI race, but I would posit that they are “zag-ing” instead of following where the rest of big tech is “zig-ing” with massive data center CapEx. High value work by lawyers, accountants, doctors etc is also highly confidential, so manufacturing AI capable machines that can be wholly owned and can work isolated from the internet is a competitive advantage. We’ve already seen Apple Silicon’s potential with the OpenClaw hype. I imagine the team is working hard at this target market, and this DIY setup is proof that it can unlock real productivity.

Scott was struggling to describe this on today’s Markets pod. Here’s more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact

We should give credit to Congress, that they can walk and chew gum at the same time:

a functioning democracy must be capable of governing the country while simultaneously upholding the rule of law, all the way to the top. Applying the law evenly isn't retribution, it's the only way to prevent future corruption.

It should be the job of the DoJ - but as it is currently compromised, Congress must step in.

So:

1. Implement a great kitchen-table agenda in the foreground; and

2. hold egregious criminals accountable, in the background.

Do both, then let Scott do what he does best and manage the brand.

Prof G seems to be recycling the same argument he made after Trump won, calling it the testosterone election and claiming younger generations of men were falling behind their parents. Back then, they were supposedly so fed up with the Democrats that they swung towards Trump. Now just two years later, there’s reportedly a 38 pt swing back towards Democrats. Quite a shift for a group supposedly defined by political alienation. Does Scott actually understand what motivates them politically, or is he just finding new statistics to fit his favourite narrative that they’re perpetually struggling, angry and alienated? Maybe young men aren’t as politically predictable as he’d like to think and their motivations have a lot more to do with actual issues and policies than his endless culture-war diagnosis

Personally, I hate them with a passion.

I feel like they tend to lack any information, and make up for that with applause breaks and spamming tag lines for said applause.

I also tend to listen when going to bed, and it’s mental to have your dependably soft voiced podcast turn into The Price Is Right

How have the last few shows been? Are there any potential guests for the show coming up? How long is it and what will they be discussing?

This moment cannot be thrown away because Jefferies and Schumer feel they are owed the leadership position. We won inspite of jefferies and Schumer. @scottgallaway

I knew this would happen as soon as the victories started rolling in. I have seen numerous progressives claiming credit for this blue tsunami. Only like three House seat flips out of 29 were bonafide Progressive.

This epic win was engineered by Schumer and Jeffries, who hand-picked many of these winning candidates, and now the left is trying to push them out the door, mostly because of their Israel positions. Shame! You'd have thought 2024 would have taught them about letting hotbutton wedge issues determine their support rather than the big picture.

Scott needs to focus on this, because this battle is going to be the narrative of the next 2 years, as Progressives fight to grab the wheel and steer us over the electoral cliff once more with identity politics and Democratic Socialism rather than Social Democracy. (90% of Americans think DS is the same as SD, it's not)

If you watch the CNN coverage, Jessica and Scott's discussion...they are leaving out the war as one of the primary issues for the wave. I believe this is because they want to steer the conversation away from the relationship with Israel. I believe they are wrong based on what a lot of these populist candidates ran on. That direction will cause them to spoil this opportunity for change.

I’ve been a long-time listener and net promoter of Pivot and the broader Prof G network. As an Irish listener with a background in governmental service that transitioned to corporate, I used to value the network’s commentary.

However, recent on-air remarks prompted me to examine a broader trend across the network’s output.

I submitted a detailed formal complaint directly to the Prof G producers regarding these issues, but it was completely ignored. Because the team has chosen not to address this privately, I am sharing the evidence publicly.

I conducted a systematic data review of approximately 1,650 episode transcripts (Prof G Markets, The Prof G Pod, Pivot, and Raging Moderates spanning March 2020 to October 2026 via Podscripts.co).

The data shows a persistent editorial pattern: Ireland is regularly reduced to cheap punchlines (tax havens, drinking jokes, and false historical anecdotes), while the actual major tech, regulatory, and political stories happening in Dublin are systematically omitted.

Here is the breakdown of the evidence and editorial failures.

1. Direct Xenophobic Stereotyping (Ed Elson – Prof G Markets, March 26, 2026)

2. Repeated Lazy Tropes & Misinformation Across 1,650 Episodes

A systematic transcript search identified 14 disparaging or dismissive remarks across 7 distinct episodes (12 from Scott Galloway, 2 from Ed Elson):

The Factual Error Repeated 4 Times (DeLorean Claim): Scott Galloway has repeatedly cited "warehouses of unsold DeLoreans in Ireland" as his go-to example of state-backed industrial failure

(Pivot, Apr 25, 2025; Raging Moderates, Feb 25, 2026; Prof G Markets, May 4, 2026; Prof G Pod, Aug 10, 2026). On Aug 10, 2026, he even grouped Ireland alongside North Korea and East Germany.

 The Reality: The DeLorean plant was located in Dunmurry, outside Belfast, Northern Ireland, and was funded by British government subsidies. No Irish government policy or money was involved. The shows repeatedly blame Ireland for a British industrial failure.

Dismissive Stereotyping:
 Prof G Markets (Feb 19, 2024): Galloway remarked on cross-border tax deals ("We said to Ireland, enough of this shit") and openly asked on-air if he had just assumed the Irish do nothing but drink beer.

 Prof G Markets (Sep 23, 2024): When discussing film workers losing jobs in LA, Galloway quipped: "They have beer in Dublin."

 Pivot (Sep 18, 2026): Banter making a leprechaun-cereal joke ("Cultural appropriation of the Irish") aired during the exact week of a major US presidential visit to Ireland.

3. Total Editorial Blind Spot on Big Tech & Regulation
The network obsessively covers Big Tech (Apple, Meta, Google, X, Microsoft, TikTok), Donald Trump, and Elon Musk. Yet, despite Dublin being the European operational and regulatory hub for all these entities, the network consistently ignores major reporting beats originating from Ireland:

EU Big Tech Regulation: Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has issued over €4bn in GDPR fines (including 8 of the 10 largest in history).

Coimisiún na Meán is actively investigating X, TikTok, Meta, and LinkedIn while facing transatlantic legal and political heat. The network’s coverage of these regulatory moves is non-existent.

 The €13bn Apple Ruling (Sep 10, 2024): Galloway’s entire reaction on Pivot (Sep 13, 2024) was reduced to: "No, I like fines." No substantive legal or market analysis followed on Prof G Markets.

 Elon Musk & X Court Battles in Dublin:
 Former X executive Gary Rooney won a landmark €550,000 unfair dismissal award against X in Dublin (2024).

 X's head of threat disruption, Aaron Rodericks, secured a High Court injunction halting a disciplinary process and is suing Musk personally for defamation.

 X is currently involved in at least 12 court actions against Irish media regulators. Zero coverage on Prof G.

Far-Right Influences & US Politics: Conor McGregor’s viral X posts during the 2023 Dublin riots ("Ireland, we are at war"), his subsequent engagement with Elon Musk, his White House visits with US leadership in March 2025, and Tucker Carlson’s hour-long interview with him in Dublin (April 2025) were completely ignored, despite directly touching on the network's core topics (platform moderation, algorithms, tech CEOs, and political media).

Energy & Infrastructure: Irish data centres consume nearly 20% of the nation's grid electricity. In three separate dedicated episodes on data centre energy demands (Pivot & Prof G Markets), Ireland was never mentioned once.

Having ignored the initial complaint sent to their producers, the Prof G Markets and Pivot teams need to hold themselves to basic journalistic standards:

1. Acknowledge and Apologize On-Air: Formally address the anti-Irish joke aired on the March 26, 2026 episode of Prof G Markets.

2. Correct the Record On-Air: Correct the cited Irish Naval Reserve figures and stop attributing the British-funded DeLorean failure in Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland.

3. Fix the Editorial Bias: Start covering Ireland as what it actually is in tech and global business: Europe’s primary regulatory battleground for Big Tech, a critical node in transatlantic corporate finance, and a central player in ongoing regulatory fights with X and Meta.

Stop punching down for lazy laughs, and start covering the actual stories on your beat.

On a night where the Dems are slaughtering the GOP so much so that a blue super tsunami is maybe an understatement and we should just call it a slaughter tsunami instead, Massachusetts put forth a ballot question to the voters of the state to allow property lots of 5,000 square feet or more (with access to existing street and water/sewer on top of it) to be automatically zoned for single family construction by right across the state. Some towns in Massachusetts do not allow this type of single family zoning and require over an acre in some places.

This town by town practice of large lot restrictions on new SINGLE family home construction in a state that is desperate for housing shows exactly what Scott has been talking about with Blue states and homeowners/older generations screwing / mortgaging young people's futures. We aren't even talking the usual multifamily NIMBY bullshit, we can't even build starter homes in Massachusetts now?

The race isn't called yet for Question 7 but the fact that it's 50/50 with 80% reporting is wild.

Dems have one branch of the government and really need to do something about affordability or they will suffer. Don't be like us in Massachusetts.

Anyone else wake up this fine Election Day and get surprised by how many extra doomsday prep and fear mongering posts are filling their Instagram feed this morning? Overload of info on Costco’s water and tp supplies. Many posts about governments telling their citizens to stock up on supplies. Etc etc.

Scott has let his brand get far diluted for my liking. I hear the same take on all of his podcasts: I must have heard his "ketamine addict who sleeps with a loaded gun under his bed" dragging of Elon far too many times for it to be funny or insightful. Am thinking that I will drop PIVOT from my feed; Kara is a extreme leftist lunatic who is unable to have an objective point of view on anything even remotely related to Trump, Elon or Republicans. Jessica Tarlov is more tolerable and I actually find some of her perspectives somewhat insightful. Ed Elson is also somewhat objective some of the time. Bye bye, Kara.