Kummerspeck

Sarah, Steve, Jonah, and David discuss the debate to reopen the economy amid the coronavirus ...

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Sarah, Steve, Jonah, and David discuss the debate to reopen the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic, federalism and overreach by governors, and the president’s decision to halt funding for the World Health Organization.

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    George Ezell

    I was not surprised about the ruling of Judge Walker in Kentucky, but your critique of his opinion left me troubled with regard to Judge Walker. My concern was heightened after reading this comment in Albert Mohler's article.
    https://albertmohler.com/2020/04/13/more-than-an-idle-threat-real-assaults-on-religious-liberty-emerge-in-the-pandemic

    In response to Mayor Greg Fischer’s order, United States District Court Judge Justin R. Walker of Western Kentucky, issued a temporary restraining order that effectively curtailed Fischer’s attempt to prevent drive-in church gatherings and ended the threat to have the police take license plate numbers of those who dared to defy this unconstitutional mandate. The Judge said, “The mayor’s decision is stunning, and it is ‘beyond all reason’ unconstitutional.”

    Judge Walker struck at the heart of the problem, arguing that the orders coming from the Louisville government were “not generally applicable, to both religious and non-religious conduct. Here, Louisville has targeted religious worship by prohibiting drive-in church services while not prohibiting a multitude of other non-religious drive-ends and drive-throughs including, for example, drive-through liquor stores… When Louisville prohibits religious activity while permitting nonreligious activities, its choice must undergo the most rigorous of scrutiny. That scrutiny requires Louisville to prove its interest is compelling and its regulation is narrowly tailored to advance that interest.” Judge Walker also stated that Louisville’s policies were underinclusive and overbroad: “They’re underinclusive because they don’t prohibit a host of equally dangerous or equally harmless activities that Louisville has permitted on the basis that they are ‘essential.’”

    Then, the Judge landed a powerful, very short sentence: “But if beer is essential, so is Easter.”

    You may not have heard the name of Judge Justin R. Walker. If you have not heard of his name, you are about to become very familiar with it.

    Indeed, an editorial ran just days ago in the Wall Street Journal: “Get Ready for Another Court Fight.” The fight in question is over President Trump’s nominee to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. This is the second most important court in the United States of America. Its members are often called upon to be nominees to the Supreme Court.

    The judge nominated by President Trump to fill the vacancy on the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is none other than Judge Justin R. Walker.

    Walker’s name appeared in the news days before his ruling about Louisville’s unconstitutional policies against churches. The New York Times ran an article on April 4th, which declared, “President Trump… nominated Judge Justin Walker, a protégé of Senator Mitch McConnell, to a vacancy on the influential United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, touching off what is likely to be a contentious confirmation fight in the Senate.” Given the present urgency and battle over the federal courts, it is no wonder that there will be a major controversy with Judge Walker’s nomination. Indeed, assuming there is no vacancy on the Supreme Court, Judge Walker’s confirmation hearing will be the biggest judicial battle in this crucial 2020 election year. If confirmed, the Duke University and Harvard Law School graduate would be the youngest judge appointed to the D.C. Circuit in a generation.

    I'm not a democrat , but I feel like I have dog in that fight.

    Enjoy and appreciate your work.

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    Marshall Power Locke

    Informative podcast ... Key bit for me is David French’s comments (49:51 to 52:19) comparing Joe Biden’s critical remarks of China with Donald Trump’s incredibly credulous remarks on China, heaping praise on Xi Jinping for his strong leadership and (I kid you not) China’s/Xi’s “transparency” RE, COVID-19 from late January to mid-March ... Trump’s remarks on Xi/China RE, COVID-19 should be seen in the context of Trump’s affinity for and admiration of strongmen that makes Trump prone to be manipulated (See: Trump siding with Vladimir Putin over U.S. intelligence in Helsinki and Trump pulling U.S. military out of NE Syria after a phone call with Erdogan).

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  3. Kenneth

    Jonah said the heat of battle is not the time to carry out a court martial. The HMS Glorious was nearly alone with two destroyers when it was sunk on 8 June 1940. The Captain was eager to get back to Britain to conduct a court martial of his air wing commander and did not return from Narvik with the rest of the convoy, but hurried back with just two destroyers. Cdr Heath would have been awaiting his court martial if Glorious had waited for the convoy.

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    Eston

    Excellent discussion, but I laughed out loud, and immediately googled the word, at kummerspeck. I don’t have COVID (yet), but suffer from kummerspeck. I’m blaming the Y pool closure, but maybe also the homemade ice cream and my support for local breweries. And the damn virus! So I now resolve to continue to avoid COVID, and also to fight Kummerspeck!

    Btw, Kopps is my favorite Wisconsin custard. Go there every time I get to Milwaukee.

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    WKDawson

    Not to absolve China of their role, but we should have taken the cue when they shut down Wuhan. Action speaks louder than words.

    I wonder, had this emerged in the USA, would we have done better? We wouldn't have silenced the doctors and some individuals with police and jail or removed their posts. However, would those in the position of responsibility and authority have tried to play it down and not make an issue of things (like China), or would we have been more forthcoming? Going forward, I think that is what we really need to ask ourselves more than rushing to point angry fingers. (...Usually, there are three fingers pointing back.) Blame only works if we learn from our mistakes and the mistakes of others.

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      WKDawson

      One interesting change that this will achieve is we now clearly understand what happens when the supply chain is leveraged on one single source. That means that the force of the free-market will go to work and start correcting some of the worst excesses of our tendency to ship jobs out of the US, based solely on an evaluation of costs/earnings. There is still the necessity that whatever does come back here also becomes competitive.

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    Jenny

    David, I like you, but you're just wrong about custard. Anything that contains copious amounts of butter is going to taste good.

    Steve, you make me want to go back to Wisconsin. I've only had Culver's custard and butter burgers (which are amazing), so you've opened up a whole new world to me. I can only imagine how good a Mom and Pop's place must make these delicacies.

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    1. Nathan Shiba

      I wish that The Dispatch would allow the posting of pictures. I would love to hold up my 5 pound brick of Wisconsin Brick Cheese and it's little 2 pound brother, Roth's Butterkäse Cheese. Wisconsin's finest!

      Got it delivered to Chicago from Cheesers in Stoughton!

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        Jenny

        mmm! I'm adding cheese to the next grocery order.

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      Beardman

      Culver's is a place I never truly appreciated until I left the Midwest to places that don't have the amazing restaurant. You've just made me crave their butter burgers.

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        Jenny

        I was craving a butter burger as I typed out the comment! I might have to support my local Culver's for dinner tonight(:

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    Scott Eudy

    Blue Bell is the ticket. If you haven't had it, do so now.

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    Daniel Vaughan

    No Blue Bell ice cream???

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    Theirn Scott

    Good show today. The conversation on the long-term impact of the pandemic on our culture, economy and politics is going to be a very interesting one. That the necessary economic response to this pandemic resonates with the polices of the left is what will make the conversation on the right all the more interesting and challenging.

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    Phil253

    Kummerspeck! Love it. I will be sure to share this on my weekly friends cocktail call on Friday.

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