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JL;DR SUMMARY In "A Mixed Bag," the hosts of Commentary Magazine Podcast discuss the significance and shortcomings of Trump's first 100 days in office, emphasizing his immigration policies and foreign relations challenges. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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InflationTrumpImmigrationForeign PolicyEconomyHarvard UniversityVietnam WarHigher EducationMidterm Elections

Places mentioned

Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
"Conclusion of the war in Vietnam that ended with American helicopters scrambling off the roof of the embassy in Saigon as Saigon fell, an image, indelible image of the most powerful country in the world laid very low."
Washington, Washington DC, United States
"And that's always the question in Washington."
Michigan, United States
"The first articles of impeachment have already been introduced by a Michigan congressman who was mentioned during Trump's 100-day rally in Michigan last night."
Canada
"He has placed this. No one was calling for a new Iran deal. No one was really calling for him to assert a day after plan for Gaza that was as radical as the one that he proposed and that he clearly is not serious about. If he had been serious about it, we might be having very interesting. And innovative conversations about what to do about Gaza that would would not have been we would not have settled back for those of us who are paying granular attention to this to this kind of waiting for Godot stasis in which Israel is pounding Hamas Hamas is not giving up the hostages. Israel isn't pounding Hamas enough because it still wants to get the hostages out. So the war is kind of ongoing without any scene of resistance. So the war is kind of ongoing without any scene of resistance. And Israel is beginning to fray and crack emotionally because it is in this incredibly long what is now a legitimately for particularly for a small country and incredibly long and costly war, you know, 18, 18 months now."
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