Kai Ryssdal
@kairyssdal
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Dad, husband, host @Marketplace . IPAs. Soccer referee, runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
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Women have won the damn thing 3x.
4 million American kids play soccer, more than any other country, yet the U.S. has never advanced to a men's World Cup finals. (2/2)
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With all respect to my political reporter friends/colleagues -- if you're asking today whether Biden's going to run in '24, or talking about who's going to win Iowa, you're committing malpractice. Democracy as sport/clickbait/entertainment got us where we are today. Stop.
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Because futures start trading at 6pm East Coast time.
Why is a sick President riding in an SUV waving to supporters outside Walter Reed, jeopardizing the Secret Service agents inside the car with him?
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Can we all just please remember that the standout example of voter fraud - which is, to be clear, vanishingly rare - was by the Republican candidate in NC-9 in 2018.
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Timestamp -- Musk is in some kind of as-yet-unknown SEC/regulatory trouble.
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Have we tried turning Congress off and turning it on again?
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It's honestly stunning that there's not going to be a Congressional investigation into...an attack on the Congress.
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1. You guys. No.
2. She’s not a diplomat.
3. What the actual...
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1. No. Wrong.
2. The reason to fly is to be able to look out the window.
3. Window seat person owns the shade, Middle seat person owns the armrests. Aisle person gets to get up whenever they want.
This isn't hard.
What's the dispute? Airline window shades should always be closed unless its takeoff or landing. :)
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I’ve been thinking about this tweet all morning
(Yes, I need to get a life. That’s a whole ‘nother thread)
First of all, it’s pathetic. The idea that this whole thing is somehow a joke or a political point-scoring exercise should be disqualifying
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That TIME Magazine cover was huge threat to national security. 🙄
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No matter how you feel about this on the merits, it’s stunning to realize that Bolton’s sitting there watching it all, knowing that he can resolve it in minutes by stepping in front of a microphone.
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Voted yes on the tax cuts
“The government is on a course to spend more on interest than on national defense in the years to come”
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6.6 million first time claims this week.
3.3 million last week.
10 million Americans have lost their jobs in the past 2 weeks.
Ten.
Million.
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Downtown Nashville is an idiot.
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This is the work of the President of the United States and the Republican Party.
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Bob. Corker. Voted. For. A. Trillion. Dollar. Deficit. Financed. Tax. Cut.
CORKER: "It's frustrating to me, but is this president a president who cares about the fiscal health of our nation? No. No."
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I'm having a hard time dealing with my increasing anger about all this.
I'm angry for my kids, whose critical days in high school and college are being squandered, and I'm angry for my mom, who, well...she's not young and time only goes in one direction.
.
@aaronecarroll
: "We wasted our chance to get a better summer in the spring. We wasted our chance to plan for the fall in the summer. We’re wasting time again now. Next year isn’t that far away."
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Just now from the 14 year old, during whose *entire life I’ve been hosting
@Marketplace
:
“You do
@npratc
, right?”
Kill me.
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Gotta stop saying false claim when you mean lie. Seriously.
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New rule: if your trash cans are still out on the street 72 hours after pick up, I’m allowed to put my dog poop bags in them.
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The story here, really, is cowardice.
“You’re lucky,” McConnell told Romney. “You can say the things that we all think. You’re in a position to say things about him that we all agree with but can’t say.”
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugggggggggggghhhhhhhh
Can someone in the Washington press corps please please please tell the Speaker of The House that the debt limit has nothing to do with a credit card.
Thanks in advance.
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Pfizer didn't take federal $$ and opted out of Warp Speed
HUGE NEWS: Thanks to the public-private partnership forged by President
@realDonaldTrump
,
@pfizer
announced its Coronavirus Vaccine trial is EFFECTIVE, preventing infection in 90% of its volunteers.
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Finally, if this makes you question my objectivity — guilty. I’m not objective about whether this country remains a democracy.
End
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Isn't that...the way elections work?
"Trump allies fear the election is now shaping up as a simple referendum on Trump and his performance in the White House."
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Which is…not legal.
President Trump is using his Rose Garden address to attack Joe Biden — first on China and national security, now on infrastructure. This is a campaign speech delivered from the White House.
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The United States produces more oil today that literally every other country on the planet.
Welcome 2Pres Biden’s America where the fed govt chooses energy dependence over energy DOMINANCE AND INDEPENDENCE
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Tell you what -- in a crisis I'd take Pelosi over Schumer
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Um.
Um.
He voted for a $1.5T deficit-financed tax cut.
Um.
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Honest to Pete, one of the craziest things about [gestures wildly] all of this is that the idea that a president can “order the Justice Dpt to drop the charges” against him has been normalized. Reporters talk about it like it’s totally normal.
That’s. Not. The. Way. It. Works.
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That’s…not what going on here. At all
Cooper: You have every right to be outraged today and angry and never watch this network again. But do you think staying in your silo and only listening to people you agree with is going to make that person go away?
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I can trademark The Stock Market Is Not The Economy, right?
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Pulled my old flight jacket out of the closet last night.
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Person in front of me at grocery checkout.
Apple Watch.
AirPods.
Writing a check.
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Hey let’s stop sharing videos of captured Russians, okay?
Exploiting POWs is contrary to the Geneva Conventions, even when the good guys do it.
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Beyond reporting the initial fact of it, giving the (completely made-up) Harris birther thing any air is editorial malpractice.
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My mom’s visiting.
We were just having a quiet moment, each of us reading on our devices.
Out of nowhere: “You know, Kai - I just don’t understand why they take food and energy prices out of the inflation numbers!”
Reader, she listens to the program every day.
Kill me.
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Fact check: Vote fraud is vanishingly rare. Vote suppression is real, corrosive, and a denial of a democratic right.
Trump told election commission: “Every time vote fraud occurs, it cancels out the vote of a lawful citizen and undermines democracy”
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TAX CUTS DO NOT PAY FOR THEMSELVES.
EVER.
PLEASE STOP SAYING THAT.
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Toobin’s back on CNN, I see.
Emily Wilder back at the AP yet?
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It’s not hard, you guys.
If I were a page one editor, this story--Trump's willingness to abandon U.S. allies to Russian attacks--would be unambiguously the focus of all coverage.
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Imma say this again.
The virus and the economy are same damn thing.
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8 years active duty Navy, J.T. A Masters in National Security.
Right down the middle of my lane.
This doesn't seem to be your lane. Don't you have some neoliberal wealth appropriation scheme to shill for?
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Aaaaaaaaaaauuuuggghhh
Tariffs are taxes on American workers.
Kill me.
BREAKING: Former President Trump says if elected, he will make sure that “tariffs on foreign countries go up” and that “taxes on American workers and families will come down very substantially.”
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Dear Mr President,
The stock market is not the economy.
Thank you.
A concerned citizen.
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I kiss my 3 boys all the time. Hug them, too. It sustains me.
(13yo daughter offers a firm handshake, fwiw)
Does this look like an appropriate father/son interaction to you?
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You guys.
They’re the same damn thing.
Sources tell us there is a growing divide inside WH over whether Trump should do more to confront the coronavirus pandemic or keep his focus on reopening the economy.
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We absolutely do. I've been saying this for years.
As a nation, we need to start having a real conversation about universal service.
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1. This is very cool.
2. It'd take 3-5 years in the United States.
How the Dutch build a tunnel under a highway in one weekend.
Credit: Rijkswaterstaat.
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These shots outside the White House on
@CNN
right now look like nothing as much as they look like Berlin in 1989 as the Wall came down.
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Leadership
"I really am sorry, from the bottom of my heart. But if the price we pay is 590 deaths a day then this in unacceptable."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel begs Germans to follow coronavirus restrictions in an unusually emotional appeal ahead of Christmas.
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Friday Twitter tip:
Find 5 people you disagree with.
Follow them.
Think about what they say.
That’s how this all starts to heal.
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CHINA ISN'T PAYING THE TARIFFS.
CHINA.
ISN'T.
PAYING.
THE TARIFFS.
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Just watched our oldest son graduate college.
Online, of course.
Lovely.
But it also sucked, you know?
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There’s was a time - not all that long ago - where this kind of racism was disqualifying.
Perdue then warned the crowd of a potential liberal take over of government with "Bernie and Elizabeth and Kah-mah-la or Kah-ma-la or Kamamboamamla or however you say it." (Perdue has served with Kamala Harris in the Senate for 3 years)
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He’s lying.
See?
It’s not hard to say it.
Tariffs are taxes on FOREIGN producers, not American. Tariffs are what built America. Ripping down tariffs are how globalist elites gutted manufacturing towns in South Carolina. And restoring tariffs are how we bring those jobs back.
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Does nobody else think it’s insane Medicare *hasn’t been allowed to negotiate drug prices ‘til now?
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No, seriously. If I said this to the Speaker of the House on the air I'd lose my job.
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And bought big into a video conferencing company.
GOP Senator Kelly Loeffler sold massive amounts of stock after getting a private Senate briefing on
#coronavirus
in January.
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Reupping this.
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My father came to this country 66 years ago with a high school education. He learned English by watching television and doing crossword puzzles, and became a citizen by enlisting in the Air Force.
.
@TomiLahren
: "You don't just come into this country with low skills, low education, not understanding the language and come into our country because someone says it makes them feel nice. That's not what this country is based on."
@WattersWorld
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Man, this from
@profgalloway
is spot on.
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GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH.
The debt limit is just so so so freakin' stupid and we've got so many other things we need to grapple with.
What a waste of time.
Again, the stupidest possible way to run the most important economy in the world.
End of rant.
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Oh. My. God
This is what you get when you ask the sports guy to come in to cover a blizzard in the morning show.
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Dear All Journalists.
You gotta stop saying “falsely claims” when you mean “lies.”
Thanks,
A Devoted Listener/Viewer/Reader
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I’ve wasted my life
Who has "a lot" of control over managing inflation in the US?
Only a third say the Fed.
Most common answer given by Repubs: the president.
Most common answer given by Dems: large corps.
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We've. rewritten it...27 times
We will never rewrite the Constitution of the United States.
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Third, it’s been a long time since I served — military or civilian — in government. But I worked alongside Republicans who I *know would condemn this. Where are those kinds of Republicans now, today?
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Second, it makes me nauseous. Never mind that I — or *anybody else who’s had a clearance to the level of these documents — would already be in federal prison if this was my living room floor.
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Dear Zoom.
When I click Leave Meeting, I'd like to leave the meeting, not be asked whether I'd like to leave the meeting.
Thank you.
-- A new user.
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1. I'm a veteran (non-combat.)
2. Veterans have no monopoly on service, sacrifice, or patriotism.
3. This whole thing is so tiring.
How about these whiny football players go to a local VFW and ask true heroes what that flag, service and sacrifice mean?
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This is very very not good
Don Lemon: "Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime. Sorry, when a woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s, and 30s, and maybe 40s…"
Poppy Harlow: "Are you talking about prime for like child bearing?"
"Don’t shoot the messenger! I’m just saying what the facts are! Google it!"
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Disgraceful.
My father became an American citizen through his military service.
(USAF, but I forgave him that.)
AP NewsBreak: The U.S. Army has moved in recent weeks to discharge dozens of immigrant recruits and reservists who enlisted through a program that promised them a path to citizenship.
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First of all, wait, what?
Also, my work here is done.
Riffing further, Chappelle asks, “Who’s that guy that does the financial news?” Told he’s thinking of
@kairyssdal
, Chappelle says, “That guy sounds well rested.”
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Two things.
There’s zero - zee-ro - widespread voter fraud in this country.
The most recent example of attempted voter fraud? Republicans. NC-09. 2018.
So let’s be done with this, shall we?
Absentee Ballots are a great way to vote for the many senior citizens, military, and others who can’t get to the polls on Election Day. These ballots are very different from 100% Mail-In Voting, which is “RIPE for FRAUD,” and shouldn’t be allowed!
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Always surprises me how many people on the East Coast are up at 1am
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Hey CNN - don’t do this.
It’s only a percent and a half and oh by the way, stocks go down too. Happy to explain if you like.
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Think for a second of the work, the craft, the dedication, the risk, and — sometimes — the lives that’ve been lost, to get the information that’s in these documents.
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Always take a poop bag.
Always always always take a poop bag.
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Tell you what. The next 2 months would be a lot more stable if Facebook and, yes, Twitter, just pulled the plug til inauguration Day.
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This is your reminder that Tom Cotton went to Harvard for undergrad and law school.
Tom Cotton: "Have you ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party?"
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew: "Senator, I'm Singaporean. No!"
Cotton: "Have you ever been associated or affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party?"
Chew: "No, Senator. Again, I'm Singaporean!"
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Okay, I clearly now have to spend a lot of time curating my mastodon and post feeds, and I’m deeply deeply irritated.
Also, Elon musk is a jerk
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Another item in the “You held this for…your book!?!” files
What did Mitch McConnell know and when did he know it?
News from our book: Trump called McConnell in Dec 2020 and outlined scheme to overturn election in 3 states — GA, PA and MI
But McConnell did not go public with his alarm
@mkraju
has the story 👇
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Getting rid of bylines is a) lame b) not customer-facing at all; I use them to help decide what to read and c) lame.
Among the many changes with the new NYT homepage: Reporter bylines are gone. But names of OP-ED writers still there.
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Don’t…put them on TV?
How should TV news deal with guests who lie to the media?
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Like clockwork.
GOP Sen. Rick Scott today on Fox Business: "We're at $27 trillion worth of debt. Somebody has got to pay for that. I mean, think of how much money this year we're going to lose at the federal level. It's going to be trillions of dollars."
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I was a history major. This is a big deal - can’t understand where we are without knowing where we’ve been.
On American college campuses, history has been declining in popularity more rapidly than any other major.
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CAPT Crozier knew he was putting his job and career on the line, but this is a shameful disgrace.
A failure of weak-kneed leadership in crisis.
(USN 85-93, CVW-8 aboard Roosevelt 86-90)
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Mom just now on the phone:
"Your show has been very good...the past couple of nights."
And then she criticized my grammar.
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Thanks for listening. I appreciate your kind words.
I have - after 8 years active duty military and 4 as a Foreign Service Officer - an enduring personal and professional interest in national security policy.
I hope, after reading the article, you can understand my reaction.
@kairyssdal
I like you on Marketplace but the constant Trump-bashing is getting really old. It also confirms the stereotype that everyone in the media is against the President. Enough already, go back to covering business news.
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My grandfather, Dr. Joe James, Medical Corps, USN, WWII
My dad, Finn, second from left, Norwegian Army in occupied Germany, late 1940s
Me, boot camp, NAS Pensacola, 1985.
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It’s kind of hard to take the Senate seriously anymore, you know?
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