EPISODE · Jul 3, 2023 · 44 MIN
Monday, July 3, 2023
from The Ron Show · host Ron Roberts
I leave for one-half a day and the Supreme Court divides the nation in nearly irreparable ways, eh? :) Let's DO discuss affirmative action, citing Clarence Thomas in 1983 and note that "legacy admissions" are the ULTIMATE "affirmative action" for the privileged (and white). Also, I'm no lawyer, but when I watch a judicial drama on TV, when a case has false evidence, the case is thrown out; so why was the '303 Creative' case that now allows for "expression-based" businesses and entrepreneurs to refuse business to the LGBTQ+ not thrown out? I mean, it was a case built on a lie, after all. As we come to celebrate our 247th birthday, America, I'm left to wonder when we're going to have that substantive discussion about the direction we're going, the promises our forefathers made that we've met, avoided, or have been denied. Then I'm going to wander into the mind of 'Star Trek' creator Gene Roddenberry in 1976 to see why his sci-fi future reality seems so ideal to us, no matter our political affiliation, while our vastly more divisive reality has us pitted against one another. Lastly, oh Elon; the man (falsely) credited with giving us Tesla EVs and space rockets is ruining arguably the second-most impactful social medium in our time in an embarrassingly spectacular fashion. So where are we all going from there?
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I leave for one-half a day and the Supreme Court divides the nation in nearly irreparable ways, eh? :) Let's DO discuss affirmative action, citing Clarence Thomas in 1983 and note that "legacy admissions" are the ULTIMATE "affirmative action" for the privileged (and white). Also, I'm no lawyer, but when I watch a judicial drama on TV, when a case has false evidence, the case is thrown out; so why was the '303 Creative' case that now allows for "expression-based" businesses and entrepreneurs to refuse business to the LGBTQ+ not thrown out? I mean, it was a case built on a lie, after all. As we come to celebrate our 247th birthday, America, I'm left to wonder when we're going to have that substantive discussion about the direction we're going, the promises our forefathers made that we've met, avoided, or have been denied. Then I'm going to wander into the mind of 'Star Trek' creator Gene Roddenberry in 1976 to see why his sci-fi future reality seems so ideal to us, no matter our political affiliation, while our vastly more divisive reality has us pitted against one another. Lastly, oh Elon; the man (falsely) credited with giving us Tesla EVs and space rockets is ruining arguably the second-most impactful social medium in our time in an embarrassingly spectacular fashion. So where are we all going from there?
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