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The Dave Bowman Show

The Dave Bowman Show

著者： Dave Bowman
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After relocating to the PACNORWEST, Dave continues his look at the news, politics, trends, history, religion, sports and even entertainment of the day...Dave Bowman 政治・政府
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  • September 4, 2026 - Taproom Tribbles in Tacoma and Thailand

    September 4, 2026 - Taproom Tribbles in Tacoma and Thailand
    2026/09/04
    There was once a useful boundary between public conduct and private conviction. You could buy bread, order coffee, or enjoy a pint without first demanding a political confession from the person behind the counter. That boundary is rapidly disappearing, particularly when activists can search public records, identify a business owner’s political contributions, and organize economic punishment without pausing to consider what the person actually supported. Today’s Plausibly Live begins at a Tacoma brewery whose owners contributed to a Washington ballot initiative campaign. Their money was specifically intended to help repeal the state’s capital gains tax, but political nuance proved inconvenient once activists discovered that the organization also supported another initiative involving transgender participation in women’s sports. The resulting controversy raises a question extending far beyond beer, taxes, or any single ballot measure: Can citizens still petition their government without placing their livelihoods before a self-appointed tribunal? From there, the show heads to Thailand, where two sailors from the USS Abraham Lincoln managed to turn an ordinary night of liberty into an international headline. The official account describes a “drunken brawl.” Anyone who has served aboard ship may recognize something considerably less extraordinary: young sailors, a foreign port, an argument, and shore patrol arriving before matters became genuinely memorable. Dave draws upon his own Navy experience to explain how quickly “us versus them” can change after somebody insults the ship. Finally, a conversation about Dolly Parton, Whitney Houston, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas wanders into dangerous cultural territory: tattoos. One lyric from the film has remained lodged in Dave’s memory for decades, and he is prepared to defend its wisdom despite knowing perfectly well what the response will be. Political surveillance, sailors ashore, craft beer, Dolly Parton, and an opinion almost guaranteed to generate angry email. It is exactly the sort of Friday journey one should expect from The Dave Bowman Show.
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    32 分
  • September 3. 2026 - Down with Socialism!!!

    September 3. 2026 - Down with Socialism!!!
    2026/09/03
    Congress has managed to discover socialism. This might seem encouraging until you remember that the national debt has reached $40 trillion, the federal government still lacks a genuine budget, and lawmakers apparently have plenty of time for nonbinding resolutions designed to produce campaign advertisements. House Resolution 1490 was presented as a condemnation of socialism. It could not create a law, reduce spending, reform an agency, or change the life of a single American. What it could do was force members of Congress to cast a politically useful vote. Republicans could declare themselves defenders of capitalism. Democrats could either oppose the resolution and be accused of supporting socialism, or vote for it and advertise their supposed independence from the party. That brings us to Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, the Democratic representative from Washington’s closely divided Third Congressional District. Her vote for the resolution has been celebrated as evidence of moderation and independence. Perhaps it was. Then again, principles that emerge shortly before a difficult election deserve closer inspection. Was she exercising the judgment Edmund Burke believed a representative owed the people, or mailing campaign literature through the House voting board? This episode of Plausibly Live examines the difference between representation and pandering. If a congressional vote carries no legal force and produces no policy consequence, what exactly are taxpayers purchasing? While Congress performs ideological theater, the debt climbs, budgets remain unfinished, and the difficult work of governing waits patiently outside the chamber. From there, Dave ventures into the darker corners of public irrationality, online discourse, and the peculiar humor people develop when ordinary language no longer seems adequate. It is an episode about politics as performance, social media as a carnival of certainty, and the increasingly strange ways Americans persuade themselves that uncomfortable realities need not be real. After all, Congress did condemn socialism. Surely that fixes everything.
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    29 分
  • September 2, 2026 - Oil, Cellphones and Craziness

    September 2, 2026 - Oil, Cellphones and Craziness
    2026/09/02
    Washington has always been skilled at confusing an announcement with an accomplishment. President Trump’s new Venezuelan oil agreement sounds impressive: American control over billions of barrels, lower gasoline prices, and new supplies for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Then reality intrudes. Venezuelan crude resembles tar more than Texas oil, the country’s infrastructure is collapsing, and its government has a long history of confiscating foreign investments. A press release cannot repair pipelines, restore the electrical grid, or manufacture the rule of law. Government confidence becomes more troubling when it turns from controlling oil to controlling information. Samuel Tunick returned from the Dominican Republic carrying a cellphone that federal agents wanted to search. He gave them a duress code that erased the device. Now he faces a felony charge for destroying property to prevent a lawful seizure. That word, “lawful,” carries nearly the entire case. The federal government possesses broad authority at the border and deliberately wiping a phone after agents seize it can look remarkably like shredding documents while investigators stand at the door. Yet a modern cellphone is not ordinary luggage. It can reveal years of correspondence, medical information, financial records, movements, associations, and political beliefs. The constitutional protections attached to that digital life may currently depend upon whether your airplane lands in Atlanta, Boston, or Seattle. Then there is the Lindsey Clancy trial, or more precisely, what the public reaction to it reveals. The arguments spreading across social media have moved far beyond one defendant, one tragedy, or one disputed psychiatric condition. They have become arguments about women, voting, abortion, mental illness, tyranny, and whether American society remains capable of rational judgment. This episode of Plausibly Live considers what happens when complicated realities encounter institutions and citizens desperate for easy certainty. Oil cannot be governed by press release. Privacy cannot depend entirely upon geography. Human tragedy cannot be understood through slogans, hashtags, or the most unhinged opinions offered by strangers at two in the morning.
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    39 分
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