American Gout

On wealth and the decline of institutions.

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Dear Reader (Including any European heads of state gossiping about me like village women around the town well),

So, David French and the Morning Dispatch guys do this thing where they have a sort of mini table of contents at the beginning of each newsletter. The thinking is, people are busy. They’ve got jobs and secret masquerade balls to go to where aging overweight globalist dudes wear tuxedos as they hang out with winsome young slatterns. Oh wait, that’s Eyes Wide Shut.

Anyway, where was I? Oh, right: Tables of contents. I’ve long toyed with doing one. But I worry it will mess with the feng shui of the drawing room of my mind.

But what the hay; let’s give it a whirl. 

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  1. Collin Saunders

    Hey Jonah, I just listened to the latest Remnant podcast with Declan Garvey. In regards to your comment on the show about you not being a “reporter reporter,” I know you’re primarily a commentator, but I really hope you and Steve are teaching and enforcing journalistic values for The Dispatch. We readers are counting on you guys. I don’t want to see this site evolve into another version of Glenn Beck’s “The Blaze” or Tucker Carlson’s “The Daily Caller.”

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    Tim Murphy

    As a socially conservative Catholic, it strikes me that the issue of abortion is the primary matter that has resulted in the criticism that this group wants big government. Actually, the opposite is true-Roe (as well as Obergefel) are best characterized as big government decisions, utilizing a combination of the ill-conceived privacy right and the imperfect analogy of racial discrimination to advance a national moral norm that doesn't exist and usurping what is best left to the moral norms of various states to develop (which is true diversity). The courts would have been wiser to follow the logic of Miller v California, which permitted a place for community standards in defining obscenity. This approach is more consistent with the concept of subsidiarity that drives much of Catholic political thought. I suggest that this approach, rather than some approaches advanced by those in the media, is the truer view of most conservative Catholics (who, by the way, ARE engaged in cleaning up our church).

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    WKDawson

    Thank you for the analysis. I also think they should pursue the impeachment matter far more thoroughly, even if the result is that it goes well past the election before it is finished (or hopefully just finishes itself, making the matter moot).

    Being a bit "overnourished" myself, I agree, we have a lot to be thankful for. Still, I don't think even with the benefits that I gain (and am thinkful for), that the systems for distributing wealth and success are particularly representative of who deseverse such prosperity. Of course, I am more of liberal and have my suspicions of the power of the market to self-correct, but I am sure that -- although maybe not the most brilliant in self-promotional accumen -- there are a few baristas out there who really deserve a lot better. Did they fail at the interview, or were they even given an interview? There are some middle aged out of work people who probably deserve better. Were they even given an interview and who interviewed them? A 21 year old who __knows__ the truth? Anyway, whereas I agree that we have a lot to be thankful for and even the worst hospital bill is nothing like what could not be done for love or money, the placement of people in proper places is far from accuate or wise even in this day. So at least, there is a lot of room for improvement.

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    Nick Sharkey

    I appreciate the ToC attempt but I prefer the G-File without it. If there’s a ToC it gives the impression it’s a planned writing as opposed to a meandering wondering of words that may or may not be bourbon propelled.

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    Kevin Durant?

    “And yet, I somehow doubt we will see .0001 percent of the outrage we saw from countless “national security conservatives” when it was Hillary Clinton flouting the rules.“
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    I’ve said it before and I will say it again:

    I am fully in favor of a prisoner swap where BOTH Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump go to prison....although I guess that’s more of a prisoner match than a prisoner swap.

    Anyways, worth noting that if you told Trump he could have a hyper-secure phone that was impossible to hack he would take it.

    BUT, if you tell him that this hyper-secure phone includes a team of literally future MSNBC contributors listening in and taking studious notes, you’re going to get that GIF of Trump saying “Wrong!” on repeat.

    Am I blaming the Comey Brennan Clapper anti-Trump insurgents in the bureaucracy for creating a circumstance where the President can’t trust the people who are supposed to help him? Yes. I 100% am blaming them.

    On a positive note, I know we are all worried about China and Russia listening in on his calls. I have good news though. If Russia is able listen, so is the NSA. And if the NSA is listening, any damaging security breaches would have been leaked to CNN and we would be impeaching him for reciting the nuclear codes to Sean Hannity.

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