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"When you celebrate Hamas, when you say Hamas is fighting for you... You are pro-terrorism."

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Audio doppelgänger Chris Stirewalt joins Jonah on today’s episode of The Remnant to venture through the polluted backwaters of media conglomerates and uncover a whole host of “whataboutism” garbage: the rise of antisemitism on campuses, the media bias in covering these protests, and the terrorist chants coming from the mouths of these students. The two also opine on the faces adorning a far-right fecal Mt. Rushmore, including the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar. They discuss more serious matters as well, such as the current snapshot of poll numbers and whether or not Stormy Daniels is a porn “star” or just an actress.

Show notes:
—What’s the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank
—“What’s the Matter with Kansas?” by William Allen White
—Chris Stirewalt’s Remnant episode with Tyler Austin Harper
—Bloomberg: Biden Trails Trumps
—Chris’ piece for The Dispatch on Nevada’s poll numbers
—The Hill‘s election center
—Nikki Haley voters in Pennsylvania
—Gallup: Americans showing average enthusiasm for voting in 2024
—Jonah’s appearance on a CNN panel with Lulu Garcia-Navarro
—Students chant “Go back to Poland!”
—Piece on Mike Johnson in The Atlantic

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    Rbell96630

    We need a link to the cartoon of the time-travelling hippo.

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    Sad Trombone

    Though it pains me to say so, I believe your audience tilts towards an older demographic. It would be a convenience if you put a ten second replay on your podcasts so we of minor hearing impairment could replay words missed or garbled by cross-talk.

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    The Bell Tower

    There is no such thing as anti-Zionism. It’s anti-Semitism. Period.

    You can be for a two state solution or a Palestinian state but if you are against Jews in the region, you are anti-Semitic. There should be no equivocation here.

    Personally, I think there can be no Palestinian state until the Palestinians demonstrate that they can elect a government that doesn’t declare itself dedicated to the genocide of Jews and send goon squads into a neighboring country to murder women and children. But that’s just me.

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    Pgrossjr47

    If you support Hamas and what they did on October 7, I don't want to hear about Palestinian civilian casualties.

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  5. Cathwestf

    I strongly support the notion that all protests are not the same. For example: Free Speech and Anti Vietnam War protests differed. Both might have included spoiled wrong headed naive kids. But at least the Anti Vietnam War protests had the potential motivation that loved ones and others were being drafted to be put in harms way. As someone who was there I can report that was a very real, concrete fear, not some abstract silly triggering. Another example of protests (including campus protests) on the wrong side were the protests that led to the return of the return of the tyrannical religious regime in Iran.

    Loved the podcast!

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    Anne W (Raw5254)

    My favorite podcast duo. I get so much enjoyment from listening to Jonah and Chris. And, I remember when I had trouble telling their voices apart. Now I can clearly tell the difference. Thank you, both!

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  7. Scroop Moth

    When you celebrate the Azov Battalion, when you say the Azov Battalion is fighting for you . . you're a desperate Ukrainian, not pro-Nazi

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    CarsonJ

    It's funny, the first couple times I heard Brother Stirewalt on the podcast, I had a really hard time differentiating him from Jonah. Now, however, I almost always have an easy time distinguishing betwixt the two. I have two hypotheses why this is:
    1. I've heard the two so much that I have kenned onto the differences in accent that they bring to the table.
    2. I stopped listening to podcasts on 1.8 speed and dropped down to a more manageable 1.3.

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      Ben Connelly

      I had the same experience and I don’t listen to the podcast at higher speeds. I think Stirewalt started playing up the twang a little more. Or maybe something with the audio editing before vs now.

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  9. Kris Smith

    “The beating that Johnson is going to take… sorry…” Should have been the inspiration for the title of the episode.

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    The Bell Tower

    For a Haley voter like myself, the decision comes down to which faction of complete lunatics is the president gonna have to keep happy.

    Gaetz or Omar? Columbia Jew haters or MAGA Capitol rioters? The DEI crowd or the shut down the border crowd? JD Vance or Kamala Harris?

    Beyond that, the usual issues. Who’s raising taxes or cutting spending? Who’s gonna try to shove green bullcrap down my throat? Who’s gonna look the other way while men compete against my daughters in sports? Which guy is gonna be better able to handle China invading Taiwan or all out war in the Middle East? Who’s the better bet to turn around inflation?

    Trump is gonna come out on top for most of us. Barely. I don’t much care about his trials because that stuff is already baked into the cake. That stuff is just red meat for the Trump haters. I know he’s likely guilty whether he can be convicted or not and I know that Democrats are desperately pursuing his conviction not because he’s guilty but because they want to make a name for themselves or slay the dragon. Justice is a sideshow to everyone these days.

    Does that mean I’m going to vote for a traitor? Unlikely but it’s a 50/50 bet if you ask other voters like me. And there’s no way I vote for Biden either, not after the last 4 years.

    Doesn’t much matter here in Florida but in those swing states? If Biden had come out forcefully against the radicals in his own party, I might have a different view but he’s been pathetic from the moment he told us he was picking his Vice President based on race and gender rather than skill or ability. Downhill from there.

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    1. Bobby D

      I pretty much agree with you at this point. I’m happy to roll the dice on a second Trump presidency if it means an end to the progressive claptrap. The Democrats are just far too beholden to progressive radicalism.

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        The Bell Tower

        It isn’t that they’re beholden. It’s that they refuse to break from it. Republicans are beholden because their electorate is already radicalized in numbers significant enough to overwhelm any other faction.

        The Democratic electorate is conservative in the sense that they chose Biden - even in the primary - as an avenue back to normalcy. The Democratic leadership refuses to barely fart in that general direction despite this and I would argue that this is why they are bleeding minorities.

        Can you imagine evangelical black and Hispanics being for abortion on demand, blatant anti-Semitism, men competing in women’s high school and collegiate divisions? The MAGA crazy makes it a toss up but that’s it.

        Why Democrats can’t recognize this escapes me but there is a wide open lane for anyone who wants it. Be normal. Be presidential. Denounce extremes and win in a landslide.

        No takers.

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