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Sleep-deprived following his return from Oklahoma and haunted by visions of Nick, Jonah begins today’s Ruminant ...

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Sleep-deprived following his return from Oklahoma and haunted by visions of Nick, Jonah begins today’s Ruminant with the mother of all rants. Why, when there are so many urgent issues for Americans to be concerned with, is the New York Times more interested in denying objective reality and attacking the concept of motherhood? For that matter, why is the fight over critical race theory only getting crazier, and why is Sheldon Whitehouse seemingly sowing the seeds for a new Tyler Perry script? Tune in to hear these bizarre questions answered, and to learn of Jonah’s vehicular writing habits.

Show Notes:

–The Wednesday “news”letter

–The New York Times piece that ruined Jonah’s morning

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    O.M.G. calling from Vaudeville, AZ

    I never thought Jonah for a Tears for Fears fan. How cool he has always been. Fan boy out.

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    Jason Gibson

    Really enjoyed this one. I’m glad to know that there is a team Jonah on the crt debate. Love David but I just feel he’s missed thr target just a bit on this one.

    I’m on team Jonah Definately

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  3. GregS

    "Donald Trump forces compromises on people... If you're making those compromises simply to get elected, I understand it (I don't think it necessarily makes you an evil person), but I don't admire it. ... Let's just be honest, you're doing it for cold calculated cynical stay-in-power kind of reasons. There is no high mindedness to it. Even if the country is better off with you in office than not, it still lowers you ... it's just poisonous."

    I guess this is the explanation for why you guys won't forcefully call out people like Chip Roy, Mike Gallagher, and Dan Crenshaw. You *understand* why they're doing what they're doing - even if you don't admire it - and you're not going to condemn them for it.

    It's BS, because you're falling into the exact same trap they are. You're saying, "The country *is* better off with people like Chip Roy in office than with a generic Democrat. Therefore, although Chip Roy may be doing things that are poisonous - slimy things that lower him - I *understand* why he's doing it, and I don't think he's a bad person for doing it."

    By definition then, if the person doing such a poisonous thing did not share your political views on other topics, you might call them evil. You certainly wouldn't say, "I understand why you're doing it and it doesn't make you a bad person."

    If you think this is poisonous, then the people who are willing to compromise themselves so terribly in order to hold on to power need to be kept far far away from power. Compromises are never a one-time thing. The lesson of the last 5 years is that when you compromise your foundational principles for power, one compromise always leads to the next, until one day you find yourself winking and nodding at an attempted fascist coup.

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    The Bell Tower

    I think you’re a little tough on the former Vice President there at the end. He very well could just be acting Machiavellian of course.

    But there is also the tradition of deference to an elected president whom one served. Bush and Clinton showing restraint on the partisanship comes to mind, for example.

    Birthingperson fornicator though he is, Donald Trump was still an elected president. I don’t really see that as a good excuse either but I think it’s a plausible explanation vs rank ambition.

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    Bel Aves

    My issue with Milley, and heck all of the DEI that we have seen in colleges for 40 years, and now in corporations, is the unilateral approach. I would be a little more open to Kendi if Sowell were taught alongside. I might consider Michelle Alexander if we then got to read Jason Riley or Ryan Bomberger. Milley's approach is a variation on Motte and Bailey. Learn about CRT, oh I mean learn about different perspectives. But those perspectives never seem to include conservative ones.

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  6. Tony Reiter

    This may be colored by listening to a podcast on China's child policy right before but one of the reasons for China's policy was an attempt to remake the family, and thus society in a way it deemed preferable. This attempt on the words, Mother and Father, seems at least partly aimed at the goal of remaking the family.

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  7. Jolene Combs

    “Birthing person” to me sounds an awful lot like “axlotl tank” from the Dune series. Jonah’s right, stripping motherhood down to nothing more than the act of childbirth is more Handmaid’s Tale than anything the Rick Santorum could dream up. It’s insulting and degrading.

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    The Stray Goose

    "Scent of a Woman" really sucked.

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  9. Pudge

    I’m curious whether some Trans people are now less interested in the gender and more want the Trans part.

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  10. linda

    OK. the mom's can take care of themselves. Here are some names I get called and let's see if the nutso go after grandmas...grams, grams bear, gramalama ding dong (that's a three yr old), Gram Cracker, Grandma Spider Woman . I respond to all I have a big group of kids under the age of 9 but mostly under the age of five. I also have teens but they never confuse me with their grandpa. Pretty sexist of them.

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