Natural Born Grifters

What's with the youths these days?

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Jonah begins today’s Ruminant by staring blankly into the ether, but he’s quickly jolted back to reality by the latest in political asininity. Recently, America has faced an upsurge in antisemitism across the political spectrum, and Jonah has plenty of thoughts about why this is happening and how we can stop it. In predictably slapdash fashion, he also explores the astonishingly dumb trend of young Americans sympathizing with Osama bin Laden, and what 2024’s political coalitions will look like. Also, tune in for an important dingo update.

Show Notes:

–Jonah: β€œDemocrats Are Right to Worry About Biden in 2024”

–Matt Lewis: β€œBen Shapiro Astonished by Candace Owens Being Her Usual Self”

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    Gibby

    I love how Jonah apologizes at the end of the podcast as if each of us are in a college class waiting for the bell to ring.

    Anybody still listening At that point, which includes me, has chosen to stick around, so no apologies necessary.

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  2. Dr4146

    Jonah, you’ve really knocked it out of the park in the last few solo Remnants.

    Regarding the parallels you noticed between how the Nazis viewed the Jews and CRT viewed β€œwhiteness”, I have long had a far less intellectually rigorous observation based the behavior of identitarian leftists on Twitter and Tumblr. (I’m 26, so please bear with my social-media oversaturated political observation.) I observed that there are two buckets of β€œwoke.” There are the true believers, but there’s another group that is hateful towards men, whites, cisgender people, and other successful groups that are criticized by critical theories. This second group simply adopts the logic and rhetoric of critical theories to provide a better public face to crass bigotry. This is one of the reasons I was shocked, but not surprised, at identitarian leftists engaging in overt antisemitism after 10/7.

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    1. RaoD

      How to tell those two groups apart is the real question?

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    Christophe

    Great points on how there is, in fact, an appetite for the sort of propaganda that goes viral. Something we need to reckon with rather than blame it all on foreign entities supposedly pushing it.

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  4. Paulkohlhoff

    The asininity of believing Jewish people some how act in orchestrated unison is another example of the dangers of lazily thinking in aggregates. I suppose, in a way ,another perverse byproduct of tribalism.

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    CynthiaW

    I wonder why people who are worried about their race or ethnic group's being "replaced" don't do the obvious thing and reproduce.

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    1. Randall Briggs

      They're too busy plotting the overthrow of the Deep State to have time for reproduction. Either that, or they can't find willing partners.

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        CynthiaW

        Get a job, take a shower, learn some manners ... it's not complicated.

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        1. RaoD

          Job: check. Shower: check. Manners: I give up. Kidding, but the third is the most difficult thing.

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      Dan Baldwin

      That would require cishet men as a whole to get their act together... which would be about as probable as raisins becoming an acceptable ingredient in potato salad south of the Mason-Dixon line.

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        Scarlette Tarte

        Blech. Is that actually a thing? I never heard of raisins in potato salad anywhere.

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        CynthiaW

        I think it's less "as a whole" and more "one by one." I agree about the raisins, though. GAH.

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    Ben Connelly

    Man I wish I’d known you were going to be at UVA!

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    Anne W (Raw5254)

    Another good one, Jonah. There are times when I wish there was a transcript, just so I could accurately quote you!

    I am sorry that I don’t read as much of TD as I would like, but I have so many things I’m trying to keep track of. Still, my husband and I are happy to be members, whether we consume a little or a lot. Podcasts are a favorite of mine because I can listen throughout the day, while I’m doing other things. I very rarely miss any of yours!

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    Charley Warns

    Catholics think universally because God created the universe ... you see.

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    Michael Berkowitz

    Thanks for the bit about Hamas propaganda. I've been telling people forever that it may not make much difference how well Israel explains itself, given the readiness of many, including the mainstream media, to believe the other side.

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      Michael Berkowitz

      Your comment reminded me of a line in 𝘜𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴, where the narrator asks whether someone (and old crone, I think) would fit better in the Upanishads or the Mabinogion. Must be something about Catholics...

      Anyway, over on my side of the fence, R. Yehuda Halevi offers, in his book π˜›π˜©π˜¦ π˜’π˜Άπ˜»π˜’π˜³π˜ͺ, the evidence for Judaism being the revelation at Mt. Sinai, because it was in front of the entire nation and so would have been impossible to insert into Scripture at any point without people saying "Say what?! I never heard of that from my father or grandfather."

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        Anne W (Raw5254)

        Sorry I missed the deleted comment.

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          Michael Berkowitz

          As I recall, the fellow mentioned being a Catholic, went through a very impressive list of deities from a wide range of pagan religions and then mentioned that the reinforcing witnesses to... the Resurrection, maybe...? gave special weight to the belief.

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            Anne W (Raw5254)

            Okay, thanks. Yes, the Resurrection is a big deal to Christians. That’s why Easter is considered to be so much more important than Christmas. Of course, instead of Santa, it gets commercialized with bunnies and eggs! There might be something to the eggs that I’m missing, but I’m pretty sure the rabbits are rather meaningless, other than being cute.

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