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Recorded in anticipation of the change of government that Israel has undergone, Jonah brought back ...

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Recorded in anticipation of the change of government that Israel has undergone, Jonah brought back one of his oldest friends Tevi Troy, now a fresh face at the Bipartisan Policy Center. The pair discusses the differences between our chaos-filled presidential system and Israel’s chaos-filled parliamentary system, Bibi Netanyahu’s legacy, and why, in a world filled with limitless technological delights, Hollywood’s blockbuster movies are just so bad.

Show Notes:

–Tevi’s new gig

–How do different democracies pick their head of state/government?

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  1. Pedro Goulart

    No idea where Jonah got this idea that only Brazil has a presidential system similar to the US without the electoral college. All Latin America has it, as does France, contrary to what he said about nothing of the sort existing in Western Europe.

    To be fair, it's not true either that the US has been the only country with an electoral college system. I know at least Finland used to have one.

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  2. DJ

    Good podcast, but Jonah is still wrong about the electoral college, which has failed multiple to fulfill the goal that the founders intended. It’s failure in 2016 is how we ended up with January 6. Republicans embraced the idea of minority rule as defensible with violence.

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  3. Richard Kennedy

    Tevi criticized Public Health for a “We will tell you when you need to know” problem. Yeah, bad guys in action movies, funny and otherwise have been telling their henchmen that for decades. Fitting, eh?

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    Holly

    Did Jonah's guest just say that "the woke left" opposes linear thinking and hard work? That was a terrible, terrible generalization. Not a particularly nuanced conversation. Also, anti-semitic violence is bad; anti-Islamic violence, also bad. It's not a competition for which is worse. The severity of both has ebbed and flowed over the years. Saying that anti-Islamic violence increased after 9/11 does not mean that the anti-semitism problem is any less severe. We can acknowledge that both problems exist to varying degrees in this country, accompanied by anti-asian violence.

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    Dina

    Really enjoyed this podcast! Especially the very unexpected last line in Hebrew: בהחלט לא—זה פודקסט (which means the same thing as the usual last line).

    Is that your voice, Jonah? It brought a huge grin to my face.

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  6. Jessie Gulden

    The conversation about Anti-Zionism and anti-semitism reminded me of this Intelligence Squared Podcast: https://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/anti-zionism-is-anti-semitism/.

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  7. RB

    As a proud yarmulke-wearing Orthodox Jew, I really enjoyed this episode.

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    Dave Carson

    Deserves one of these:

    https://www.facebook.com/DoctrineMan/photos/a.169913026375190/4485524421480674

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    Rev Snow

    "Cool Runnings" (1993) is not "Running Scared" (1986)

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      Jason Gibson

      Shine sweet freedom shine a light on me......

      It’s odd because Jonah’s even brought up the music of Michael McDonald on the glop

      It was Gregory Hines he was trying to think of a pretty good movie actually

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      Ben Connelly

      Haha yeah I thought of that too. I assumed it must have been some different movie with a similar name.

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    3. Paula Weber

      My thoughts exactly...

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    Andreas Wolf

    I would like to see a picture of the "Dispatch tires" one can supposedly kick. I thought the proverbial vehicle of this endeavor was a pirate skiff...

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    1. Richard Kennedy

      So these pirates have found way more booty than occurred to them in such a short amount of time, see. And they want us to check out the cool Bentleys and Maybachs, ok? Jonah just sold his to put Lucy through college at the Old Man’s alma mater, Goucher.

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    2. linda

      I especially like the pirate skiff imagery.

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