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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Despots and Boomsticks

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.76.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Charles C.W. Cooke, senior writer at National Review and Anglo-Floridian golf cart enthusiast, returns to The Remnant for another round of exceptionally rank punditry on Joe Biden’s dismal first year in office. Before assuming the presidency, Biden made some big promises that he hasn’t been able to keep. But is his problem that he refuses to adjust to political circumstances, or that he’s simply a hack who was never qualified for the job in the first place? Mixing hearty debate with vigorous agreement, Jonah and Charlie discuss this question at length, while also touching on mandatory voting, the perils of public opinion, and how thrilled we should be to live in a moment where journalists and politicians can regularly insult each other. Oh, and Charlie also can’t resist rambling about firearms. Show Notes: - Charlie’s page at National Review - Charlie on Biden’s year of failure - Jonah’s uncontroversial third-party proposal - Jonah’s words with friends - Biden’s first-year report card in Politico - “You guys were almost separated at birth” - Michael Tomasky’s attempted mic drop - The Remnant with Josh Kraushaar - Jonah contemplates mandatory voting - Mad Dogs and Englishmen on the bumbling Mr. Biden - #DontBrowbeatMyPete - Big time! - Charlie’s upcoming course on the history of the Second Amendment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Oh

0:14.2

Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention?

0:18.0

Thank you

0:27.4

Greetings, your listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg host of the Remnant Podcast brought to you by the Dispatch Media yada yada yada

0:33.8

Etc. Etc. Etc.

0:35.9

Very excited to finally have back

0:39.2

fan favorite

0:41.2

former colleague in During Friend

0:43.2

um

0:46.8

Perhaps the most cultured and and an erudite

0:53.9

Florida man known to

0:56.1

Existence none other than Charles CW Cook

1:00.6

Now a senior writer senior what are you at NR that's right senior right to okay for a while you were

1:08.7

the editor of

1:10.7

And our do we still say national review online is that a thing that I think we now say national review dot com okay?

1:18.0

All right

1:20.1

I still consider you part of the great chain of being that I was as the first absolutely online editor so

1:26.5

Anyway, welcome back

1:28.6

Some listeners may recall that I kept promising Charlie would come on during the great

1:33.1

uh, brew ha ha over my third party trial balloon thing and um

1:40.3

I'm happy to discuss it it should uh we get to it but like it seems like much of the air has gone out of

1:46.8

those tires, but if you want to

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