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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Fighting for Lost Causes

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

“We need to agree that the Senate doesn’t work,” Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse tells Jonah on today’s episode of The Remnant. “The Founders had this great idea that you separate power vertically and horizontally if you believe in universal human dignity, and the Senate is kind of the most unique single institution that the Founders created in the Constitution.” Sasse’s appearance comes on the heels of his Wall Street Journal op-ed, in which he calls for modified Senate term limits, repealing the 17th Amendment, and cutting the C-SPAN cameras to improve debate on the Senate floor. “The cameras change the dynamic in the room because people don’t ask real questions if they’re instead trolling for a sound bite that they can hope goes viral,” Sasse explains. What’s worse, senators use the C-SPAN camera rules to trick their constituents into thinking they’re debating their colleagues when they’re not. “They regularly do this, hand gesturing to the senator right next to them that they’re supposedly rebutting, but the rules in the Senate require the C-SPAN cameras to be cropped right around their head and shoulders, so you don’t know as a viewer that there’s no one there in the Senate.” After railing against the senatorial political posturing that’s poisoning our parliamentary system, Sasse and Jonah discuss the filibuster, clickbait journalism, and the dangers of perceiving politics as religion. Learn alongside Jonah, and stick around to the end to hear Sasse school his colleagues in real time. Show Notes: -The Dispatch30-day trial at , Sasse’s article: “Make the Senate Great Again,”In celebration of Brian Lamb, what Sasse means by “agglomeration economy,” and Sasse’s opening remarks at the Kavanaugh hearing. -LiquidIV.com, use promo code “DINGO” at checkout for 25% off and ExpressVPN.com/Remnant for three months off a year-long subscription.

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Oh

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Ladies and gentlemen

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Could I please have your attention

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Hello

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Rees your listeners. This is Jonah Bolbert post of the remnant podcast brought to you by the dispatch and dispatch media

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What's really going on at the the the virtual noodle salad parties that we've got?

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For members only exclusive material so please sign up today if you haven't already for 30 days and then if you like what you see

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Maybe you become a fully paid member of the dispatch

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Today's episode is brought to us by our friends at liquid IV and express VPN more about them in a little bit

1:08.7

Hey listeners, it's Jonah. This is me talking to you from the future

1:12.2

We just finished recording the podcast that you're about to hear me introduce as if it's about to happen

1:17.4

But it's already happened, you know in in in my timeline. It's very much like the movie tenant

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We're doing an backwards entropy thing anyway

1:27.3

I just want you to know that apparently the technology in tenant is much more user-friendly than the Wi-Fi in the US Senate

1:35.2

And we had a whole bunch of

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Screen-freezings and lost audio and we had to stitch some stuff together

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so if something sounds like

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There was some weird jump cut between one bit of audio and another

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It's not that our brilliant audio producer Caleb screwed anything up. It's just this is the the meal that he was served

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And I apologize to Caleb on behalf of the IT department of the US Senate. So here we go

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