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Straight White American Jesus

Weekly Roundup: Extremism is the Virtue

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

Politics, News

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Brad and Dan examine the competing ideals often put forth by the GOP: 1) Be an individualist who thinks for herself vs. 2) work to unite the country behind a common cause. They discuss how these ideals are often contradicted by the GOP's actions and policies. First, they look at the ouster of Liz Cheney for thinking for herself by opposing Trump's Big Lie. Put in her leadership place: Elise Stefanik, someone who went from freethinking moderate to Trumpian acolyte. Then there is Mitch McConnell, who blames Biden for a lack of bipartisanship but says out loud that his goal is 100% to block the administration's goals. Finally, there is the wild goose chase of an audit in Arizona, where conspiracy theorists are sniffing for bamboo and looking for nonexistent watermarks in an effort to overturn an election that happened six months ago--if the election doesn't go how you want, tear down the nation. Is that how the saying goes? They finish with an explainer on the worker shortage debate raging in the wake of COVID and some brief comments on the Josh Duggar Case. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 SWAJ Apparel is here! https://straight-white-american-jesus.creator-spring.com/listing/not-today-uncle-ron To Donate: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Venmo: @straightwhitejc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to an irreverent podcast.

0:03.7

Visit irreverent.fm for more content from our amazing lineup of creators.

0:20.2

Welcome to Stray White American Jesus.

0:22.0

My name is Brad O'Neishie.

0:23.9

Faculty and religions.

0:24.8

Good more college.

0:25.8

Our show is hosting a partnership with the CapCenter UCSB.

0:29.0

I'm here today with my co-host.

0:31.2

I'm Dan Miller, associate professor of religion and social thought at Lamar College.

0:35.6

Good to see you Brad.

0:36.7

You too.

0:37.4

We have reached May, which in higher ed is the the time of emergence.

0:44.6

Dan, I always think of this period like when classes have ended as like somebody,

0:48.9

like a sea creature emerging from emerging from the lagoon.

0:53.7

And you just have to like get all of the barnacles and seaweed off of you

0:58.4

before you can actually feel like yourself again.

1:00.5

And I just were in that moment of like we are no longer underwater,

1:04.3

but we are still covered in like barnacles and seaweed.

1:07.8

There's like sea and enemies on on your face.

1:10.1

There's, you know, some stray fish, you know,

1:14.8

somewhere that they shouldn't be.

1:16.8

And, you know, you're just trying to get back to like normal,

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