Jonah Goldberg uses his Remnant Podcast episode to touch on various topics including a discussion about e-bikes, which he describes as lawless and needing stricter regulations. The podcast is an offshoot of a broader conversation about the anniversary of the September 11 attacks and features commentary on current events such as political gatherings and media trends.
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Jonah Goldberg, in his role as Francophobe-in-chief at The Dispatch, discusses a wide range of topics including Texas politics, the Media Research Center, Abdul El-Sayed, pinkwashing, the Muslim-Queer alliance, progressive Jews, Justice Antonin Scalia’s views on the Constitution, and issues surrounding e-bikes. Goldberg criticizes what he terms "lawless e-bikes" among other subjects in his podcast episode titled "The Saturday Ruminant." The Dispatch is a digital media company that covers politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective but often includes strong conservative viewpoints like those expressed by Goldberg.
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Coming off of a discussion about 9/11 on the DisPod, Jonah Goldberg is feeling ruminative and somber.
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Accordingly, he has decided to address one of the most important foreign policy issues of our century: the cheese-eating surrender monkeys.
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That’s right.
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Freedom fries forever, baby.
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And if that’s not exciting enough, The Dispatch’s legendary Francophobe-in-chief doesn’t stop there, taking up the Texas Trumpapalooza, the Media Research Center, Abdul El-Sayed, pinkwashing, the Muslim-Queer alliance, progressive Jews, Justice Antonin Scalia’s brilliant take on the Constitution, lawless e-bikes, and video podcasting.
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The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective.
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To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including the Saturday Ruminant, audio versions of all our articles and newsletters, and Jonah’s twice-weekly G-File—click here.
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Instructions on how to set up your members-only feed can be found here, and if you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here.
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[groans] Ladies and gentlemen, uh,
could I please have your attention?
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There you dig it.
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This is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant Podcast, brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media.
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Or, no, 1967, I just, just saw.
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And I've got the earworm of the Spider-Man theme music in my head, which is probably not helpful.
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I also just finished a long conversation for the Dispatch podcast about 9/11, 25 years later, which I will grant you is probably the...
not even probably, is definitely the far more important anniversary.
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But I'm wildly over-caffeinated, caffeinated and sleep-deprived, and I'm recording this on Thursday, September 10th.
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Got to record it today because of a backlog with stuff, and we have to edit my conversation with Ben Sasse tomorrow.
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Just keep that in mind, you know, with Trump-a-palooza tonight is even dumber
and, um, more pointless.
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I cannot make reference to it because it hasn't happened yet.
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But the first night was, was very, very dumb, and, um, we can get to that in a second.
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Me and David and Mike Nelson and Steve, we did, you know, an hour and 20 minutes on 9/11 for reasons that I kind of get into in the Dispatch podcast, and you'll-- if you've already listened to that, because that will come out before this comes out, you'll know some of the reasons.
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I'm-- I, I find the last 25 years, in some ways,
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