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Got a new piping hot GLoP for you, and we aren’t kidding about the pipe, as that ancient smoking accoutrement is discussed in great detail in today’s show. We also cover C-Span’s Steve Scully’s fall from grace, the media and big tech’s latest in kind contribution to the Biden-Harris campaign, courtesy of Hunter Biden and the New York Post, that time Rob ran into Dick Clark, board games. and why Antonin Scalia was the coolest Supreme Court Justice in history.
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It is possible to do two things at once. We can support the President’s policy agenda but cringe at his tweets and personal attacks while ALSO finding it gross and offensive when Jonah — who constantly criticizes the President’s language — calls the press secretary MAGA Barbie. Is it not hypocrisy?
Jonah should have a man bun!
YEA!
Outside these walls, Ricochet is viewed as an anti-Trump website. I wonder if they realize that when they beg for subscribers?
It’s the latter. The last four years have been quite revealing. So many “decorum conservatives” turn out to be much worse that the guy they say is destroying their precious norms.
Regarding the opening of this “episode,” I’m glad that ACB mentioned Hirono’s name when answering that inane questions, so that any future excerpt clip should include the name of the moron who asked the moronic question.
Re: Settlers of Catan…
Re: JPod seeming to think it doesn’t matter if Joe Biden has a house – or more than one house – that he couldn’t afford on his known salarie(s); but in the worlds of organized crime, corrupt police and other officials, etc, isn’t one big trigger of suspicion when someone is living “beyond their means?” Is there some reason why this kind of… marker?… red flag?… should apply to EVERYONE BUT Joe Biden?
Sheldon Whitehouse may have been remembering an old Seinfeld episode where Kramer among others, got “addicted to” the chicken from Kenny Rogers’ Roaster.
Why?
Why not? I don’t remember ever hearing Rob mention Trump on those, so it’s not insane stuff.
I haven’t heard one of these, so in case he isn’t the usual obnoxious smug RINO on them, I take it back.
This one hasn’t updated for a while, but if any of them still show up, try this:
https://feeds.kcrw.com/podcast/show/ma
The episodes before the last Trump election was something also.
The after-Trump election cruise episode with John, Jonah, Charles C. W. Cooke, and Kevin Williamson was a classic with all four being sort of speechless.
I would like to have seen that.
Just a guess:
Voting for Trump:
Peter Robinson
James Lileks
Jon Gabriel
Voting for Biden:
Rob Long
Jonah Goldberg
John Podhoretz
Blue Yeti
Monopoly comes from The Landlord’s Game, designed by Lizzie Magie, which had two sets of rules. The set of rules not adopted were meant to explain Henry George’s idea for taxation, The Single Tax, which is a tax on the unimproved value of land. This is still regarded in economics as a most excellent idea, in part because it’s the one form of taxation that has a positive incentive: putting land to its best productive use. The only remnant of that in Monopoly is that children and adults are reduced to tears when they fail to build on their properties.
It’s a mistake to call Henry George a socialist (in the 20th-century sense of the word). His ideas were extremely popular into the 20th century across the political spectrum. Albert Jay Nock was a Georgist. Milton Friedman thought George’s Protection or Free Trade was a brilliant book (George was a free trader and in general a free market guy) and the Negative Income Tax is in line with George’s citizen’s dividend (also an idea of Thomas Paine). Marx, on the other hand, was not a fan. And George made the prediction that Marxism put into practice would lead to dictatorship, anticipating The Road to Serfdom.
I would like that to continue forever.
It is of course possible, and for this Ricochet crowd highly probable, that most who support the President dislike his name calling, and equally dislike it when others on our side employ it. Very consistent…
It was Russell Brand who recently pointed out that Donald Trump is a standup comedian.
To be precise, an insult comedian in the tradition of Don Rickles.
If you took everything Rickles said seriously, you would have to conclude he was a racist and a sexist and a homophobe, and an all-around misanthrope.
Yes, that was my favorite part of the episode: Jonah does math – its hard! And it does say something about having a gut feel for accuracy (or not having that feel). He equated the 850% match as resulting in another $850,000 rather $8500, being off by two orders of magnitude, or a factor of 100. I recall that older engineers who had to figure calculations by hand are better at recognizing outputs from fancy new computer programs because they have an gut feel for what the range of the result ought to be. And if its not, they suspect trouble. On this podcast, that wildly ridiculous number didn’t raise any suspicions among the other hosts, but yet their gut tells them maybe the emails are not to be trusted. Hmmm…
Those of us engineers old enough to have used slide rules had to do the order of magnitude in our heads, too. When I started teaching, hand-held calculators were still expensive, so not many students had them. But as they became ubiquitous I saw the students quickly losing that skill. They would sometimes answer a numeric question with a number that was completely impossible in context, and not have any sense that it was off.
Another aspect of this silly podcast that has become more common: when an issue is mildly confusing to Jonah or the others, it is dismissed as not worthy of focus or serious consideration. Note to file: if you are a Democrat and what to get away with a scandal, just make it confusing enough for Jonah and he will back you. If you are not going to put in the work to understand a topic, don’t bother discuss it. But that leads to another observation: GLoP used to be a fun banter of Pop Culture, and is at its best when that’s the case. They all have varying backgrounds to bring to that conversation to make it enjoyable, with stories and observations. But they don’t have the patience or work ethic to tackle politics in a serious way. The Flagship Podcast is carried intellectually by Peter and James, and makes it worth listening to where current events are concerned.
Goucher College . . . , Towson, MD.
I think Groucher is better. And intentional.
But the funniest thing is saying THE G(r)oucher College!
The president of the university I attended had added The to its name a couple years before I began school. A few years later we got a new president and one of his first changes was getting rid of The.
THE Ohio State University is obsessed with including the THE in their name. They tried to copyright THE (but failed).
Wow, that brings back memories. I remember when Zilog tried to copyright Z.
Scrolling to the back of the comment queue to write that Rob’s Dick Clark story made me laugh makes me feel like a Tampa Bay fan watching today’s Packers-Bucs game in a Milwaukee bar (“what did you come in here for, you idiot?”).