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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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I think I remember seeing The President of Groucher College on TV ….
I miss them, those three witty fellas I used to know and whose company I have enjoyed so much. Giggling like thieves over the Burisma/Hunter/Joe story and their indifference toward BigTech’s censorship was the breakup event for me. I made it 30-some minutes into the podcast but that was more than enough. Bye guys.
I just watched the embedded YouTube, and I give the round to Jonah. Bugging and leaking are two different things. There’s a little talking past each other in the exchange.
I got to this episode a little late.
On the discussion on pipes, and how they are no longer seen anymore:
I was reading Pat Buchannan’s Nixon’s White House Wars, and in the book he talks about his appearance before the Watergate Committee. He said it changed his whole career from that point on, because he performed well. In part it was because someone leaked to him what questions they were going to ask him, and he spent hours prepping for it.
So I decided to take a look. It was a good performance, but that’s not why I’m bringing it up. There was a lot of smoking going on amongst the senators.
And there were a lot of pipes. In fact, if the camera caught a senator smoking a cigarette it panned away quickly. If a senator was seen to be smoking, it was supposed to be a pipe.
I broke my leg in 1982 and had to spend a month in the hospital in traction. My doctor smoked a pipe and I could tell when he was on rounds by the pipe smoke wafting down the hall. Imagine smokers inside a hospital now.
Didn’t vote for Trump last time. Probably won’t vote for him this time. Will not vote for Biden either. I sound like I’m in sync with Jonah, right? That bothers me. Obviously I’m not a Trump guy. I’m good with some of the stuff he’s done but the trade war has been poorly waged and ill advised. I like the judges. I hate the reckless spending.
That’s a very incomplete thumbnail sketch of where I am policy-wise vs Trump but that’s not why I won’t vote for him. I hate Trump’s boorishness. I don’t like boorishness any better when it comes from someone I agree with… Jonah!
This GLoP will not age well 18 months from now when Biden has been forced to resign and Kamala Harris is president.
At the beginning of the Trump Presidency I had serious doubts about, and even the need for, US trade realignments, but in retrospect I believe this is one aspect of the Trump first term which has gone unexpectedly well.
At this point in history if one is unable to determine the ongoing dis-engagement from the Communist Chinese is a wise and sound policy then we have to simply agree to disagree.
If you want to avoid a Kamala Harris presidency, you know who you have to vote for.
I live in CT. A vote for Trump would merely be symbolic and wouldn’t address the differences I have with his policies.
Which is why it was not smart to pull out of the TPP with zero review of the treaty. He didn’t have to sign it as is. He should have tried to fix it, used the broader approach in an attempt to counter China. Our trade deficit with China last year was almost identical to what it was in 2016. Where’s the win?
I recommend you vote for the President anyway, just for the popular vote totals, which we need to win to knock down this constitutionally-destructive idea of removing the electoral college.
Everyone who thinks “I live in a blue state, my vote doesn’t matter” should vote anyway. Just for the popular vote total. Which is meaningless to anyone who knows the constitution, but meaningful to idiot Dems.
And while I don’t think it’s possible for the President to flip California, I also think the margin there is going to be a lot closer than anyone expects.
His fiscal policy is worse than Obama’s. Where do I get to express my opposition to the pre-pandemic trillion dollar deficits we had when we still had full employment? He’s better than Biden but not a lot better.
I defend him mostly because the hate towards him is so over the top, not because I fully support all his policies.
A vote for Biden is a vote for the radical left, more jobs going overseas, a kiss to Xi, and the remaking of our nation into something resembling a soviet Eastern Bloc state. The people who lived through such have been warning us for years that that’s where we’re headed if we don’t turn this around. President Trump is the thing standing in their way.
Biden is not a harmless, affable old coot. He wouldn’t be running the show anyway. Want energy dependence? Want more blackouts? Want the whole country to look like California?
This is a pretty common leftist trope. I’ve seen it in comment sections all over the place.
@spacemanspiff — The larger Trump’s popular vote, the smaller the mandate the Democrats will have to lobotomize our system of government by:
ending the Senate filibuster;
packing the Supreme Court to make it a rubber stamp and reduce the Constitution to tissue paper;
adding as many Democratic States as they need to establish permanent control of the Senate.
Obviously the preferable solution is to simply re-elect Trump and the Republican Senate.
according to census.gov, net trade deficit by year for the last ten years
2010 273
2011 295
2012 315
2013 318
2014 344
2015 367
2016 348
2017 375
2018 419
2019 345
Graph that, and a pretty clear upward trend is moving the other way.
Edit: corrected – my years were shifted off by one.
also, 2020 is trending WAY below, but this can’t be considered a normal year for trade.
P.S.: I forgot to mention —
throw open the borders to masses of poor illiterates without sentimental attachment to the country, and create millions of new, ignorant and biddable, Democratic machine voters.
Yeah, yeah, you’ve got all that. But so what? Trump is BOORISH!
Geeze.
I already said I’m not voting for Biden.
Perhaps a flattening of the curve, not at all clear it’s going the other way.
I won’t be satisfied until you vote for Trump. : )
(This is no time to behave like one of those [spits] . . . libertarians! )
Not voting for Trump is 99 44/100% as bad.
Or [double-spits] Jonah Goldberg.
But remember, the TPP was dead before the 2016 election, with BOTH candidates pledging to kill it. It was off the table as an election issue at that point. While agree it should have been worked on and improved before approved, it has nothing to do with comparing Trump to the alternative. You might have an image in your imagination of the perfect candidate, but they will not be on the ballot this year, or ever. Vote for the candidate whose supporters are least likely to riot and burn your city down. Not a tough call for adults…
Yes, this. Over the years I have come to totally, and vociferously reject that notion that a vote doesn’t count based on the locality. If you believe your vote doesn’t matter, you are admitting that you do not think that you or your opinion matters. We all need to “stand and be counted”, regardless of the cost, even if it still results in a loss.
I didn’t compare him with the alternative. I don’t have any use for Biden. I’ve already said that twice.
It has to do with making an honest critique of his policy. If the goal is to successfully counter China, removing a tool from the toolbox is foolish. He broke other promises. If he broke this one while showing an honest commitment to changing our relationship with China, it would not have hurt him and it could easily have helped the country immensely.
Your snide comment about tough calls is a good example of what a lousy job Trumpworld has done at building a coalition. I live in a deep blue state. A vote for Trump here is meaningless. Withholding my vote from him is the only way I have to express my opposition to the bad policy choices he’s made.
Nothing to do with Biden there. The point was, in 2016, both Trump and Hillary were against TPP. So to argue that you couldn’t vote for Trump in 2016 because he was against TPP, is irrelevant. The other candidate was too.
And it helps the left believe that you DO support THEIR policy agenda. Gee, thanks.
The fact that you used the term “Trumpworld” signals that you’re on the left anyway.
That’s not why I opposed him in 2016.
The left will believe whatever the hell they want. I haven’t expressed support for their policies. I was just unfriended by a high school classmate the other day because of the times I’ve defended Trump. It’s not the first time that’s happened.
Facebook/Twitter count for less than nothing, when it comes to elections, and the Electoral College.
I hope you’re not arguing that being unfriended proves that you’re “supporting the cause” or something?