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Even though Jonah is off this week, Rob Long has some personal news to share concerning his health and (like Hilaria Baldwin), his ethnicity. Also, John reviews Wonder Woman ’84 and Soul, Rob reveals the most successful man in show biz (no, it’s not himself), John picks the best director working today, and both pick their top 3 of 2020. Happy New Year to all GLoP listeners of all ethnicities and political persuasions.
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@blueyeti — The problem was never commenting on Trump, but unbalanced (in more than one sense) commenting on Trump.
In a world Without Donald, where would be, for so many, be. Time to divest.
I’m not sure that makes sense. Perhaps some more editing?
If the rhetorical question is what will some people do when they don’t have Donald Trump to kick around anymore, there are other avenues of punditry and comment that already are being explored — case in point:
Kristol is a somewhat unique case, I expect it will be more common for those who insisted that Trump must be defeated, to start complaining about the entirely predictable result of what they wanted.
Ayn Rand, the John Birch Society, and Donald Trump’s special brand of crass vulgarity should be read out of NR conservatism.
I forget who, but one of the mainstays on Land of Confusion talked about how he couldn’t listen to Jonah’s podcast because he does the same sanctimonious anti-Trump rant that eats up ten to fifteen minutes of time every podcast. We all repeat ourselves, but man does Jonah waste alot of time by making an argument that convinces no one.
Him and Gary.
I have to wonder, was Bill Kristol ever a real conservative; or, like Charlie Crist, an opportunist — fraud? double agent? — all along?
“Under her [Nancy Pelosi’s] leadership, the House then did what it could to check Trump.” “Check” him doing what exactly? Does Kristol think Pelosi’s House was to Trump’s right politically?
Great podcast guys. Thanks!
If you’re a decorum conservative or grew up in New York City in the late 1970s and the 1980s repulsed by Trump’s outer borough vulgarity, I think personal loathing has come to take precedence over everything. And if your disgust extends to anything that Trump touches, then all of his conservative actions, including the ones you claimed to have wanted for a quarter-century, must be opposed and the ideology of Trump’s enemies supported.
(I also suppose if you have enough ego about your own personal intelligence, you’ve also somehow game-planned in your mind a strategy to retake the Republican Party, post-Trump, purge all his acolytes and begin telling everyone else the proper way things should be run again. Getting to that point from the start might also be akin to the business model of the South Park Underpants Gnomes, but people with excess love of their own smarts quite often aren’t as smart as they think they are.)
Doesn’t it usually look like this?
I haven’t finished the comments, and just got around to listening to the podcast today, but I was going to come here and say how wonderful it was to get back to the reason why I started listening to this podcast in the first place. I might even be able to get my husband to listen to this one. I’m glad Rob’s case of the “rona” didn’t seem too bad. Thanks for getting back to the “pop culture show”.
Is there any serious doubt that it’s because Jonah was absent?
I’d like to think not, but the evidence is pretty strong. I almost made mention of it in my comment. Even Rob’s brief mention of Trump was not so much as to derail the show and I got what we has saying.
@blueyeti What do we have to do to see the picture?
I think what I meant to say was in this moment , put aside the Past, and just be. OOOOOOOM. Done ! Now how do we put this goddamn mess back together.???!!! Best GLoP in a long time . Jonah could have made it even better. Happy New Year and love to all.
Theoretically possible, but the evidence of the last four-five years is not favorable.
Following up on this question: Does an interested member receive the photo via email? I ask because I would enjoy seeing it too.
Here you go (Rob is on the left):
Holy mackerel.
Looks a little like Fred Savage.
According to Bethany Mandel, savage is sexy to Jewesses.
And Peter on the right?
Well I’m pretty sure it isn’t James…
When Rob is being funny, he’s great. It’s when he’s trying to be serious, that he becomes ridiculous.
I agree, @blueyeti.
@kedavis was simply offering a hypothesis: “It seems more likely that …”.
I’ve suggested that some Never Trump “conservatives” are simply people who sent their resumes to liberal institutions, plus a few conservative ones for insurance.
But the liberals were flooded with applicants, and the NTers ended up going through the motions of being conservatives for right-wing donors. This might explain Bill Kristol’s bizarre political transmigrations.