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It’s a new month and that means a new GLoP. They eschew all of the obvious cultural issues in the news (despite some prodding from outside parties, ahem) and concentrate on –not kidding– Mickey Rooney, robot babies, the problem with private schools, Gone With The Wind, Tropic Thunder, and some gossip from down south.
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I accept Jonah and John’s condemnation of @roblong
Requisite GLoP screenshots:
If anyone’s interested, that’s the Norman Rockwell painting “Gossips,” an idea he later reworked into the 1976 Bell System Bicentennial phone book cover.
Wow, I guess Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) was still alive in 1976, but he seems like a figure from an earlier and different time.
With former President Trump not allowing the RNC and other organizations to use his name, I wonder if this will help the institutional party. It looses the advantage of Trump, so they may just move on and ignore him. Trumpism was built on publicity, and if that drys out, he goes away.
One shouldn’t expect good political commentary from an entertainment podcast, so it’s not a surprise that the guys get the fundraising topic wrong. You have a political party that worked against its president and wants to return to its uniparty ways. However, the rubes love the guy so the party leaders figure that they can slap Trump’s image on funding letters, milk some money out of the voters, and go back to nominating McCains and Romneys. Trump realizes that the party hates him but somehow wants to still use his name. Forget that.
Putting all the politics at the very end was a good move
I liked the bit where Rob is plugging the martini shot and when mentioning podcast distribution services forgets to mention the one he founded.
Ok, so granted that it can be good for the Republican party to be destroyed because [plausible reasons cited by R. Long].
But can we hope first for the destruction of the party of slavery, rebellion, segregation, government dependency, abortion extremism, and anti-Constitutionalism?
Some victims of elder abuse…………deserve it. BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Rob was in rare form for this one and loved the Tropic Thunder discussion. Good times, I am here for the jokes.
You forget, he is a Hispanic Covid hero so criticism is not to be tolerated!
This was the funniest GLoP in a while. I’ve been away for a bit- I find the haters so strange. Why waste your time? Or is it…oh, you want to be friends?
I thought it was great…..cracked up laughing multiple times. hahaha
Cast Ed Asner?
No, Abe Vigoda!