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This week, we discuss a rare IRL meeting of the GLoP crew on the occasion of the party that was held at the White Horse Tavern in Greenwich Village to remember Lucianne Goldberg. Then, for fans of the edgier side of GLoP, well, this is the show for you. That’s all we’ll say.
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Did a cornhole game break out at the Tavern? Something to look forward to today or tomorrow.
Goodness, an Explicit rating!
I’m pre-offended.
That cornhole episode was so funny I had to stop listening a few times to pull myself together.
I like how JPOD dismisses the conspiracy theorists but ignore David French, Kristol and Frum who all fell for the Steele Dossier.
I would like a live GLOP or similar with Ricochet members allowed to question (I use this word as interrogate might be misconstrued) Rob, John, and Jonah about their gusto in condemning those on the right for what they consider conspiracies and the total apathy they show about going after leftists that fell for confirmed hoaxes
“If you want to avoid low-hanging fruit, get Tommy John underwear!”
Boys, your show needs a woman for occasions such as this.
She needs to be someone currently in her fifties who was raised right, but who has come to terms with modern sensibilities. Perhaps she modeled her life a little too much on Fast Times at Ridgemont High and or Sixteen Candles – perhaps she just aspired to it – but she has come to her senses. She needs to be able to speak calmly, kindly, and persuasively about What Hath The Pill Wrought. She needs to have recognized the Kentucky Fried Movie clip that kicked off the episode, but she’s grown up.
Because, JPod, there are good reasons HR should know about what those 80-y-o Hollywood leches are up to (as it were) in the makeup chair, and you don’t have to be a Gender Studies major with they/them pronouns to think so.
Just so I’m clear, is this only a comment, or is it an audition?
I definitely qualify, but I’m not giving up my day job. 😁
No need, even for the “flagship” podcasts it’s only an hour or so, usually on Fridays. And they use Zoom so it could be “lunchtime” at your day job.
For THIS podcast it would only be once a month.
Early in the show, Rob Long tries to make the point that incumbent Republican Presidents win reelection if they keep their campaign promises, and lose if they don’t.
In other words the voters, who went with him once because of the promises, will abandon him if the promises aren’t kept.
So, for example, Long claims that Ronald Reagan was reelected because he kept his promise to stand up to the Soviets — and doesn’t mention the “Morning in America” economic recovery, which everyone else thinks was the reason for Reagan’s landslide victory.
But worse is to come. Here’s his account of Donald Trump (12:44):
“Donald Trump said, Gonna build a wall, and Mexico is going to pay for it, I’m gonna build a wall. And he didn’t do that, and he lost his reelect.”
Donald Trump‘s vote total in 2016: just under 63 million votes.
Donald Trump’s vote total in 2020: just over 74.2 million votes.
Clearly, Republican voters who had had doubts about Donald Trump (like me) had liked what they had seen for four years, and had to come back home — which is exactly the opposite of what Rob Long imagines.
What it took to defeat Donald Trump in 2020 was an — unprecedented in American history — ballot generation effort by the Democratic Party; which Rob Long doesn’t want to think about.
Please don’t confuse Rob with facts, it makes a terrible mess when his head explodes.
GLOP WITHDRAWAL!!! 🥵