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Warning: The Surgeon General has determined that the podcast associated with this post contains jokes and observations that may offend some listeners who are supportive of the current President of The United States.
In this episode, the hosts of this show (that's Jonah Goldberg, Rob Long, and John Podhoretz) pretend they are White House Press Secretaries and are tasked to spin some recent news stories in such a way that makes them a positive for the President (they also take on a few stories that having nothing to do with the CiC). Some may not find this funny. We understand that, hence this very specific warning. But if you can put aside your politics for an hour, we think you'll enjoy this. But that's not all: the guys also discuss the recent spate of black face black listing, why Instagram is not a primary news source, and scourge of social media and why no one should ponder joining Parler.
John Podhoretz
Jonah Goldberg
Rob Long
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I stopped finding GLOP funny a long time ago.
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I haven't listened in a long time. I gave this one 20 minutes. It wasn't funny, Rob Long gave us an ignorant opinion of Robert E. Lee, and then Podhoretz told a lame joke that he mangled in the telling (as I remember him always doing). Not wasting any more time on this.
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Parler has been around for several months. It turns out it's got a segment in its terms of service that says Parler will sue a user for legal feels if Parler gets sued for the user's posts, so now everyone is leaving it in droves.
It's pronounced "par-LAY." They actually did go for the French.
I am driven to despair by the dismissiveness about the left wing purging its ranks of moderates, because you see them as deserving, because of how they've shut you out.
My God, can you not see that we've got a Red Guard taking over corporations--and not just the press? Can you not see the Brownshirting happening all over in real life, having spilled over from the internet? People from Venezuela and Eastern Europe are raising the alarm about this moment: they know what happens when the statues come down and the art is censored.
What happens when the arrogant, self-righteous employees of any given corporation decide to purge their ranks of Christians, because they're "homophobes"? Will management have any choice but to fire those Christians rather than risk a massive strike by the Red Guard?
These moral panics cause a lot of ruin, but you guys are relatively immune, so it's not scary to you. It's a serious moment. It's scary that you can't see it.
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Oy vey.
It's Sydney CARTON, not Carlson.
I'm not a fan of POTUS but he has a point about mail-in ballots being ridiculously easy to fake. There IS a way to use cryptographic technology to mark each ballot with a character string that is both unique and valid, i.e., you can't make up a string that is valid without knowing the cryptographic key, and you can't reverse-engineer the key by looking at valid strings.
But I guarantee they're not doing that: it would require competence, and gubmint ain't competent.
Furthermore, some NJ pols were just indicted for ballot fraud when a postal worker found huge loads of fake mail-in ballots in a couple of mailboxes. They weren't smart enough to distribute the ballots across multiple boxes, so they were caught, but it doesn't take a sooper-genius to spread them out. How would you detect fake ballots then? When people say there's no evidence of mail-in ballot fraud, what evidence could they possibly find? There's no way to know what's real and what's fake.
JONAH: You tear down all the statues when you're gunning for Year Zero. That's the logic. They want the whole of our history, including the Constitution, to be erased so they can install themselves in power. DOY.
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When Dan Bongino pronounces the app, he says Parler (not the French pronounciation) and he's a part-owner of it. Also, I believe they are addressing the TOS concern. I haven't heard that people are leaving in droves.
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