With A Machete

We know that we’ve missed a GLoP or two in the past few months. So in an effort to make up for lost GLoPs, we present this super-sized edition, close to 90 minutes long. We won’t delve into the myriad of topics covered in this show except to say it runs the gamut from a brief history of cable, William Hurt and his many flaws, Skeet Ulrich, The Godfather, Brando, the woman who protested the Ukraine war in a Russian TV studio, who should play Zelensky and more. Just listen. And laugh.

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  1. Iver Mectin Prussian Oligarch Inactive
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    Annefy (View Comment):

    DrewInWisconsin, Oat! (View Comment):

    Heisenberg (View Comment):

    DrewInWisconsin, Oat! (View Comment):

    Bishop Wash (View Comment):

    I haven’t seen some of the latest Marvel movies so I didn’t know William Hurt played a character. Earlier this week my news feed had a headline about Marvel losing an actor. I knew it wasn’t one of the major ones but was surprised to learn he’d been in their movies.

    He was in one of the very first, that is, if The Incredible Hulk (with Edward Norton playing Bruce Banner) even counts as part of that series.

    Wasn’t he the villain in the first Ironman movie? The rival executive that took over the company when they though Stark was dead?

    Jeff Daniels doing a William Hurt impersonation, I think. Not gonna look it up, though.

    Jeff Bridges was the villain.

    Jeff Daniels! I couldn’t process the image of William Hurt in Dumb and Dumber 2.

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  2. DrewInWisconsin, Oat! Member
    DrewInWisconsin, Oat!
    @DrewInWisconsin

    Iver Mectin Prussian Oligarch (View Comment):
    I couldn’t process the image of William Hurt in Dumb and Dumber 2.

    It helps if you’ve seen The Big Chill or Lost in Space.

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  3. Rjcarell Coolidge
    Rjcarell
    @Rjcarell

    Listening to the chat about Olberman.   You need to mention the inside baseball Ivy League shade war with Anne Coulter who said he went to “Old McDonald Cornell”.  Response is hysterical.   https://youtu.be/mdwLuW1QcZI    

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  4. Jack Fowler Member
    Jack Fowler
    @Jack Fowler

    Great episode.

    Worst things about The Godfather: Michael’s homburg.

    Best thing: Jack Woltz insulting Tom Hagen–

    Woltz: “Now you listen to me, you smooth-talking son-of-a-bitch, let me lay it on the line for you and your boss, whoever he is! Johnny Fontane will never get that movie! I don’t care how many dago guinea wop greaseball goombahs come out of the woodwork!”

    Hagen: “I’m German-Irish.”

    Woltz: “Well, let me tell you something, my kraut-mick friend . . .”

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  5. Richard Easton Coolidge
    Richard Easton
    @RichardEaston

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    Blue Yeti (View Comment)
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    Richard Easton (View Comment):

    Future Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas helped persuade Hugo Black to overturn a lower court ruling and put LBJ’s name on the general election ballot for the Texas US Senate race in 1948. So I guess LBJ didn’t steal the primary election. Good old Box 13 must have been legit.

    When I get back from D.C., I’ll post a thread about 2020 since there’s not enough room to properly deal with it here. Those of us who think our institutions are thoroughly corrupted are being proven right every day.

    Oh, sorry — I thought we were talking about the 2020 election. I was not aware that every election in the history of the country was now on the table for examination. Because, yes — if you want look at (what I presume must be) several hundred thousand elections over 250 years, I’m sure you will find examples of shady behavior. The 1960 Presidential election being another one of them.

    I’m not a purist. But I’m not a sycophant, either. If you or anyone else has proof that the 2020 election as rigged, or stolen, or even mis-counted, show us the evidence.

    https://aroundambler.com/video-appears-to-show-someone-submitting-multiple-ballots-at-dropbox-in-upper-dublin-during-the-last-election/

    The Constitution was not followed in 2020 in terms of state election laws.

    Article I, Section 4, Clause 1: The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.

    In many states, the election laws were changed and the state legislature did not ratify them.

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  6. jorge espinha Inactive
    jorge espinha
    @jorgeespinha

    Clifford A. Brown (View Comment):

    Blue Yeti (View Comment):

    Quinnie (View Comment):

    Actually sounds like a good podcast. But Podhoretz and Goldberg are insufferable anti-Trumpers. I’ll listen again when they move their honest allegiance to a CNN podcast. Maybe Lileks and Gabriel can replace them.

    The T word was not uttered on this podcast.

    You know what else is insufferable? Leaving a negative comment on something you haven’t listened to.

    Great comment! 

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  7. jorge espinha Inactive
    jorge espinha
    @jorgeespinha

    I’ve loved this podcast, it’s like the “old days”, with very little politics and mostly culture commentary with a good helping of gossip.

    Yet for the ones amongst us that have their “anti-Trump-o-meter” dialled to 1000 the podcast was yet another example of anti-American propaganda. Because any criticism of the great Donal “Konductatore” Trump, even an imagined one, is akin to anti-Americanism. 

    Congratulations guys it was a great podcast.

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  8. jorge espinha Inactive
    jorge espinha
    @jorgeespinha

    Ezra Klein, Noah Chomsly, Rachel Maddow, Ta Nehisi Coates, are a few of the people I loathe. I don’t even know if they have podcasts because I would never listen to them. What I don’t do is go to the comment section of those podcasts and fill it with negative comments. I don’t get the GLOP hate brigade and why they come here to pollute our space. I’m well acquainted with the English/American vernacular and I can make very good use of it. I can also swear in other languages. So, you can use your imagination and do your worst. Have you done it? That’s the place I want to send you.

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  9. Randy Weivoda Moderator
    Randy Weivoda
    @RandyWeivoda

    jorge espinha (View Comment):

    Ezra Klein, Noah Chomsly, Rachel Maddow, Ta Nehisi Coates, are a few of the people I loathe. I don’t even know if they have podcasts because I would never listen to them. What I don’t do is go to the comment section of those podcasts and fill it with negative comments. I don’t get the GLOP hate brigade and why they come here to pollute our space. I’m well acquainted with the English/American vernacular and I can make very good use of it. I can also swear in other languages. So, you can use your imagination and do your worst. Have you done it? That’s the place I want to send you.

    There is one member who very regularly used to go into the comments on podcasts featuring Jonah Goldberg and denounce Jonah for his anti-Trumpism.  I once asked him why he doesn’t just ignore those podcasts.  He said that there are always new members of Ricochet and that if no one warns them how awful Jonah is, they might listen to those shows. 

    I’m sure every book store has some books that I think are junk, but I couldn’t imagine going and standing in front of those books so I can warn people not to buy them.  There are people, though, who will leave negative book reviews on Amazon for books that haven’t even been printed yet!  They just know they hate the author, so feel duty bound to warn people not to pre-order the book because it has to be awful because the author has previously voiced opinions they detest.

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  10. Henry Castaigne Member
    Henry Castaigne
    @HenryCastaigne

    Jack Fowler (View Comment):

    Great episode.

    Worst things about The Godfather: Michael’s homburg.

    Best thing: Jack Woltz insulting Tom Hagen–

    Woltz: “Now you listen to me, you smooth-talking son-of-a-bitch, let me lay it on the line for you and your boss, whoever he is! Johnny Fontane will never get that movie! I don’t care how many dago guinea wop greaseball goombahs come out of the woodwork!”

    Hagen: “I’m German-Irish.”

    Woltz: “Well, let me tell you something, my kraut-mick friend . . .”

    Anti-white racism was so much more fun back in the day. (looks wistfully)

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  11. Miffed White Male Member
    Miffed White Male
    @MiffedWhiteMale

    jorge espinha (View Comment):

    Ezra Klein, Noah Chomsly, Rachel Maddow, Ta Nehisi Coates, are a few of the people I loathe. I don’t even know if they have podcasts because I would never listen to them. What I don’t do is go to the comment section of those podcasts and fill it with negative comments. I don’t get the GLOP hate brigade and why they come here to pollute our space. I’m well acquainted with the English/American vernacular and I can make very good use of it. I can also swear in other languages. So, you can use your imagination and do your worst. Have you done it? That’s the place I want to send you.

    It’s a lot like people who go into a discussion  of TV show to tell everyone about how they haven’t owned a TV for years, or a sports discussion to tell everyone how dumb you are to pay attention to “sportsball”.

    It’s pathetic attention seeking, and the best approach is to just ignore it.

     

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  12. kedavis Coolidge
    kedavis
    @kedavis

    Miffed White Male (View Comment):

    jorge espinha (View Comment):

    Ezra Klein, Noah Chomsly, Rachel Maddow, Ta Nehisi Coates, are a few of the people I loathe. I don’t even know if they have podcasts because I would never listen to them. What I don’t do is go to the comment section of those podcasts and fill it with negative comments. I don’t get the GLOP hate brigade and why they come here to pollute our space. I’m well acquainted with the English/American vernacular and I can make very good use of it. I can also swear in other languages. So, you can use your imagination and do your worst. Have you done it? That’s the place I want to send you.

    It’s a lot like people who go into a discussion of TV show to tell everyone about how they haven’t owned a TV for years, or a sports discussion to tell everyone how dumb you are to pay attention to “sportsball”.

    It’s pathetic attention seeking, and the best approach is to just ignore it.

     

    What about, say, pointing out to potential supporters of a politician who you never have voted for and never would, that while whatever he’s saying now might seem like a good idea, his record is awful and he should not be trusted now?

    Seems a bit similar, to me.

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  13. jorge espinha Inactive
    jorge espinha
    @jorgeespinha

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Miffed White Male (View Comment):

    jorge espinha (View Comment):

    Ezra Klein, Noah Chomsly, Rachel Maddow, Ta Nehisi Coates, are a few of the people I loathe. I don’t even know if they have podcasts because I would never listen to them. What I don’t do is go to the comment section of those podcasts and fill it with negative comments. I don’t get the GLOP hate brigade and why they come here to pollute our space. I’m well acquainted with the English/American vernacular and I can make very good use of it. I can also swear in other languages. So, you can use your imagination and do your worst. Have you done it? That’s the place I want to send you.

    It’s a lot like people who go into a discussion of TV show to tell everyone about how they haven’t owned a TV for years, or a sports discussion to tell everyone how dumb you are to pay attention to “sportsball”.

    It’s pathetic attention seeking, and the best approach is to just ignore it.

     

    What about, say, pointing out to potential supporters of a politician who you never have voted for and never would, that while whatever he’s saying now might seem like a good idea, his record is awful and he should not be trusted now?

    Seems a bit similar, to me.

    I have friends whose default position is always anti-western/American/Israel. No surprises. As predictable as a nuclear clock. Trumpists are very similar to those Marxists/post-modernists. Birds of a feather. And yes, sometimes my friends are right about stuff, I agree with them that censoring Russian media is a bad thing. Moving the embassy to Jerusalem was a good thing. All my life I’ve been a conservative and a libertarian on many issues. Trump is neither. Talking with a Trumpist is like trying to have a conversation with a communist. A waste of time.

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  14. Franco Member
    Franco
    @Franco

    jorge espinha (View Comment):

    Ezra Klein, Noah Chomsly, Rachel Maddow, Ta Nehisi Coates, are a few of the people I loathe. I don’t even know if they have podcasts because I would never listen to them. What I don’t do is go to the comment section of those podcasts and fill it with negative comments. I don’t get the GLOP hate brigade and why they come here to pollute our space. I’m well acquainted with the English/American vernacular and I can make very good use of it. I can also swear in other languages. So, you can use your imagination and do your worst. Have you done it? That’s the place I want to send you.

    It’s not your space. If you don’t like a comment or a podcast you can scroll past or not listen.

    We have to put up with your insults and ignorance too.

    Check out my upcoming post on Jonah and how he is an ideological sell-out and venal fraud. Or scroll past. 

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  15. Franco Member
    Franco
    @Franco

    Randy Weivoda (View Comment):

    There is one member who very regularly used to go into the comments on podcasts featuring Jonah Goldberg and denounce Jonah for his anti-Trumpism.  I once asked him why he doesn’t just ignore those podcasts.  He said that there are always new members of Ricochet and that if no one warns them how awful Jonah is, they might listen to those shows. 

     

    First that’s not me, but close.

    Here’s the thing. A lot of people come here to promote their ideas and um, denounce other ideas. Jonah Goldberg has a perfect right to his opinions, but he doesn’t have the right to make false claims and as a so-called conservative, he doesn’t get to trash tens of millions of conservatives by claiming they are in some kind of cult without some pushback.

    Your analogy is lame. This is a discussion site, claiming to have a conservative orientation, so where a person stands on political matters is important. 

    Is Jonah so thin-skinned that he can’t take the same criticism?

     

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  16. Henry Castaigne Member
    Henry Castaigne
    @HenryCastaigne

    jorge espinha (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Miffed White Male (View Comment):

    jorge espinha (View Comment):

    Ezra Klein, Noah Chomsly, Rachel Maddow, Ta Nehisi Coates, are a few of the people I loathe. I don’t even know if they have podcasts because I would never listen to them. What I don’t do is go to the comment section of those podcasts and fill it with negative comments. I don’t get the GLOP hate brigade and why they come here to pollute our space. I’m well acquainted with the English/American vernacular and I can make very good use of it. I can also swear in other languages. So, you can use your imagination and do your worst. Have you done it? That’s the place I want to send you.

    It’s a lot like people who go into a discussion of TV show to tell everyone about how they haven’t owned a TV for years, or a sports discussion to tell everyone how dumb you are to pay attention to “sportsball”.

    It’s pathetic attention seeking, and the best approach is to just ignore it.

     

    What about, say, pointing out to potential supporters of a politician who you never have voted for and never would, that while whatever he’s saying now might seem like a good idea, his record is awful and he should not be trusted now?

    Seems a bit similar, to me.

    I have friends whose default position is always anti-western/American/Israel. No surprises. As predictable as a nuclear clock. Trumpists are very similar to those Marxists/post-modernists. Birds of a feather. And yes, sometimes my friends are right about stuff, I agree with them that censoring Russian media is a bad thing. Moving the embassy to Jerusalem was a good thing. All my life I’ve been a conservative and a libertarian on many issues. Trump is neither. Talking with a Trumpist is like trying to have a conversation with a communist. A waste of time.


    Then why do you bother writing?

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  17. DrewInWisconsin, Oik! Member
    DrewInWisconsin, Oik!
    @DrewInWisconsin

    What’s a Trumpist?

    I mean, besides a lazy slur.

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  18. Blue Yeti Admin
    Blue Yeti
    @BlueYeti

    Franco (View Comment):Your analogy is lame. This is a discussion site, claiming to have a conservative orientation, so where a person stands on political matters is important.

    Yeah, it’s a discussion site. And we encourage you to discuss any topic you want using the the tools this site offers to host those discussions. By all means. That’s why this thing exists in the first place.

    Again, what I’m objecting to is the entirely predictable, repetitive, and now utterly boring remarks about the hosts of this show (and others), what they write or podcast elsewhere, where they work, an election that happened over 2 years ago now, how the Trump’s loss is somehow their fault, the election was stolen, there was massive fraud, blah, blah, blah. We get it.

    Again, I am not telling you to stop posting and commenting about any of those topics. Knock yourself out, my friend. And if a podcast discusses any of those topics, feel free to light up the comments in the post about that podcast. Because in that scenario, you’d be on topic with comments like that.

    But that’s not what occurred in this episode or in most of the GLoP’s of the past year. And yet, the comments would make you think those are perennial topics of this podcast. Which is decidedly untrue, or to use a term you are more familiar with;  Fake News.

     

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  19. Henry Castaigne Member
    Henry Castaigne
    @HenryCastaigne

    Blue Yeti (View Comment):
    And yet, the comments would make you think those are perennial topics of this podcast. Which is decidedly untrue, or to use a term you are more familiar with;  Fake News.  

    Fake News is based on lies. This is more like red herring news.

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  20. Annefy Member
    Annefy
    @Annefy

    Blue Yeti (View Comment):

    Franco (View Comment):
    Your analogy is lame. This is a discussion site, claiming to have a conservative orientation, so where a person stands on political matters is important.

    Yeah, it’s a discussion site. And we encourage you to discuss any topic you want using the the tools this site offers to host those discussions. By all means. That’s why this thing exists in the first place.

    What I’m objecting to is the entirely predictable, repetitive, and now utterly boring remarks about the hosts of this show (and others), what they write or podcast elsewhere, where they work, an election that happened over 2 years ago now, how the Trump’s loss is somehow their fault (side note, Franco: does Trump bear any responsibility in that loss, or does stuff just happen to him?), the election was stolen, there was massive fraud, blah, blah, blah. We get it.

    Did I miss an election? What election are referring to? 

     

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  21. Blue Yeti Admin
    Blue Yeti
    @BlueYeti

    Henry Castaigne (View Comment):

    Blue Yeti (View Comment):
    And yet, the comments would make you think those are perennial topics of this podcast. Which is decidedly untrue, or to use a term you are more familiar with; Fake News.

    Fake News is based on lies. This is more like red herring news.

    Fair point, although less illustrative in this context. 

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  22. Randy Weivoda Moderator
    Randy Weivoda
    @RandyWeivoda

    Franco (View Comment):

    Randy Weivoda (View Comment):

    There is one member who very regularly used to go into the comments on podcasts featuring Jonah Goldberg and denounce Jonah for his anti-Trumpism. I once asked him why he doesn’t just ignore those podcasts. He said that there are always new members of Ricochet and that if no one warns them how awful Jonah is, they might listen to those shows.

     

    First that’s not me, but close.

    Here’s the thing. A lot of people come here to promote their ideas and um, denounce other ideas. Jonah Goldberg has a perfect right to his opinions, but he doesn’t have the right to make false claims and as a so-called conservative, he doesn’t get to trash tens of millions of conservatives by claiming they are in some kind of cult without some pushback.

    Your analogy is lame. This is a discussion site, claiming to have a conservative orientation, so where a person stands on political matters is important.

    Is Jonah so thin-skinned that he can’t take the same criticism?

     

    You go ahead and do what you feel you must. It is doubtful that you are persuading anybody, but like a particular Never Trumper on Ricochet who believes it is his responsibility to keep beating a dead horse lest other people are misled by his nemesis, I guess there are going to be Never Goldbergs, too.

    I know this.  There is no one in the national media whom I thought was a dumber Trump sycophant than Lou Dobbs.  But if the Ricochet Audio Network decided to add his Great America Show Podcast to the line-up, I wouldn’t appear in the podcast comments again and again to warn people not to listen to him.  I just wouldn’t listen to the show.  I’m lame that way.

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  23. Franco Member
    Franco
    @Franco

    Randy Weivoda (View Comment):

    Franco (View Comment):

    Randy Weivoda (View Comment):

    There is one member who very regularly used to go into the comments on podcasts featuring Jonah Goldberg and denounce Jonah for his anti-Trumpism. I once asked him why he doesn’t just ignore those podcasts. He said that there are always new members of Ricochet and that if no one warns them how awful Jonah is, they might listen to those shows.

     

    First that’s not me, but close.

    …..t he doesn’t have the right to make false claims and as a so-called conservative, he doesn’t get to trash tens of millions of conservatives by claiming they are in some kind of cult without some pushback.

    Your analogy is lame. This is a discussion site, claiming to have a conservative orientation, so where a person stands on political matters is important.

    Is Jonah so thin-skinned that he can’t take the same criticism?

     

    You go ahead and do what you feel you must. It is doubtful that you are persuading anybody, but like a particular Never Trumper on Ricochet who believes it is his responsibility to keep beating a dead horse lest other people are misled by his nemesis, I guess there are going to be Never Goldbergs, too.

    I know this. There is no one in the national media whom I thought was a dumber Trump sycophant than Lou Dobbs. But if the Ricochet Audio Network decided to add his Great America Show Podcast to the line-up, I wouldn’t appear in the podcast comments again and again to warn people not to listen to him. I just wouldn’t listen to the show. I’m lame that way.

    Funny you bring up the sites foremost NTer, who is allowed to write virtual graffiti all over this site policing anything remotely ‘pro’ Trump with the zeal of a deranged cultist. The management here refuses to deal with him. He has harassed several of my posts and many have complained of his tactics hidden behind his sickeningly polite facade.

    Apparently Yeti doesn’t like it when even just a taste of that comes his way.

    For the record, I haven’t tasked myself to try to dissuade anyone from listening to Jonah Goldberg. I just think the guy is full of it and I was moved to comment here. If I could just have half the time back I spent listening to that guy’s observations I’d be happy, so I guess I’m not allowed to as a former listener and reader of Jonah to express my disappointment and sense of betrayal? 

    But the audio network won’t add Lou Dobbs show, will it? Why not? Because they don’t agree with him. Their right, of course, but let’s not pretend this site is some conservative clearinghouse of ideas across the spectrum of right leaning voters. 

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  24. Franco Member
    Franco
    @Franco

    Blue Yeti (View Comment):

    Again, what I’m objecting to is the entirely predictable, repetitive, and now utterly boring remarks about the hosts of this show (and others), what they write or podcast elsewhere, where they work, an election that happened over 2 years ago now, how the Trump’s loss is somehow their fault, the election was stolen, there was massive fraud, blah, blah, blah. We get it.

    No, I don’t think you get it, and I don’t think you ever did “get it”. 

    The election happened over two years ago now…

    Let’s take that phrase. What does it really mean? Can we say, for example the invasion of Ukraine happened a month ago (or a year, or two years ago) and therefore it’s ‘old news’ as the Clinton Camp would say? No, you wouldn’t say that. Or that 9/11 happened over 20 years ago, therefore it’s no longer relevant? We are still feeling the effects of this ancient election in the form of a demented President and his tyrannical policies.

    So, is this just a fixation on the election itself, as though Trump supporters are re-litigating the contested election continually, and can be dismissed on that basis?

    Because there are other issues that Trump exposed that persist into the future of the Republican Party, the conservative movement (such as it is) and the country we love and share. These issue pre-existed Trump and will continue to be pertinent. But Yeti seems happy to pretend these issues are over and are just an artifact of the bygone Trump era. 

    It is hard to blame Trump, who somehow managed to get another ten million votes in an unprecedented re-election for the loss. Instead it may just have been a massive propaganda effort employed against him by the corporate media (which includes Fox) and their Neo-con allies,  news suppression ( see laptop, Hunter Biden) and appallingly obvious voter fraud conducted in crucial districts entirely controlled by the Democrat machine. This some how, somehow created 81 million votes for Biden with easily. 

    It’s  hard to blame Trump for losing an election where the media continually lied, accused him of treachery,  the  Mueller Investigation fiasco followed by an absurd Impeachment.The intel agencies Comey, Clapper and Brennen engaging in sabotage, trying to trap him, spying on him, leaking to the press. 

    But all this we are just supposed to shrug-off and lament that Trump could have, should have, I dunno, somehow, I dunno… won in 2020. Our best armchair quarterbacks are on the job! These were the guys who claimed he couldn’t win in 2016 and were for people like Jeb Bush, and Mitt Romney and John McCain before that.

     

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