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This week on the Big Show, one guest: John O’Sullivan. We booked him to fact check this season of Netflix’s The Crown as he was a speechwriter for Margaret Thatcher and was a witness to much of what occurred in the show (and what didn’t). But that wasn’t the only topic we covered with John. We also had a long and shall we say lively conversation about the Trump legal team’s efforts to overturn the results of the election. We think Mr. O’Sullivan represented the views of many of our members and listeners, much to the consternation of one of the hosts of this podcast (guess who?). Also, Peter Robinson discovers The Beatles forty years after the fact and then immediately proceeds to blame them for a lame Christmas song written decades after the band broke up. Also, a new Lileks Post of The Week courtesy of @majestyk and a short but thorough primer on why streaming killed the movie theater star.
Music from this week’s show: Her Majesty by The Beatles
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I think if I went back to those podcasts – I have them all from the very start, by the way – I might find suggestions if not outright statements that a paid membership was required to hear some of the podcasts, aside from the main one and possibly GLoP, I don’t remember getting any others before then. But it’s not worth the effort, especially the sifting through over 500 main podcasts and over 150 GLoP (and I think the GLoP numbering is still off by 1).
I agree with this. It never bothers me. It probably has to do with the scope of what he talks about.
The ones that get me are the ones that are associated with organizations and just go on and on about every dimension and hardly any of them know what they are talking about or it’s just about their personal power and making money.
This is must read. The GOP that are freaked about Trump see everything this way.
Why in the hell would they let Alex Jones into something like this?
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/what-i-saw-at-the-jericho-march/
I’ll concede those points. Here’s a lollipop, Mitch, for doing your job. You’ve almost attoned for Obamacare.
It is an absolute nightmare that these liars didn’t get rid of this monstrosity. It’s obviously a scam to force single payer.
How is that idolatry? Christians believe a Biden presidency will ramp up the persecution we’ve seen all year, set back many of the gains on the abortion battle with more bad judges, and lead to elimination of religious exemptions (for vaccine opt-out, for instance).
Furthermore we believe there is a evil undercurrent with BLM and virtue signaling that threatens to lead the liberal factions of Christiandom into making unholy alliances. We’ve seen this all year as well. Trump stands in the way of all that.
Maybe some people idolize Trump. I think every Christian Trump voter I know was thinking of him under the King Cyrus model.
This is an interesting topic.
Since I was first to bring it up, after 43 comments that did not bring up his glaring breach of decorum, let me respond.
I prefer that the niceties be observed. Pointed and fair arguments are what we should expect from everyone.
There was of course the ongoing trashing of the foundational Ricochet principle of a place where civilized conversation takes place…
When it comes to discussion of Donald J Trump, can Rob Long ever allow someone to complete their thought without interrupting with haughty disdain? The distinguished John O’Sullivan is only the latest to be subjected to the constant interruptions and over talk.
I get that Rob hates the very idea of Trump (he’s made it very clear for four years)….but maybe, with a little respectful listening regarding other’s thoughts he might get to understand why millions and millions of the rest of us thought there was something else very important at stake personified in this flawed President who faced ridiculous assault and despite all was consequential.
The best part of Trump leaving the scene? The otherwise very talented observer Rob Long getting his sensibilities back. Maybe.
I don’t like lollipops.
I think that’d be a very valuable use of your time. You should absolutely do that.
Neither does Mitch. And it is Trump’s fault that Obamacare was never replaced. Trump Says Long-Promised Obamacare Replacement Is ‘All Ready’ (msn.com) Where was the most awesome health care plan he promised? I don’t get this worship of Trump.
Everybody lied about it. Eight years and three months to get ready. They didn’t even have to do it right away.
I thought it was just plastic surgery and Botox, but you may be right!
Nick Bottom the weaver can only watch with envy!
Look at the votes for that abomination of a NDAA, and how most of the Senators basically spit on the concerns of the Republican electorate regarding 230; the Republican politicians mostly work for anti-conservative corporate donors, not the voters, and especially not the base.
It ain’t going away. Trump is a symptom of a diseased and hate-filled culture. He is not the disease or the originator of the disease.
McConnell is good with judges, but he extracts an extremely high price for it, with apparent malicious glee. Please don’t think I’m trying to single you out, I’m just using this opportunity to point out that it isn’t just Hillary and the Democrats with, at best, disdain for the ‘deplorables’. I can barely bring myself to vote for those…..candidates running in Georgia, even for a chance to save the Republic. Such feelings toward our politicians are endemic among the base, and McConnell is largely responsible for that.
Here’s another:
From 1980 through 2016, 19 of the nation’s more than 3,000 counties voted for the eventual president in every election. Only one of them, Washington state’s Clallam County, backed President-elect Joe Biden last week.
Other counties that had been bellwethers all the way back to the 1950s ended their runs by backing President Trump instead of the Democrat.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bellwether-counties-nearly-wiped-out-by-2020-election-11605272400
And another:
The irony is that Trump’s coattails pulled hundreds of Republicans over the goal line — but they didn’t save him from a razor-tight defeat. …
In the U.S. House, Nancy Pelosi thought her troops would gain 10 to 12 seats. Instead, they lost, at last count, nine.
But the real carnage was in the state houses. … The GOP gained a total of 192 House and 40 Senate seats. Republicans flipped control of three chambers.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/12/01/bad_news_for_progressives_its_still_a_conservative_country_144754.html
I don’t know that Rob ever had many actual sensibilities when it comes to politics. Or at least not good ones.
Bellwethers are always bellwethers until they aren’t.
https://xkcd.com/1122/
Yes. I wrote about it over the summer. https://ricochet.com/777242/the-last-battle-of-2020/
That is a good article. I recently saw the head editor of American Greatness saying the same thing. Republicans are falling for it, too. People need to get their heads straight about this stuff.
I haven’t looked at this lately but the UCC church is really wacky anymore.
I don’t agree at all. I don’t see any disdain for deplorables in Mitch McConnell. Quite the opposite. I don’t want to single you out either, but I think you conflate McConnell’s reluctance to sufficiently bend the knee to Trump with disdain for his voters. Not voting for the Republican candidates in Georgia because you think giving control of the Senate to Biden and the Democrats would somehow show McConnell what for … that is the definition of cutting off your nose to spite your face.
McConnell does what is right for conservatives and this country. He does it quietly and relentlessly and doesn’t care about the rocks cast at him by the media and by some Trump supporters. I sincerely hope we have 6 more years of McConnell as leader of the Senate.
Hasn’t McConnel been like Crenshaw and Ted Cruz and worked with Trump on everything conservative? That isn’t a leading question; I ask because I haven’t been paying close attention.
But when a large number suddenly stop working, it’s evidence that something was wrong with the election.
My animosity toward McConnell long predates Trump (who I likewise voted for in 2016 despite hating him at the time, for the same reasons I’m forcing myself to vote for the Senators in Georgia-though if Georgia wasn’t a purple state, I probably wouldn’t). Its not about Trump, and never has been.
Well that’s good to know. But he was handily re-elected so most people in Kentucky don’t share your view, thankfully.