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This week, some rumination on Trump’s tete a tete with Putin (along with a history lesson for Rob Long), we introduce you to Elizabeth Heng, who is running for Congress in California’s 16th District, we get some #MeToo education from our good pal Mona Charen, (stop whatever you’re doing and buy her book Sex Matters right now) and the city of Santa Barbara declares that if you use a straw in that fair city, you’ll do time. Which sucks. Also, the Word of The Day is spizzerinctum.
Music from this week’s podcast: Sex Bomb by Tom Jones
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I read from the eyes in the illustration that Mona is having more fun under the cover than the three guys are. :-) I’ll need to listen to hear if she gave them a beat-down in the podcast.
Wow talk about hair on fire. We have an ill man in the White House who is unsuited to be president? That is definitely Rob Long’s Michael Jackson moment.
Bravo Rob! The best analysis of Trump I have heard all week!
This is the member pitch script, as written:
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If you think of any sneaky ways to get Rob to praise Trump, let me know and I’ll slip them into next werk’s script. 😃
A quick note on the intersection of straws and and differences between sexes: men shouldn’t drink through a straw around women they’re trying to impress, as there’s no real way to look dignified while doing so. I love straws for convenience and cups that are accompanying me to my car, but when on a date, leave the straw unused.
Examples:
Sadly, Heng said precisely nothing. Zero policy ideas, or bulls-eyes. She mistakenly believed she was being queried by CNN LAX. She better have direct, risky answers to the Rob questions. The valley has potential working democrat, Trumpian voters. She needs to be extremely tough and outside-the-boxy in her delivery and content.
Keep Mona’s husband from listening to her interview. She said “I’m a huge-peter fan.”
@peterrobinson : most of the time you should probably finish your sentences, instead of going off in some other direction and assuming everyone knows what you were GOING TO say.
To tie together two of the threads of this podcast, banning straws in male domination. Women want straws because they help protect lipstick. That’s not an issue for men.
It was music to my ears for Rob Long to say that we have an ill man in the White House who is unfit t be president. I agree wholeheartedly!
I have a better script. Omit Max’s paragraph and say the following:
Our members are from the Center-Right part of the spectrum. Some of us love Trump, some don’t. NeverTrump Member Gary Robbins has made a $300.00 gift to purchase 10 memberships for one year, because he believes that once you read the Member Feed and have posted messages on it, including his latest diatribe against Trump, you will be hooked and will want to pay only $2.50 a month to be able to file your own posts about how you love, hate or are perplexed about Trump, and you will be throughly hooked as a member, and will want to explore the more expensive membership levels.
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The next week, perhaps Member X will sponsor 10 memberships so that you can read and comment on his paeans of praise for Trump or something as positive as a diatribe is negative.
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Or maybe something like NeverTrump Member Gary Robbins, EverTrump Member X, and Trump Semi Supporter/Skeptic Y have all pledged $Z to buy one year memberships.
I think it would be fine if they didn’t give you straws unless you ask for them. It’s more efficient.
Yeah, phrasing. I was starting to think this was a PITcast, rather than a podcast. And it went downhill from there.
Yeah, about that, Rob…
http://ricochet.com/535635/trump-is-a-mirror/
I find it fascinating that Rob Long, who works in television, does not see that a lot of Trump’s behavior is part of his persona as the brash, wheeler-dealer guy. He may be a bad guy, he may be out for himself, but he isn’t sick, and he isn’t an idiot.
Trump is leading a peasant revolt. Like a lot of successful peasants, he is shrewd, grasping, pugnacious, vulgar, and outrageous. To a lot of people, his sexual behavior is pretty much what is expected from a guy with a lot of money and a lot of power, and is no different than a lot of other presidents (see Kennedy, J. F.) Paying for sex is as old as sex. He has the gift of making his enemies sabotage themselves.
Trump also has some traits that some of us find endearing. He stands up in front of a crowd at CPAC and makes fun of himself and his hair:
That is not the behavior of an insecure person. I paid close attention to Obama, I never heard a single self-deprecating word from him.
Trump probably doesn’t even like Mitch McConnell, but McConnell had polio as a child and has trouble with stairs, so Trump takes his arm to help him up the steps. He chases and picks up a Marine’s barracks cover and returns it to him. It may be that Trump does these things by calculation, but if he does, he is cleverer than even his most ardent admirers think he is.
Part of the rage against the anti-Trump forces is because the peasants are so tired of being assaulted by the urban elites. If you don’t live in flyover country, you don’t have any idea of how devastating the leftist-globalist agenda was and is to the people, towns, and industries in the interior of the country. It’s one thing to read about such things, quite another to live them. It is one thing to spout compassion for illegal aliens when your kids go to private schools, and quite another when your kids don’t get much attention from teachers because the teachers are busy dealing with illegal alien children who don’t speak English, and whose parents are not literate in any language. When you are paying property taxes to pay those teachers, this is enraging. On top of the economic warfare, there is the constant drum of racist, sexist, homophobe, when we are not any of those things.
The ratchet has been turning leftward since the Depression, and it has been emptying out the small towns and cities to the benefit of the coasts and Washington, D. C., and the peasants are sick of it. Trump could be as sick as Mr. Long says he is, and he would still have support because he is attempting to reverse the rot.
Whether one agrees with Rob or disagrees, Rob has been saying that about Trump for a very long time.
And so what is the point of continuing to hammer that point now? The primary effect seems to be to embolden and enlarge the effectiveness of those who are trying to overturn the 2016 election, and to prevent any Trump associated accomplishments, even those accomplishments that those who continue to insist Trump is unfit for office claim they agree with or think would be good.
It is especially important to hammer the point now. When Trump goes completely off the deep end as he did in Helsinki, he MUST be hammered because maybe, just maybe he will learn something and make adjustments. Also, now to paraphrase Mr. Epstein in The Libertarian podcast, it is no longer a choice between Trump and Hillary. It is now a choice between Trump and Pence and I would much rather have Pence!
Oh he sees it. He sees it for exactly the stupidity it is. It worked for Trump in NY real estate to a point, although he did manage to bankrupt himself, and it is fine for a BS reality TV show, but it doesn’t work in foreign relations with evil dictators.
Bravo Mr. Long. I salute you!
Bingo!
Why would you spot something like that?
“Because my mind works that way, that’s why.”
As far as I know, the $2.50 podcast-level membership only allows for commenting on the podcasts, not elsewhere on the site. You can read the rest of the site, but not post/comment.
Also, @roblong completely misunderstands/misstates what Max Headroom was about. What else might he be wrong about? The possibilities are endless.
Oh yes, he was also wrong about Khrushchev and Kennedy. And about The Paper winning at the Oscars. What else?
To be fair to Rob, you’ve accused Trump of suffering from incipient dementia and applauded unethical practitioners analyzing him from afar because they share your perspective. I have doubts that he’s interested in that kind of support. But if he is, I’d like to know.
I’m so glad Rob went there, his comments were like a glass of water in the desert for us NeverTrumpers. Trump got a narcissist’s euphoria over the coverage of his summit with Kim and immediately went into cocaine-study monkey mode slapping the bar for more, more, more!!!! Get me a nothingburger summit with Putin, and make sure you follow it up with another one next fall! So what if I give away the store, I need it, I need it bad.
The electoral college was supposed to protect us from unworthy demagogues like Trump. After the election of 1800, with the development of political parties resulting in a deadlocked electoral college and a deadlocked House of Representatives, the 12th Amendment was supposed to transfer that winnowing process to the parties. This worked reasonably well because parties were organizations of patronage machines, who saw their self-interest in curbing the passions of the mob to the practicalities of running the country, until the “reforms” of the Great Society and public employee unionism striped them of their core functions. Now parties are pale husks of their former selves, run by moral eunuchs like Rence Priebus and Sean Spicer, and provide no protection for the general public.
When Henry Wallace threatened a slobbering affection for Stalinism he was taken out by Sidney Hillman and the rest of the Democrat Party machine. Who will perform that function now if Trump goes off the rails and forces Dan Coats to start a series of foreign policy staff resignations?
That is correct. It’s mostly a way for people to support the podcasts.
Just shift the hyphen. A relevant xkcd for most situations
Wow, the hatred lives loudly within some people on this thread.
Tell me, where was all this indignation and passion when Obama was tearing the Constitution and our country to shreds?
The purpose is simple, to create a primary challenge to Trump to save the country and the Republican Party back from the populists and “the ill man in the White House who is unfit to be president.”
So what level would it cost for people to be able to post and comment? How much would it cost for a year subscription?
I was loud then too. But Obama was a Democrat, we expect nonsense from them! Trump executed a hostile take-over of the Republican Party and needs to be thrown out at the ballot box.
Sometimes the comments are quite helpful… Letting me know when a podcast is worth skipping. This is such a time.