The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Today is a good day for us to remember that we are not alone or crazy...or doomed.  Trump Co is destined for SELF-destruction.

And we came across a Steve Gilliard post from TWENTY years ago that is amazingly timely.

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Links for this episode:

Athenae/Allison Hantschel in Dame Magazine, "Democracy is dying in broad daylight."  https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/11/19/democracy-is-dying-in-broad-daylight/

Driftglass 2012 remembers Steve Gilliard, 2004:  https://driftglass.blogspot.com/2012/10/remember-remember-8th-of-november.html.

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Thursdays with Royko. 

Guess who says we need a new liberal media? 

Guess who says Matt Gaetz is a Sex Pervert?

And Blue Gal interviews our 26yo about the election. 

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Five stages of grief?  How about five stages of MAGA victory, including bargaining, denial, and anger?  Because FAFO isn't just a cute acronym, it's their way of life.

Also, Bluegal finds out that Artificial Intelligence can save a life, but may be programmed NOT to save a democracy.

And Driftglass remembers when Archie Bunker joined a group with white hoods.  Heh.

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The post-election episode. 

We're going to get busy, working to make the world a better place, because that is what we are ALWAYS, in all circumstances, called to do.

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Link for this episode:

Sojourners Magazine, 'Preaching the Word' (Sample page) https://sojo.net/preaching-the-word/epiphany-lord-year

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h/t Jimmy Kimmel for turning "Dumpster Fire," which Driftglass actually coined on his blog, into "Dumpster Fuhrer." 

Bible Bitch has a very special "thou shalt not" for the Trump campaign.  And Driftglass compares Harris at the Elipse with Lincoln at Gettysburg.  And it fits.  

We're off next Tuesday, Election Day, but we will appear on the Hal Sparks program on YouTube that day. See you then!

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Happy Birthday Driftglass (Oct 30)!!!

Trump's very very racist rally.  Who could have predicted?  Everybody. 

Also, a certain NYT columnist who is NOT David Brooks, Ross Douthat, makes up reasons why he can't endorse Harris, including, and we are not making this up, traffic deaths during Covid. 

And we've seen election literature from BOTH parties here in Springfield Illinois, but one party is... missing something?  from their literature.

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Brian Kilmeade should win an award. 

Links for this episode:   

Ezra Klein on Trump’s lack of guardrails… and dem failures? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/opinion/donald-trump-ezra-klein-podcast.html

Chris Hayes hosts Michelle Goldberg and Jess McIntosh on the press failure to cover women’s rage in the wake of Dobbs.  https://crooksandliars.com/2024/10/watch-what-happens-after-maga-candidate

You just knew Brian Kilmeade would defend Trump's wanting Nazi generals https://crooksandliars.com/2024/10/brian-kilmeade-does-it-defends-trumps

Der Fuhrer’s Face 1942  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g73kKLts95U

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Funny how Republicans loved the "p" word when it was about Bill Clinton. 

Driftglass's 'five minutes on David Brooks' is back.  Tick tock!

And we're not exactly accepting the Cheneys and The Bulwark into our tent.

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Three weeks left. Kamala shows Bret Baier for the abusive bully jerk and not-a-journalist he is.  Driftglass reads a right wing Facebook post for filth and notes how much it depends...on the lies of the past? 

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Karl Rove, Fox News, and the rest wanted to program voters to vote Republican no matter what.  They spent so much time on the 'vote Republican' part, and now the 'no matter what' part has come home to roost.

Also, Kamala Harris uses "Good Trouble" to drive Trump into publicizing his insanity repeatedly. And we make some predictions about the first David Brooks columns of 2025.

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