Ep 588: The War Against Stupid Continues

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal

News Commentary, Progressive, Liberal, Midterms, Resistance, Indivisible, Government, Democrat, Presidential, Debate, News, Election, Campaign, Politics

4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Republicans want to fight about Dr. Seuss, while Democrats fight (among themselves? really?) about a $15 minimum wage. Never Trumpers, meanwhile, are obsessed with their ancestors and forget once again all about the Obama Administration. Blue Gal shares a book she's reading, and Driftglass wonders about writing one. (It's kind of like Gulag Archipelago, but instead of being condemned to a Russian prison camp, he's just off Twitter. One Tweet in the Life of Ivan Denisovich?) More at http:...

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0:23.2	Recorded live from the world headquarters of the Cornfield Resistance, where Dr. Seuss, really?
0:29.3	This is all you have left in your wingnut bullshit canon?
0:32.3	It's the professional left with drift glass and blue gal.
0:44.9	Music left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal. Don't forget about Mr. Potato Head, Drift Glass.
0:48.1	Well, Seuss has pushed Taterhead out of the headlines, which is a real shame.
0:53.6	Yeah.
0:58.8	You know, I don't even want to know where Dora's going to explore next at this rate.
1:13.7	All I know is that, that we are both winning and losing. Right. Right. I think that's, I, I titled this episode in our notes, you know, the battle continues.
1:14.4	Yes.
1:20.2	And I think we all felt a sense of winning the presidential election was going to be such a relief.
1:23.6	And winning back to the Senate was going to be such a relief. And now finding out, oh, there's actual Democrats voting against the minimum wage increase today.
1:30.6	And what the hell?
1:32.0	What is going on?
1:33.5	And politics is going on.
1:36.4	Exactly.
1:37.8	I'm reminded of the Supreme Court during the whole Obamacare, which now they're just sick of.
1:44.5	They just look at the lawyers for this and say, we are not deciding this anymore.
1:49.0	But back in the day when the Supreme Court was being asked by Republicans to rescind huge parts of Obamacare.
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