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Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance, where, as the incoming fascist regime begins carving up our republic, like Hyman Roth cutting up his Cuba cake, and our Republican

fellow citizens begin to suspect that things

are not not not go great for them in fact they're getting worse and they begin to have

fum far around about how well this is certainly not what I voted for remember to keep this audio

on hand at all time yes you did yes you did It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue

Gal. Hey, Blue Gal. Hey, Drif Glass. Today is a good day for us to remember that we are not

alone or crazy or doomed. And a pretty good day for us to remember that we are not alone or crazy or doomed.

And a pretty good medicine for that melancholy in addition to gratitude would be reading this entire article in Dame magazine by the amazing Athena.

Now we're just going to read a little bit of it, and we will link it in the description.

The title is, democracy is dying in broad daylight. Corporate media spent the entire election,

both when President Joe Biden was running and when he seated the campaign to VP Harris, gliding right over the

GOP's nonstop fire hose of falsehood and fear, on the way to nitpicking gaffes and dates

and parsing Harris's every move through a Republican lens. And I would remind everyone, this is exactly what happened in

2016 as well. Yep. Back to Athena. The Los Angeles Times refused to endorse Harris for president,

cloaking the decision in high-minded appeals to objectivity. The Washington Post quickly followed,

along with more than three quarters of American newspapers. When faced with criticism, media figures defended one another instead of

engaging with critics who were basically begging, please do your jobs. Please do them better.

Please stop promoting outright falsehoods. Please. your jobs. Please do them better. Please stop promoting outright falsehoods.

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