Ep 882 Twenty Plus Years of Asymmetry

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal

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

4.8 • 854 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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We're back with our latest episode, examining how the rope of crony corruption binds our politics asymmetrically - a pattern we've been observing for over twenty years in American politics and media. The heart of our conversation explores how right-wing media continues to dominate local airwaves while progressive voices face constant scrutiny and advertising challenges. I'll take you back to 2005 to show how little has changed - or how much worse it's gotten. In other news, FAFO hits federal ...

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0:00.0	You can listen to the professional left wherever you get your podcasts on NetRitch Radio or at our website,
0:06.3	pro-leftpod.com, where you can also contribute to this podcast. There's a PayPal button at our website,
0:12.5	or you can mail us a letter and or contribution at Post Office Box 913, Springfield, Illinois, 62791.
0:20.8	This is the podcast for March 11th, 2025.
0:24.4	It's not safe for work.
0:26.0	This is recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance, where I was going to replace the gate
0:30.1	on the back fence.
0:31.4	I figured it should take maybe an hour or two at best.
0:34.3	I mean, how hard could it possibly be?
0:36.8	And then I took a very close look at the back
0:38.6	fence and how it was built and how it was huge and how it was weirdly put together. And oh, my word,
0:44.0	it's going to be a lot longer than one or two hours. It's the professional left with drip
0:47.8	glass and blue gal.
1:03.1	He had to watch like 15 YouTube videos, and he had to go to Harbor Freight twice, and he had to go to Lowe's two times also.
1:17.1	Well, and the YouTube videos, which I did watch, because that's where I got the idea for the kit, which is a very helpful kit, is all predicated on the assumption that your existing fence is put together like a rational person who puts together a sane person built it.
1:17.4	Yes.
1:19.0	And ours isn't.
1:22.1	Ours is all these things are like, but that's not so.
1:22.8	Oh, God.
1:35.6	And everything's in the wrong place and everything is lopsided and everything's screwed in weird and blocks are shoved inside ways to provide spacing, none of which is anticipated in the YouTube videos on how to use the kit.
1:37.7	So I am figuring out how to do this. Well, whether that fence was originally put up in the 60s or the 80s, we know drugs were involved.
1:43.7	We do. We do.
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