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Recorded live from the cornfield resistance, where we know the difference between weather and climate.

It's the professional left with drip glass and blue gal.

Like the difference between weather and climate,

we here at the professional left know the difference

between short-term political weather

and long-term political climate.

We know that as much as everyone is straining to see into tomorrow, the forecast for the immediate

future is chaos.

Because the people running the country are lunatics, sadists, grifters, and white Christian

nationalists, or maybe a combination of two or three, you know, they mix and match.

Yeah, they overlap, honey.

There's a lot of, this is an alliance of terrible subgroups, all of who want to destroy the government and all of whom hate the left for variety of reasons.

So, like, for example, Trump is bribing farmers again.

And it might work again because, you know, we spoke a couple of podcasts ago about a friend we spoke to who does, who is in touch with farmers and who asked them, like, why did you vote for Trump again, knowing this was going to happen?

And he said, I had no choice. That's 30 years of right-wing programming come into life right there. So,

because on the one hand, for example, this is from our governor, J.B. Pritzker, quote,

while Donald Trump tweets from his golf course when he feels personally slided by a foreign leader.

The Illinois farmers are losing their livelihoods, unquote. And that was from October 29th,

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