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Ep 848: Yeah We're Never Mixing Tea With Lemonade Ever Again Oct 22, 2024

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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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Ep 847 Reading Right Wing Facebook For Filth Oct 17, 2024

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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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Ep 846 A 'Permanent Republican Insanity' Oct 15, 2024

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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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Ep 845: 'No One Could Have Predicted Hurricane Trump' Oct 10, 2024

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How is Donald Trump like a hurricane? How is toxic Republicanism like climate change?
And snuggle up with a cuppa hot cocoa, kids, as Uncle Driftglass reads an excerpt from the 1955 story "Franchise" by Issac Asimov.
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Ep 844: Focus on the Future! Oct 08, 2024

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The idea of focusing on the future isn't the flex (or the excuse) the Trump campaign thinks it is.
We are pleasantly surprised on a road trip to Burlington, Iowa.
Is Elon Musk's mom alright? Is Megyn Kelly? They seem upset.
And Kamala Harris isn't aiming for "humble."
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Ep 843: Socialism For All. Again! Oct 03, 2024

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Trump is melting. Vance is a robot replacement. Walz understood his assignment.

And isn’t it interesting that Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, #1 enemy of socialism, wants the taxpayers to fix her husband’s driveway in the wake of Helene?

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Ep 842: A Short, Pre-Debate Podcast Oct 01, 2024

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We cover the usual (sad!) media failures leading up to the Vice Presidential Debate Tuesday night.
Note: Our recording host had some technical issues that other podcasters were also experiencing today. Our apologies for "aborting" the show early...we had to get ready for the Vice Presidential Debate.
Please listen to Driftglass and Digby discuss the Vice Presidential Debate on the BradCast (https://bradblog.com/) on Wednesday Oct 2.
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Ep 841: Our Performance Review and Trump's Ethnic Cleansing Sep 26, 2024

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A Block: Driftglass and Bluegal read each other a list of standard performance review questions. Are we staff or management?
B Block (40:30): Donald Trump and his party are flat-out in favor of ethnic cleansing in the United States.
C Block (50:15): Kamala Harris's substantive interview on economics; reactions to it broke precisely as expected.
News Round Up (57:30).
Link for this episode: Drew Magery at SF Gate, 'The New York Times is Washed'
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/new-york-times-washed-19780600.php
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Ep 840: 'An Industry That Exists To Attack The New York Times' Sep 24, 2024

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Sorry, Maggie Haberman, we're just two married podcasters who live in a little house near a cornfield and who think the Beltway media is waaay too busy patting each other's backs. We're not an industry, we're pro-journalistic ethics (hello Olivia Nuzzi), political integrity (good bye Mark Robinson), and funding school lunches (Ahem).
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Ep 839: The Bill Show Collab! Sep 19, 2024

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This week, Blue Gal is traveling, so we're bringing you a special rebroadcast of our recent appearance on "The Bill Show," which originally aired on September 9, 2024. Bill is an American ex-pat living in Australia, and his podcast is liberal and political with a heavy dose of ribald humor. Sounds like a good match for us? It is!
Hear more Bill Show episodes at https://expatprogressive.podbean.com/.
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