Friday, June 28, 2019

Professional Left Podcast #500


(Thanks to listener "PMB" for the cool graphic.)

“There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.”
--  Adm.  William Halsey
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7 comments:

Steven Dorst said...

I'm still hoping for some Zazzle in a new collection: Our Imaginary Sponsors!

John said...

Did I ever tell you how much I hate David Brooks?

Now he wants me, a long-term Democrat, to select a Presidential Candidate he can vote for.

What insouciant privilege!

I hope he has to vote for Trump. It will show who he really is.

duquesne_pdx said...

Congratulations on 500! May there be thousands more!

'Bolt Upright said...

Regarding the Adm. Halsey quote on this post...You guys were watching TCM this week, weren't ya?

Robt said...

The Putin wing of the republican party demands Never Trumpers tel Democrats to just fold and nominate Trump or he will release the Russian Cracken bots.

I don't recall those Never Trumpers seeking anything moderate when they were getting theropy on how to not admit being a fly of the Lord Cheney of the flies.

Would these GOPers "feel" better if Putin told us who would be good for him to run against Trump? Would Putin's choice be good with Kim?
It is nota far fetched decision for me to make. If Republican Bill Weld got in the Dem primary race and won. I could vote for him over Trump.

Thanks for infringing on my freedom of choice and to decide for myself,,republicans.


dinthebeast said...

Is it even possible to humiliate Fergus? Wouldn't that require a functioning sense of shame?
As a tactic, it might enrage him to the point where he says and does even crazier and more outrageous things than he would otherwise say or do, but would that really hurt him?
After the latest rape accusation, I read someone making the case that it will only make his hard core fans like him more, so where is the sweet spot of transgression where the damage to his candidacy outweighs the damage to the country?
I do hope that Kamala Harris makes it onto the ticket so I will get to see her do to Fergus what she did to Biden a few dozen times.
Not that it will do anything to Fergus, but it will be good to watch.
My friend Jack had something he would say at times kind of like this that I have been thinking about a lot lately: "This can't be about justice any more, so now it's about satisfaction."

Thank you again for the podcast, and congratulations (and thanks) on 500 episodes. I don't know whether I've heard them all or not, but I've definitely been listening since you started. Briana used to download them and bring them to me on a flash drive when I had no internet access, so I may have missed a few back in 2013.

-Doug in Oakland

Robt said...

As early in the election as we are.

Stemming from the debate question of how to deal with a McConnell dual presidency.

A strong Democratic candidate for president requires strong electable Senatorial candidates to ride the coat tails.

The SOB GOP has more Senators up to be challenged this round.

Where is the ads that McConnell was born on the Galápagos Island. Then swan into the USA legally.
Sure, You and I know it may be false. But McConnell voters don't.