Friday, March 06, 2020

Professional Left Podcast #536


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4 comments:

dinthebeast said...

About the community college thing: I left high school as a certified welder and machinist, and there was an industrial arts fair for the north part of the state and Laney College in Oakland always had the very best welders, and a quick Google search shows that their welding program is still up and running forty years later, so I just think of all of those thousands upon thousands of highly skilled workers they've been churning out for a half a century, and yeah, community colleges. The only college I went to was College of the Redwoods, where I took Jerry Moore's four unit music theory class so I could look myself in the eye and call myself a musician, and if I remember correctly, it was free. In 1981.

When I read that "reporter's" bit, I thought of you. I liked Blue Gal's contextualization of it almost as much as your destruction of it.

I have no regrets about my vote for Elizabeth Warren, and last week when I mailed my ballot in, I knew she wasn't going to win California, so there's that. She was simply the best candidate for the upcoming job of "president who has to clean up after the Trump administration" and that's what the primary ballot was asking me to choose.
I hope she stays in the senate and I also hope she doesn't endorse either Biden Or Sanders.
She probably will, but that's my take on it.

Thank you again for the podcast. I had a physical from my new doctor yesterday, an hour's drive from here, and they were calm and professional and all on the same page about the coronavirus, and that eased my anxiety about going anywhere near a healthcare facility right about now, but I still miss Highland Hospital in Oakland.
So maybe I'll be OK.

I just walked up to the mailbox in the rain and picked up my new JBL earphones that I got for $12 on Amazon, so now if you don't mind, I'm gonna listen to some good music with them.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

Robt said...

Can I just say,
Just like if you do not play Lotto. You cannot win.

If you do not apply for the MSNBC Hardball time slot. You cannot get hired.

I am filling out mine now with the demand to do the show from home.

By the time the primary gets to me to cast my doubts. There will be only one to choose from.

Can someone of importance advise the powers that be. To stop entertaining pulling Democratic senators into the President's Adm.

Can they not remember the Scot Brown embargo?

For all the hulluh -ballou over Biden winning South Carolina and how imprtant that is to choosing our nominee. S.C. now has to prove it can do something in the general election now that it eliminated my choices for the primary.
So I expect SC to throw out Lindsey. But like Bernie not asking Clyburn who is pre committed to Biden and asking him for his support would be futile. But all the bobble heads say Brnie should cuddle to Clyburn anyways.
The Clyburn factor now must show it won't let SC. elect Trump either.

It was me..! I conspired with unsavory un named secret powers on the virus to bring Trump down. I am Spartacus............
And we used the old unused basement of the Ping Pong ching chong Pizza parlor.


Now that the GOP senate voted to subpeona and investigate Hunter Biden over Benghazi.

We need to ask them what the press will not.

GOP held majorities in house and Senate when Biden did his thing in Ukraine. When Hunter worked for Birisma.
* Why didn't they perform their oversight?

* Why is it Obama was ot a all powerful unity president who can do what he pleases, too?

It is so old and tiresome that REagan had sper powers, Bill Clinton had to be investigated and restricted. GW Bush the unitary president could torture ore whatever he pleased. Obama had to have his powers taken away or he might be a dictator.
Trump can murder people in public because he is all powerful .

When you watch many states. Democratic Governors have GOP state legislatures passing bills to strip those Dem Governors, State AG's etc. from having any authority.

Which they will return ans shower a GOP elected official with al powers when they regain those positions.

Anonymous said...

I'll be writing in Liz this Tuesday. She is a fighter and deserves our support and won't give up on me. So I won't give up on her. "Always" -Severus Snape

Can we pls send that corona virus to Vermont! F that guy and everyone like him.

And TY to the PL for helping me to see things clearly. Get paid next week and a coffee is on me.

Robt said...

I can only hope that folks voting in the primary will notice all the down ticket possibilities.
All the local primary candidates.

We will not have the corporate media wringing their hands or casting their fears and pointing to the socialists they conclude are NAZIS at the local levels.

When they are wrapped up in socialist NAZIS. There is nothing to report on the Actual right wing White supremacist superior race candidates.
If they are calling Democrats NAZIS it would be too bot-hsiderist for them to call a republican a NAZI.
This leaves the barn door open for all the hogs at the FOX barn to run wild .