Thursday, August 25, 2022

Professional Left Podcast #665


"Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle." -- Robert Olen Butler, writer
 
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3 comments:

Kevin Holsinger said...

Good afternoon, Mr. Glass.

Next episode...#666. Bible Bitch can't be happy about that.

Best to you and your loved ones.

dinthebeast said...

I think my favorite take was "Lord, there are PPP tapes." I know someone who got larger unemployment payments than they were really eligible for, and now they have to spend their future wondering whether the feds or the state will come after them for a five figure sum. To those of us who will never, ever have five figures to throw around, that just didn't make any sense.
Another good week. It's almost like they planned to have all of their good news happen right before the midterms.
And can we just dispense with the high handed horse shit? In the year I was born, you could pay for a full year at the University of Minnesota with SIX WEEKS at a minimum wage job. And don't forget that Nixon and Reagan employed election strategists who said stupid shit like free college was producing the dangerously explosive "dynamite" of an "educated proletariat," and "we have to be selective on who we allow to go through higher education", meaning that even back then they knew that anyone with two working neurons to rub together would not vote for a goddamn Republican.
Thanks again for the podcast. I tried to get pictures of some frogs that were hopping around on the dam of the mill pond, but they didn't come out too well as they are both small and well camouflaged.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

Robt said...

I recall a right winger some time ago complaining about somoni he knows personally living the life of Riley on Welfare.

When I pointed out that there are only several years of one time use and there is a work requirement. he told me "Don't know what I talk about". So I printed out the section for qualifying and initial general rules off the GOV site for welfare..
I asked why doesn't he turn in his friend who is stealing from the government.
It was then, his story changed to being on Social Security.
How they have evolved to threatening you with their 2nd Amendment right for correcting them with proof.

Rushbo never educated them, he merely spotted the tip of the ice berg and shouted , there it is. hate it.