Thursday, July 09, 2026

Professional Left Podcast Episode 1006: Pump Up The Venom


You ever get the feeling that everything in America is completely fucked up? You know that feeling that the whole country is like, one inch away from saying, 'That's it! Forget it!'."  -- Mark Hunter, Pump Up The Volume 



















4 comments:

mu said...

No shit, I’ve listened to 90%+ of your podcasts… this is one of the best.

Robt said...

Trump is now selling a MAGA patriot coloring book w/ crayons set. No, where it is produced in China does not hire any Americans.
It seems the Chinese factory workers who produce and package this product for MAGA are Sen. Susan Collins level concerned.
Concerned of what you ask?
It seems the coloring book is fine and has many outlines to color in. Like the American Flag, The NAZI Swastika flag, The new Qatari bribe AF One flaying palace. Even outlines of the gold leaf's and gold clusters glue to the wall i the White house.
The coloring book is fine they say.
What they have concern over is the box of crayons. There is only on crayon color in the box and that color is white. All 12 crayons are white. They don't understand how MAFA American's will color in the American flag with only white? How do they color Trump's orange hair with white? So on.

dinthebeast said...

OK, the underlying assumption behind the eradication of the propaganda machine is that it's not gonna happen because it can't happen... But it just did happen, in Hungary:

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After 16 years of Viktor Orbán's rule, Hungary's state television has suspended its news broadcasts for restructuring.

The main state TV channel, M1, displayed a black screen with the following message:

"Public media must not lie. We apologize for doing so for many years."

Yeah, I know, different country, different system, but they got it done. Now it's our turn.
Platner is what happens when you go chasing the dudebro vote.
Knitting Cult Lady warned us, said "Our Nazis aren't better than their Nazis." and that she had served with the likes of him in her two deployments and that they shouldn't be in charge of anything.
The information environment is a lot different now than it was in 1987, and I'm not sure that any fix that centers on TV would be effective, but campaigns have to be fixed, as do districts.
We almost got the first step in both of those in 2021, but Manchin and Sinema killed it.
Try, try again, because what the fuck else are we gonna do?
Thank you again for the podcast. Both of our phones just squawked with an obnoxious alert, and we were afraid it might be a wildfire when we have no transportation, but it was someone missing in Modesto... I hope they find them, and I hope my blood pressure evens out soon.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

Robt said...

Doug in Sugar Pine.
Thanks for the Update from the Orban media take over. Haven't seen any reporting yet on this. In my humble opinion there should be some prison time for the wealthy oligarchs that took over the media for Orban and intentionally lied, committed mass public fraud, preventing the people's ability to be well informed to make informed decisions when it comes to their lives and their government.
It is why I could see FOX's Rupert Murdoch spending time in prison for his role in doing much the same here in America.
It is more than shouting fire in a theater.
Our courts have ruled that FOX can lie and fraud people with their network under the pretense that "No one believes FOX tells the truth and actually reports actual news reports". Therefore it is legal for them to do so. So if someone lies publicly about harming the president. All they have to do when the FBI shows up is say, I was lying and everyone knows I was so no harm done. Now go away.
It is the buyers beware syndrome. If the proper information is not available to you, how can you accept being ripped off ?
We continue to see courts rule for wealthy investors who were ripped off and frauded, say like Bernie Madoff. Where the fraud person is held accountable. He had to pay restitution and spend time in the pokey ND PUT IN GGENERAL PO[PULATION NOT AT THE CLUB FED..
When FOX takes control of other people's thinking soul and replaces what was in their hearts with manure so to fertilize their minds with hate and nonsense. They are harming me.
Just like the insurrectionists who vandalized the building to )stop the steal), they vandalized and damaged my property. Because they are not the only owners of that government.