Thursday, October 22, 2026

Professional Left Podcast Episode 1033: Brush Up Your Shakespeare


"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"  -- Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream




















2 comments:

dinthebeast said...

One sort of incidental reason I detest the Trump administration is that probably my favorite teacher ever's name was Stephan Miller.
One letter difference from Goebbels just ain't enough.
Anyhow, on the first day of his Shakespeare class, Mr. Miller gave a lecture that lasted the whole period and consisted of a list of modern (in 1977) phrases that were lifted from Shakespeare. It was rapid-fire and altogether entertaining.
By the second day we were ready to read the plays.
When I read that James Carville was threatening to leave the Democratic party, my immediate reaction was "I don't know who Hasan Piker is, but I'm pretty sure I can put up with the motherfucker if it means James Carville will finally just fuck off and go away."
We really need to find a way to make the fact that our accusations are true matter again.
Thank you again for the podcast. I have an estranged friend who was born on October 30, 1960. He was a black belt in Judo and won the junior nationals when he was seventeen.
We had some adventures together. There is a place in Orick, CA, where magic mushrooms grow and there is a sign on the gate that reads "mushroom pickers will be shot on sight."
Damn they are good...

-Doug in Sugar Pine

Robt said...

Words mean things. Where have I heard that before?

As it pertains to the guy who speaks in "cofeve", Speaks wind mills language. He is the master of speaking words that are meaningless. You cannot take something he says out of context for it has no context , let alone validity or reality.

Try making sense out of these words and look for something to take out of context.
"Corporations are People" or "Money is speech".
The is something wicked this way coming to the SCOTYUS.
It is AI. Should I say SI (super intelligence).

Is that Robo call a person? How about that automated phone answering system you have to navigate when calling a business about your account and service? End up asking for a live representative?
Robots with AI or AI (just a PC brain. Are they people ?
Can they vote? Should they be paid a living wage?
You have to assume Elmo would want his "Grok" to be declared a person by the SCOTUS. So too the old Mr. Jeeves.

I wonder, how much does Elmo pay GROC? How about health care? Pension. Can Grok decide to do something other than what Elmo wants and as a person have the freedom to do so?
If AI );ole Grok is a person by SCOTUS decree, does Elm get to own Grok as like a slave? Is there anu criminal or misdemeanor laws that AI can break and be convicted and sentence with punishment?
How is money legally construed as speech when it is simply a monetary currency used to barter with.
How did the SCOTUS come to the position that money is speech and corporations are people?
Corporations do not get to vote.
If money is speech then it can be used to speak to an eyewitness to a serious crime and speak tot hem of forgetting what they saw? Right
Jury tampering is legal if money is speech.
Just words is an understatement.