Professional Left Podcast Episode 1016: F**k Civility

"The tone policing of respectability ensures that the fight for equality becomes the responsibility of the oppressed."  -- Mikki Kendall

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 1015: James and the Giant Screech

“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds"  -- said sarcastically by Voltaire.

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 1014: The New Red Scare

“You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.”  ― Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 1011: Not Sending Their Best

“One must imagine Sisyphus happy."  -- Albert Camus.

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 1010: WHCD WTF?

“What is dead may never die."  -- the Drowned God.

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 1009: The Wall

“What benefits the enemy, harms you; and what benefits you, harm the enemy."  -- Niccolo Machiavelli 

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 1008: Reality Remains Undefeated

“Study the past, if you would divine the future."  -- Confucius

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 1007: Happy Birthday Blue Gal Retrospective, Part I

“The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were."  -- Kurt Vonnegut

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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 

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 1005: Meanwhile, In Local News...

“Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party. Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders..."  -- then-rising Tea Party Republican Adam Kinzinger after he won a congressional seat in 2012 

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 1004: The MAGA Merry-Go-Round

“Never give a sucker an even break.”  -- William Claude Dukenfield

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 1002: It’s Still the Republican Party

“Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.”  -- Ron Swanson

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 1001: 119 Billion Kilometers and Counting

“My characters hope for better lives.”  -- Octavia Butler

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 1000: For Your Consideration

“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech”  -- Mark Twain

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 999: The Patron Saint of Corruption

“Chicago ain't ready for reform yet!”  -- -- Chicago 43rd Ward Alderman Mathias "Paddy" Bauler, 1955

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 998: Who's This Jagoff?

“ Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”  -- George Carlin.

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 997: What Do Democrats Want?

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”  -- American author and teacher Verna Hills, 1937,  later adapted by teachers and parents to the melody of the traditional English folk song "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush"... which itself probably originated with female inmates at England's HMP Wakefield, who exercised around a courtyard mulberry tree with their children.

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 996: The Maine Event

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”  -- Sun Tzu

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 995: The Politics of Pronouns

“ Time moves in one direction, memory in another.“  -- William Gibson, writer

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 994: An Epidemic of Recycled Lies

“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.“  -- probably not Mark Twain

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