Fuck me, they weren’t joking on that one… I listened to those episodes when they first came out, but they were gone soon after it seems.

There are working download links on the subreddit though, if anyone else wants to find them.

What does this have to do with the poem?

Maybe a song title

A bit verbose, perhaps? Laundry Genocide?

Fascists from the left?

Wouldn't be the first time I've heard someone say "National SOCIALISM!" But I think this is more referring to the Kristen Sinemas and Robert Menendezes who spend more time finding ways to strangle Cuba to death and sell F-35s to Turkish dictators than to curb carbon emissions or mitigate the damage inflicted by COVID.

If you know of a better way to describe what kind of ideologue sips $1000 btl wine in a cave full of corporate arms dealers while negotiating the finer points of our next proxy war in Latin America, I'd love to hear it.

It doesn’t say “from the left”. It says “from both parties”. Biden is the fascist from the other party.

Democrats are in no way, shape, or form part of “the left”.

At bare minimum someone on the left would be completely opposed to capitalism. They might be a mutualist, communalist, anarcho-syndicalist, anarcho-communist, etc.

Democrats are Neo-liberals and support the status quo. Maybe not outright fascists like the Republicans, but they have more in common with Republicans than they do with anyone on the left and when push comes to shove they’re not going to oppose fascism, they’re just going to go along with it. “Scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds.”

Adam Schiff vehemently opposes a permanent cease fire in Israel.

California also just passed a plan to involuntarily institutionalize it's homeless people.

That's just the news from today. There will be more hellscape tomorrow.

Does Last Week Tonight do this? I watch it regularly, but I’m not making the connection.

Sticking your head in the sand is a great alternative /s

the good Taliban powder

Afghan opium poppy cultivation plunges by 95 percent under Taliban: UN.
The restriction on poppy cultivation has decimated a key trade for hundreds of thousands of farmers and laborers.

Maybe implying that the CDC is compromised by outside interests?

I read that part as being a mashup of two disparate things similar to the rest of the piece. The CD seems to be announcing things more frequently, and there are places where the highways have no speed limits, both of which are more straws on the camel of anxiety.