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Driftglass

·1 hr 18 min·5 clips
Driftglass argues the oligarchy includes the power to rape children with impunity.
Bob starts by thanking new Patreon supporters and pointing listeners toward the show’s membership links. He also notes that Blue Gal is out because she had to take a day job to afford health insurance in Donald Trump’s America. That sets the tone right away. The conversation with Drift Glass turns into a steady critique of the media’s "both sides do it" reflex. They argue that this habit trains people to dodge moral judgment, dodge outrage, and even dodge picking a side. Drift Glass takes that thought further, arguing that false equivalence becomes part of the public’s inner logic. If people hear for years that both parties are always equally to blame, they start assuming any bad act on one side must have a mirror image on the other. That is not neutrality. It is a built-in bias that makes people ready to dismiss Democratic advances and treat Republican unpopularity as something both sides share. Bob and Drift Glass treat that as a basic failure of mainstream political coverage. The episode also moves through examples and old jokes to show how long this pattern has been around. One anecdote goes back to Bob’s early blogging days and lands on the punchline "But the Democrats," which they use to show how automatic the reflex has become. That detour has a point: the argument is not new, just more deeply baked in now. The conversation keeps circling back to the same idea. Republicans do damage on purpose, and then the press and its audience fold it into generic partisan conflict. Bob and Drift Glass reject that framing outright. They argue that the harm is real, deliberate, and already showing up in people’s lives. The ending brings it back to concrete consequences. The episode insists that what Republicans have done is not some abstract debate. It is damage done on purpose, out of hatred for Barack Obama and hostility to any government effort that might help ordinary people. Bob closes by reminding listeners that the show’s links are in the description and thanking the guests and supporters. The anger never really softens. It just lands with one more reminder that the stakes are human, not rhetorical.

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A blunt rebuttal to both-sides politics and the media that normalizes it.

Driftglass reads as a forceful argument against the habit of flattening politics into "both sides" and against the media outlets that reward that reflex.

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If you want a ruthless takedown of "both sides" media, start here.

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