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Jonathan: "This feels different from 2016 in that there was just this groundswell of 'we're gonna fight,' there was the Women's March, there was all this stuff... obviously it feels different. Now it's only been a couple days, but before the show we were talking about this sense of despondence that's fallen over us. Maybe that will break at some point, and we'll have the energy to get back into the fray. But what do you think the quote-unquote 'resistance' look like this time around? What's the Left do?"

Robert: "I don't think The Left does shit. Look, I'm sorry, there's not a Left. There's not a Left in any capacity that matters for national organizing. There are individual local groups that can mean things for people in those areas. Could mean a lot for people in those areas, could mean a lot for you. But in terms of infrastructure of resistance, it's non-existent. None of it was ever built. The Democratic Party is what we've been talking about this whole time. 'The Left' is split between some organizations like the PSL that are basically cults, and influencers and their followers (which we [podcasters] to a degree fall into, right?). There's not parties, there's not like a real capacity for organizing a large revolutionary party or whatever the fuck. That's a fantasy. Right? It's not happening."

Cody: "It's also so factional and there's all this conflict, that..."

So one of my biggest projects is running a custom TV station in my house with my partner, which we call EMN. It can be tuned into using an actual TV, which I've posted about! Anyway, sometimes I like to make little advertisements to play on it and last night I made what may be my favorite thing I've ever made, a fun sizzle reel of programming that airs on the channel, tied together with a theme.

Song: Matthew Dear - Her Fantasy

wanted to play around with posing and lighting sooooo here’s a guy :) i have mixed feelings on how this turned out but most of those feelings are positive so i’m gonna say that i’m proud of it

character: emn (he/him)

time spent: 2 hours, 35 minutes