The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
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The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
"Fiercely and unapologetically progressive, and definitely NSFW. 'The Professional Left' features award-winning bloggers Driftglass and Blue Gal as they skewer right-wing absurdities and dismantle mainstream media mealy-mouths with razor-sharp wit and zero filter. From mercilessly mocking partisan h...
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Episode 941: Uh Oh, The Media's Building Lifeboats (Again)!
This week, we're watching the media scramble for survival as tectonic forces fracture the landscape—and the billionaires are building lifeboats while...
940: We Are All Antifa's Girlfriend
In this week's episode, we tackle the concept of "ethos"—what people actually stand for versus what they claim to believe. Drawing parallels from the...
Ep 939: Huckleberry Finn And The Sins Of MAGA
Welcome to Book Club Day at the Professional Left, where we're spoiling a 141-year-old novel that remains the undisputed champ of American literature—...
Ep 938: Republicans in Disarray
This week, we're unpacking a tale of two shutdowns—and spoiler alert: they're both Trump's.
First, the government shutdown: Why are Republicans...
Ep 937 That's Why They Call It Money
This week, we're delving deep into a question that's been making the rounds on those very large political never-Trump websites: Why don't Democrats ha...
Ep 936 | Tell, Don't Show
What does it mean when the government exists primarily to entertain the MAGA base rather than serve the people? We examine how Conservative media hav...
Ep 935: The Wheels On The Cross Go Round And Round
We missed the rapture! This week we're diving deep into the political machine playbook - because understanding the past is the only way to make sense...
Ep 934: A Convo With Charlie Pierce
A wide-ranging conversation with the incomparable Charlie Pierce of Esquire Magazine. What should the Democratic base be doing now? What should Demo...
Ep 933: Meanwhile, In Local Fascism...
We look at how the crazy stuff happening in national politics is playing out right here in our hometown of Springfield, Illinois, by checking out what...
Ep 932 The Evil That Men Do
How did the late Charlie Kirk build his multi-million dollar empire, and what role did billionaire oligarchs play in funding his operation? And why w...
Ep 931 Democrats Must Listen To...Patrick Swayze?
Alt Title: What 'Road House' Can Teach Democrats
What is the hidden wisdom in Patrick Swayze's movie Road House (MST3K IYKYK) that Democrats de...
Ep 930: His Master's Voice
Why do we keep lurching violently between Democrats and fascists if every election is supposedly a "change election"? What happens when the media's ob...
Ep 929 Republicans Can't Get No Satisfaction
Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, Tulsi Gabbard, and Jeanine Pirro are in positions of power to finally bring justice to history's greatest villains? So why a...
Ep 928 GOP Polls Hit 'The Sarah Palin Floor'
Trump's approval ratings have crashed to 37% - that magical Sarah Palin floor where only the most delusional true believers remain loyal.
What...
Ep 927: Pritzker's Honor
What happens when Democratic governors fight like they mean it? We dive into J.B. Pritzker's masterclass in political combat. He talks like a #%&$&! F...
Ep 926: The Scoundrel’s Shield and the Sucker’s Lament
An entire industry profits from pumping out addictive political poison designed to make people angrier, more paranoid, and more stupid. But here's the...
Ep 925: A Hundred Shells A Minute
How does a nineteenth-century Republican president, and a modern Republican vice president, handle low water levels? The answer may cost you taxpayer...
Ep 924: The Con Man And GOP Civil War
When the con man owns the sheriff, the judge, and the executioner, math becomes the enemy. And Donald Trump and Gavin Newsom are making the same mist...
Ep 923: Fantastic 4, Dems Fight Back, AI Convos
This week we cope with the ongoing political chaos by escaping to the movies - specifically The Fantastic Four: First Steps - and then diving deep int...
Ep 922: What Ever Happened To Justice?
This week, we dive deep into the concept of justice and ask the hard question: where are the consequences? We break down the different flavors of just...
Ep 921: What Ever Happened to QAnon?
We're asking the question everyone stopped asking: whatever happened to QAnon?
And what does it mean when their cult leader starts calling his f...
Episode 920: President Queeg
This week we dive into why platforming fascists is always a terrible idea, using Mehdi Hasan's recent Jubilee debate as our cautionary tale. We examin...
Ep 919: Superman and Hamlet, Plus The News Of The Week
We're diving deep into some unexpected connections this week. What do a 425-year-old Shakespeare tragedy and James Gunn's new Superman movie have in c...
Ep 918: Welcome To Stupid Watergate Summer
We're mad as hell, and we're not going to take it anymore. After 15 years of ringing alarm bells about the Republican party's dangers to our democracy...
Ep 917: Blame Obama Week? Again?
This week we're celebrating Blue Gal's birthday while diving deep into Trump's latest meltdown over the Epstein files. We break down how the former re...
Ep 916: Hot Take Time Machine
Join us this week as we explore the slow-motion collapse of expertise and institutions in America through the lens of Isaac Asimov's classic science f...
Ep 915: The Derp State
We dive into the Republican party's latest identity crisis as their own media machine turns on itself. We explore how decades of conspiracy theories a...
Ep 914: When, In The Course of Human Events
We're visiting America in the ICU on her 249th birthday, hoping the old girl still has some fight left in her.
A sad day as Trump's disastrous b...
Ep 913: Not On A Beach Vacation
Hat tip to John Fetter-Manchin (copyright Driftglass), we're grudgingly back from our beach vacation (okay, we never actually left the Cornfield Resis...
Ep 912: Things Break
We had severe technical difficulties with our audio with Charlie Pierce (thanks for your time, Charlie!) so that interview had to be scrapped.
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Ep 911: 'Hail, Caesar'
This week, we examine Trump's pathological relationship with Fox News and how his morning TV viewing sessions led directly to bombing Iran. We trace t...
Ep 910: No Blood For Ego
We're back from the Cornfield Resistance with another episode examining the eerie echoes of 2003 as familiar faces dust off their war-hungry talking p...
Ep 909: MAGA's Very Very Bad Week
Anyone else notice the growing cracks in the MAGA coalition as supporters openly question whether they've been played?
We dive into the spectacu...
Ep 908: The Big Clock Is Ticking
NOTE: The shocking news of Senator Alex Padilla being forcibly removed and handcuffed at a Kristi Noem press conference simply for trying to ask ques...
Ep 907 We Are Not Distracted
We dive into the chaos on the right as their messaging machine encounters serious technical difficulties. While they're busy thrashing between conflic...
Ep 906: That Escalated Quickly
We're back from the Cornfield Resistance with the messiest billionaire breakup of the century—complete with explosive social media threats and some ve...
Ep 905: Joni Ernst, Typical Republican
We're talking about Trump's "Move Fast and Break Things" presidency - from Tulsi Gabbard wanting to turn intelligence briefings into Fox News shows, t...
Ep 904: President Soft Taco
This week, we take you back to the "Before Time" - specifically 2011 - to trace the toxic road that led us to where we are today. We revisit the birth...
Ep 903: Rahm 2028? No Thanks
This week, we’re diagnosing a political condition we’re all feeling — what we’re calling Political Cabin Fever. It’s not hopelessness, it’s exhaustion...
Ep 902: How Democrats Can Win Elections, Ahem
We're serving up some hard-won advice about winning elections - and it's not pretty. While our Never Trump allies and high-paid consultants keep screa...