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The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

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 hacks to elevating stories the media ignores, it"s the profane, unflinching political commentary you didn"t know you needed. More at http://ProLeftPod.com."

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Ep 848: Yeah We're Never Mixing Tea With Lemonade...

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2024/10/23

Funny how Republicans loved the "p" word when it was about Bill Clinton. Driftglass's 'five minutes on David Brooks' is back. Tick tock! And we're not exactly accepting the Cheneys and The Bulwark into our tent. More at proleftpod.com. You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses athttps://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ease-dgs-medical-financial-burdenBlue Gal's knitting podcast! https://www.youtube.com/@flangumOur podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Profes...

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Ep 847 Reading Right Wing Facebook For Filth

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2024/10/17

Three weeks left. Kamala shows Bret Baier for the abusive bully jerk and not-a-journalist he is. Driftglass reads a right wing Facebook post for filth and notes how much it depends...on the lies of the past? More at proleftpod.com. You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses athttps://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ease-dgs-medical-financial-burdenBlue Gal's knitting podcast! https://www.youtube.com/@flangumOur podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Profession...

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Ep 846 A 'Permanent Republican Insanity'

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2024/10/16

Karl Rove, Fox News, and the rest wanted to program voters to vote Republican no matter what. They spent so much time on the 'vote Republican' part, and now the 'no matter what' part has come home to roost. Also, Kamala Harris uses "Good Trouble" to drive Trump into publicizing his insanity repeatedly. And we make some predictions about the first David Brooks columns of 2025. More at proleftpod.com. You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses athttps://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ease-...

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Ep 845: 'No One Could Have Predicted Hurricane Trump'

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2024/10/11

How is Donald Trump like a hurricane? How is toxic Republicanism like climate change? And snuggle up with a cuppa hot cocoa, kids, as Uncle Driftglass reads an excerpt from the 1955 story "Franchise" by Issac Asimov. More at proleftpod.com.You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses athttps://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ease-dgs-medical-financial-burdenBlue Gal's knitting podcast! https://www.youtube.com/@flangumOur podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.c...

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Ep 844: Focus on the Future!

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2024/10/09

The idea of focusing on the future isn't the flex (or the excuse) the Trump campaign thinks it is. We are pleasantly surprised on a road trip to Burlington, Iowa. Is Elon Musk's mom alright? Is Megyn Kelly? They seem upset. And Kamala Harris isn't aiming for "humble." More at proleftpod.com.You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses athttps://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ease-dgs-medical-financial-burdenBlue Gal's knitting podcast! https://www.youtube.com/@flangumOur ...

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Ep 843: Socialism For All. Again!

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2024/10/04

Trump is melting. Vance is a robot replacement. Walz understood his assignment. And isn’t it interesting that Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, #1 enemy of socialism, wants the taxpayers to fix her husband’s driveway in the wake of Helene? More at proleftpod.com. You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses athttps://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ease-dgs-medical-financial-burdenBlue Gal's knitting podcast! https://www.youtube.com/@flangumOur podcast YouTube Chan...

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Ep 842: A Short, Pre-Debate Podcast

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2024/10/02

We cover the usual (sad!) media failures leading up to the Vice Presidential Debate Tuesday night.Note: Our recording host had some technical issues that other podcasters were also experiencing today. Our apologies for "aborting" the show early...we had to get ready for the Vice Presidential Debate.Please listen to Driftglass and Digby discuss the Vice Presidential Debate on the BradCast (https://bradblog.com/) on Wednesday Oct 2. More at proleftpod.com.You can help us...

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Ep 841: Our Performance Review and Trump's Ethnic...

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2024/09/27

A Block: Driftglass and Bluegal read each other a list of standard performance review questions. Are we staff or management? B Block (40:30): Donald Trump and his party are flat-out in favor of ethnic cleansing in the United States. C Block (50:15): Kamala Harris's substantive interview on economics; reactions to it broke precisely as expected. News Round Up (57:30). Link for this episode: Drew Magery at SF Gate, 'The New York Times is Washed' https:/...

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Ep 840: 'An Industry That Exists To Attack The New...

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2024/09/25

Sorry, Maggie Haberman, we're just two married podcasters who live in a little house near a cornfield and who think the Beltway media is waaay too busy patting each other's backs. We're not an industry, we're pro-journalistic ethics (hello Olivia Nuzzi), political integrity (good bye Mark Robinson), and funding school lunches (Ahem). More at proleftpod.com.Support the show

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Ep 839: The Bill Show Collab!

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2024/09/19

This week, Blue Gal is traveling, so we're bringing you a special rebroadcast of our recent appearance on "The Bill Show," which originally aired on September 9, 2024. Bill is an American ex-pat living in Australia, and his podcast is liberal and political with a heavy dose of ribald humor. Sounds like a good match for us? It is! Hear more Bill Show episodes at https://expatprogressive.podbean.com/.You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses athttps://www.gofundme.com/f...

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Ep 838: Episode Two Redux!

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2024/09/17

No Fair Remembering 2010? Our SECOND episode from over 14 years ago. Before we were married! Driftglass was in Chicago, and Blue Gal was in Springfield, recording over Skype. This episode was recorded at a pivotal moment in recent American political history. The Supreme Court had just handed down its landmark Citizens United decision, fundamentally altering and corrupting the landscape of campaign finance. Meanwhile, the country was mere weeks away from the signing of ...

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Ep 837: Good Ol' Fashioned Beat Down

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2024/09/13

Our two cents about the Presidential Vs. Donald Trump Debate. And we have some opinions, too, about Morning Joe guests attempting to "reunite the country." More at proleftpod.com.Link for this episode, check out our Episode 713: No Fair Remembering Vice Presidents. "The belief that somehow Kamala Harris isn't "doing something" as Veep runs counter to nearly every other Vice President in the history of the United States." https://www.buzzsprout.com/229/12764766 You can ...

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Ep 836 Exiled Republican Aristocracy Endorse Harris

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2024/09/11

Thanks Liz and Dick Cheney now GET LOST. You get NOTHING for doing the right thing. And you especially don't get more political power because you're pretending to be "centrist." Have a nice day! Also David Brooks pretends Trump was a "hostile takeover of outsiders" of the lovely kind Republican Party he knew and loved back when Dick Cheney was Vice President. We remember differently, David. And guess who wrote for the NYFT that tariffs might be what Trump lies say they...

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Ep 835: Russia Russia Russia!

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2024/09/06

Oh wait, the Russia thing was real? And DOJ just indicted a whole mess of September Surprise? We muse on the idea of "earning" $100,000 an episode. Did you think you were worth it, Tim Pool? And Mike Barnicle asks, "What happened to the Republican Party?" Hey Mike! WE KNOW!!! More at proleftpod.comYou can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses athttps://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ease-dgs-medical-financial-burdenBlue Gal's knitting podcast! https://www...

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Ep 834 Driftglass Has A Cold

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2024/09/03

A short episode so DG can recover his voice sooner rather than later. Links for this episode: Margaret Sullivan: An ugly case of 'false balance' at The New York Timeshttps://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/an-ugly-case-of-false-balance-inThanks to The Bill Show out of Australia for hosting us this week. Our show should drop in a few days here: https://open.spotify.com/show/71kZ2ppjrX6bOEg2ql7ZskMore at proleftpod.com.You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses athttps:/...

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Ep 833 The Doctrine of the Mainstream Media

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2024/08/29

Doctrines come from the stories that a church or a political party or some other group tells about itself. In that sense, the stories people tell themselves create the reality that they believe in. Powerful stories tell them what’s true and what’s false. It gives them heroes and villains and victims, and an explanation for why things are the way they are.And right now we are experiencing a huge war over who gets to tell the stories of what's happening. And for once, th...

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Ep 832: Where's the Money, Donald?

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2024/08/27

Also welcome back to the fight as, at long last, Democrats are "floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee." Are we finally back to the days of "Give 'em Hell, Harry"? We hope so! And the Donald Trump campaign has at least three "vendors" taking millions and no one knows what's being done with the money. (We can guess, though). More at proleftpod.com.Links for this episode: The Educated Imagination from 2010: What's wrong with the New York Times Part 3? ht...

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Ep 831 Carousel of Past Dem Presidents At The DNC...

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2024/08/23

No fair remembering stuff only applies to Republicans. Democrats get to celebrate THEIR past! Links for this episode: Driftglass on the Bradcast 8/21/24: https://bradblog.com/?p=15139Brian Baez, Content Creator: https://x.com/MentallyDivine/status/182630516407842Mad Men, "Carousel": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRDUFpsHusMore at proleftpod.com.You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses athttps://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ease-dgs-medical-financial-burdenBlue Gal's knitting...

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Ep 830: DNC Night One and The Echo Chamber of Maureen...

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2024/08/21

Happy 13th Wedding Anniversary to us! We celebrated by enjoying Night One of The Democratic National Convention, and attending a dear friend's funeral. We are reminded again this week that the Mainstream Media feeds respectable and legitimized propaganda to right-wing outlets because "even" the New York Times covers BenghaziBenghaziBenghazi, Solyndra, Fast and Furious, Uranium One, tan suit, Seth Rich, baby parts, Pizzagate, 'her emails,' death panels, Dominion, and the tarmac.&nb...

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Ep 829 Hey Tim Walz, Come On Our Podcast!

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2024/08/16

Well, it's worth a try. The news of the week continues to prove Republicans are weird. The three Jell-O molds the mainstream media tries to form "news salad" into. And DG brings back "shelter culture." More at proleftpod.com.Links for this episode: Doc Searls Weblog: Where Journalism Fails https://doc.searls.com/2019/07/23/where-journalism-fails/ You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses athttps://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ease-dgs-medical-financial-burdenBlue Gal...

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