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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Ep 988: Schrödinger's Alliances
Episode 988 of The Professional Left is a drama in three acts, each one taking a hard look at a political strategy that keeps failing — and the people...
Ep 987: The Vice of the People
Episode 987 of The Professional Left takes a deep look at the concept of authority — where it comes from, who really has it, and what happens when the...
Ep 986: 'AmeriKKKan Gothic'
Episode 986 of The Professional Left traces how one simple political rule — Ronald Reagan's "Eleventh Commandment" never to speak ill of a fellow Repu...
Ep 985: 'The Cheaper The Crook...'
"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter." -- The Maltese Falcon
Episode 985 of The Professional Left takes a deep dive into the word "no...
Ep 984: War On Hiatus Due To Bad Ratings
In this episode of The Professional Left, Driftglass and Blue Gal take a hard look at how America ended up in yet another Middle East war — and why th...
Ep 983 "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb"
In this episode of The Professional Left, Driftglass and Blue Gal dig into the decades-long project that brought American politics to its current brea...
Ep 982: Failure to Launch
Episode 982 asks: Did Trump magically bamboozle 70 million voters overnight, or did the GOP spend 40 years deliberately breeding an army of angry, par...
Ep 981: Build Back Better
Episode 981 traces the Republican descent from the 1990 New York Times editorial warning about Gingrich's "slash and burn" politics through Limbaugh,...
Ep 980: Zombie Apocalypse
Episode 980 uses The Walking Dead's central question—"The world we knew is gone, but keeping our humanity? That's a choice"—to examine whether we acce...
Ep 979: Legacy
Episode 979 begins with Project Hail Mary and science fiction nerds auditing movies on street corners, then pivots to Ozymandias and what lasts versus...
Ep 978: WMD
Driftglass and Blue Gal compare Bush's Iraq debacle with Trump's Iran war—the lying, the cover-ups, the profiteering, the attacks on critics—revealing...
Ep 977: An Apple Made of Razors
(And we talk about the Illinois Democratic Primaries! They were counting votes as we recorded.)
Episode 977 examines the 2026 Illinois Democra...
Ep 976: Signs and Portents
Episode 976 examines the signs and portents showing Trump's base starting to fracture as broken promises about Epstein files and "no foreign wars" col...
Ep 975: The 'C' Word
Episode 975 takes a trip back to Chicago to explore how big cities weather economic shocks that would destroy smaller towns—a lesson that matters as T...
Ep 974: 'But He Promised!'
Episode 974 examines why Trump's illegal war with Iran is splintering the MAGA base and fueling Democratic victories in special elections across the c...
Ep 973: Miracles?
Episode 973 explores biblical healing miracles to reveal what they teach about choice, cruelty, and the difference between victims who deserve compass...
Ep 972: 'Little Note Nor Long Remember'
Trump's State of the Union was a two-hour Willie Horton ad designed to keep his shrinking base loyal through blood-soaked imagery borrowed from imperi...
Ep 971: The Resistance Comes To Suburbia
Episode 971 examines why fact-checkers keep losing to Republican lies in America's ongoing culture war, and why better stories—not more facts—are the...
Ep 970: Lifeboats And How To Burn Them
Episode 970 asks why Democrats are always expected to play by rules that Republicans openly mock and destroy, and whether apologies from Trump voters...
Ep 969: Whatever Happened To 'The American People'?
Episode 969 explores how politicians and media use vague phrases like "the American people," "the voters," and "the public" without anyone agreeing on...
Ep 968: Their Loyalty Test Never Ends
Probably no need to play catch-up on this, except for future reference when we hit episode 2000 and are trying to convince the Neo-Republi-tarian Cons...
Ep 967: The Death of Nixon('s Maxim)
Average voters stay permanently undecided because they get their information from toxic media sources that have been poisoning them against Democrats...
Ep 966: The Persistence of Memory
The legacy media's "Both Sides Do It" conventional wisdom is a rotting corpse they've been sleeping with for decades while pretending they couldn't se...
Ep 965: The Amnesia Machine Warms Up
The amnesia machine is already warming up as Republicans rehearse their "I was never really MAGA" speeches while Trump falsely claims Ilhan Omar stage...
Ep 964: A Man Was Lynched
The killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti are called what they really are—lynchings carried out by Trump's armed thugs who were then protected from i...
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Ep 963: It's The End of the World [Order] As We Know It
Welcome to 'The end of the world [order] as we know it' in which we defend anti-ICE protesters who disrupted a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota,...
Ep 962 This Time It's Different
The greatest political mirage in modern American history returns as Trump's second term reveals that while the ingredients stay the same, something fu...
Ep 961: Transitions For Us; Bad News For State and Local GOP's
We start with some personal news: Blue Gal's father passed away on January 9.
In other news, she's leaving Crooks and Liars after 18 years for a...
Ep 960: No Fair Remembering Stuff (Feat. John Amato of Crooks and Liars)
John Amato of Crooks and Liars discusses his journey from music to political blogging, including his early experiences with video content creation and...
Ep 959: The 16th Anniversary Show
We start with the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis and the Trump administration's obvious lies about what happened, despite clear video...
Ep 958: MAGA Flip Flops On 'Forever Wars For Oil'
We open on the fifth anniversary of January 6th by examining MAGA's stunning overnight flip-flop on war and foreign intervention. How did "America Fir...
Ep 957: Happy New Year
In their final episode of 2025, Driftglass and Blue Gal try to sum up the entire awful year in just a few key words or phrases.
As they close o...
Ep 956: 2025 In Review, Part 3 (of 3)
Driftglass and Blue Gal bring their epic year-in-review series to a close, covering September through December and finally boxing up 2025 to send it t...
Ep 955: 2025 In Review, Part 2
Driftglass and Blue Gal continue their review of 2025, covering May through August in this second part of their series.
The hosts show how the...
Ep 954: 2025 In Review, Part 1
Driftglass and Blue Gal reflect on what they call an "annus horribilis"—a genuinely awful year that fundamentally changed America as Trump's second te...
Ep 953: When The Music Stops
Trump's "affordability" tour crashes into reality, with the president telling struggling Americans to buy fewer pencils and dolls while his own suppor...
Ep 952: 'A Golden Age"?
We examine the difference between political "weather" and "climate" this week, starting with Trump once again bribing farmers with $11 billion after h...
Ep 951: The 'Sacred' And The Profane
The dangerous convergence of Trumpian immunity and media complicity creates for Trump an imaginary “kingdom” once reserved for anointed kings. Our Co...
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No show today; we've had quite a weekend.
We'll be back to our regularly scheduled podcasting on Thursday. See you then!
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Ep 950: Welcome To The Sh*t Show
In this week's episode, we experience the whipsaw—that aggressive, back-and-forth sawing motion that's now a perfect metaphor for what Republicans are...