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 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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889 episodes
Ep 856 Nancy Mace Is The New Jesse Helms
It's bathroom bigotry all over again. We remember just how racist Jesse Helms was, and how perfectly okay the Republican Party was with all of that bigotry. There's likely to be lots of Cabinet-appointment drama in the next ...
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Ep 855 You Are Not Alone
Today is a good day for us to remember that we are not alone or crazy...or doomed. Trump Co is destined for SELF-destruction. And we came across a Steve Gilliard post from TWENTY years ago that is amazingly timely. More at...
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Episode 855
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Ep 854: From The Sus-Crime To The Ridiculous
Thursdays with Royko. Guess who says we need a new liberal media? Guess who says Matt Gaetz is a Sex Pervert? And Blue Gal interviews our 26yo about the election. More at
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Ep 853: MAGA Won, Why Are They Still Upset?
We're on BlueSky! bluegal, driftglass, proleftpodcast. Join us! Five stages of grief? How about five stages of MAGA victory, including bargaining, denial, and anger? Because FAFO isn't just a cute acronym, it's t...
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Ep 852: This, Too, Shall Pass
The post-election episode. We're going to get busy, working to make the world a better place, because that is what we are ALWAYS, in all circumstances, called to do. More at proleftpod.com.Link for this episode:
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Ep 851: Thou Shalt Not, Dumpster Fuhrer!
h/t Jimmy Kimmel for turning "Dumpster Fire," which Driftglass actually coined on his blog, into "Dumpster Fuhrer." Bible Bitch has a very special "thou shalt not" for the Trump campaign. And Driftglass compares Harris at th...
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Ep 850: Oops! So Many Actual Voters Can't Take 'A Joke'
Happy Birthday Driftglass (Oct 30)!!!Trump's very very racist rally. Who could have predicted? Everybody. Also, a certain NYT columnist who is NOT David Brooks, Ross Douthat, makes up reasons why he can't endor...
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Episode 850
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Ep 849: Fox News Host Sez: 'Nazis, Whatever'
Brian Kilmeade should win an award. Links for this episode: Ezra Klein on Trump’s lack of guardrails… and dem failures?
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Ep 848: Yeah We're Never Mixing Tea With Lemonade Ever Again
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. ...
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Ep 847 Reading Right Wing Facebook For Filth
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 proleftp...
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Ep 846 A 'Permanent Republican Insanity'
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 use...
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Ep 845: 'No One Could Have Predicted Hurricane Trump'
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. <...
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Ep 844: Focus on the Future!
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...
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Ep 843: Socialism For All. Again!
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...
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Ep 842: A Short, Pre-Debate Podcast
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 "abor...
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Episode 842
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Ep 841: Our Performance Review and Trump's Ethnic Cleansing
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 ...
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Ep 840: 'An Industry That Exists To Attack The New York Times'
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 (hell...
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Ep 839: The Bill Show Collab!
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 lib...
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Ep 838: Episode Two Redux!
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 pivota...
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Ep 837: Good Ol' Fashioned Beat Down
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 ...
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Ep 836 Exiled Republican Aristocracy Endorse Harris
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 prete...
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Episode 836
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Ep 835: Russia Russia Russia!
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 Mik...
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Ep 834 Driftglass Has A Cold
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 Times
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Ep 833 The Doctrine of the Mainstream Media
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 ...
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