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...
Episodis Recents
1038 episodis
Ep 1004: The MAGA Merry-Go-Round
It goes in circles but never gets anywhere
It’s all horses’ asses
And there is no brass ring.
Driftglass on the Bob Ce...
Ep 1003: Science Fiction University - Trust
Science Fiction University returns at long last, with an extended deep dive into one of the oldest and most unsettling questions in the genre — who ca...
Ep 1002: It’s Still the Republican Party
No rebranding! They cashed all those checks with the Tea Party. Episode 1002 of The Professional Left opens with a pop quiz, and the reveal says eve...
Ep 1001: 119 Billion Kilometers and Counting
Episode 1001 of The Professional Left kicks off the post-1000 era with a reading from Octavia Butler — written in 1993, about a fictional America that...
Ep 1000: For Your Consideration...
Episode 1000 of The Professional Left opens with the countdown finally hitting zero — and instead of a victory lap, Driftglass and Blue Gal do exactly...
Ep 999 The Patron Saint of Corruption
Episode 999 of The Professional Left takes a detour through the smoke-filled back rooms of mid-century Chicago machine politics to explain something e...
Ep 998: Who's This Jagoff?
Episode 998 of The Professional Left opens with a game of "Who's This Jagoff?" — a quiz that turns out to be a master class in how the Both Sides Do I...
Ep 997: What Do Democrats Want?
Episode 997 of The Professional Left uses the sudden, very public firing of Scott Pelley from 60 Minutes as a jumping-off point to ask a much bigger q...
Ep 996: The Maine Event
Episode 996 of The Professional Left takes a hard look at the media circus surrounding the Maine Democratic Senate primary, asking who is actually sti...
Ep 995: The Politics of Pronouns
Episode 995 of The Professional Left takes a deep dive into one of the most revealing tricks in modern political history — the quiet, deliberate shift...
Ep 994: An Epidemic of Recycled Lies
Episode 994 of The Professional Left takes a hard look at the war on memory — the long, grinding campaign to erase what actually happened to this coun...
Ep 993: Fools In a Burning House
Episode 993 of The Professional Left finally arrives at the pivotal year of 2008 — the moment the Republican party began eating itself alive — and tra...
Ep 992: Both Sides Don't Have A Budget Surplus
In this episode of The Professional Left, Driftglass and Blue Gal trace how the Clinton-era budget surplus was dismantled piece by piece during the Bu...
Ep 991: Underbabied?
Episode 991 of The Professional Left starts with a question that sounds absurd on its face — are Americans "underbabied"? — and then spends an hour ma...
Ep 990: Straining Gnats, Swallowing Camels
Episode 990 of The Professional Left takes a step back from the daily chaos to talk about something the mainstream media almost never bothers with — s...
Ep 989: 'Velveeta'
Episode 989 of The Professional Left takes on one of the most overused words in modern politics — "authenticity" — and asks whether anyone in American...
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...