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."
Episodes
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!!!
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You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses at
https://w...
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
https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/an-ugly-case-of-false-balance-in
Thanks 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/71kZ2p...
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 stor...
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.
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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=15139
Brian Baez, Content Creator: https://x.com/MentallyDivine/status/182630516407842
Mad Men, "Carousel": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRDUFpsHus
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You...
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, ...
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&...
Sir, many people have told us that Trump might drop out. Several important people said that Trump should drop out of the race. Some people say he should flee the country. I've even heard one person say he's a flight "risk," and that's what they call it, a "risk"- that he'll flee the country.
Many things we thought would last forever didn't.
Democratic messaging on...
A busy week? Wait until October!
Meanwhile, the Illinois State Fair unveiled their annual butter cow, and Harris/Walz kicked some ass while the Republican Party had a meltdown.
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Links for this episode:
Driftglass and Digby on The Bradcast 8/7/2024.
Texas AG Ken Paxton has a "humble brag" about ActBlue.
You can help us pay for DG's eye ...
We're so excited. Also, some weird news of the week, including RFK Jr's bear hunt (eww) and Trump's Mar A Lago / WinRed forever grifting.
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Driftglass will be on the BradCast on Wednesday August 7 with Digby of Hullabaloo.
You can help us pay for DG's eye doctor expenses at
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ease-dgs-medical-financial-burden
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Driftglass and BlueGal dive into Trump's blatant racism and why the media can't seem to call it what it is.
Link for this episode:
DG and BG on the BradCast 7/31/2024: https://bradblog.com/?p=15116
Blue Gal's knitting podcast! https://www.youtube.com/@flangum
Our podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessionalLeft
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A deep dive into the word "weird," from Shakespeare's "weird sisters" in The Scottish Play alllll the way to JD Vance and the Republican tone police, who really don't like us calling their entire QAnon Trump-humping cult of grifting, "weird."
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Links for this episode:
The three weird sisters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnc0pOjr1qY
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We KNOW what the media is going to do this election cycle. It's our job to halt them. Both sides don't!!!
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LINKS for this episode:
Kurt Vonnegut, The Shape of Stories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOGru_4z1Vc
2081, The Film, Based on "Harrison Bergeron," by Kurt Vonnegut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEgOuZzjI8o
Scott Doty Expla...
LFG! But we have no plans to ever forget the shameful, public "Dump Biden" pile-on by Hollywood celebrities, our Never Trump "allies", the Pod Save rug rats, the wealthy donors -- who resorted to what amounted to down-ticket extortion to pressure Dems in tight races to come out against Biden, and most egregiously of all, the entire corporate media, including CNN, MSNBC and, leading the jackal pack, The New York...
The Tone Police is ALWAYS there to benefit the oppressor, in this case, the RNC.
And we follow up on the stupid "dump Biden" conspiracy. Resist that noise and silence Monkey Mind.
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Links for this episode:
"How to Tame Your Monkey Mind"
https://www.prm.nau.edu/prm205/monkey-mind-article.htm
Blue Gal's knitting podcast! https://w...
Orwell said, "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." That's not the fight we wanted, but that's the fight we're in, kids.
Plus touching letters from listeners, and Birthday Girl Blue Gal conducts her own focus group in a Pittsburgh diner, then goes full policy-ninja on Medicare at-home care.
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We're so stabby about the mainstream media right now, it's a swear-fest. Fran is boycotting MSNBC for the Summer to protect her mental health and punish the suits upstairs (Sorry, Lawrence.). And Driftglass remembers the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer, when Black Mississippians had to fight the Democratic establishment to become the Democratic base. More at proleftpod.com.
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Diving into Apple TV's new series "Dark Matter," based on Blake Crouch's bestselling novel. We'll explore how the show tackles concepts of both parallel realities, and the nature of identity across multiple timelines.
But the multiverse madness doesn't stop there! We'll expand our discussion to other sci-fi shows that have expertly played with alternate realities:
- "Counterpart": How J....
Scotus (and the mainstream media, who have blood in their teeth now)? Curses on them all. Meanwhile, were going to chop wood, carry water, and get out the vote. More at proleftpod.com.
[Recorded before the Presidential Debate.]
Time for a deep dive into the troubling parallels between the decline of "liberal" mainstream media and the recent corporate buyouts of popular automotive YouTube channels like Donut Media.
Remember when MSNBC was a bastion of creative, progressive messaging? We take a nostalgic journey through the network's evolution, examining how the suits upstairs never got how t...
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