The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

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? 

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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://bra...

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).

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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).

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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/.
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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, ...

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." 

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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 ...

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, Davi...

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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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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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.

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Doc Searls Weblog: Where Journalism Fails https://doc.searls.com/2019/07/23/where-journalism-fails/

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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.

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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.

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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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