In spite of his administration’s efforts to front-load the narrative, the release of the Mueller Report has taken away the ability of Trump (and Barr) to tell the story of the Russia investigation. Narratives matter in Democratic politics and policy as well. More at ProLeftPod.com . Show Links: The G.O.P. Promotes Leftism -- If centrist policies are doomed, why should Democrats pursue them? Pete Buttigieg’s Focus: Storytelling First. Policy Details Later. REVIEW US ON iTUNES | SUPPORT OUR SHOW |...
Apr 20, 2019•57 min•Ep. 490
History will not judge Donald Trump, we will. It will require fighting the Trump-off machine that will inevitably be turned on by the frequently re-branding Republican Party, helped by the beltway media. More at ProLeftPod.com . Episode 489 Buttigieg links: Reddit | NYTimes REVIEW US ON iTUNES | SUPPORT OUR SHOW | BUY PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791-9133 Podcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Email for Sci-F...
Apr 12, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 489
A round up of the week's infuriating news, with evidence that the "coverup in plain sight" really is that. (Near the end, middle child interrupts our recording, only to get a genuine teen eyeroll back from Stepdad Driftglass himself.) More at ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791-9133 Podcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Email for Sci-Fi Trivia Questions: mrs.d...
Apr 05, 2019•59 min•Ep. 488
The Barr Letter, announcements from our podcast, Driftglass's 14th blogiversary, and more at ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791-9133 Podcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Email for Sci-Fi Trivia Questions: mrs.driftglass@gmail.com Driftglass' Blog | Blue Gal's Blog SOCIAL & MEDIA Twitter: ProLeftPodcast | Driftglass (Mr_Electrico) | BlueGal Facebook: ProL...
Mar 29, 2019•58 min•Ep. 487
Chris Hayes goes full Driftglass. James Comey is a David Brooks Beltway Republican. Blue Gal is kind to herself for this pre-primary season. Warren, Buttigieg, Sanders, Hickenlooper (did WHAT with his mom?). More at ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791-9133 Podcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Email for Sci-Fi Trivia Questions: mrs.driftglass@gmail.com Driftgl...
Mar 22, 2019•49 min
This was a week about privileged people and their greed: rich college parents, gun manufacturers, journalism interns, White House Press corps, Paul Manafort, not to mention fake Christians and White Supremacists. We sense a theme here... More at ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791-9133 Podcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Email for Sci-Fi Trivia Questions: mr...
Mar 15, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 485
Progressive values mean no DNC debate on Fox, LGBTQIA+ must be accepted in the United Methodist Church, and we liberals must learn to fight to win. More at ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791-9133 Podcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Email for Sci-Fi Trivia Questions: mrs.driftglass@gmail.com Driftglass' Blog | Blue Gal's Blog SOCIAL & MEDIA Twitter: ProL...
Mar 08, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 484
Republicans "question" Cohen, the breakup of the United Methodist Church, and Why do “moderate” Republicans think THEY get to pick the Democratic nominee for President? More at ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791-9133 Podcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Email for Sci-Fi Trivia Questions: mrs.driftglass@gmail.com Driftglass' Blog | Blue Gal's Blog SOCIAL &...
Mar 01, 2019•58 min•Ep. 483
We're headed to Trivia Night on Friday, and how that leads in to Roger Stone, Trump's fake "shutdown" woes, and a family birthday. Bernie enters the race, and Driftglass is *almost* out of twitter jail? More at ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791-9133 Podcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Email for Sci-Fi Trivia Questions: mrs.driftglass@gmail.com Driftglass' ...
Feb 22, 2019•59 min
Driftglass and Blue Gal celebrate the day we met face to face eleven years ago. Oh sure, Roger Stone has a gag order from a federal judge, but Driftglass is in Twitter jail (again!). We feel chided by the Mister Rogers documentary, and instructed by Stacey Abrams. Ann Coulter's brand is undergoing a "transformation" ha ha ha. We are right about Never-Trust-a-Never-Trumper, and Donald Trump is totally off his own deep end. More at ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH ...
Feb 15, 2019•59 min•Ep. 481
Steve Schmidt got asked a "hard" question and walked out on his own podcast?!? Driftglass and Blue Gal couldn't resist podcasting on this immediately. More podcasts and no co-host meltdowns at ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791-9133 Podcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Email for Sci-Fi Trivia Questions: mrs.driftglass@gmail.com Driftglass' Blog | Blue Gal's ...
Feb 11, 2019•25 min•Ep. 480
Trump finally tells his biggest lie ever. SOTU, Stacey Abrams, Jeff Bezos, Blackface, What we need in a Democratic nominee, and more. Check out our website ProLeftPod.com for merch and ways to support the show. REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791-9133 Podcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Email for Sci-Fi Trivia Questions: mrs.driftglass@gmail.com Driftglass' Blog | Blue Gal's...
Feb 08, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 479
Kidding! Kidding! But with Howard Schultz, Noah Rothman, and of course, President Wangdoodle dominating the news this week, we wondered why. More at ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791-9133 Podcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Email for Sci-Fi Trivia Questions: mrs.driftglass@gmail.com Driftglass' Blog | Blue Gal's Blog SOCIAL & MEDIA Twitter: ProLeftPodc...
Feb 01, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 478
Roger Stone indicted, the so-called president caves, and we invent a new term for perpetual media reputation recovery, because the Weekly Standard never really goes out of business. More at ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791-9133 Podcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Email for Sci-Fi Trivia Questions: mrs.driftglass@gmail.com Driftglass' Blog | Blue Gal's Blo...
Jan 25, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 477
A wild week framed by the New York Times story that the FBI investigated Trump as a Russian asset, and the Buzzsprout report that Trump told Michael Cohen to lie to Congress. And so much in between. The Trump Shutdown continues... More at ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791-9133 Podcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Email for Sci-Fi Trivia Questions: mrs.drift...
Jan 18, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 476
We've been podcasting for 9 years, so we look back at an abbreviated (by Blue Gal) list (by Driftglass) of the past 9 years. You can read the whole list at Driftglass's blog. More at ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791-9133 Podcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Email for Sci-Fi Trivia Questions: mrs.driftglass@gmail.com Driftglass' Blog | Blue Gal's Blog SOCIA...
Jan 11, 2019•1 hr•Ep. 475
A Congresswoman shows her anger, and what it's about. We talk liberal anger versus conservative anger, and why the beltway press is totally comfortable with one of them. David Brooks blames "partisanship" and Chris Hayes makes a resolution we will help him stick to. More at ProLeftPod.com , and Be On The Look Out for Both Siderism. #BothSidesDont . If you see it, call it out!, and watch for Science Fiction University coming later in 2019. REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT ...
Jan 05, 2019•58 min•Ep. 474
Whoops there was a cell phone bounce in Prague. Trump went to a battleground despite his now-proven-to-be-fake bone spurs. And DG and BG visit the St. Louis Art Museum and come back with stories and truth. More at ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791-9133 Podcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Email for Sci-Fi Trivia Questions: mrs.driftglass@gmail.com Driftglas...
Dec 28, 2018•58 min•Ep. 473
“Trump Resign” is trending. Mattis Resigned, there’s zero function at Trump’s White House. The Magnitsky act is everything -- the sanctions are everything. More at ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791-9133 Podcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Email for Sci-Fi Trivia Questions: mrs.driftglass@gmail.com Driftglass' Blog | Blue Gal's Blog SOCIAL & MEDIA Twitt...
Dec 22, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 472
We didn’t know that Mick Mulvaney would be named Chief of Staff when we recorded this podcast Friday afternoon, but Driftglass’s description that any Trump COS will be “Newt Gingrich but not as smart” proved accurate no matter what. So many of Trump’s very best people are pleading guilty and going to jail. Driftglass eulogizes (not really) The Weekly Standard, and notes his “I told you so” moment. Steve King didn’t know Google doesn’t make iPhones. A Chicago alderman gets RE raided by the FBI. M...
Dec 15, 2018•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 471
Recorded BEFORE we had any news from Mueller, dang it. Citizens United allows wealthy mob bosses to run Republican governments. Driftglass offers the definition of “access journalism,” and is the internet maturing, or showing signs of exhaustion, by enforcing Community Standards against right wing nut jobs and racists? More at ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791...
Dec 08, 2018•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 470
The Cohen bombshell is something everyone should have seen coming since the Republican Convention of 2016. Climate Change is real but doesn’t have to be paralyzing. And kids are the future when they stand up to racism at school. More at ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791-9133 Podcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Email for Sci-Fi Trivia Questions: mrs.driftgl...
Dec 01, 2018•51 min•Ep. 469
Happy Thanksgiving weekend! We talk about helping smaller podcasters (and recommend that bigger podcasters than us do the same). Also, burn the lifeboats for never-Trumpers profiting from being wrong, and those who want a free pass from supporting Trump (it's happening). More at ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791-9133 Podcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Ema...
Nov 24, 2018•58 min•Ep. 468
We've got career advice for Nancy Pelosi? Sure! Also what we've learned from Ta-Nahisi Coates, why Blue Gal knits so much, and how Driftglass is "awarding" those who block him on Twitter. More at ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791-9133 Podcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Email for Sci-Fi Trivia Questions: mrs.driftglass@gmail.com Driftglass' Blog | Blue Gal...
Nov 16, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 467
Dedicated to our dear departed friend Vegas Jessie. We go over the victories and treasure what we learned campaigning even in those races we lost. Onward! More at ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791-9133 Podcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Email for Sci-Fi Trivia Questions: mrs.driftglass@gmail.com Driftglass' Blog | Blue Gal's Blog SOCIAL & MEDIA Twitte...
Nov 10, 2018•56 min•Ep. 466
Driftglass and Blue Gal share some of the reasons Both Sides Don't and encourage all their listeners to get out the vote! More at ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791-9133 Podcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Email for Sci-Fi Trivia Questions: mrs.driftglass@gmail.com Driftglass' Blog | Blue Gal's Blog SOCIAL & MEDIA Twitter: ProLeftPodcast | Driftglass (M...
Nov 02, 2018•50 min•Ep. 465
We remember that Newt Gingrich started throwing bombs long before actual bombs became a thing against Democrats and the media. And it turns out the MAGAbomber is Fox News's core demographic, so they've got that going for them. More at ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791-9133 Podcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Email for Sci-Fi Trivia Questions: mrs.driftglas...
Oct 26, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 464
For the next three weeks, the sound and fury of right wing distraction and nonsense will be rising all around you. Ignore it and focus on the fundamentals. Driftglass attended a congressional debate and tells us all about it, and then comes up with a GREAT idea for a campaign commercial. ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791-9133 Podcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmai...
Oct 19, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 463
Trump distracts with Kanye but we skip that insanity (literal) to talk about voter suppression, because it appears to be 1963 again in Georgia and Texas. DG goes after Michael Gerson and Glenn Beck. And we send our best wishes to the victims of Hurricane Michael. PS. Did you hear our Angel Nerd got arrested last weekend at an anti-Kavanaugh protest? She’s our heroine! More at ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professi...
Oct 12, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 462
On a day when it appears the Kavanaugh Nomination will pass, Youngest Child has learned that doing her school work improves her grades. Can we Democrats learn the same lesson? Get out the vote at all costs! More at ProLeftPod.com . REVIEW US ON iTUNES | BUY OFFICIAL PROLEFT MERCH CONTACT US, SUPPORT US, and READ OUR BLOGS The Professional Left Podcast PO Box 9133 Springfield IL 62791-9133 Podcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Email for Sci-Fi Trivia Questions: mrs.driftglass@gmail.com Driftgla...
Oct 05, 2018•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 461
