Ep 534 Overcoming Primary Season Despair

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal

News Commentary, Progressive, Liberal, Midterms, Resistance, Indivisible, Government, Democrat, Presidential, Debate, News, Election, Campaign, Politics

4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Trump takes away a talking point from Illinois Republicans? They thought he was their friend! And we spend the rest of the podcast talking about how many people (even the two of us, sometimes!) fantasize about moving to Costa Rica if Trump is re-elected. More at proleftpod.com Support the show

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0:00.0	You can listen to the professional left wherever you get your podcast on Netroots Radio or at our website,
0:05.4	pro-leftpod.com, where you can also contribute to this podcast. There's a PayPal button at our website,
0:10.6	or you can mail us a letter and or contribution at P.O. Box 913, Springfield, Illinois, 62791.
0:17.7	This is the podcast for February 21st, 2020. It's not safe for work. Recorded live from the
0:25.0	Cornfield Resistance, where federal prisoner number 40892-424 is on the loose again. It's the
0:32.3	professional left with drift glass and Blue Gal.
0:46.7	Hey, Dr. Glass.
0:47.6	He's out, Blue Gal.
0:48.7	He's out.
0:51.7	Governor Blago is out of jail.
0:53.1	He's standing right behind us.
0:55.3	The calls are now coming from inside the state,
1:00.9	which is deeply, deeply depressing, but predictable, you know. Well, I don't know how predictable it was. I think a lot of people, particularly Republicans in Illinois, were somewhat surprised and certainly
1:09.1	put off by, we might as well just dive right into this.
1:12.3	This won't take over all of our podcast. I realize people outside Illinois aren't as appalled
1:17.3	by the blogo pardoning as they are appalled by everything else that happened this week.
1:23.6	So, but in Illinois, Republicans are appalled that Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Blagojevich, Rod Blagojevich, former governor of Illinois.
1:33.7	Which is why they will never ever vote for Donald Trump again.
1:36.3	They will never vote for Donald Trump ever enough.
1:38.3	No, they definitely will.
1:39.4	That's not it.
1:40.2	But they did do a sternly worded letter to Donald Trump.
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