Ep 801: No Fair Remembering Trump's Covid Eff-Ups

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal

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

4.8 • 854 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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No, really, Trump was the so-called president for the entire year 2020, and he never took any responsibility for managing the US Government's response to the pandemic. And normal people blot out the memories of this because of a little thing called TRAUMA. We must remind ourselves and others that we will NEVER AGAIN elect that incompetent egomaniac. Link for this episode: "There’s a name for Trump playing down the threat and failing to take action against the virus: Institut...

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0:00.0	You are listening to another no fair remembering stuff, the Tuesday edition of the Professional
0:05.2	Left Podcast, and available wherever you get your podcasts, and at our website, pro-leftpod.com,
0:12.3	where you can also contribute to this podcast. There is a Patreon button at that website,
0:17.2	or you can mail us a letter and or contribution at the Professional Left Podcast, P.O. Box 911,
0:24.0	Springfield, Illinois, 62791.
0:27.0	And it's not safe for work. As regular listeners know, usually on the no fair remembering Stuff podcast, we work very hard to try to bring
0:55.7	to life important people and events which have been forgotten due to, you know, the passage
1:00.4	of time or their relative obscurity or more often, they've been memory-hold as very inconvenient
1:06.3	or dangerous by the American political media or the Republican Party. We've talked about topics
1:12.5	ranging from George Wallace's 1968 third party presidential bid to Wilbur Mills and Fannie Fox,
1:19.0	which is a fascinating and weird story that you probably enjoyed if you heard it. And we talked
1:23.9	about the end of the world. But today we're going to do something a little unusual that may be triggering for some of you.
1:30.8	So if you choose to skip it, we sure understand.
1:33.1	And we'll catch up with you the next time.
1:35.2	Yeah, it was a little bit triggering for us.
1:36.8	I got to say.
1:37.7	It was.
1:38.1	I had a really hard time getting through this, researching it and writing it and just without
1:42.3	wanting to, you know, curl up and up and cry or stab somebody.
1:47.2	Yeah.
1:47.4	Yeah, because we're going to talk about COVID and Donald Trump's failure at COVID.
1:52.6	And the working title of this episode is 2020 Vision because we're going to spend this episode remembering what was going on just four years ago.
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