Ep 892: She Told Us So

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

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, we examine the disturbing realities of Trump's America in 2025, where Supreme Court rulings are ignored, critics face politically motivated investigations, and erratic tariff policies create economic chaos. We connect these developments to warnings we shared a year ago about the rise of fascism, reminding listeners that what's happening now was entirely predictable. (Kamala Harris said she wasn't gonna say "I told you so" as she DID.). As we document the administration...

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0:00.0	You can listen to the professional left wherever you get your podcasts on Netroots Radio or at our website, proleftpod.com, where you can also contribute to this podcast.
0:10.9	There's a PayPal button at that very website, or you can mail as a letter and or contribution at PO Box 9133, right here in Springfield, Illinois, 62791. This is the podcast for April 15th,
0:24.6	2025. It's not safe for work. This is recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance,
0:30.9	and it's the professional laugh with Drift Glass and Blue Gal, and we're going to jump right into
0:34.4	today's news because that's what we're going to do today,
0:39.7	because it's a little bit of a more serious episode.
0:42.2	This is from the Illinois Times.
0:44.6	This is what's happening right now all around us.
0:49.5	Quote, waves of Illinois international university students lose their visas.
0:54.5	Illinois hosts one of the largest international student populations in the nation, ranking fifth.
0:59.7	The federal government has revoked the visas of some international students studying at universities across Illinois,
1:04.7	but college administrators are sharing few details, including how many students have been impacted.
1:11.7	A spokesman for the University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign, this week, confirmed that some of its students are affected, but did not disclose the number.
1:13.3	U of I ranks sixth nationally in the size of its international student body at over 15,000
1:18.6	students, unquote.
1:20.6	And a lot of them are doing really important research.
1:23.6	Yeah.
1:24.3	Yeah.
1:24.6	These are all people who want to be here who are good students and who are who we are terrorizing for no goddamn good reason other than our neighbors are racist who elected a lunatic.
1:33.6	Yep. This is from the New Republic. Quote, even though Scotas has ordered Abrago Garcia's return to the U.S., the Trump administration is hiding behind semantics and technicalities, while El Salvador's president-slash
1:46.5	dictator flippantly refuses to return him, unquote. And now that it's clear that this was all a stupid
1:53.6	tragic mistake, and probably just the tip of the iceberg of people the Trump brown shirts have
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