Ep 893: The Monster In The Mirror

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

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're examining the disturbing parallels between past and present as we approach the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. We'll explore how the extremist rhetoric that drove Timothy McVeigh has found new life in today's political landscape. We dive into the Republican propaganda machine's decades-long strategy of relentlessly blaming liberals for everything—from Newt Gingrich's exploitation of tragedies to the current rewriting of January 6th as patriotic heroism. We'll s...

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0:00.0	You can listen to the professional left wherever you get your podcasts on NetRut's radio or at our website,
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0:17.9	Springfield, Illinois, 62791.
0:20.9	This is the podcast for the week of April 18th, 2025.
0:25.2	It's not safe for work.
0:27.0	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance,
0:29.5	where spring cleaning means sweeping away
0:31.8	another week of Republican revisionist history.
0:34.7	It's the Professional Left with Drift Class and Blue Gal.
0:37.3	Music revisionist history. It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal.
0:45.0	Hello, Blue Gal.
0:50.2	You know, based on how things are going, you all should know that one of our older fake sponsors has returned to the fold. And we'll be raking in all that fake money from that fake sponsor, hand over fake fist.
0:58.1	So you might remember this from years gone by.
1:00.8	They're called Heritage Hole.
1:02.6	Yes, Heritage Hole, your personal memory revision system.
1:06.0	This is not Legacy Box.
1:07.6	Do not Sue Us Legacy Box.
1:09.0	We're not Legacy Box.
1:10.8	This Legacy Box guarantees to preserve your most precious memories intact forever, and they pay big-time podcasters actual money to say those things into a microphone. Instead, Heritage Hole promises to keep you your misremembered memories. Your ideologically inconvenient fast that you've
1:28.8	misremembered and burnish your brand new status as an independent safe forever.
1:35.0	I'm an independent. Exactly. And you'll see why they have returned to us in a few minutes.
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