Ep 901: They're All Jeff Gannon Now (And Love to St. Louis)

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

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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This week on The Professional Left: Weather woes! Driftglass and Blue Gal welcome some special guests - tornado refugees (the two younger kids!) - as severe weather interrupts podcast preparations.A "No Fair Remembering Stuff" segment takes us back to 2008's bizarre tire pressure inflation controversy - and why it matters as a "telling detail" in the trajectory of Republican politics.Science Fiction University returns with a look at a particular time travel novel and its eerie parallels to cu...

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0:18.1	62791. This is the podcast for May 20th, 2025.
0:23.1	It's not safe for work.
0:24.8	Recorded live from the Court of Resistance, where even Bosco the Cat knows what habeas corpus means,
0:29.4	but Donald Trump's Homeland Security dress up Barbie Christy, Nome, does not.
0:33.6	So, Secretary, Gnome, what is habeas corpus?
0:36.8	Well, habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country.
0:43.5	It's the professional left for trip class and blue gal.
0:53.6	Today, we're taking a quick dive into, first of all, what a fucking idiot Christy
0:59.6	Gnome is.
1:00.5	Yeah, that's a deep dive, but yeah.
1:02.2	Yeah.
1:04.8	I don't know how anyone, you know, if that was a Democrat, I'm tired of playing that game.
1:11.9	Authoritarians are above the law, so she can make it.
1:14.1	They are, and above common sense and above common decency.
1:19.0	And she's in a cult.
1:20.5	She's a big cult person for Donald Trump.
1:23.9	The only person has constitutional rights is Donald Trump.
1:30.5	But look, today we're going to take a quick dive into a proper no fair remembering stuff that is both from not
1:35.6	very long ago because it was only 2008. But paradoxically, it's also from a very long time ago
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