Ep 904: President Soft Taco

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

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This week, we take you back to the "Before Time" - specifically 2011 - to trace the toxic road that led us to where we are today. We revisit the birther movement, explore how "Conservatism cannot fail; conservatism can only be failed" evolved into "Trump cannot fail; Trump can only be failed," and examine what happens when an entire political movement becomes nothing more than loyalty to one man. We discuss the courts blocking Trump's tariffs (and then unblocking them), judges using 26 exclam...

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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,
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0:16.9	Springfield, Illinois, 62791.
0:19.5	This is the podcast for the week of May 30th, 2025.
0:23.2	It's not safe for work.
0:25.1	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance,
0:27.5	where the bulwark kids were in Chicago this week,
0:31.0	up in my old stomping grounds,
0:33.0	and they didn't even invite me.
0:35.2	It's the professional left with drip glass and blue gal.
0:45.4	So unfair. I know. I can kind of understand why, because when they started in with their, you know, since 2016, we were right all along and nobody listened and they called us all crackpots.
0:56.4	And that song and dance, I'd be the buzz killing asshole who would stand up and yell, yeah, what about before 2016 asshole?
1:03.8	What about all of us who have been right all along for decades, who you all didn't listen to, who you all called crackpots?
1:10.3	And frankly, nobody wants to see that.
1:12.6	Don't tase him, bros. Yeah. Adam Kinziger would have been up my ass with a taser immediately.
1:18.1	Bringing him down. So. So today we're going to do a little more no fair remembering stuff. And this is where we're going today.
1:26.1	Once again, we boldly venture into that place where others fear to tread.
1:31.6	It's back to the before time to explain how we got to where we are.
1:38.3	This time, the year is 2011.
1:42.2	It was a magical time.
1:48.3	Some of you might remember that between 2006 and 2011, the Atlantic used to run
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