Ep 907 We Are Not Distracted

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

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

We dive into the chaos on the right as their messaging machine encounters serious technical difficulties. While they're busy thrashing between conflicting loyalties and scrambling for the next official lie, we explore how power always finds someone else to blame and why Rebecca Solnit's brilliant "she made him do it" theory seems to explain everything in politics these days. Plus, we celebrate a spicy email from our friends at Penzey's and remind everyone that paper straws and pronouns are NO...

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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. There's a PayPal button at our website, or you can mail us a letter and or contribution at P.O. Box 913, Springfield, Illinois, 62791.
0:19.2	This is the podcast for June 10th, 2025.
0:22.6	It's not safe for work.
0:24.2	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance, where we were just offered this very exciting
0:28.6	advertising opportunity from an outfit called The Freedom to Learn podcast.
0:36.2	Yeah, here are some of the things that they're in favor of.
0:39.6	They are championing school choice, defending parental rights, and exposing the harm
0:47.0	caused by unions, blue gal.
0:48.9	So just totally our wheelhouse.
0:51.2	Absolutely 100% right where we live.
0:53.8	However, we turn them down because
0:55.9	this is, in fact, the professional left with drift glass and blue gal.
1:05.1	Yeah, I don't know who they think they're dealing with. I don't either. I have no idea. But, yeah.
1:14.2	Teachers unions forever.
1:16.3	Yeah. Do you know what my mom did for a living?
1:19.0	My dad and my sister and her husband and they got divorced and married teachers and principals?
1:26.6	I mean, you know, the boy.
1:28.4	And what did your dad do for a living, blue gal?
1:31.6	He was a college professor and a member of AFSCME.
1:35.2	Yeah.
1:36.5	Yeah.
1:36.8	Work for the Pennsylvania State College System.
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