Ep 913: Not On A Beach Vacation

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

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Hat tip to John Fetter-Manchin (copyright Driftglass), we're grudgingly back from our beach vacation (okay, we never actually left the Cornfield Resistance) to bring you the political chaos that just won't quit. This week, we dive into the summer breakup season hitting Washington hard. From senators throwing tantrums and storming out over Trump's latest budget disaster... to billionaire Twitter feuds that read like celebrity gossip... to Trump supporters getting a harsh reality check about wh...

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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 9133, Springfield, Illinois, 62791. This is the podcast for July 1st, 2025.
0:23.0	It's not safe for work.
0:24.5	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance,
0:26.9	where we really, really resent being here
0:29.0	because it's really, really interfering with our beach vacation.
0:33.1	It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal.
0:43.5	Music the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal. Damn these people, Blue Gal, for making us stay here.
0:46.6	A beach vacation from Springfield, Illinois.
0:49.5	I don't know.
0:50.4	We could be enjoying a picnic lunch and dodging traffic along the tiny gravel shoulder on the I-55 bridge, which crosses over Lake Springfield.
0:59.3	It's very romantic. It's a very romantic site.
1:02.8	Lake Springfield, which last time I was there was a little bit stinky.
1:06.9	Yeah. Well, there's a private club that we can probably get, you know, through the security
1:11.4	at for 10 minutes. And or we can hang out the, you're getting arrested. Or we're going to hang out
1:17.2	with a power station that used the lake for cooling. That'd be fun. Yeah. Oh, God. Yeah. But, you know,
1:22.6	like John Fetter Mansion, which you came up with that. Trademark.
1:28.2	Trademark.
1:29.8	We're here.
1:34.4	And grudgingly, though, there is no drama here, Drift Glass at all. There's no drama at all.
1:35.0	We're all right.
1:36.5	We're still very happily married.
1:38.3	And tomorrow, middle child of the Minecraft is awesome fame.
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