Ep 914: When, In The Course of Human Events

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

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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We're visiting America in the ICU on her 249th birthday, hoping the old girl still has some fight left in her. A sad day as Trump's disastrous bill passes the House. We are still fighting. This week, we explore the dark matter of American politics - that invisible force that explains why so many voters can't see what's right in front of them. Spoiler alert: it's not really dark at all. We examine the original No Kings manifesto and ask some pointed questions about which "dark mat...

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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,
0:06.7	pro-leftpod.com, where you can also contribute to this podcast. There's a PayPal button on our website,
0:12.5	where you can mail us a letter and or contribution at P.O. Box 9133, Springfield, Illinois, 62791.
0:20.1	This is the podcast for the week of July 4th, 2025.
0:24.4	It's not safe for work.
0:25.9	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance,
0:28.1	where we're visiting the United States in the ICU on her birthday
0:31.7	to wish the old girl a happy 249th
0:34.7	and hoping she's still got some fight left in her.
0:37.0	It's the professional left
0:38.0	with Drift Class and Blue Gal. Hey, Blue Gal. Hey, everybody. Fists in the air. We are not done
0:49.7	fighting. Nope. Nope. Not by a damn sight. Yep. In honor of America's birthday and the ongoing No King's movement, today we're going to ask all of you listeners to focus up and listen to the first part of the OG No King's Manifesto as read by John Fitzgerald Kennedy. When in the course of human O.G. No King's Manifesto, as read by John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
1:13.0	When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the
1:20.0	political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the
1:25.4	earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them,
1:33.8	a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
1:43.1	We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed
1:50.1	by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and
1:57.3	the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among
2:02.7	men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of
2:10.3	government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to
2:17.0	abolish it and to institute new government,
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