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The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Ep 918: Welcome To Stupid Watergate Summer

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

4.8854 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We're mad as hell, and we're not going to take it anymore. After 15 years of ringing alarm bells about the Republican party's dangers to our democracy, we find ourselves in the midst of what we're calling "Stupid Watergate Summer" – and it's cooking now. This week, we break down the eerie parallels between Nixon's original Watergate scandal and Trump's current pedophile coverup crisis. From mysteriously missing minutes in crucial evidence (sound familiar?) to panicked firings of key Justice D...

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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, pro-leftpod.com, where you can also contribute to this podcast.

0:10.3

There's a PayPal button at our website, or you can mail us a letter and or contribution at Post Office Box 913, Springfield, Illinois, 62791.

0:20.2

This is the podcast for the week of July 18th, 2025.

0:24.3

It's not safe for work.

0:25.7

Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance,

0:28.3

where the dear leader has ordered us all to be very, very quiet

0:32.4

about the Donald Trump pedophile cover-up scandal.

0:35.6

But when have we ever done anything The Dear Leader has ordered us to do

0:38.9

It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gow

0:42.1

Instead of being quiet,

0:50.8

We're going to go right on

0:52.3

With what we've been doing on this podcast for over 15 years.

0:57.7

And what we've been doing on our blogs for over 20 years, we're going to go right on being as

1:04.1

mad as hell.

1:05.8

We know things are bad, worse than bad.

1:08.4

They're crazy.

1:09.4

It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house and slowly the world we're living and is getting smaller and all we say is please at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radios and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone. Well, I'm not going to leave you alone. I want you to get mad. I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to ride. I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first, you've got to get mad. You've got to say, I'm a human being.

1:28.6

God damn it!

1:29.7

My life has value!

1:31.5

I want you... that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, I'm a human being.

1:44.5

God damn it, my life has value.

1:47.4

I want you to get up now.

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