Ep 948: Here Come The Lifeboats!

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal

Politics, Midterms, News, News Commentary, Election, Presidential, Indivisible, Government, Progressive, Debate, Liberal, Campaign, Democrat, Resistance

4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

GOP rats are slowly but surely abandoning the sinking Trump ship, and we have to ask: Will "Republican Lifeboats" once again successfully allow the MAGA/Tea Party faithful to escape accountability? We analyze Marjorie Taylor Greene's masterful deployment of the "Magic Words" to blame "both sides of the aisle," framing her slow-motion exit from the Trump pandemonium bandwagon as an act of high principle. She's the first and possibly best lifeboat builder of the post-Trump era, claiming victimh...

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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,
0:06.3	pro-leftpod.com, where you can also contribute to this podcast. There's a PayPal button at our website,
0:12.1	or you can mail us a letter and or contribution at Post Office Box 913, Springfield, Illinois, 62791.
0:20.0	This is the podcast for November 18, 2025.
0:23.8	It's not safe for work.
0:25.5	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance,
0:27.7	where even Blue Gals' optometrist
0:29.6	is now complaining about Citizens United
0:31.8	and hoping for Medicare for All.
0:33.7	It's their professional love with Drift Glass and Blue GAL.
0:42.7	Music It's their professional life with Drift Glass and Blue Gal. It cannot be true, Blue Gal.
0:44.4	Can that possibly be true?
0:45.8	It is true because right now,
0:48.2	health care in southern Illinois,
0:50.2	like around the country,
0:51.2	is a total, total nightmare.
0:54.1	And I had to inform my optometrists that no one at all at Springfield Clinic takes ACA insurance.
1:04.2	Springfield Clinic being the main health care provider in the city of Springfield.
1:09.8	Which is where we're currently lodged.
1:13.0	We, with all our doctors.
1:15.6	And they are out of network for the two insurers.
1:20.9	There's only two that are participating in the new Illinois exchange.
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