Ep 949: Some Assembly Required

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

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, we dive deep into the infrastructure project nobody wants to talk about: the construction of political lifeboats. What are we witnessing as Trump's administration unfolds? We're seeing the familiar pattern of those who enabled catastrophe beginning to build their escape routes—just as they did after the Bush administration collapsed, when the "Fake Tea Party" served as the greatest mass escape operation since D-Day—allowing pro-Bush Republicans to magically transform i...

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0:00.0	You can listen to the professional left wherever you get your podcasts on NetRutes Radio or at our website, proleftpod.com, where you can also contribute to this podcast.
0:10.5	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.
0:21.4	This is the podcast for the week of November 21st, 2025.
0:25.8	It's not safe for work.
0:27.8	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance, where, as you can hear, there's a lot of construction going on.
0:34.6	It's the professional left for Drift Blas of Blue Gale.
0:45.3	It's true on the political right in the political center and in the legacy media.
0:51.1	It is Infrastructure Week.
0:54.2	And what kind of infrastructure
0:55.8	are they all building?
0:58.5	Lifeboats. Yeah, baby.
1:00.5	Lots and lots of
1:02.0	lifeboats. Yeah.
1:03.8	We wish it weren't so.
1:05.9	We wish that among Republicans in office
1:08.0	and Republicans next door, there
1:09.9	still existed a shred of decency that
1:12.9	could be reached. The president of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress
1:19.7	to be executed. If you are a person of influence in this country, maybe it's time to pick a fucking side.
1:29.3	Thank you, Senator Murphy. Yes, thank you, Senator Murphy.
1:33.1	But that's probably not going to happen. Republicans have gone too far down the rat hole.
1:38.2	They've celebrated sadism in ETC too openly to reverse course now. Instead, as happened after the Bush administration,
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