Ep 951: The 'Sacred' And The Profane

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

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The dangerous convergence of Trumpian immunity and media complicity creates for Trump an imaginary “kingdom” once reserved for anointed kings. Our Constitutional form of “government of the people” has been corrupted by both MAGA's belief that Trump operates with divine authority above the law and a mainstream media that protects its own incompetent insiders at all costs. As a side quest, what does Mark Halperin's endless media rehabilitation tour have in common with Trump's pardon...

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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. 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 the week of December 5th, 2025.
0:22.9	It's not safe for work.
0:24.7	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance, where we cannot believe we stayed up Tuesday night
0:29.3	to watch the returns from a Trump plus 22 congressional district.
0:33.5	It's the professional left with drift glass and blue gal.
0:43.8	Music It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal. And really, single digits in a Trump plus 22 district.
0:49.3	Yeah.
0:50.1	That's going to hurt.
0:51.4	That's going to hurt them more than it hurt us.
0:54.0	That was the people
0:55.4	giving Trump a single digit, if you know what I mean. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. And they spent a ton of
1:01.5	money there, invested a lot, and they're going to have to do that everywhere now because there are
1:06.3	many, many districts that are less red than that district. Yes, indeed.
1:11.2	There certainly are.
1:12.7	Yep.
1:13.5	I want to start today by wishing everyone a happy Zappa Dan.
1:19.0	Frank Zappa died on December 4th, the night now known as Bummer Noct, and was born earlier,
1:34.9	they tell me, on December 21st, day zero of Zapadam back in 2006.
1:39.9	So this is the 11th anniversary of Zapadan, right?
1:40.4	No fair remember.
1:42.6	No fair remember your stuff, little gal.
1:43.9	That's the, that's the before time.
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