Ep 954: 2025 In Review, Part 1

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal

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

4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Driftglass and Blue Gal reflect on what they call an "annus horribilis"—a genuinely awful year that fundamentally changed America as Trump's second term brought unprecedented corruption, chaos, and the erosion of democratic institutions. From Qatar's $400 million Boeing 747 bribe to Trump's crypto schemes and the $300 million White House ballroom boondoggle, they catalog the scandals that made 2025 feel like the longest decade of their lives. More at proleftpod.com. Stay in Touch...

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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,
0:11.9	or you can mail us a letter and or contribution at P.O. Box 9133, Springfield, Illinois, 62791.
0:19.9	This is the podcast for December 16, 2025.
0:23.8	It's not safe for work.
0:25.7	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance,
0:28.1	where we and you and everyone we know are coming to the end of a genuinely awful year.
0:33.9	It's the professional left with Drift Class and Blue Gal.
0:36.5	Music It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal.
0:44.5	Yeah, this is a really bad year.
0:47.9	This is a bad, grueling, exhausting year.
0:53.6	The kind of year the late-great Queen Elizabeth referred to as an anus horribilis. 1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure.
1:01.9	In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondence, it has turned out to be an anis horribilis.
1:11.2	But 2025 wasn't just awful.
1:13.8	It was different, categorically different.
1:17.1	Something fundamental about this country has changed, and whatever comes next,
1:22.2	things will not be like they were before.
1:25.5	America has once again lost its innocence. It happened after the Civil War.
1:29.4	It happened after both World Wars. It happened during the Civil Rights Movement and Watergate,
1:35.2	the Vietnam War. It happens when a great myth about the American character or destiny runs headlong
1:43.4	into some very ugly truths that we would rather have stayed in the closet.
1:49.1	And the myth is shattered, leaving us groping to understand who the hell we really are as a country.
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