Ep 955: 2025 In Review, Part 2

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 December 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Driftglass and Blue Gal continue their review of 2025, covering May through August in this second part of their series. The hosts show how the Republican Party's corruption and chaos isn't something new or unexpected—it's exactly what the party has been building toward for decades through right-wing talk radio and Fox News. They walk through major events from those months, including media companies giving in to Trump's demands, the White House deleting official transcripts, federal agen...

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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, proleftpod.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 913, Springfield, Illinois, 62791.
0:20.0	This is the podcast for the week of December 19th, 2025.
0:24.1	It's not safe for work.
0:26.1	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance,
0:28.7	where we made it all the way through April in part one of this thing.
0:32.5	It's the professional left with drip glass and blue gal.
0:41.7	Music left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal. So, Blue Gal, any bets on how much further into 2025 will make it before we have to stop and take a silkwood shower?
0:49.3	Well, Drift Glass, given that today we found out today, photographs of David Brooks are in the Epstein files.
0:57.2	I think I need a Silkwood shower now.
0:59.9	Really?
1:01.1	That's what happened today?
1:02.2	Because I haven't gotten any, I haven't gotten more than...
1:04.1	No one's emailed you, have they?
1:05.5	Or texted you or sent you stuff on Blue Sky or anything.
1:09.5	Just a few hundred here and there, you know.
1:13.1	Right about it.
1:13.8	Rubbing up against rich and famous people is David Brooks' thing.
1:18.0	It's his entire thing.
1:19.5	Glorifying them, raising them up and talking about their moral superiority.
1:24.6	Yeah.
1:25.0	Is what David Brooks' entire career has been about.
1:28.0	Yep.
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