Ep 956: 2025 In Review, Part 3 (of 3)

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

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Driftglass and Blue Gal bring their epic year-in-review series to a close, covering September through December and finally boxing up 2025 to send it to hell. The hosts examine the final months of a year that saw legacy media trapped in their own 'Both Sides Do It' prison, DOGE's promises evaporate into nothing, and the Epstein files get a (incompetent, but still) cover up. But there's also hope in this finale—a massive Blue Wave in November's elections, governors standing up to federal ...

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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.
0:20.4	This is the podcast for December 23, 2025.
0:24.2	It's not safe for work.
0:26.1	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance,
0:28.6	where there's still a week to go until we box this year up and send it to hell.
0:33.0	It's the professional life with drip glass and blue gal.
0:41.8	Thank you. that professional left with drip glass and blue gal. When we finally, and in the spirit of the holiday,
0:45.3	grabbed 2025 by the collar and belt and...
0:48.5	That does it.
0:49.9	Out you two pixies go through the door or out the wind.
0:53.7	But before we pick up where we left off and jump into September 2025, we promised you last
1:00.2	episode to find out what in the heck is happening with the deficit, which, according to the
1:05.8	estimates Elon Musk was throwing around about how much the doge cuts would come to, the deficit should be just
1:12.4	about gone by now, right, Drift Glass?
1:14.4	Down to a couple of bucks, maybe.
1:15.9	A couple bucks.
1:17.0	Yeah.
1:17.5	As of June 10th, Doge was definitely going to cut the budget by $2 trillion.
1:22.8	Okay, maybe not $2 trillion, but definitely $1.6 trillion.
1:28.6	From Donald Trump's social media post June 5th, 2025, quote,
1:33.0	this is one of the greatest bills ever presented to Congress.
1:37.5	It's a record cut in expenses, $1.6 trillion, and the biggest tax cut ever given, unquote. Wow. Russell Vaught, director of the
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