Ep 957: Happy New Year

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

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In their final episode of 2025, Driftglass and Blue Gal try to sum up the entire awful year in just a few key words or phrases. As they close out nearly 16 years of podcasting together, the hosts reflect on the core lies drilled into Americans' heads so long that people automatically reach for them whenever the truth becomes too uncomfortable to face. Stay in Touch! Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.comWebsite: proleftpod.comSupport via Patreon: patreon.com/proleftpodor Donate in the Ve...

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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,
0:06.6	pro-leftpod.com, where you can also contribute to this podcast. There's a PayPal button at our website,
0:13.0	or you can mail us a letter and or contribution at P.O. Box 913, Springfield, Illinois, 62791.
0:20.8	This is the final podcast for 2025.
0:24.4	It's not safe for work.
0:26.2	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance, where we are closing in on the 16th anniversary of this podcast, Blue Gal.
0:33.9	It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal.
0:43.6	Music GAL. It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue GAL. That's right, Dr. Class. We began this thing as a once-a-week chat about the state of politics and the media at the start of Barack Obama's second year as president of the United States. And now our
0:56.2	podcast has its learners permit. I understand that it asked you to buy beer at the gas station.
1:02.9	It's like it didn't even know me. You just snuck up and say, hey, Mr. could you give me a six
1:06.8	pack of beer? I said, first of all, I'm, I am the professional love podcast. How can this be
1:14.4	happening? Is this the twilight zone? Is this thing even on? I was very confused. But now our podcast is
1:19.1	all surly and it knows everything. And slams the door all the time. Right. Yeah. Right. And it doesn't
1:25.2	want me to ask what it's doing in the bathroom for so long.
1:29.3	Spends a lot of time in the bathroom.
1:31.8	A lot of time.
1:33.5	The acoustics, I guess, are better in the bathroom.
1:35.3	That's probably it.
1:36.8	Anyway, that was January of 2010 that we started this little show.
1:41.2	And because that year and that month played such a crucial part of the Republican Party's
1:48.3	overall obstruction and sabotage strategy to cripple the Obama administration, we might
1:55.3	actually do a whole no fair remembering stuff about it in the near future. For now, it's important to remember that
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