Ep 972: 'Little Note Nor Long Remember'

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

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Trump's State of the Union was a two-hour Willie Horton ad designed to keep his shrinking base loyal through blood-soaked imagery borrowed from imperial Rome. Proleftpod traces how Michele Bachmann's 2011 Tea Party response prefigured today's MAGA lies by pretending the Great Recession never happened, just as Trump pretends away ICE murders, the Epstein files, and economic chaos. It's about memory, manipulation, and why the anomalies we remember from the past tell us exactly where we're heade...

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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.
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0:20.0	This is the podcast for the week of February 27th, 2006.
0:24.7	It's not safe for work.
0:26.7	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance,
0:29.2	where we've been reporting on the state of our union every week for 16 years.
0:34.7	It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal.
0:37.2	Music years. It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal.
0:48.3	And a big shout out today to youngest child who is celebrating their birthday today.
0:51.1	Happy birthday. Love you, kiddo.
0:56.1	To youngest child who's no longer a kiddo, actually, but we'll always be a kiddo.
0:57.5	Always be a kiddo. Always be a kiddo.
0:58.8	Love you to pieces.
1:00.1	We know you don't listen to this, so I can say anything I want.
1:02.8	You can get all much.
1:05.9	Youngest child is 22 today.
1:09.3	Yes, 22.
1:10.4	Lucky 22. And I had a conversation with a couple people today about whether they would. Yes, 22. Lucky 22.
1:10.9	And I had a conversation with a couple people today about whether they would want to be 22 again.
1:15.7	Love to hear from you guys in comments wherever you are.
1:19.0	Or what do you think of birthdays that are the multiple of two prime numbers, really?
1:23.2	I mean, is that a good thing?
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