Ep 978: WMD

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

🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Driftglass and Blue Gal compare Bush's Iraq debacle with Trump's Iran war—the lying, the cover-ups, the profiteering, the attacks on critics—revealing Trump isn't a break from the Republican past but a continuation of it, just bigger, dumber, and louder. The episode also discusses how the New York (effin') Times deliberately cleans up Trump's incoherent rambling while adding "uhs" and "ums" to try to make AOC look stupid. All this plus Illinois primary results and the national media's despera...

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0:00.0	You can listen to the professional left wherever you get your podcasts on NetRut's radio or at our website, pro-leftpod.com, where you can also contribute to this podcast.
0:09.9	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.
0:19.2	This is the podcast for the week of March 20th, 2006. It's not safe for work.
0:25.4	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance, where the general election has begun. It's the
0:30.6	professional left with drift glass and blue gal. Thank you to Bob Suska for having you on this week.
0:42.1	Yes.
0:42.4	Everyone should go check that out.
0:44.0	It's always a delight.
0:45.1	Bob is great company and troubled times.
0:47.1	He really is.
0:47.8	And both of you were very sweet to say that you miss me being on the show.
0:51.6	We miss you terribly.
0:52.3	We do.
0:53.2	We miss you terribly.
0:53.9	And you miss me because. And one thing Bob said was that he missed me bringing optimism to the show. I know. It's not the mod squad without you. Peggy Lipton. Which one is Link? That's what I want to know. Solid. We're neither of us link. Neither of you are linked.
1:12.3	There's no way.
1:12.9	There's no way. There's no way.
1:13.2	There's not cool or it will be.
1:14.4	Really.
1:15.5	But the optimism that I have this week, I had a very optimistic moment and I'm going to keep it this short because we have a lot to discuss today.
1:23.9	But Cat, the woman who is running and she goes by Cat, she has a very long last name, but she goes by Cat, who was the, and they downplayed her as a social media influencer.
1:36.4	She really is an organizer.
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