Ep 981: Build Back Better

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

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Episode 981 traces the Republican descent from the 1990 New York Times editorial warning about Gingrich's "slash and burn" politics through Limbaugh, Fox News, and Trump—a 36-year disaster that Liberal bloggers warned about while being dismissed as cranks. Driftglass and Blue Gal use a science-fiction classic AND a rebuilding story from the not-too-distant past to argue that democracy can be rebuilt and improved, with new/old systems to prevent the next Trump. This episode marks 21 year...

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0:25.1	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance, where gravity is not optional,
0:28.8	and it's not God's punishment for being naughty.
0:31.4	It's the professional left with drip glass and blue gal.
0:40.2	Where, oh, where, Blue Gow, did it all go wrong?
0:43.0	Where did it all go wrong?
0:44.1	And I'd like you to put a little Bible bitch stank on it if you would be so kind.
0:49.1	All right, Dirk Glass, but first of all, I've got something I've got to say.
0:52.2	Uh-oh.
0:53.0	April Fool's Day is canceled.
0:56.2	Because of Christy Nome's balloon-boobed husband.
1:00.4	Look it up.
1:01.7	Yeah.
1:01.9	It's all over social media.
1:04.0	Anyway, that's all I, that's all we're going to say about that today.
1:07.7	Let's just say, friend of the pod, Bob Sesska, is having a ball with this today.
1:12.7	Yeah. And it is not atypical of evangelical relationships. No, it is not. People go and do other things and have
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