Ep 983 "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb"

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

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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In this episode of The Professional Left, Driftglass and Blue Gal dig into the decades-long project that brought American politics to its current breaking point — and what it really means that we've arrived here. A viral social media feud involving a Twitch streamer leads to a sharp look at who gets handed a megaphone in today's political landscape, and why the wrong people keep holding them. The episode closes with a story about a specific third party and the oldest trick in the book. Stay i...

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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.
0:10.2	There's a PayPal button at our website where you can mail us a letter and or a contribution at P.O. Box 913, Springfield, Illinois, 62791.
0:19.7	This is the podcast for April 7, 2006.
0:23.5	It's not safe for work.
0:25.3	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance,
0:27.8	where we joined the original 1972 Republican Building the Base Strategy Session already in progress.
0:34.2	What do you want me to do, sir?
0:35.8	I want you to round up every vicious criminal and gunslinger in the West.
0:39.3	Take this down.
0:41.3	I want rustlers, cutthroats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperadoes, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits,
0:49.3	halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits,
0:56.1	muggers,
0:56.9	buggers,
0:57.6	bushwhackers,
0:58.7	horn swagglers,
0:59.6	horse thieves,
1:00.4	bulldikes,
1:01.2	train robbers,
1:01.9	bank robbers,
1:02.7	ass kickers,
1:03.4	shickickers,
1:04.2	and messengers.
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