Ep 995: The Politics of Pronouns

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

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Episode 995 of The Professional Left takes a deep dive into one of the most revealing tricks in modern political history — the quiet, deliberate shift from "we" to "they" that happens every time a prominent Republican needs to pretend they had nothing to do with the monster they spent decades building. Driftglass and Blue Gal trace this sleight of hand from the early days of Trump's rise all the way to a recent live Bulwark event, showing how the same lie gets polished and repackaged every fe...

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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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0:19.1	This is the podcast for the week of May 29th, 2006.
0:23.4	It's not safe for work.
0:25.4	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance, where we're still in countdown mode.
0:33.4	Because this is the 995th episode of the Professional Love Podcast with Drift Glass and Blue Gal.
0:44.0	And so it's not the final countdown because it's 995.
0:49.0	It's nearly the final countdown.
0:51.2	Almost.
0:51.9	Yeah.
0:52.6	And we hope everybody had a safe and peaceful Memorial Day
0:56.0	and that you guys didn't take it personally that we took a day off on Tuesday. Yeah. We did
1:01.4	celebrate the graduation of youngest child. We did. It was a glorious thing. Glorious, glorious.
1:08.1	The reverberations are still being felt around the globe.
1:14.9	Quite a milestone for us, though, I will say.
1:15.4	Yeah. Yeah.
1:15.7	And we had family in.
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1:20.0	Wonderful time.
1:20.8	Good to see everybody.
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