The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

NOTE: Professional Left Podcast is off until November 5. Instead, Driftglass will be on Hal Sparks AND The Brad Cast this week on Wednesday October 28, and both Driftglass and Blue Gal will join Hal Sparks on Election Night, November 3. See you then! Episode 1034 traces how polling has systematically underestimated Republican support in every election since 2012, and digs into why Karl Rove’s on-air meltdown that year became the spark for a Republican base that already...

Trigger Warning: This episode quotes Dick Durbin's Senate floor speech from 2005, outlining details of the torture of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Episode 1033 explores how language changes meaning with context, from Shakespeare inventing hundreds of words to a 77-year-old museum curator using Gen Z slang, before landing on Jon Ossoff calling out Mike Collins and getting almost no pushback from Republicans this time. Driftglass and Blue Gal compare that silence to 2005, when Dick Durbin...

Episode 1032 traces Trump’s catastrophic second term, from broken retribution promises to an unwinnable war to a lawsuit he’s too busy campaigning to show up for, proving every MAGA fantasy has collapsed into humiliation. Driftglass and Blue Gal then expose the oldest Republican survival trick in the book: rebranding as “independent” the moment your party becomes radioactive, using a Kurt Vonnegut word from 17 years ago to describe candidates from Wisconsin to Arizona all reciting the same “B...

Episode 1031 coins “the Tribe That Rubs Shit In Their Hair” to explain why Republican candidates thrive inside their media cave but collapse the moment they face real questions, from Andy Harris illegally threatening a journalist for recording him to Ken Paxton dodging every debate invitation. Driftglass and Blue Gal praise the “Ossoff-El-Sayed School of Excellent Elocution,” showing how Democratic candidates win by going straight at opponents with facts and refusing to let them change the su...

Episode 1030 catches Marjorie Taylor Greene mid-rehabilitation tour, exposing how her media-friendly break with Trump is laying the groundwork for a “Trump Off Machine” that lets unrepentant election deniers stay angry at Trump while still believing their original lies. Driftglass and Blue Gal then dig deep into what Build Back Better actually promised versus what survived Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema’s gutting, tracing the bill from its original $2,100-page scope down to the much smaller I...