• Ep 841: Our Performance Review and Trump's Ethnic Cleansing
    Sep 27 2024

    A Block: Driftglass and Bluegal read each other a list of standard performance review questions. Are we staff or management?

    B Block (40:30): Donald Trump and his party are flat-out in favor of ethnic cleansing in the United States.

    C Block (50:15): Kamala Harris's substantive interview on economics; reactions to it broke precisely as expected.

    News Round Up (57:30).

    Link for this episode: Drew Magery at SF Gate, 'The New York Times is Washed'
    https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/new-york-times-washed-19780600.php

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Ep 840: 'An Industry That Exists To Attack The New York Times'
    Sep 25 2024

    Sorry, Maggie Haberman, we're just two married podcasters who live in a little house near a cornfield and who think the Beltway media is waaay too busy patting each other's backs. We're not an industry, we're pro-journalistic ethics (hello Olivia Nuzzi), political integrity (good bye Mark Robinson), and funding school lunches (Ahem).

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Ep 839: The Bill Show Collab!
    Sep 19 2024

    This week, Blue Gal is traveling, so we're bringing you a special rebroadcast of our recent appearance on "The Bill Show," which originally aired on September 9, 2024. Bill is an American ex-pat living in Australia, and his podcast is liberal and political with a heavy dose of ribald humor. Sounds like a good match for us? It is!

    Hear more Bill Show episodes at https://expatprogressive.podbean.com/.

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Ep 838: Episode Two Redux!
    Sep 17 2024

    No Fair Remembering 2010? Our SECOND episode from over 14 years ago. Before we were married! Driftglass was in Chicago, and Blue Gal was in Springfield, recording over Skype.

    This episode was recorded at a pivotal moment in recent American political history. The Supreme Court had just handed down its landmark Citizens United decision, fundamentally altering and corrupting the landscape of campaign finance. Meanwhile, the country was mere weeks away from the signing of the Affordable Care Act, a piece of legislation that would reshape the healthcare system and lead to Republicans losing their damn minds for years to come.

    Listening to our discussion from 14 years ago, you may be struck by the urgency and uncertainty of that moment.

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    43 mins
  • Ep 837: Good Ol' Fashioned Beat Down
    Sep 13 2024

    Our two cents about the Presidential Vs. Donald Trump Debate.

    And we have some opinions, too, about Morning Joe guests attempting to "reunite the country."

    More at proleftpod.com.

    Link for this episode, check out our Episode 713: No Fair Remembering Vice Presidents. "The belief that somehow Kamala Harris isn't "doing something" as Veep runs counter to nearly every other Vice President in the history of the United States." https://www.buzzsprout.com/229/12764766

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Ep 836 Exiled Republican Aristocracy Endorse Harris
    Sep 11 2024

    Thanks Liz and Dick Cheney now GET LOST. You get NOTHING for doing the right thing. And you especially don't get more political power because you're pretending to be "centrist." Have a nice day!

    Also David Brooks pretends Trump was a "hostile takeover of outsiders" of the lovely kind Republican Party he knew and loved back when Dick Cheney was Vice President. We remember differently, David.

    And guess who wrote for the NYFT that tariffs might be what Trump lies say they are. AHEM.

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    40 mins
  • Ep 835: Russia Russia Russia!
    Sep 6 2024

    Oh wait, the Russia thing was real? And DOJ just indicted a whole mess of September Surprise?

    We muse on the idea of "earning" $100,000 an episode. Did you think you were worth it, Tim Pool?

    And Mike Barnicle asks, "What happened to the Republican Party?" Hey Mike! WE KNOW!!!

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    47 mins
  • Ep 834 Driftglass Has A Cold
    Sep 3 2024

    A short episode so DG can recover his voice sooner rather than later.

    Links for this episode:

    Margaret Sullivan: An ugly case of 'false balance' at The New York Times
    https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/an-ugly-case-of-false-balance-in

    Thanks to The Bill Show out of Australia for hosting us this week. Our show should drop in a few days here:
    https://open.spotify.com/show/71kZ2ppjrX6bOEg2ql7Zsk

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    31 mins