Brain Trust Live

BTL #148 - AMATEUR BOXING - 3/30/15

In Which We Discuss:

1.  Finally chance to remember the knockouts in Harry Reid’s amateur boxing career, mediocre Senate career

2. A beloved french fry restaurant, site of many an important high school gossip summit, now sits in a pile of rubble due to East Village explosion tragedy

3. 2016 presidential field split on important issues like male pattern baldness, country music, monarchy 

4. Indiana finally gives everybody a reason to ban travel to Indiana, a net win for all Americans

5. Ellen Pao loses lawsuit, still wins at proving the tech industry is a disgusting rich boys club

6. Christian minister knows she’s a prophet because hollywood films are super predictable

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BTL #147 - CANADIAN GAMES - 3/24/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. First ever Canadian candidate officially declares his intention to run in the 2016 American presidential race.  CANADA IS FINALLY TRYING THIS, GUYS!!

2. Hillary Clinton promises that from now on she’ll tell the press directly if she’s going to yoga

3. Israel choses hate over peace, spying over diplomacy, bad polling over good polling.  Obama chooses letting them fuck off over actually caring anymore.

4. GOP Congress gets another chance to totally bungle the budget process this week

5. Happy Birthday to the only 5 year old on earth you’d actually want to hang out with...Obamacare!

6. Floridians now required to seek medical attention for belief in climate science, daring to improve the gene pool

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BTL #146 - GENIUS CONSPIRACY THEORY - 3/17/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Senate sends letter to Iran to warn world that Iranians may be secretly in control of...the Iranian capital.  Next stop, Washington?

2. Hillary Clinton doesn’t know if we care about Chelsea’s wedding or her own yoga schedule, but she decided to just make an executive decision about the whole thing and now we’ll never know

3. Secret Service is populated by the same drunk frat guys you always suspected it was

4. Senate happy to keep their least favorite person Eric Holder employed just to show us how wrong abortion is...since that’s relevant.

5. Netanyahu desperately shouts conservative talking points so people remember he’s tough on vague, amorphous enemies

6. Bristol Palin engaged to the Rascal Flatts lifestyle, and now a man too!

7. Genius conspiracy theorist tricks Glenn Beck into badmouthing his beloved NRA via concerns about taxes and the Muslim Brotherhood

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BTL #145 - FANATICAL CLAPPING OPPORTUNITIES - 3/10/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Democrats everywhere to Hillary Clinton: Please stop doing the things you do

2. DOJ report paints a compelling picture of how wonderful it is to be white in Ferguson, America

3. Republican American President Bibi Netanyahu offers the fanatical clapping opportunity GOP politicians have so desperately been missing

4. Shadow Speaker Nancy Pelosi passes a clean DHS funding bill, leaves the boys to their silly squabbles

5. We again name-check the Democrats the voted to override the Keystone veto, this time with fury

6. Maryland Senate race poised to offer the exciting inter-party war we’ve been waiting for

7. Praying to Jesus will injure your face, not get you a ride to Kentucky or OxyContin

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BTL #144 - NEWT'S SELFIE-TIME - 3/3/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. CPAC answers the question: Is it possible that ISIS could be as evil as unions?

2. Netanyahu considers us family, which is we guess better than being one of his numerous abused housekeepers?

3. House GOP playing coy at revealing it’s DHS funding strategy to it’s own members, hoping to surprise even itself next week

4. Even before the ancient Barbara Mikulski’s retirement announcement, Dianne Feinstein was the oldest woman in the senate.   Will she be our Strom Thurmond?

5. A supposedly more organized Clinton campaign is already so indecisive that it  can’t even agree on when it’s going to start

6. Bill O’Reilly knows even less about his whereabouts than we previously gave him credit for

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