Brain Trust Live

In Which We Discuss:

1. Sadly Donald Trump is not yet a political prisoner! If only.

2. GOP frustrated that the Hunter Biden conviction they’ve long sought is now here.

3. First presidential debate shaping up to be more physical comedy than content.

4. Democrats mysteriously unbothered by spooky parallels to ‘68 Chicago convention.

5. Did Donald Trump commit 34 felonies to get out of going to Milwaukee for the GOP Convention?

6. Imagine how many trips Doug Burgham would get to take to the border if he was Trump’s VP pick!

 

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of falling phones, sirens, helicopters, barking dogs, and computer beeps who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

And, as always, you can buy and review Lila's book here: Some Kids Left Behind.

Plus, subscribe to Lila's new podcast, What Can I Do, wherever you get your podcasts!

 

In Which We Discuss:

1. There’s been elections. Lots of elections. We’ll tell you about them.

2. Republicans continue to flee the scene of the crime. 

3. Everytime a new government funding bill passes, a new GOP speaker gets their wings.

4. Democrats try to make a splashy announcement, seem unaware that everybody else denounced Netanyahu twenty years ago.

5. Like the collection of old foggety people that it is, Congress sets its sights on banning fun next.

6. The return of George Santos, queen of the return.

 

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of falling phones, sirens, helicopters, barking dogs, and computer beeps who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

And, as always, you can buy and review Lila's book here: Some Kids Left Behind.

Plus, subscribe to Lila's new podcast, What Can I Do, wherever you get your podcasts!

In Which We Discuss:

1. After success at the state level, Trump working to destigmatize federal indictments for ex-presidents.

2. Candidate you’ve never heard of announces a one-point policy plan you don’t care about in the 2024 GOP primary.

3. Lots of evil people are dead, but nope, not Henry Kissinger.

4. Lindsey Graham is very much hoping you’ll let him repeat his irrelevant GOP talking points in peace.

5. In the Trump Indictment frenzy, stop worrying about the details! Worry about the story arc.

 

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of falling phones, sirens, helicopters, barking dogs, and computer beeps who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

And, as always, you can buy and review Lila's book here: Some Kids Left Behind.

Plus, subscribe to Lila's new podcast, What Can I Do, wherever you get your podcasts!

 

In Which We Discuss:

1. GOP undercard debate shaping up to be just as crazy as we’d hoped.

2. Polls show nobody wants Trump or Biden to run so naturally it’s looking like Trump v. Biden in 2024.

3. Donld Trump admits to living in one of the “worst states.

4. Look out Joe Manchin! There’s a new coal baron in town.

5. Dianne Feinstein Retirement-Watch 2023 continues.

6. GOP’s massive successes are being celebrated…under the cover of darkness?

 

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of falling phones, sirens, helicopters, barking dogs, and computer beeps who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

And, as always, you can buy and review Lila's book here: Some Kids Left Behind.

Plus, subscribe to Lila's new podcast, What Can I Do, wherever you get your podcasts!

In Which We Discuss:

1. You Guys! Where on earth is Mitch McConnell and is he still actually on earth?

2. Trump will have to be brought down by the very people who brought him to us: New Yorkers

3. Chris Christie harkens back to the heady days of his undercard debate glory

4. Joe Manchin and Joe Lieberman: Why didn’t we see the parallels sooner?

5. Ron DeSantis takes on the real government of Florida - Disney - and loses

6. Federal government picks an arbitrary end date to a pandemic that’s still very much ongoing

 

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of falling phones, sirens, helicopters, barking dogs, and computer beeps who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

And, as always, you can buy and review Lila's book here: Some Kids Left Behind.

Plus, subscribe to Lila's new podcast, What Can I Do, wherever you get your podcasts!

In Which We Discuss:

1. The question of the week: Is it War of the Worlds or World War III?

2. Special Guest Grant Sloss Explains the SOTU 

3. Man who tied dog to car has opinions about who’s moral enough to serve in Congress

4. It’s not just George Santos! More fake Jews arrive in Congress.

5. Ron DeSanctimonius channels Trump Steaks Presser vibes

 

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Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, sirens, helicopters, barking dogs, and computer beeps who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

And, as always, you can buy and review Lila's book here: Some Kids Left Behind.

Plus, subscribe to Lila's new podcast, What Can I Do, wherever you get your podcasts!

In Which We Discuss:

1. It’s time to try to dream as big as Republicans.

2. Also, If you’re in line to protest at the homes of the SCOTUS judges, stay in line!

3. When Jen Psaki and Bill Kristol give you life advice, do the opposite.

4. If you’re going to pursue student loan forgiveness, try actually forgiving some loans.

BUT most importantly, you can do more than vote. Burn it down! Become ungovernable!

 

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, sirens, helicopters, barking dogs, and computer beeps who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

And, as always, you can buy and review Lila's book here: Some Kids Left Behind

In Which We Discuss:

1. Another whistleblower steps forward, and by now it seems like any human being with a television is qualified to step forward next.

2. In Trump’s America you can solve a mystery using common sense so, look, everybody you suspect was on the Ukraine call...was on the Ukraine call. 

3. Joe Biden is now losing the treason conversation too. Because losing on policy wasn’t fun enough.

4. Trump makes Twitter plans to impeach Mitt Romney and Nancy Pelosi right back using a little-known constitutional amendment entitled: the Alternative Facts Loophole!

5. Q3 fundraising numbers are in and poor “frontrunner” Joe Biden’s pool is already maxing out.

6. Donald Trump doesn’t need your stupid opinion on Syria. He’s got Erdogan’s. 

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, and computer beeps who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

In Which We Discuss:

1. We got to vote and it wasn’t even election day.

2. Let’s impeach the president!

3. Wait, that sounds hard. If only we had some clear damning evidence that he’s broken the law.

4. Done and done. Let’s impeach the president!

5. New polls show maybe Trump should have been asking for dirt on Liz Warren instead of Joe Biden.

6. The public option is a fraud, a controversial opinion you too can have.

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, and computer beeps who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

 

 

In Which We Discuss:

1. Robert Mueller holds emergency press conference to remind us that unlike Barr, he has, in fact, read his own report.

2. It remains to be seen whether magic will be enough to get Marianne Williamson, or even Kirsten Gillibrand, into the third Democratic debate.

3. The word “Mueller” is in the news so Trump’s got a genius plan to create a diversion by tanking the entire economy of both the US and Mexico.

4. Math is vindicated once again after study shows that the Trump tax cuts...SHOCK...didn’t work.

5. It’s [name any day] in America so obviously there was another mass shooting.

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, and computer beeps who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!