A totally genius analysis of the week’s political news from two certified brains. Ready to resist, progressive AF. Podcast posted weekly since 2012.
Episodes
Sunday Jun 01, 2014
Sunday Jun 01, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. After starting an illegal war, Republicans are suddenly re-concerned about the rule of law after Obama’s renegade prisoner exchange
2. Resignation fever sweeps the Obama administration
3. GOP still in denial about the lack of jobs that will be available after the world ends due to climate change
4. This week on Hillary Pillory: Clinton makes some hard choices concerning whether or not she wrote her own book
5. Edward Snowden refuses to heed Kerry’s call to “man up,” continues to make the even manlier choice by living in the terrifying country of Russia
Sunday May 18, 2014
Sunday May 18, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. NY Times editor ouster shows a surprising lack of media strategy at the paper of record
2. Neurologist Karl Rove has new medical theory that fake concussions can amount to serious brain damage when it comes to political rivals
3. Republicans show increasingly marginal grasp on cause-and-effect in their choice to
block VA funding then be furious about poor veterans care
4. We are going to investigate Benghazi again, this time focusing on the “beginning,” “middle,” and “end”
5. Improbably, somebody with the name Butch Otter is the least ridiculous person at the Idaho GOP gubernatorial debates
Monday Apr 21, 2014
Monday Apr 21, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. Russia signs agreement to track down those dirty scoundrels destabilizing Ukraine, which should be easy because most of those “scoundrels” are Russian military men
2. Final Obamacare numbers show that Californians are just as late to sign up for healthcare as they are to meet you for brunch
3. CNN’s ocean tragedy experts are having a banner year
4. Keystone ambivalents rejoice as Obama announces yet another plan to non-decide on the issue
5. Clintons tee up a potential 2064 presidential campaign with an as yet unborn Clinton spawn on the way
Sunday Apr 13, 2014
Sunday Apr 13, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. Kathleen Sebelius gets out while the gettin ’s good
2. Ukraine is either at war with itself or Russia, or maybe both, but at least it’s not at war with us
3. Equal Pay Day ends up being the perfect time for GOP Senators to block equal pay legislation
4. America’s next greatest supervillain reveals herself at a Hillary Clinton waste management convention
5. GOP’s likely presidential candidates come together to talk Benghazi, IRS, and Donald Trump’s newest Florida development
Sunday Apr 06, 2014
Sunday Apr 06, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. We lead with two stories we’re thrilled to not have to lead with. Because of irony.
2. Republicans so enraged by Obamacare’s 7 million enrollees that they accidentally vote on coverage expansion law
3. Get out your checkbook, free speech is now entirely purchasable
4. Americans won’t stand for zero troop death’s abroad in March, start shooting at their favorite murder rampage spot, Fort Hood
5. Climate change is coming for you when you most expect it, which is now
6. US now officially out of government overthrow ideas after failing at Cuban Twitter warfare
Sunday Mar 30, 2014
Sunday Mar 30, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. We’ll tell you how one random guy’s spreadsheet is saving America!
2. A classic Kerry diplomatic strategy prompts a meeting about a meeting with the Russians instead of an answer to a problem
3. Though Chris Christie has now purchased some innocence, Jeb Bush is waiting in the wings to launch pt. 3 of the Bush dynasty
4. Hobby Lobby better hope their female employees’ hobby isn’t having sex
5. Northwestern football players score a touchdown in their case with the National Labor Relations Board
6. Signs of the end times part one!
7. Kim Jong Un hopes his newest reform will solve the age-old problem of not enough North Korean men looking like Chinese smugglers
Tuesday Mar 25, 2014
Tuesday Mar 25, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. Scott Brown and Paul Ryan find out along with the rest of America that maybe this whole Obamacare thing isn’t so bad after all.
2. The world’s most powerful casually informal club, the G8, just revoked Russia’s non-existent membership card.
3. Fox News finds the elusive connection between the Malaysia Airlines disappearance and Benghazi.
4. Hillary Pillory is back, as Clinton makes a completely unshocking pivot to the right of pretty much everyone on foreign policy.
5. Beloved civil rights hero Fred Phelps dies, and to honor him, Michigan begins allowing gay marriages.
6. Florida Republican’s hispanic outreach continues to go just about as bueno as expected.
Sunday Mar 09, 2014
Sunday Mar 09, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. Brent Mulder and Lila Scully offer their take on the Malaysia Air alien conspiracy
2. Winston Clinton eyes Adolf Putin’s plans to re-Sovietize the Russian border
3. BERNIE! It’s happening.
4. CPAC offers answers to an America struggling with a disastrous clown shortage
5. Democrats’ subpar basic math skills to cause yet another Obamacare delay
6. Kirsten Gillibrand assembles the greatest/weirdest coalition ever know
7. “Upskirting” and trolleys are both things people in Massachusetts enjoy
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Monday Mar 03, 2014
Monday Mar 03, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. #AdeleNazeem wins the Oscar for best meme.
2. Russia’s attempts to recreate the Soviet Union run into the predictable problem of nobody wanting to be in it.
3. Gays are now welcome in Arizona. Unsurprisingly, most of them still don’t want to go there.
4. The word “Obamacare” finally has a good connotation so we’re going to start using it again.
5. MILITARY SPENDING CUTS AND INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING?! Is this real?
6. Rainy LA could really use a local version of Kentucky’s “Ark Encounter” theme park.
Monday Feb 10, 2014
Monday Feb 10, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. Most hated Winter Olympics in recent memory wins us over with extra figure skating events.
2. Republicans vow to do nothing in 2014, still think you’re lazy for wanting health insurance.
3. Los Angeles congressional primary to pit the vaguely “spiritual” against the fully exasperating (#whitepeopleproblems)
4. Charlie Crist runs in gubernatorial election on the hope that Florida will get less horrible over time.
5. Women no longer have to worry about their libidos after hearing Mike Huckabee say “sexual drive” on national television.
6. New evidence proves that God didn’t do much historical research before penning the Bible.
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