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 Sep 28, 2014
Sunday Sep 28, 2014
Monday Jul 21, 2014
Monday Jul 21, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. CNN granted new lease on life by the latest war-zone air-travel tragedy, now in a position to accidentally report real news.
2. John Kerry taking his meeting-about-a-meeting diplomacy tour to Israel, plans to offer no concessions to anybody.
3. Granted YMCA camp sounds terrible, but not as terrible as not being able to tell the difference between laughing children and South American refugees.
4. Todd Akin returns just in time to legitimately rape the GOP’s 2014 election prospects.
5. Science finally proves what we’ve always hoped was true -- that conservatives are biologically different. Too bad they don’t believe in science.
6. This week on Hillary Pillory: Hillary Clinton carries W’s famously compassionate conservative mantle at a true meeting of the minds - an Insurance industry confab.
7. Apparently Silicon Valley technology is now in the business of manufacturing voters to sign the 6 Californias petition.
Sunday Jul 06, 2014
Sunday Jul 06, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. We apprehensively present you with good jobs news that we are in no way are convinced is real. But Hooray! (?)
2. Isn’t it so totally awesome how running a business is exactly like running a government bureaucracy. Except, like, the opposite of that.
3. McDaniel/Cochran is the gift that keeps on giving. This week’s gift includes $1000 in exchange for evidence of voter fraud.
4. This week on Hillary Pillory: Polling proof that going into public is a major liability with all voting groups aside from women between the ages of 29 and 30 and non-Wal-Mart weekly shoppers
5. This week in stupid White House petitions, if Tim Howard can figure out how to stop ISIS, we’re game
Monday Jun 30, 2014
Monday Jun 30, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. Supreme Court now in the business of telling women how to use their own bodies. Because Jesus.
2. A whole bunch of stodgy white men are not happy with Obama’s attempts to accomplish things
3. Thad Cochran finds that getting elected can lead to having voters all up in your grill
4. Hillary Pillory: Is now a good time to casually forget about Iraq?
5. The World Cup is apparently going to make America the Socialist Utopia we’ve always dreamed of
6. We find proof that anti-immigration advocates wear disgusting underwear
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
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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Monday Feb 03, 2014
Monday Feb 03, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. Denver Bronco fans will need all the weed they can get their hands on after this week’s embarrassing Super Bowl whipping by the Seattle Seahawk-Pelicans.
2. Chris Christie scrawls “liar” on David Wildstein’s locker, gets suspended.
3. Tuesday’s State of the Union inspires a four-headed GOP inequality godzilla response monster.
4. GOP issues half-hearted memo promising that they’ll totally try to work on immigration this time, guys.
5. Trio of groundhog weather-predicting experts anticipates six more weeks of winter one week to late to save Atlanta from two inches of treacherous snow.
6. Not even Herman Cain has ruled out running for President in 2016.
7. Calls to deport Justin Bieber reach fever pitch amidst Rob Ford City Hall tickle fight. Canada continues to be just everything.
8. R.I.P. Pete Seeger. We'll miss you but we'll keep singing along.
("If I Had a Hammer" clip is from a 1963 recording of Pete Seeger live in Australia)
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Monday Jan 27, 2014
Monday Jan 27, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. GOP bogeyman Uncle Sugar will turn your daughter into a sex-crazed birth control addict. Thanks for the warning, Hucky.
2. This week on Hillary Pillory: Planet Hillary shoots into orbit, prepares for war with Klingons, Rand Paul.
3. Obamacare sign-ups surge, giving the GOP plenty to remain seated for at this week’s State of the Union speech.
4. Note to McDonnell and D’Souza, if you’re caught committing a blatant crime, it’s not a liberal witch hunt, it’s just American justice.
5. Ashley Wagner’s mother feels way too comfortable going to the Sochi Olympics, terrorist threat or not.
6. Unfortunately, Roman peace doves are poorly trained in the art of bird war.
7. Justin Bieber is arrested during the internet’s most excruciatingly slow drag race.
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