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
Mar 2, 2015
Mar 2, 2015
51 min
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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Feb 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015
1hr 12 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. You’d think an Oscars this political would be less boring...and yet...
2. GOP’s DHS Greek tragedy leaves us asking why they feel so compelled to destroy even things they love
3. Brian Williams-hater Bill O’Reilly is totally just jealous because his fake combat story is totally fucking lame
4. Jeb Bush successfully proves that his foreign policy agenda isn’t like his brother’s...it’s more like Herman Cain’s.
5. Hillary Clinton and every single nobody in America is running for president in 2016.
6. In case you were wondering whether a swallowed camera pill might end up in your vagina...oh, wait, you weren’t?
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Feb 11, 2015
Feb 11, 2015
1hr 16 min
In Which We Discuss:
2. Greece isn’t afraid to tell Germany what they really think about modern-day loans and you know, World War II
3. The house can’t remember why they’re trying to repeal Obamacare for the 56th time, but they CAN remember why Texas is awesome, and that almost makes the same point, right?
4. Political heavyweights like the 90s era governor of New York and the former governor of Virginia toss their hats into the 2016 ring. Book deals for everybody!
5. Ben Carson, the only tea-party approved pediatric neurosurgeon, makes the accidental error of showing a basic understanding of science
6. Rep./Male Model Aaron Schock needs you to know that he is not a “Downton Abbey” fan despite his office’s peacock feather decor
7. NYers get the go-ahead from scientists to clean up the subway’s pesky bubonic plague germs by licking subway poles
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Feb 3, 2015
Feb 3, 2015
1hr 4 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. Sunday’s American Anti-Wife Beating Commercial Day ended, tellingly, with a brawl
2. Reminder: Jeb Bush is the bullying, pothead Bush child that didn’t even make it to Yale, and we know it wasn’t because of the cost
3. Hillary Clinton will enjoy several more months of running for president without actually running
4. Romney may be gone but his legacy is not forgotten as a new generation of GOP hopefuls face the awesome challenges of public chair-sitting
5. We’ll name every traitorous Democrat that voted for Keystone this week and put them in our anti-prayers
6. D’Angelo is a person we can appreciate without listening to
7. Science has finally proven what this podcast proves every week: that liberals are biologically superior
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Jan 19, 2015
Jan 19, 2015
1hr 12 min
In Which We Discuss:
2. Upon hearing that income inequality is a thing, car elevator-owner Mitt Romney tries to care a little but fails to convince even his own party of his change-of-heart
3. California Democrats conjure more credible contenders for 2016 senate race in two days than either political party has for president in two years
4. Much of country and world fails to recognize the irony of tweeting anti-Muslim and other racist things on MLK day
5. Surprising news: Hollywood cabal populated by ancient rich white men has no respect for civil rights stories or the historically downtrodden Lego people
6. GOP Congressmen and Senators take a group trip to Hershey, PA, enjoy chocolate syrup salad dressing and chocolate soap with the rest of the children
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Jan 12, 2015
Jan 12, 2015
1hr 10 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. 114th Congress makes plans to castrate both pigs and themselves in the start of their new session
2. Jobs numbers prove that no matter how great the economy claims to be, broke people don’t care. Ugg, idiot poor people and their dumb need to eat!
3. Romney family gathers at their ski-slope-car-elevator-dressage-stage to ponder Mitt’s presidential future/tell Americans that Jeb Bush is out of touch
4. Staten Island is acting as Staten Island is wont to act. You get it...
5. North Korea now facing two scourges: floating balloons filled with copies of The Interview and terrorist sharks!
6. Kirby DeLauter is the man named Kirby DeLauter who proved that local journalism is not dead. (Kirby DeLauter)
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Dec 21, 2014
Dec 21, 2014
58 min
In Which We Discuss:
2. Governor Andrew Cuomo finally confirms what everyone with flammable drinking water has known for ages, bans fracking in New York
3. Remember that movie that you weren’t going to see with your family on Christmas, The Interview? You can now carry on with that plan guilt-free after Sony pulls it over possible North Korean terrorist threats.
4. NY Mag follows in Rolling Stone’s lazy footsteps by not checking any sources in Stuyvesant student’s fake $72 million dollar stock market fortune.
5. Mitt Romney still leads republican presidential polls? Thankfully Donald Trump looks to challenge him in a battle for the nomination, and title of most out of touch uber-rich old white man in America.
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Dec 15, 2014
Dec 15, 2014
1hr 13 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. CIA torture report proves that a) we’ve been in the grasp of a huge sneaking evil for years and b) Dianne Feinstein has an ounce of fight left in her after all.
2. Dick Cheney’s new heart only new in the literal sense. His metaphorical heart is just as evil and unfeeling as it always was.
3. New UN climate deal nixes the pledges and opts for the helpful non-binding suggestions way of dealing with major polluters.
4. Pig diarrhea among the many pressing items of national interest addressed by the new, amendment-laden house spending bill.
5. Much of the left is now Ready for Warren. Either none of or all of the right is ready for Jeb.
6. Ferguson Eric Garner Protests still going strong
7. Angelina Jolie and Amy Pascal share a hug (and grimace) heard ‘round the world in Sony leaks aftermath.
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Dec 7, 2014
Dec 7, 2014
1hr 5 min
In Which We Discuss:
2. “Uninspiring but mistake free” campaign crushes an uninspiring but stupidity-filled Landrieu campaign in Louisiana runoff
3. Obamacare proves, yet again, that simple math and logic have evaded GOP politicos, even in regard to a plan they thought up
4. Rolling Stone fact-checkers set anti-campus rape activist back one zillion years. Should somebody call Aaron Sorkin? It sounds like Rolling Stone editors need an ethics monologue.
5. Enthusiasm about fake economy’s fake good news is not a good enough reason to blow your cash on Christmas gifts
6. North Korea’s tourism website proves that they weren’t responsible for the Sony hack
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Dec 1, 2014
Dec 1, 2014
1hr 2 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. Serious question: Should we move election day to Black Friday? At least that’s a day
people like to leave their houses.
2. Ferguson non-indictment rightly leads to the opposite of hugs and rainbows.
3. Chuck Hagel glowers through most aggressively awkward resignation ceremony in history.
4. Republican panic over their own Benghazi report proves that even they know what they don’t know, but facts are so boring.
5. Who is Jim Webb? Answer: Not the president. Also, not anybody.
6. Teen criminal turned GOP know-it-all implores Obama daughters to act classier, forgets that she’s the one who’s been arrested for stealing from a Belk department store.
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