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 Feb 07, 2021
Sunday Feb 07, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. The Iowa Caucus was one year ago this week in real time and this week last millennium in thought time.
2. How can we tell Donald Trump that testifying himself at his impeachment trial would be so good for his ratings?
3. Looking to compromise with someone, Democrats choose themselves in COVID stimulus reconciliation process.
4. Marjorie Taylor Green makes desperate attempt to cling to respectability by admitting 9-11 was real.
5. Alert: The Newsom recall is actually happening.
6. Pillows are now political: A treatise on bad puns gone too far.
Also:
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Sunday Jan 31, 2021
Sunday Jan 31, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. It’s Occupy Wall Street, but instead of sleeping on a park bench, you get to make millions of dollars!
2. Democrats continue to compromise with themselves over direct payments
3. “Unity” with the GOP is not the same thing as unity with the American people
4. Every day we’re a step closer to Donald Trump potentially representing himself in his second Impeachment trial
5. Jewish Space Lasers: Where do you buy them and how do you use them?
6. Schumer is a man who really, really, really doesn’t want to get primaried in 2022. Let’s dash that hope.
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Brain Trust Live is (still) 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!
Sunday Jan 24, 2021
Sunday Jan 24, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. We finally found a competent Trump official! His airplane choreography guy was top notch. Goodbye to a legend.
2. The Inauguration was just one stop on a list of errands Bernie Sanders had to run on Wednesday
3. Joe Biden’s version of "Infrastructure Week" might include actual policy
4. Introducing the 117th Senate: A place of chaos!
5. Nobody wants to hear a peep out of any of these fools until we have $2000 burning a hole in our pockets
6. The Trump era’s collateral damage: conspiracy theorists were left sad and confused
Also:
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Brain Trust Live is (still) 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!
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
In Which We Discuss:
1. Happy MLK day! Please enjoy our yearly reminder that MLK was a socialist. Be like MLK.
2. Donald Trump did succeed at one aim - making DC into a military state. Unfortunately they’re doing it to keep his people out.
3. Biden won’t get to take the train ride he’s been waiting for 40 years for.
4. Trump earns a place in history as the most impeached president ever!
5. Our Vaccine stockpile didn’t exist, which, when you think about it, tracks perfectly.
6. Trump has been the best accidental cheerleader for his arch nemesis CNN.
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!
Thursday Jan 07, 2021
Thursday Jan 07, 2021
Our first, and hopefully last, Special Mid-Week Coup-Cast! Come for the boring grandstanding, stay for the insurrection,
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!
Sunday Dec 27, 2020
Sunday Dec 27, 2020
No structure. No rules. No doc. But plenty of updates on the COVID, the stimulus, CA's new senator, and how to be a pain in the ass for Congress from day one!
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!
Sunday Dec 20, 2020
Sunday Dec 20, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. Latest stimulus bill has insulting checks that will arrive just after your kid’s Christmas is ruined
2. The Vaccines are coming for doctors...and America’s leading science-deniers
3. Mayor Mouseface for transpo and other questionable cabinet picks
4. Bill Barr should never be allowed back on the DC dinner party circuit
5. Could it be that asking voters to vote for you is the best way to get voters to vote for you? An experiment moderate Democrats waited until after the election to try!
6. Guardians of the Galaxy joins Star Trek in the Trump Space Force fictional universe
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!
Sunday Dec 13, 2020
Sunday Dec 13, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. White House adds a second bad bill to our grand American stimulus mess. Current count is bad bills: 2, good bills: 0.
2. Even SCOTUS wants there to be a government
3. Biden promised his administration would be a “bridge to the next generation.” We didn’t realize he only meant Boomers.
4. People of various levels of fun and not-fun are announcing runs for office
5. Let me just defend Iowa for a moment: It was the DNC that actually ruined the caucuses.
6. It’s too bad we waited for Facebook to ruin America before deciding to break it up
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!
Sunday Nov 22, 2020
Sunday Nov 22, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. Joe Biden wants you to fund our transition to government by the chemical industry
2. Republican Senators have more COVID than they do sense
3. Rudy Giuliani’s tell isn’t a growing nose like Pinocchio, it’s a melting face
4. Losing Georgia twice wasn’t enough for Trump’s crack election fraud legal team. They want to go for a third.
5. Democrats hard at work blaming the only people that voted for them for their losses
6. IT’S OUR LAST 2 YEARS OF NANCY PELOSI!
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!
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Monday Nov 16, 2020
In Which We Discuss:
1. Stay away from your grandmother, because COVID is surging everywhere, even in the mythical “real” America that thinks New Yorkers are expendable.
2. Who knows how vaccine science works, but apparently we’re close to having one
3. The “Million MAGA March” a.k.a. the “Desperate White Supremacist March” was not arrest or violence-free, but it was notably rubber-bullet tear-gas free. Imagine that.
4. Trump won’t concede, but he’s as bad at that as he is at everything else
5. Biden is gearing up to be the shadow president by December because currently we don’t appear to have one
6. Arizonans want higher taxes more than they even want Joe Biden
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!