Brain Trust Live

The Coup-Cast

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!

 

 

BTL #376 - More COVID Than Sense - 11/23/20

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!

BTL #375 - The Bad Concession - 11/17/19

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!

BTL #374 - Old Democrats, New Georgia [w/ guest Kat Calvin] - 11/9/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. We’re joined by the founder of Spread The Vote and host of Vote! The Podcast, Kat Calvin! 

2. Joe Biden was declared the winner by Lila Nordstrom a full 12 hours before network news had the balls to step up and say something.

3. Alaska‘s not bothering to count at all, GA’s going to have to count forever because they’re having two Senate runoffs in January.

4. We lost all sorts of house races b/c people won’t listen to AOC.

5. Californians fucked up on the props. And after we literally did all the work for you!

6. The Biden transition talk is as infuriating as you’d expect because Pete Buttigeig is involved.

 

Donate to organizations doing critical GOTV work in Georgia:

Spread The Vote

New Georgia Project

 

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!

 

BTL #373 - Things Could Always Be Worse - 10/26/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. We’re on track to shatter our voting turnout records at a whopping...62%! Cool. One-third of you guys are still like, “nah.”

2. Trump’s closing argument at debate #2: Things could always be worse. 

3. White House staff loved COVID so much the first time, they decided to try it again!

4. We comment on his zombie-like stares all the time, but is Mitch McConnell actually one of the undead?

5. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins never had any principles, guys.

6. Fake Melania’s on a plane!

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, 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!

BTL #371 - The Senate Rundown [w/ guest Carla Nordstrom] - 10/12/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. Carla Nordstrom returns to tell you everything you need to know about the state of the Senate races!

2. Is Ranked Choice Voting coming for you?

3. The VP Debate was won by fracking and flies

4. Trump is feeling healthy and ready to get out there and start superspreading COVID again

5. Lindsey Graham insists black people are safe in SC as long as they’re conservative, but offers no further comments on how to project conservatism for your safety.

And hello to our friends at Trillbilly Worker's Party, a fellow progressive podcast that got a couple of shout-outs this week!

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, 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!

BTL #370 - VIP Superspreader Event [w/ Special Guest Grant Sloss] - 10/5/20

In Which We Discuss [w/ special guest Grant Sloss]:

1. White House host nation’s first VIP-only, black-tie superspreader event. 

2. Trump now attempting to die of COVID in a last-ditch attempt to get out of a massive IRS bill and crushing debt.

3. The first presidential debate (and likely the last) was, in the words of Jake Tapper, “a hot mess inside a dumpster fire, inside a train wreck.”

4. Cal Cunningham is part of the exact kind of lame sexting scandal you’d expect from a DNC-backed moderate. But don’t worry, Thom Tillis has COVID.

5. Another year, another set of Prop 13 battles hit the California ballot.

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, 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!

BTL #369 - Read the Room - 9/28/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. RBG is the first woman to lie in state. Ever. 

2. Trump makes his SCOTUS selection. Dems already prepared with excuses for why they can’t do anything about it.

3. Goodbye healthcare, it was nice not ever really knowing you.

4. It turns out #justiceforBreonnaTaylor will remain a hashtag and not a reality.

5. In another failure to read the room, Nancy Pelosi is now offering even less COVID relief.

6. The beginning of Joe Biden’s campaign day is usually a statement telling us it’s over.

In Which we Don't Discuss:

Trump's taxes. The news didn't break in time to make it into this week's episode. We'll cover it next week!

 

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, 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!

BTL #368 - Worst Case Scenario - 9/21/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. Early voting has begun in four states and is coming to you too!

2. RBG passed away, ushering in a worst case scenario for democracy

3. Mitch McConnell is a hypocrite. Stop being shocked by that

4. Joe Biden takes credit for inventing what drag queens have been doing for months to get people to events mid-pandemic

5. We’re voting #no on the California ballot even containing these two props

6. New updates on the deer Chuck Grassley hit eight years ago

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, 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!

BTL #367 - The Noble Prize for Orange Air - 9/14/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. Trump to visit fire-ravaged West Coast, in danger of being camouflaged by the color of the air

2. The Rhode Island primary becomes the sleeper hit of the season!

3. Bernie suggests a proven winning strategy for Biden, will now most certainly be blamed for his loss.

4. Mitch McConnell’s coronavirus relief bill is the definition of insanity

5. Woodward gives us the proof we didn’t need that Trump is gaslighting us on Covid

6. Trump looks to be a lock for the Noble prize for misspellings

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, 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!