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This Week We Discuss:
1. Our favorite guest and secret research consultant Grant Sloss is here to celebrate this milestone!
2. Kamala Harris makes her DNC debut in “coconut brown.”
3. There was no Beyonce performance at the DNC…but we did get Lil’ Jon at the Roll Call?
4. The Tim Walz candidacy is apparently going to be 90% football references Lila doesn’t understand.
5. RFK is dropping out in the exact way the brain worms told him to.
6. JD Vance’s advance team is clearly out to get him.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of falling phones, 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!
Listen, we’d write a rundown, but it’s not worth it. Just listen.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of falling phones, 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!
1. Latest election results prove one important thing: People want Republicans to stay out of their damn business.
2. “In a fight, I’m gonna bite,” is a real quote you could only get from a real US Senator named Markwayne.
3. Santos begins preparation for his prison and reality television tour.
4. Jill Stein is back to haunt democratic nightmares once again.
5. Tim Scott will now have all the time in the world to spend with his “very nice,” very real girlfriend.
6. Trump’s hatred of windmills takes center stage at criminal trial focused on financial misdeeds.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of falling phones, 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!
6. GOP’s massive successes are being celebrated…under the cover of darkness?
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of falling phones, 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!
1. It’s Easter, which can only mean that our Easter Spectacular Episode is finally here!
2. Somehow Donald Trump being indicted was only the third most important news story by the end of Tuesday.
3. Bernie Sanders and James Clyburn win together for the first time.
4. Even Ann Coulter is wondering if the right has lost touch on abortion.
5. It might be a weird week to ask this, but is the conservative movement doomed?
6. The Tennessee legislature was so heinous this week that Instagram briefly became a pro-Gen Z platform.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of falling phones, 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!
1. Carla Nordstrom provides a report from NY State
2. We asked for more salad-fork style dramas, and this week we got them!
3. Donald Trump announces plans to stave of WWIII by promising death and destruction
4. The Nebraska Senate’s GOP Christmas card list is getting smaller and smaller
5. Only Chicago city politics could cause a Jim Clyburn and Bernie Sanders unity endorsement.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of falling phones, 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!
1. Somebody forgot to tell Larry Hogan about the pre-exploratory phase of launching an exploratory committee for president.
2. CPAC audiences are looking to bring a Cruz/Fiorina energy to 2024.
3. Pete Buttigieg is a Maxxinista!
4. Biden is in favor of DC Statehood except when they pass laws he doesn’t agree with.
5. JD Vance is aspiring to become the socialist the Democrats won’t let themselves be.
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!
1. Donald Trump is finally on the right side of history in his final choice for DeSantis nickname
2. The supposed moderates are entering the race, and they’re just as terrible as the fascists
3. Feinstein learns about her career’s most important announcement from the media, just like we all did
4. Updated UFO Score: Trillion $ American Military 1: $100 mylar balloon: 0. Take that balloon hobbyists!
5. If you suspect you’re in an environmental disaster, you probably are, even if the government is distracted by flying balloons.
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!
1. Kevin De Leon first ruins city government, then ruins Christmas for LA families
2. The only person happier than Raphael Warnock about the Georgia runoff results was Herschel Walker
3. Newsflash: Kirsten Sinema had left the Democratic party long before this week
4. The Trump org is officially as guilty as we knew in our hearts they were
5. House passes marriage equality for everybody but polygamists
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!
1. Texas resident Herschel Walker is the new Dr. Oz of the Georgia senate race
2. Turns out all you had to do to be the first state of the 2024 Democratic primary is be the least qualified according to the DNC’s own criteria
3. President Reagan, excuse us, President Biden is pro-union until he has to pick between the workers and their bosses
4. It apparently takes full-throated Hitler support to get onto the wrong side of the House GOP Twitter account, but Kanye finally did it.
5. “Cows can go in different directions based on their mood.” Lessons from a Manhattanite in the art of cow herding.
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!
