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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. When Twitter finally shutters, where are we going to find all of the unsubstantiated rumors that will make up most of this episode?
2. If the Georgia runoff has been a scientific experiment in whether one can truly unsubscribe from all of Warnock’s lists, we now have our results.
3. If we learned anything about Donald Trump this week, it’s that he absolutely, unequivocally, DOES know who Nick Fuentes is.
4. What if, and hear us out here folks, Joe Biden just actually canceled student loans?
5. Reminder as we run into the 2024 presidential season: Anyone who has had to deny they are running for president is most assuredly going to be running for president.
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. According to primary voters, taking away women’s fundamental rights does, in fact, matter to people.
2. It’s clear people don’t really understand how student loans work.
3. White House twitter is looking to add some special New Jersey flavor.
4. Virginia tricks itself into banning gas cars in 2035.
5. Donald Trump announces his new memoir will contain all the nuclear codes.
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. The West Wing fight, brought to you by Overstock.com
2. The next January 6th hearings are PRIMETIME, which means speculation, drama, and the most primetime of gossiping!
3. John Bolton, the mustache, the weasel, the man, is the master of the self-own
4. Joe Biden checks in with his fraternity bros in Saudi Arabia
5. We’re going to lose Congress for literally no reason whatsoever
6. Joe Manchin and the truth: A Trumpian tale
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. The June corporate appropriation holiday bonanza continues!
2. Biden will try literally anything to make America think he’s President Bartlett.
3. Rudy Giuliani didn’t knowingly break the law, he was just drunk on Diet Pepsi.
4. Can we please put a news embargo on reporting CA election results until we actually have California election results?
5. When will Democrats learn: Part 435 of our ongoing series.
6. Have you ever wondered if the current inflation was caused by something other than that one time the government sent you a measly check? We have.
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. The fact that it was a Cheney that argued the Jan 6 opening case is an absolutely bananas story point.
2. The gun violence issue has been left to Matthew McConaughey to solve, so we really are out of ideas.
3. We completed Step 1 of stopping Rick Caruso from being the mayor! (No thanks to the celebrity class.)
4. The anti-Biden 2024 whisper campaign is becoming a speaking-volume campaign.
5. COVID. It’s on you right now.
6. If things aren’t enough like a horror movie yet, THE MACHINES ARE COMING ALIVE.
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. Does Pride Month belong to straight people now? A research-free exposé!
2. It’s shooting city out there, so naturally our representatives are back to begging us for help.
3. Alaska is looking to one-up CA’s chaotic primary process…and succeeding!
4. We’re pretty sure we attended the last Iowa Caucus.
5. Biden White House baffled by sad polling numbers as Americans face numerous predictable and solvable crises.
6. Democrats find unity on student debt cancellation: Everybody hates the White House plan.
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!
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