[*UPDATED: Audio Issue Fixed*] In Which We Discuss:

1. We traveled halfway across the country to witness the last Iowa Caucus!

2. Unfortunately, no one has witnessed any actual results from said Iowa Caucus. 

3. Taxpayers donate facilities for extensive Trump campaign rally.  Unfortunately for him, Nancy Pelosi’s meme game was strong.

4. Mitt Romney attempts to save his obituary from the ravages of the Trump era during Senate impeachment vote.

5. We now grant ABC all future Dem Debates.  That’s enough flying graphics and Wolf Blitzer for this cycle. 

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In Which We Discuss:

1. Nancy Pelosi is sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate, so get ready for sham trial season!

2. Mar-A-Lago might have started a war with Iran. Stay tuned to Twitter for official updates and golf scores.

3. People are dropping out, but somehow the Democratic presidential field is not contracting.

4. Bernie Sanders is back in action after outraising Wine Cave Pete

5. Earthquake swarms are the tree snakes of Puerto Rico

6. Koalas are suffering, and that’s our fault.

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In Which We Discuss:

1. If Louisiana votes on Saturday, couldn’t we all do it?

2. Impeachment hearings are the birthday gift that keep on giving. And taking.

3. Roger Stone proves that getting a Nixon tattoo on your back will eventually land you in jail

4. If you’re looking for a book deal, there’s still time announce that you’re running for president

5. Pete Buttigeig: Loved by Midwestern white people and fake black people everywhere!

6. Elizabeth Warren over-plans on healthcare and, in the process, accidentally under-plans

7. Fringe political celebrities are desperate to represent Simi Valley: An update

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In Which We Discuss:

1. Lots of people voted on Tuesday and, as usual, the results were better for it.

2. Amazon is spending more money in Seattle City Council races than you will ever make in your lifetime.

3. Everybody in the cabinet has hot goss, nobody can figure out who they should give it to.

4. Bloomberg is already running America’s most losing-est presidential campaign and he hasn’t official announced.

5. Even the rich people you think are good guys will vote for Trump as long as they can keep their money. Plutes gonna plute.

6. The anonymous op-ed writer now has an anonymous book.

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In Which We Discuss:

1. The presidential election is officially one year from today, but guys...you could also vote on Tuesday. Because this coming Tuesday is election day.

2. Sanders heart attack seems to have installed a third stent into his poll numbers.

3. Liz Warren has more than just a plan, she has a zinger.

4. Trump should be pleased that the House’s impeachment inquiry will definitely be good for his favorite polling metric - TV ratings.

5. The Katie Hill saga is a good to time to remember that the average member of Congress is too old to even know what revenge porn is

6. Even people who watch senseless violence of fun hate Donald Trump

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In Which We Discuss:

1. Jeffrey Epstein spontaneously combusted in prison this week. That was the story, right?

2. Joe Biden doesn’t know the difference between “white” and “wealthy” and that explains so much

3. The third #DemDebate might just be an appetizer to a bigger, badder, annoying-er fourth debate that includes the whole gang plus Tom Steyer

4. In a surprising turn of events, Mitch McConnell supporters are assholes

5. Donald Trump is in favor of all the positions on gun control except the one where we do something beyond talk

6. Have we started impeachment hearings without knowing it?

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In Which We Discuss:

1. Domestic terrorism has had a big week

2. After 12 hours of debate, we still can’t pick the generic white moderates out of a Democratic Debate lineup

3. The people of Puerto Rico overthrew their government last week. Now if only we could overthrow ours...

4. Trump, unsurprisingly, can’t find a National Intelligence Director. Or an intelligent person to work for him in general.

5. Trump furious that Elijah Cummings can’t stop Trump’s own family from slumming up Baltimore

6. Go and demand some impeachment, people!

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In Which We Discuss:

1. Robert Mueller holds emergency press conference to remind us that unlike Barr, he has, in fact, read his own report.

2. It remains to be seen whether magic will be enough to get Marianne Williamson, or even Kirsten Gillibrand, into the third Democratic debate.

3. The word “Mueller” is in the news so Trump’s got a genius plan to create a diversion by tanking the entire economy of both the US and Mexico.

4. Math is vindicated once again after study shows that the Trump tax cuts...SHOCK...didn’t work.

5. It’s [name any day] in America so obviously there was another mass shooting.

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In Which We Discuss:

1. GOP impeachment domino watch: 1 down, 198 to go

2. Joe Biden will protect the nation from Trump using a strategy of incremental soul-saving and forgetting what he just said

3. If an announcement is made and nobody hears it...is DeBlasio actually running for president?

4. Missouri is the latest state to grant greater bodily autonomy to clumps of cells than to full grown living breathing women

5. Are we going to war with Iran? Anybody know why?

6. Arnold Schwarzenegger gets drop kicked for a Lamborghini. And yes, we also wonder what the connection is.

In Which We Discuss:

1. The earth is a huge disaster, and Joe Biden has a plan to solve it...with fracking!

2. Harris and O’Rourke are already in the market for new reasons to run after already forgetting their original ones

3. No one wants to be in the Senate anymore

4. Tio Sanders and AOC are the duo of our dreams

5. Barr is officially in our contempt, and now the Judiciary Committee’s too

6. When you consider it a victory that your new abortion law doesn’t send women to prison over miscarriages, your bar is too low

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