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 Nov 04, 2012
Sunday Nov 04, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. Hurricane Sandy: A Not-Funny Thing That Happened This Week
2. Christie and Obama Embark on Bro-mance While Romney Desperately Organizes Fake Relief Efforts From Ohio (But Don’t Worry, He’s Not Campaigning!)
3. Election Day 2012 Is…7 Days Closer Than It Was Last Week! AHHHHHHH!
4. Obama Finds New Enthusiasm in Loins as Romney Campaign “Stalls” in Jeep Ad Debacle
5. An Update on the Insane Republican Congressional Clown Posse
6. The Non-Partisan Tax Report Republicans Don’t Want You To See…And Therefore Stopped You From Seeing
7. Listen To Us National Progressive Talk Radio at: www.nptr.net!
MAKE SURE TO VOTE ON TUESDAY!
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Sunday Oct 28, 2012
Sunday Oct 28, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. In the Wise Words of Meat Loaf: “There Has Storm Clouds Come Over the United States;” an Update on Frankenstorm Sandy.
2. Republicans Start and Instantly Lose the Most Recent Entry in the War on Woman
3. National Polls Continue to Predict a Dead Heat…Or a Resounding Victory for Obama…Or a Major Win For Romney.
3. Romney Aide Posits that Appliances Are What Make America Great
4. Donald Trump “Bombshell” Lacks Relevance and Detonator
5. Chuck Grassley, Accidental Deer Hunter, Takes To Twitter
6. Americans Are Getting More Racist; Sarah Palin Leading the Charge
Make sure to keep an eye out for our election guide on Tuesday!
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Monday Oct 15, 2012
Monday Oct 15, 2012
This week on the podcast, it’s a special bi-coastal edition recorded via the magical interwebs! 1. We Give You All the Dirt From Last Week’s VP Debate, and That’s No Malarkey! 2. A Look at the Funniest Thing That Has Ever Happened at a Congressional Debate Ever In History - The Berman Sherman Smackdown 3. Plus, Some Romneying, More Greedy CEOs, and Much Much More!
Sunday Sep 23, 2012
Sunday Sep 23, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. Romney Campaign Makes Worst Blunder in History of World. No, Really.
2. Freefalling Romney Campaign Tries To Distract Us By Reminding Us Why We Were Angry At Him Before
3. Romney Campaign’s Worst-Blunder-In-History Causes Democratic Surge in Senate
4. Steve King Debuts Mathematical Theorem Explaining the Annoyance of Wasted Time to a Confused Congress
5. Churches and Penises Galore
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Sunday Sep 09, 2012
Sunday Sep 09, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. The Democratic Convention and the Awesomeness of Bill Clinton, Genius Number Knower
2. Defying All-Knowing Pundits and Horrible Jobs Data, Obama Gets a Bounce from Convention Appearance and Marrying Well
3. The Race So Far and the Strategy Moving Ahead. Romney’s Strategy: Appear More Like Obama, Obama’s Strategy: Appear More Like Bill Clinton.
4. We Finally Have an Inspiring American Story to Root For: Mitt Romney on the Trials and Tribulations on Being a Mormon in the Age of Black President.
5. A New Segment We Wish We Didn’t Have To Bring You: This Week In Iowa Congressman Steve King.
6. Plus, a Chicago Teachers’ Strike, a Melissa Harris-Perry Backlash, an Email Password That You Should Avoid, and More!
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Sunday Sep 02, 2012
Sunday Sep 02, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. Republicans Gather To Celebrate Selves, Manage To Show That There Is No Reason To Celebrate At All
2. Romney Camp Says They'll Have To Win With White Voters In The Face of Polls Showing Them at 0% With African-Americans.
3. A Look Ahead To the Democratic National Convention, Starting This Week
4. Some Victories From The Front Lines In the War On Voting
5. Yet More Losses In the War On Women
6. A Freakout, a Freak Show, and the End Of the Moonie Empire
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Sunday Aug 26, 2012
Sunday Aug 26, 2012
In Which We Discuss
1. God Makes His Feelings About The Upcoming GOP Convention Known, Sends Hurricane and Extra Strippers Their Way
2. Romney Makes Non-Hilarious Birther Joke, Wants Us To Focus On the Humor Aspect, Not the Offensive Aspect
3. Romney Endorses Romneycare, Thereby Endorsing Obamacare and Obama For President
4. Joseph Smith Tells Romney Not To Release More Tax Returns
5. Todd Akin, Official Pariah Of Republican High Cafeteria
6. Unimaginably Shocking Natural Disasters Are Occurring Nationwide Without Cause or Reason
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Sunday Aug 12, 2012
Sunday Aug 12, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. Mitt Romney Manages To Makes Veep Choice That Best Reconfirms His Propensity For Bad Decision-making
2. Andrea Saul, Romney Surrogate, Endorses Obamacare By Accident
3. This Week in Voter Suppression
4. Iowa = Corn
5. Even Republican Convention Organizers Embarrassed By Former Republican Primary Field
6. Our Final Olympics Update of the London 2012 Games
Sunday Aug 05, 2012
Sunday Aug 05, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. Happy Birthday, Mr. President., But You Didn’t Make This Podcast.
2. Romney Tours World’s Most Sensitive/Least Important Regions, One Insult At a Time
3. Romney Thinks His Mere Existence Will Create 12 Million Jobs in His First Term
4. Battle of the Mormons, First Chapter In What We Hope Will Be an Exciting Series
5. Kristi Yamaguchi Is Now On Our List
6. The New Face of Dog-Fighting, Steve King
7. Chick-Fil-A Has Record Sales Thanks to Legions of Bigoted Americans With Bad Taste
8. Against All Logic, Birther Movement Still Alive, Well, and Funded
9. Olympic Wrap-Up
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Sunday Jul 22, 2012
Sunday Jul 22, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. The Tragic Shooting in Aurora, CO and How We Found Common Ground With Both Mayor Bloomberg and Rupert Murdoch In One Week
2. A Discussion Of Who Built What and Whether They Did It Alone
3. Romney’s Tax Debacle: Week 3
4. The Veepstakes Drawing Near, Consensus: We’re Already Bored
5. A Rundown of Why We’ll Never Find Out Who Is Buying Our Politicians
6. Michelle Bachmann Getting To the People’s work, worrying about fringe Muslim groups taking over the country. Don’t worry, the economy’s fine.
7. A Description of the Libor Scandal Without Any Of the Confusing Details
8. The War On Poverty Gets Added To the List of Wars We’ve Recently Lost
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