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 Mar 20, 2016
Sunday Mar 20, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. The oft-ignored Tuesday is waging an all-out campaign to usurp fan-favorite Saturday as Superiest day of the week
2. Marco Rubio has delivered his final second-place “victory”speech of 2016. And life.
3. GOP’s plan to stop Trump now mostly comprised of hashtags and placing articles about how they have a plan to stop Trump
4. Donald Trump upgrades rhetoric to include a threat to take America by force if necessary
5. SCOTUS nominee-gate 2016: A case study in the art of Clintoning
6. The paper of record is now acting more like Fox News than we are. #Endtimes?
7. Pope Francis joins Instagram. [Insert #instablessed comment here.]
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Sunday Jan 10, 2016
Sunday Jan 10, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. This week’s Democratic polling gives new insight into the cult electability’s war on the cult of...simple arithmetic and facts
2. Trump’s first act of “figuring out what going on” will have to include figuring out who he’s depicting in his first video at
3. Former Canadian Ted Cruz , after years of being trolled by Brain Trust Live, is finally taking some heat from the people who actually believe this shit
4. Gun nuts are buying one million guns per tear Obama sheds over all the children they’re shooting
5. Another good and/or lie-filled jobs report shows the economy remains on track
6. Whatever the NYC Equivalent of #BlackTwitter is has a collective meltdown over the retirement of Dr. Zizmor
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Sunday Dec 20, 2015
Sunday Dec 20, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Hillary Clinton and data breach go together like...tar and feathers
2. Dem Debate reveals what Sanders does for fun - talk about taxes. Apparently he knows something about taxes that we don’t.
3. Tuesday’s GOP Debate penetrates deep into the internet with the sound of Ben Carson’s coughs
4. We’ll have a government for the next year!
5. Kasich has a “terrific” running-mate in mind for Trump
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Monday Nov 16, 2015
Monday Nov 16, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Terrorists are out to ruin Lila’s birthday, which is just like terrorists to do
2. Terrible attacks in Western Europe lead many to the discovery that terrorist attacks are happening constantly and all over the world. It’s a dangerous place!
3. GOP Debate #4 ends with a sad plea by moderators promising that economic issues can totally be interesting sometimes
4. Knee-Jerk Hillary Clinton turns out to sound a lot like Rudolph Giuliani at Saturday’s super secret Democratic debate
5. College protests start up in Missouri, end with Yale students hating John Calhoun and Chris Christie hating Obama
6. SCOTUS will now determine whether they meant to give us any abortion rights at all
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Monday Nov 09, 2015
Monday Nov 09, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
2. Ben Carson goes on the defensive about his bio, promising Americans from the bottom of his heart that he definitely did stab somebody
3. Nothing’s funny about the Keystone pipeline, so hooray! We’ll never have to mention it ever again!
4. Jeb can fix it. Not his image, but “it” is all taken care of. Whew.
5. MSNBC’s Democratic forum is forgotten about by 99.9% of the 2% of people who even knew about it in the first place
6. Fox News gets the facts right, the tone confusingly wrong, while reporting on this month’s jobs numbers
7. Christians rush to the rescue of a heartbroken Baby Jesus, who in addition to taking on all of our sin now must mourn the loss of his beloved Starbucks seasonal cups
8. Sinkhole Radio returns with warnings about the many dangers, both syrup and parking-related, of going to an IHOP
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Sunday Nov 01, 2015
Sunday Nov 01, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
2. Maybe the GOP’s distaste for facts explains why their “frontrunner” is in 4th place after the third debate. Has a supposed GOP frontrunner even been in the lead yet?
3. Rubio is on a collision course with fellow candidates and fellow facts
4. Entire media misses the point of the Sanders campaign in their quest to sensationalize Hillary’s endorsement pick-ups
5. Clinton emails continue to prove that Hillary really really really doesn’t know how to operate a fax machine. Why was this still a problem in 2012?
6. Military blimp with an adventurous spirit breaks free of its shackles and goes joy-flying around Pennsylvani
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Sunday Sep 27, 2015
Sunday Sep 27, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Hey guys, what does it mean that Boehner is being remembered by Democrats as a great compromiser? Should we be concerned?
2. Walker can’t stand the figurative and literal heat at the Reagan library GOP debates
3. Florida’s entry into the GOP race is on the rise...it’s just not Bush
4. The Democratic poll numbers are fucking bananas
5. Pope’s visit finally puts the spotlight on the greatest celebrity water thief in American history. Somebody elected this person to office, btw.
6. Who would have guessed that the makers of the adorable Beetle hatchback would be up to something so nefarious? Only students of German history.
7. Brazen sea turtle riding on the rise in...you guessed it...Florida!
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Sunday Aug 09, 2015
Sunday Aug 09, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. We recount every moment you wanted to relive at the first official Republican Debate. So...basically all of them.
2. Like women who can’t shut down pregnancies in cases of “legitimate” rape, the GOP can’t seem to shut down the compulsion to make insensitive comments about women
3. Hillary’s Dems to their own base: Hey guys, is debating really the answer when we’ve already chosen the candidate?
4. Schumer comes out against Iran deal because, why not be a tool?
5. Like the rest of mainstream history, gay history is now popular enough to be whitewashed in film
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Sunday Jul 12, 2015
Sunday Jul 12, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Bernie Sanders hates your cable company just as much as you, and that’s why he’s can be the President.
2. Alan Grayson has a novel idea: running as an actual Democrat in a Democratic primary. Guess who the establishment people are supporting…
3. Donald Trump reminds us that he’s, “like, a really smart person.” His surge in the polls proves that Republican primary voters are, like, really dumb people.
4. Jeb Bush currently has all the money but don’t worry, if you work longer hours it’ll trickle down. That’s worked in history, right?
5. If Germany can Shock Doctrine Greece, does this mean that California can Shock Doctrine Kansas and get rid of Sam Brownback?
6.Why can Republicans never remember the third thing? Now even Texas border states are suffering from this scourge.
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Monday Jun 08, 2015
Monday Jun 08, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Sadly, Hastert’s attempt to rid the nation of corrupt legislators in the Clinton years was always destined to be incomplete. Turns out he was one of them.
2. Not even a clown car can contain the current GOP field. And evidently the Democratic party can’t contain their candidates since none of them are actually members.
3. Will the Biden’s ever catch a break? For God’s sake!
4. Jobs. We have more of them than we used to.
5. Patriot Act. We have less of it than we used to.
6. Duggars go on television to further explain their terrible choices, further embarrass their daughters
7. A rare supercombo of Snakes AND Sinkholes strike this week’s news!
8. Huckabee. This guy.
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