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 Oct 05, 2014
Sunday Oct 05, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
Sunday Sep 28, 2014
Sunday Sep 28, 2014
Monday Jul 21, 2014
Monday Jul 21, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. CNN granted new lease on life by the latest war-zone air-travel tragedy, now in a position to accidentally report real news.
2. John Kerry taking his meeting-about-a-meeting diplomacy tour to Israel, plans to offer no concessions to anybody.
3. Granted YMCA camp sounds terrible, but not as terrible as not being able to tell the difference between laughing children and South American refugees.
4. Todd Akin returns just in time to legitimately rape the GOP’s 2014 election prospects.
5. Science finally proves what we’ve always hoped was true -- that conservatives are biologically different. Too bad they don’t believe in science.
6. This week on Hillary Pillory: Hillary Clinton carries W’s famously compassionate conservative mantle at a true meeting of the minds - an Insurance industry confab.
7. Apparently Silicon Valley technology is now in the business of manufacturing voters to sign the 6 Californias petition.
Sunday Jul 06, 2014
Sunday Jul 06, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. We apprehensively present you with good jobs news that we are in no way are convinced is real. But Hooray! (?)
2. Isn’t it so totally awesome how running a business is exactly like running a government bureaucracy. Except, like, the opposite of that.
3. McDaniel/Cochran is the gift that keeps on giving. This week’s gift includes $1000 in exchange for evidence of voter fraud.
4. This week on Hillary Pillory: Polling proof that going into public is a major liability with all voting groups aside from women between the ages of 29 and 30 and non-Wal-Mart weekly shoppers
5. This week in stupid White House petitions, if Tim Howard can figure out how to stop ISIS, we’re game
Sunday Apr 06, 2014
Sunday Apr 06, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. We lead with two stories we’re thrilled to not have to lead with. Because of irony.
2. Republicans so enraged by Obamacare’s 7 million enrollees that they accidentally vote on coverage expansion law
3. Get out your checkbook, free speech is now entirely purchasable
4. Americans won’t stand for zero troop death’s abroad in March, start shooting at their favorite murder rampage spot, Fort Hood
5. Climate change is coming for you when you most expect it, which is now
6. US now officially out of government overthrow ideas after failing at Cuban Twitter warfare
Sunday Mar 09, 2014
Sunday Mar 09, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. Brent Mulder and Lila Scully offer their take on the Malaysia Air alien conspiracy
2. Winston Clinton eyes Adolf Putin’s plans to re-Sovietize the Russian border
3. BERNIE! It’s happening.
4. CPAC offers answers to an America struggling with a disastrous clown shortage
5. Democrats’ subpar basic math skills to cause yet another Obamacare delay
6. Kirsten Gillibrand assembles the greatest/weirdest coalition ever know
7. “Upskirting” and trolleys are both things people in Massachusetts enjoy
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Monday Mar 03, 2014
Monday Mar 03, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. #AdeleNazeem wins the Oscar for best meme.
2. Russia’s attempts to recreate the Soviet Union run into the predictable problem of nobody wanting to be in it.
3. Gays are now welcome in Arizona. Unsurprisingly, most of them still don’t want to go there.
4. The word “Obamacare” finally has a good connotation so we’re going to start using it again.
5. MILITARY SPENDING CUTS AND INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING?! Is this real?
6. Rainy LA could really use a local version of Kentucky’s “Ark Encounter” theme park.
Monday Feb 17, 2014
Monday Feb 17, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. Sochi’s top notch commentators lead us to discover the greatest Olympic sport that never was.
2. Obama golf vacation unexpectedly interrupted by GOP reasonableness sneak attack.
3. President figures that since everybody is calling it “Obamacare,” he can make it up as he goes.
4. Instead of learning from George Zimmerman’s mistakes, Floridians are giving him money.
5. Sinkholes not afraid to show their taste for cheesy classic cars
6. National Crisis Alert: clown shortage only getting worseMonday Feb 10, 2014
Monday Feb 10, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. Most hated Winter Olympics in recent memory wins us over with extra figure skating events.
2. Republicans vow to do nothing in 2014, still think you’re lazy for wanting health insurance.
3. Los Angeles congressional primary to pit the vaguely “spiritual” against the fully exasperating (#whitepeopleproblems)
4. Charlie Crist runs in gubernatorial election on the hope that Florida will get less horrible over time.
5. Women no longer have to worry about their libidos after hearing Mike Huckabee say “sexual drive” on national television.
6. New evidence proves that God didn’t do much historical research before penning the Bible.
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Sunday Jan 19, 2014
Sunday Jan 19, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. NSA sneak attacks will now be marginally less sneaky
2. Christie administration’s thuggish behavior is no longer just limited to causing traffic
3. Jerry Brown seeking “elegant” solutions to California water shortage
4. Bipartisan budget deal overwhelmingly passes in the house. Wait, what?
5. Wanted: Oklahoma senator to replace Tom Coburn. Only anti-gay bigots need apply.
6. Hillary Pillory: Robert Gates gives us a reason to start a #hawkishhillary hashtag
7. West Virginia. Don’t drink the water. Also, don’t live there.
8. ABC considers Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal to be the finest television programming in a generation. We discuss.