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 12, 2014
Sunday Oct 12, 2014
Sunday May 18, 2014
Sunday May 18, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. NY Times editor ouster shows a surprising lack of media strategy at the paper of record
2. Neurologist Karl Rove has new medical theory that fake concussions can amount to serious brain damage when it comes to political rivals
3. Republicans show increasingly marginal grasp on cause-and-effect in their choice to
block VA funding then be furious about poor veterans care
4. We are going to investigate Benghazi again, this time focusing on the “beginning,” “middle,” and “end”
5. Improbably, somebody with the name Butch Otter is the least ridiculous person at the Idaho GOP gubernatorial debates
Tuesday Apr 29, 2014
Tuesday Apr 29, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. Donald Sterling, Cliven Bundy, and SCOTUS face off to prove that irony isn’t dead, and neither is racism.
2. Russia just doesn’t care
3. Oregon hipsters were too blissed out on farm-to-table food last fall to finish their Obamacare exchange website.
4. This week on Hillary Pillory, Wall Street realizes that the best GOP candidate for president really is Hillary Clinton
5. Florida Georgia Line isn’t just an annoying country band, it’s also now the world’s most inviting murder destination
6. Why does Sarah Palin think Kumbaya is such a bad thing?
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Monday Apr 21, 2014
Monday Apr 21, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. Russia signs agreement to track down those dirty scoundrels destabilizing Ukraine, which should be easy because most of those “scoundrels” are Russian military men
2. Final Obamacare numbers show that Californians are just as late to sign up for healthcare as they are to meet you for brunch
3. CNN’s ocean tragedy experts are having a banner year
4. Keystone ambivalents rejoice as Obama announces yet another plan to non-decide on the issue
5. Clintons tee up a potential 2064 presidential campaign with an as yet unborn Clinton spawn on the way
Sunday Apr 13, 2014
Sunday Apr 13, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. Kathleen Sebelius gets out while the gettin ’s good
2. Ukraine is either at war with itself or Russia, or maybe both, but at least it’s not at war with us
3. Equal Pay Day ends up being the perfect time for GOP Senators to block equal pay legislation
4. America’s next greatest supervillain reveals herself at a Hillary Clinton waste management convention
5. GOP’s likely presidential candidates come together to talk Benghazi, IRS, and Donald Trump’s newest Florida development
Sunday Mar 30, 2014
Sunday Mar 30, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. We’ll tell you how one random guy’s spreadsheet is saving America!
2. A classic Kerry diplomatic strategy prompts a meeting about a meeting with the Russians instead of an answer to a problem
3. Though Chris Christie has now purchased some innocence, Jeb Bush is waiting in the wings to launch pt. 3 of the Bush dynasty
4. Hobby Lobby better hope their female employees’ hobby isn’t having sex
5. Northwestern football players score a touchdown in their case with the National Labor Relations Board
6. Signs of the end times part one!
7. Kim Jong Un hopes his newest reform will solve the age-old problem of not enough North Korean men looking like Chinese smugglers
Tuesday Mar 25, 2014
Tuesday Mar 25, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. Scott Brown and Paul Ryan find out along with the rest of America that maybe this whole Obamacare thing isn’t so bad after all.
2. The world’s most powerful casually informal club, the G8, just revoked Russia’s non-existent membership card.
3. Fox News finds the elusive connection between the Malaysia Airlines disappearance and Benghazi.
4. Hillary Pillory is back, as Clinton makes a completely unshocking pivot to the right of pretty much everyone on foreign policy.
5. Beloved civil rights hero Fred Phelps dies, and to honor him, Michigan begins allowing gay marriages.
6. Florida Republican’s hispanic outreach continues to go just about as bueno as expected.
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 Nov 17, 2013
Sunday Nov 17, 2013
In Which We Discuss:
1. Obama tells uninformed consumers to just keep their crappy plan if it’s so damn important to them
2. Schumer desire to to avoid a primary for Hillary reminds us that we could just primary him instead
3. Kentucky voters conspire to slowly eliminate every Republican candidate from their upcoming Senate race
4. Union bashing heads all the way to the Supreme Court!
5. Toronto’s mayoral shame reminds Americans that sometimes Canadians aren’t as boring as previously thought.
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