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
Monday Mar 07, 2016
Monday Mar 07, 2016
It's a Special Bi-Coastal Edition(!) in Which We Discuss:
1. Sunday’s Democratic Debate reminds us of all the terrible things that snuck through in the 90s while America was transfixed by the Spice Girls
2. “Super” moniker is now available to any day with between three and a million primaries. Welcome to Super Sunday! Enjoy Super Monday!
3. A sad day for the Reagan family answers the every-present query: “Is Nancy Reagan still alive?”
4. CPAC welcomes the failed aristocratic-rights activist Mitt Romney to deliver a highly dubious rebuke of the tacky rich
5. Anti-Trump shadow attack PAC is finally getting some airtime
6. Donald Trump promises worried Americans that the documented stubbiness of his fingers isn’t a euphemism
Monday Feb 15, 2016
Monday Feb 15, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. Justice Scalia’s death leaves a vacancy for the position of RBG bestie. Heartless GOP is unwilling to help.
2. Being a Democratic Socialist is now a legitimate way to win a presidential primary
3. Donald Trump wins Saturday’s GOP debate by garnering most boos, Ted Cruz loses by speaking worst Spanish. It’s a mad, mad world.
4. Nevada caucus race could be totally up for grabs because no pollster has tried to grab it yet
5. Debbie Wasserman Schultz clearly hates her job, hatches new plan to get herself fired
6. The GOP hates Obama’s budget so much they’re not even going to bother to see what’s in it.
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Sunday Jan 17, 2016
Sunday Jan 17, 2016
In Which We Discuss:
1. Bernie Sanders: A man who got the most debate time at this week’s Democratic debate
2. Hillary Clinton: A woman who won’t let experience stop her from misunderstanding things
3. Iran‘s prisoner release includes a mystery man that Wolf Blitzer just learned of
4. State of the Union reveals Paul Ryan is member of the elusive pro-cancer caucus
5. Ted Cruz and ALL of New York City have a very different sense of what “New York values” consist of
6. Flint, MI’s water situation is just another kind of state violence against black people
7. Have a happy MLK Day, America! (Related: Have a terrible Robert E. Lee day, Arkansas! Or better yet, just don’t have one at all...)
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of barking dogs who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
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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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 Oct 25, 2015
Sunday Oct 25, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
2. The Democratic post-debate carnage was so bad that they lost candidates who weren’t even running.
3. Sorry Jeb!, it turns out that all the money in the world can’t buy you...campaign contributors?
4. Iowa Frontrunner Ben Carson’s biggest political weakness turns out to be his only professional qualification
5. Paul Ryan’s diagnosis after joining the speaker race: politically suicidal. Let’s have some fun!
6. House needs a pick-me-up after failed Benghazi hearings, decides to repeal Obamacare again because that’s always comforting
7. No matter where he is, what he’s doing, or which gays he’s passing judgement on, David Vitter will hire a prostitute because regular friend won’t have sex with you for money
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Sunday Oct 18, 2015
Sunday Oct 18, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. America got our first, and what we hope will be our last, look at Lincoln Chafee and Jim Webb at the Democratic Debate.
2. Joe Biden’s decision is STILL coming soon. He knows he has to make it BEFORE people start voting, right?
3. We finally found something we agree with Trump and Carson on - that their next debate should only be two hours long.
4. Six GOP candidates will soon learn what all of the rest of Earth already knows - that they have no prayer of being president
5. Apparently the US Government and Fox News have an equally careful vetting process
6. If there’s one thing Rand Paul hates more than polling at 2%, it’s a “dumbass” livestream
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Sunday Oct 04, 2015
Sunday Oct 04, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Not much actual hearing going on at the congressional Planned Parenthood yammerings
2. Kevin McCarthy’s Speaker candidacy unravels after an accidental moment of honesty
3. Oregon shooting is a remarkable reminder of how unremarkable it is to be talking about mass shootings in America
4. Bernie Sanders...the oldest guy to ever be THIS trendy
5. Hillary Clinton would love to support gays, but she can’t, mainly because she just just doesn’t wanna
6. Kim Davis: just one more American who doesn’t know Pope
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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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