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 Jun 01, 2014
Sunday Jun 01, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. After starting an illegal war, Republicans are suddenly re-concerned about the rule of law after Obama’s renegade prisoner exchange
2. Resignation fever sweeps the Obama administration
3. GOP still in denial about the lack of jobs that will be available after the world ends due to climate change
4. This week on Hillary Pillory: Clinton makes some hard choices concerning whether or not she wrote her own book
5. Edward Snowden refuses to heed Kerry’s call to “man up,” continues to make the even manlier choice by living in the terrifying country of Russia
Tuesday May 27, 2014
Tuesday May 27, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. War on Masculinity claims another victim as the War on Guns continues amassing a staggering record of defeat
2. Feminism is en vogue this month. Try it.
3. If Darrell Issa can’t win Benghazi, he’ll make sure nobody can
4. Ukraine is either at war with itself or with Russia, nobody can be sure, but one thing that is sure is that everybody is dying
5. Obama’s latest drawdown proposal brings up the important question of why we still have troops in Afghanistan to begin with
6. The Volunteer State will not be stopped by socialist Europe when it comes to murdering its own citizens in cruel and unusual ways
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 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 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.
Tuesday Mar 18, 2014
Tuesday Mar 18, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. Lila and Brent forget to wear green due to early morning earthquake panic
2. CNN strikes ratings gold with it’s new “poop cruise,” the Malaysia Airlines supernatural conspiracy disaster
3. Sham elections define this week in ex-communist countries acting a fool
4. Obama appears on web comedy talk show, offers a master class if knowing your audience
5. Scott Brown is living super free these days