Brain Trust Live

In Which We Discuss:

1. Pataki will no longer have to debate himself at the next kiddie table GOP debate.

2. Bernie Sanders shatters Obama fundraising records to close out the year.

3. Lady of Leisure Hillary Clinton wants you all to know that she approves of dodging jury duty.

4. With the 24/7 coverage of Donald Trump, you probably forgot there are other exciting races in 2016!  We’re here to remind you.

5. The Cliven Bundy domestic terrorist family rides again!

6. Taking the side of 90% of the country, Obama takes gun control matters into his own hands

7. Bill Cosby is indicted.  Hey, at least he’ll get jello at every meal in prison?

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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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In Which We Discuss:

1. 195 Countries are willing to take a chance on believing in climate change, which is a far better percentage than in our own Congress

2. Ted Cruz is the new second-place frontrunner in the GOP primary because...he’s actually in first place somewhere!

3. Trump decides we should ban all Muslims...except the rich/important kind.  So don’t worry, the bin Ladens can still visit you!

4. Just about everybody is threatening to leave the GOP and run independently over a contested convention that hasn’t happened yet

5. The rent is still too damn high, but Jimmy McMillan is retiring so now nobody is working on it

6. America is losing on several fronts most notably the soda, chicken wing, and hippo-related ones

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In Which We Discuss:

1. When can we start calling the NRA terrorists instead of lobbyists?  Is it now?

2. GOP proposes several strategies to deal with the week’s multiple mass shootings including denial, misplaced blame, and voting no on common sense gun legislation

3. Bernie Sanders is now polling higher against Hillary than Obama was in December of 2007

4. GOP releases plan in case of Trump nomination: ask Senate candidates to wear cooler clothes and dig up tree trunks for a day

5. Senate now only 60 Obamacare repeals behind House in the GOP war of healthcare-hating

6. Ben Carson will the defeat the delicious chickpea-based snack food beloved by millions, fear be damned

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In Which We Discuss:

1. Apparently the line in Louisiana politics is TWO prostitution scandals.  Still okay: 1 prostitution scandal, 1 exorcism.

2. Darkhorse candidate “Wouldn’t Vote” sneaking up on Ted Cruz and the other frontrunners in latest GOP polling

3. Julia Brownley, world’s most desperate Democrat, won’t help world’s most desperate refugees

4. Jeb! Bush is the only GOP candidate forgetting to make coded Nazi references in discussion of our refugee policy

5. Anonymous will defeat ISIS using the most annoying meme ever created: we’re apparently “Never Gonna Give You Up” rick-rolling

6. Trump supporters show themselves to be, just as we suspected, a literal racist mob

7. Sarah Palin...is planning to do something - we think - according to what we imagine she was trying to say using a collection of words

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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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In Which We Discuss:

1. Tuesday’s election results are garbage.  Election day is for voting you fools!

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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In Which We Discuss:

1. Paul Ryan is adorably optimistic for a guy who just became House Speaker

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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In Which We Discuss:

1. Benghazi hearings prove that Hillary Clinton could have been a champion filibusterer. Oh, what could have been!

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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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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