Brain Trust Live

In Which We Discuss:

1. Another school shooting, but instead of gun control, lets talk about EBOLA!  It knows where you live!

2. Alaskan pollsters just can’t know who lives in Alaska and how to reach them.  Hopefully next year’s races won’t be so close and they can get back to their real love: drunken limo brawling.

3. Fearing a repeat of Bush-Clinton, Liz Warren is not not running for president.  She is instead aware of the many “possibilities that the future might bring.”

4. In military tactical news, man on man massage is how the terrorists win.

5. Every once in a while, reality stars are forced to live in reality.  RIP Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.

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In Which We Discuss:

1. A couple of ISIS bombings and Republicans are already excited about the prospect of boots on the ground in unnecessary war.

2. Thanks to Senate discord, Eric Holder’s resignation might end up just being for show.

3. After Obama’s fake #lattesalute gaffe, how long will we have to wait for a pumpkin spice latte salute campaign from Starbucks (#PSL).

4. The struggle is real for would-be murderers who just happen to be Muslim.  It’s hard to be notorious when Al Qaeda gets all the credit for your crimes. 

5. Value Voters can’t decide whether gay marriage is just boring or a scourge on society, but they all seem to know who Ben Carson is.

6. Self-appointed Real-Life Disney Princess sues Disney for stealing her tale of having a sister and living in a village with doors.

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In Which We Discuss:

1. Obama administration casually wonders if we should stop arming our local police forces with tanks.  They’ll look into it...

2. ISIS delusionally believes they might take over India and, hell, why now throw in Saudi Arabia too?

3. #HillaryPillory : In the face of challenges from “fringe isolationist” Rand Paul, DNC assures Americans that we will definitely go to war if Hillary is elected.  Whew!

4. Hillary Clinton to headline the Harkin “steak fry,” a kind of “fry” that is mysterious to even born-and-bred Iowan Brent Thornburg.  

5. Unsurprisingly, a MN anti-gay crusader and GOP congressional candidate knows way too much about gay sex.

6. Updates on all of the most important pop culture events of the week: #Jessie Williams, #GreysAnatomy, #TaylorSwift, #MichaelSam, #IceBucketChallenge and more!

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In Which We Discuss:

1.  RIP Robin Williams.  Your death is at least bringing attention to the dangers of mental illness, which is something even repeated tragic school shootings couldn’t.

2. Ferguson, MO is just the latest in a series of war-torn regions that the American military, ie. a municipal police force, is having to “save” via ruthless military intervention.

3. Rick Perry really doesn’t like hilarious drunk people, is obviously no fun.

4. Nouri al-Maliki is so over it, realizes that fixing Iraq will require somebody with a desire to do so.  

5. Do not even think about nominating us for the ice bucket challenge.  We mean it.

6. As if the fear of your flight just disappearing into thin air isn’t enough, we now have proof that armless pilots are captaining planes.  

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In Which We Discuss:

1. Apparently, the power vacuum we created by bombing Iraq can only be solved by bombing them more?

2. Hillary Pillory: Hillary Clinton already campaigning to lose the 2016 primary by ragging on those damn Democrats and their foreign policy plans.

3. Ebola outbreak is both our worst nightmare and not at all a danger if you are an American who has not recently been to Liberia.

4. Chris McDaniel finds voting irregularities in the form of seeing black people at the poles, claims Cochran race-baited.

5. GOP would like you to believe that repealing the medical device tax will solve all your problems.  Nothing like having your finger on the pulse.

6. Amateur hour continues at US AID’s covert Cuba spying headquarters

7. NRA blind to the issues with arming blind people.

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In Which We Discuss:

1. Israel so over it that Kerry’s not even able to set a date for his next meeting about a meeting

2. A heads up for deal-seekers: Algeria is another nation in the grips of a disappearing aircraft crisis

3. In VA reform fight, entirely reasonable bill supported by Socialists and non-Socialists alike makes its way into rainbow and healthcare-hating Tea Party territory

4. Obama will be impeached for doing productive things while being criticized for not doing productive things under new Ted-Cruz approved GOP plan

5. Sen. Chuck schumes his way into the primary jungle and pisses off the natives

6. Sarah Palin is launching a network offering countless images of an automaton with her face shaking hands with white people of all weights and ages

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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.

8. Also, SINKHOLES.  So, like, that.

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In Which We Discuss:

1. Israel and Hamas really commit to this whole war thing

2. It’s Rick “Reagan” Perry versus Rand “Leave It Alone” Paul in a foreign policy op-ed deathmatch

3. In other Rick Perry news, he’s a child-hating racist!  Surprise!

4. Sarah Palin cooks up a tasteless impeachment word salad.  Eric Holder chews it up and spits it out.

5. Boehner hatches plans to sue over Obama’s late implementation of the healthcare law that he voted over 50 times to scrap entirely.  

6. We now have proof of what GOP lawmakers feared...Obamacare works, and even their wingnut constituents now enjoy quality, affordable healthcare.

7. Speaking of healthcare, do NOT, we repeat, do NOT get your medical advice from Pat Robertson

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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

6. Zombie Apocalypse preppers get entrepreneurial and women are super into it

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In Which We Discuss:

1.  Supreme Court now in the business of telling women how to use their own bodies.  Because Jesus.

2.  A whole bunch of stodgy white men are not happy with Obama’s attempts to accomplish things

3. Thad Cochran finds that getting elected can lead to having voters all up in your grill

4. Hillary Pillory: Is now a good time to casually forget about Iraq?

5. The World Cup is apparently going to make America the Socialist Utopia we’ve always dreamed of

6. We find proof that anti-immigration advocates wear disgusting underwear

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