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 16, 2015
Monday Mar 16, 2015
Sunday Dec 07, 2014
Sunday Dec 07, 2014
2. “Uninspiring but mistake free” campaign crushes an uninspiring but stupidity-filled Landrieu campaign in Louisiana runoff
3. Obamacare proves, yet again, that simple math and logic have evaded GOP politicos, even in regard to a plan they thought up
4. Rolling Stone fact-checkers set anti-campus rape activist back one zillion years. Should somebody call Aaron Sorkin? It sounds like Rolling Stone editors need an ethics monologue.
5. Enthusiasm about fake economy’s fake good news is not a good enough reason to blow your cash on Christmas gifts
6. North Korea’s tourism website proves that they weren’t responsible for the Sony hack
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Monday Nov 10, 2014
Monday Nov 10, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. As far as elections go, we’re not going to say everything is hopeless, but we are going to say that you need to do better next time, America! We’ve blogged about how: Post-Election Blues: 14 Ways To Get Even
2. Voters everywhere voted both for and against everything they stand for this election day. Hey voters, you don’t get to have two opinions on the same issue!
3. The Lame Duck session is shaping up to look more like a healthy and virile duck session.
4. SCOTUS invites a serious case of deja vu with a slate of new, high-profile cases that suspiciously like the old ones.
5. We now have 3,000 troops in Iraq, but don’t worry, they aren’t “one the ground.” The are just soldiers deployed to a war-torn region who have no particular mandate or agenda...nothing to see here.
6. Goodbye Michele Bachmann and Steve Stockman, hello Glen Grothman, who will carry on your tradition of rhyming last names and insane agendas.
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Sunday Aug 10, 2014
Sunday Aug 10, 2014
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.
Sunday Jul 06, 2014
Sunday Jul 06, 2014
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
Monday Jun 09, 2014
Monday Jun 09, 2014
In Which We (BiCoastally) Discuss:
1. Tuesday’s primary elections bring mixed results for wacko candidates from both parties
2. GOP patriots now in favor of leaving behind POWs, because hey, screw due process!
3. Republicans hellbent on fixing the VA may or may not be in support of new bipartisan bill to fix the VA
4. It's the time of the month where we report jobs numbers, and update you on how last month’s jobs numbers were totally incorrect
5. Seattle residents already reaping the super awesome benefits of electing a socialist to their city council with massive minimum wage increase
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 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
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 worse