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 Mar 29, 2015
Sunday Mar 29, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Finally chance to remember the knockouts in Harry Reid’s amateur boxing career, mediocre Senate career
2. A beloved french fry restaurant, site of many an important high school gossip summit, now sits in a pile of rubble due to East Village explosion tragedy
3. 2016 presidential field split on important issues like male pattern baldness, country music, monarchy
4. Indiana finally gives everybody a reason to ban travel to Indiana, a net win for all Americans
5. Ellen Pao loses lawsuit, still wins at proving the tech industry is a disgusting rich boys club
6. Christian minister knows she’s a prophet because hollywood films are super predictable
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Tuesday Mar 24, 2015
Tuesday Mar 24, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. First ever Canadian candidate officially declares his intention to run in the 2016 American presidential race. CANADA IS FINALLY TRYING THIS, GUYS!!
2. Hillary Clinton promises that from now on she’ll tell the press directly if she’s going to yoga
3. Israel choses hate over peace, spying over diplomacy, bad polling over good polling. Obama chooses letting them fuck off over actually caring anymore.
4. GOP Congress gets another chance to totally bungle the budget process this week
5. Happy Birthday to the only 5 year old on earth you’d actually want to hang out with...Obamacare!
6. Floridians now required to seek medical attention for belief in climate science, daring to improve the gene pool
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Monday Mar 09, 2015
Monday Mar 09, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Democrats everywhere to Hillary Clinton: Please stop doing the things you do
2. DOJ report paints a compelling picture of how wonderful it is to be white in Ferguson, America
3. Republican American President Bibi Netanyahu offers the fanatical clapping opportunity GOP politicians have so desperately been missing
4. Shadow Speaker Nancy Pelosi passes a clean DHS funding bill, leaves the boys to their silly squabbles
5. We again name-check the Democrats the voted to override the Keystone veto, this time with fury
6. Maryland Senate race poised to offer the exciting inter-party war we’ve been waiting for
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Monday Mar 02, 2015
Monday Mar 02, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. CPAC answers the question: Is it possible that ISIS could be as evil as unions?
2. Netanyahu considers us family, which is we guess better than being one of his numerous abused housekeepers?
3. House GOP playing coy at revealing it’s DHS funding strategy to it’s own members, hoping to surprise even itself next week
4. Even before the ancient Barbara Mikulski’s retirement announcement, Dianne Feinstein was the oldest woman in the senate. Will she be our Strom Thurmond?
5. A supposedly more organized Clinton campaign is already so indecisive that it can’t even agree on when it’s going to start
6. Bill O’Reilly knows even less about his whereabouts than we previously gave him credit for
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Tuesday Feb 24, 2015
Tuesday Feb 24, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. You’d think an Oscars this political would be less boring...and yet...
2. GOP’s DHS Greek tragedy leaves us asking why they feel so compelled to destroy even things they love
3. Brian Williams-hater Bill O’Reilly is totally just jealous because his fake combat story is totally fucking lame
4. Jeb Bush successfully proves that his foreign policy agenda isn’t like his brother’s...it’s more like Herman Cain’s.
5. Hillary Clinton and every single nobody in America is running for president in 2016.
6. In case you were wondering whether a swallowed camera pill might end up in your vagina...oh, wait, you weren’t?
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Wednesday Feb 11, 2015
Wednesday Feb 11, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
2. Greece isn’t afraid to tell Germany what they really think about modern-day loans and you know, World War II
3. The house can’t remember why they’re trying to repeal Obamacare for the 56th time, but they CAN remember why Texas is awesome, and that almost makes the same point, right?
4. Political heavyweights like the 90s era governor of New York and the former governor of Virginia toss their hats into the 2016 ring. Book deals for everybody!
5. Ben Carson, the only tea-party approved pediatric neurosurgeon, makes the accidental error of showing a basic understanding of science
6. Rep./Male Model Aaron Schock needs you to know that he is not a “Downton Abbey” fan despite his office’s peacock feather decor
7. NYers get the go-ahead from scientists to clean up the subway’s pesky bubonic plague germs by licking subway poles
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Monday Jan 26, 2015
Monday Jan 26, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
2. Greatest event in the history of the world descends upon Iowa, showering the state in racist quips, Hillary hatred, and groundbreaking (well...incorrect) word use.
3. Future car-elevator companions Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney share a gentlemanly lunch, studiously avoid topics of any sort.
4. New York is having two very New York problems this week: ethics scandals and fare increases. We’re most upset about the latter.
5. Does anybody know ISIS’s phone number? Japan is trying to call them.
6. When Glenn Beck pays for a concert, Glenn Beck expects Billy Joel to bring his freaking A-game!
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Sunday Dec 21, 2014
Sunday Dec 21, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
2. Governor Andrew Cuomo finally confirms what everyone with flammable drinking water has known for ages, bans fracking in New York
3. Remember that movie that you weren’t going to see with your family on Christmas, The Interview? You can now carry on with that plan guilt-free after Sony pulls it over possible North Korean terrorist threats.
4. NY Mag follows in Rolling Stone’s lazy footsteps by not checking any sources in Stuyvesant student’s fake $72 million dollar stock market fortune.
5. Mitt Romney still leads republican presidential polls? Thankfully Donald Trump looks to challenge him in a battle for the nomination, and title of most out of touch uber-rich old white man in America.
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Monday Dec 15, 2014
Monday Dec 15, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. CIA torture report proves that a) we’ve been in the grasp of a huge sneaking evil for years and b) Dianne Feinstein has an ounce of fight left in her after all.
2. Dick Cheney’s new heart only new in the literal sense. His metaphorical heart is just as evil and unfeeling as it always was.
3. New UN climate deal nixes the pledges and opts for the helpful non-binding suggestions way of dealing with major polluters.
4. Pig diarrhea among the many pressing items of national interest addressed by the new, amendment-laden house spending bill.
5. Much of the left is now Ready for Warren. Either none of or all of the right is ready for Jeb.
6. Ferguson Eric Garner Protests still going strong
7. Angelina Jolie and Amy Pascal share a hug (and grimace) heard ‘round the world in Sony leaks aftermath.
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Sunday Nov 16, 2014
Sunday Nov 16, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
2. The GOP’s only strategy is the one thing they strategized to not do again. All hail #shutdown2015, the remix.
3. Centrists and Liberals are about to throw down Tea Party style as Democrats reckon with how to not get shitstomped in future elections.
4. Still don’t have healthcare? What are you thinking?! (Also, open enrollment is in session! You could totally fix this!)
5. ISIS still in the business of producing exceptionally long, disgusting videos. We’re starting to doubt their much-touted social media savvy. 16 minutes is too long, guys!
6. Well we landed on a comet. (Yay?) But besides causing a real #shirtstorm, we might not have accomplished much. Turns out that sunlight is a really important ingredient in launching a successful solar energy space probe.
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