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 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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*We apologize for the audio issue at the very end of the podcast. Audio geniuses we are not, but hilarity geniuses? That you can count on!
Sunday Oct 12, 2014
Sunday Oct 12, 2014
Sunday Oct 05, 2014
Sunday Oct 05, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
Monday Aug 25, 2014
Monday Aug 25, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
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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 Aug 03, 2014
Sunday Aug 03, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. Kidnapping is this year’s "weapons of mass destruction"
2. US government charters Ebola’s first flight to Atlanta
3. One day after voting to sue Obama for unilateral action, Boehner pleads with the president for unilateral action on immigration
4. Turns out some guys were doing some torture or something like that….whatever, carry on with your day
5. Fearing cookie-inspired uprising, Kim Jong-Un bans much beloved capitalist cookie.
Monday Jul 28, 2014
Monday Jul 28, 2014
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
Monday Jul 21, 2014
Monday Jul 21, 2014
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.
Monday Jul 14, 2014
Monday Jul 14, 2014
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.
Monday Jun 30, 2014
Monday Jun 30, 2014
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