Brain Trust Live

BTL #371 - The Senate Rundown [w/ guest Carla Nordstrom] - 10/12/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. Carla Nordstrom returns to tell you everything you need to know about the state of the Senate races!

2. Is Ranked Choice Voting coming for you?

3. The VP Debate was won by fracking and flies

4. Trump is feeling healthy and ready to get out there and start superspreading COVID again

5. Lindsey Graham insists black people are safe in SC as long as they’re conservative, but offers no further comments on how to project conservatism for your safety.

And hello to our friends at Trillbilly Worker's Party, a fellow progressive podcast that got a couple of shout-outs this week!

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, helicopters, barking dogs, and computer beeps who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

BTL #369 - Read the Room - 9/28/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. RBG is the first woman to lie in state. Ever. 

2. Trump makes his SCOTUS selection. Dems already prepared with excuses for why they can’t do anything about it.

3. Goodbye healthcare, it was nice not ever really knowing you.

4. It turns out #justiceforBreonnaTaylor will remain a hashtag and not a reality.

5. In another failure to read the room, Nancy Pelosi is now offering even less COVID relief.

6. The beginning of Joe Biden’s campaign day is usually a statement telling us it’s over.

In Which we Don't Discuss:

Trump's taxes. The news didn't break in time to make it into this week's episode. We'll cover it next week!

 

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, helicopters, barking dogs, and computer beeps who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

BTL #368 - Worst Case Scenario - 9/21/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. Early voting has begun in four states and is coming to you too!

2. RBG passed away, ushering in a worst case scenario for democracy

3. Mitch McConnell is a hypocrite. Stop being shocked by that

4. Joe Biden takes credit for inventing what drag queens have been doing for months to get people to events mid-pandemic

5. We’re voting #no on the California ballot even containing these two props

6. New updates on the deer Chuck Grassley hit eight years ago

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, helicopters, barking dogs, and computer beeps who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

BTL #363 - Massachusetts: Who Knew? - 8/17/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. Become a Vote Captain, sign up to be a poll worker, and offer ballot pick-ups in your community.

2. All that suspense was for nothing in Joe Biden’s veepstakes saga

3. The DNC lineup leaves us wondering how you protest at a virtual convention

4. Another squad member “survives” a 20 point victory

5. Massachusetts: Who knew?

6. QAnon is headed to Congress!

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, helicopters, and computer beeps who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

BTL #359 - Manhattan, Texas - 7/20/20

 

In Which We Discuss:

1. Nation mourns the loss of John Lewis while Marco Rubio learns he can’t tell any of his black colleagues apart

2. Texas, of all places, is trying to become the next New York City

3. We live in a Southern Cone dictatorship, so maybe don’t worry about election results anyway

4. If you’re shocked you haven’t yet had to go hungry, just wait until August!

5. Kanye West and all his demons hold their first campaign rally

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, helicopters, and computer beeps who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BTL #358 - Stock Market Sacrifice - 7/13/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. We shouldn’t have to say this, but you don’t sacrifice the nations children to save the stock market

2. Florida man becomes 15,000th person to get coronavirus in a single day

3. SCOTUS would rather have the President have no immunity, but also no consequence

4. Senate Democratic candidates out-raise Democratic presidential candidates

5. It would have been really nice to know before the Kentucky primary that Ann Coulter would be supporting Amy McGrath

6. Perhaps Trump aced his cognitive test this week because he employed the same strategy he used to take his SATs: hiring someone to do it for him

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, helicopters, and computer beeps who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

 

 

BTL #357 - The Frontier Spirit of Las Vegas - 7/6/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. The next Michele Bachmann has entered our lives!

2. New Jersey wins the prize for the most creative voter suppression method you’ve never heard about

3. Everyone has coronavirus. Stay home.

4. Donald Trump wowed by the indomitable frontier spirit that brought us Las Vegas

5. Joe Biden wishes you’d tear down those statues more peacefully

6. Kanye West isn’t going to let a web of national crises disrupt his long-time plan to run for president in 2020

NEWS: Make sure to check out Lila's appearance on The Guilty Feminist!

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, helicopters, and computer beeps who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

*There's a slight technical difficulty that starts at minute 42. We know about it, but what could we do, you know? Thanks for your patience!*

 

BTL #356 - Long-Term Plans - 6/28/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. If you run progressives, you sometimes can elect them, and that is the definition of being electable

2. Eating out is nice and all, but what about staying at home and drinking alone...forever?

3. Donald Trump: Where white nationalism and Russian nationalism find their Grand Wizard

4. Progressives can defeat mainline Democrats by thinking long-term

5. DC gets one step closer to statehood. Puerto Rico...still batting zero.

6. California Democrats try a crazy experiment...moving the party forward in a unified way.

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, helicopters, and computer beeps who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

BTL #355 - The Emptysburg Address - 6/22/20

 

In Which We Discuss:

1. Hillary Clinton bravely comes off the sidelines to endorse a 16 term incumbent

2. Trump reveals himself to be an expert ramp physicist at his sparsely attended Tulsa rally

3. Neil Gorsuch borrows Dick Cheney’a hunting rifle for this week’s SCOTUS decisions

4. John Bolton’s Moustache finally reveals its secrets! 

5. “Law and Order” president signs entirely predictable policing executive order amidst nationwide protest

6. Klobuchar withdraws from VP race, seemingly unaware that the rest of us had proactively withdrawn her weeks ago

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, helicopters, and computer beeps who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BTL #354 - Kill The Compromise - 6/15/20

In Which We Discuss:

1. Black lives still don’t seem to matter enough to police departments in California and Georgia

2. But don’t worry, the Democrats have seen the protests and boy do they have a compromise for you!

3. The threat of COVID is even worse than that time you stayed in your house for three months

4. Trump’s new campaign strategy: Kill his own supporters so he doesn’t have to be president for four more years

5. Biden’s VP shortlist is shorter in number and short on excitement

6. You can take Bernie Sanders out of the presidential race, but you can’t take his supporters out of the electorate

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in electoral and political news. Join the millions of quarantiners, helicopters, and computer beeps who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!