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 May 03, 2015
Sunday May 03, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. An important review of Bernie Sanders’ long-forgotten folk career
2. Baltimore finally has a folk hero and, more importantly, an indictment
3. Ben Carson hopes to add a sequel to his hit TV biopic. Cuba Gooding-Jr is probably still available.
4. New Bridegate developments strike at the very moment Chris Christie would have liked to have been announcing
5. Rick Santorum cannot tolerate your gay marriage due to the fact that it caused 9/11 but is totally cool if Bruce Jenner feels he’s a woman. Who is he to judge?
6. Biggest boxing match in history pits domestic violence aficionado against world’s least effective politician
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Monday Apr 20, 2015
Monday Apr 20, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Marco Rubio spends his first week on the campaign trail presenting diametrically opposed ideas on numerous subjects
2. The Ted Cruz Super PAC trilogy teases a mythical tale of blockbuster proportions
3. Why is Lindsay Graham still single? Fox News and Brain Trust Live discuss.
4. Hillary, Huma, and the whole Scooby gang begin their storied road trip to rural Iowa with a burrito, a Liz Warren compliment, and a dream
5. We’re 91% closer to having a Chick-fil-a in the White House thanks to Lindsey Graham
6. Animals are literally falling from the sky, an in-depth analysis
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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 16, 2015
Monday Mar 16, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
2. Hillary Clinton doesn’t know if we care about Chelsea’s wedding or her own yoga schedule, but she decided to just make an executive decision about the whole thing and now we’ll never know
3. Secret Service is populated by the same drunk frat guys you always suspected it was
4. Senate happy to keep their least favorite person Eric Holder employed just to show us how wrong abortion is...since that’s relevant.
5. Netanyahu desperately shouts conservative talking points so people remember he’s tough on vague, amorphous enemies
6. Bristol Palin engaged to the Rascal Flatts lifestyle, and now a man too!
7. Genius conspiracy theorist tricks Glenn Beck into badmouthing his beloved NRA via concerns about taxes and the Muslim Brotherhood
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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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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 19, 2015
Monday Jan 19, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
2. Upon hearing that income inequality is a thing, car elevator-owner Mitt Romney tries to care a little but fails to convince even his own party of his change-of-heart
3. California Democrats conjure more credible contenders for 2016 senate race in two days than either political party has for president in two years
4. Much of country and world fails to recognize the irony of tweeting anti-Muslim and other racist things on MLK day
5. Surprising news: Hollywood cabal populated by ancient rich white men has no respect for civil rights stories or the historically downtrodden Lego people
6. GOP Congressmen and Senators take a group trip to Hershey, PA, enjoy chocolate syrup salad dressing and chocolate soap with the rest of the children
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Sunday Dec 07, 2014
Sunday Dec 07, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
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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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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