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!
Monday Oct 20, 2014
Monday Oct 20, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. If @LenaDunham’s book and Lila Nordstrom’s memory are any any guide, mock slavery social experiments were how history got taught to a generation of NYC kids in the 90s.
2. Newly appointed Ebola czar is not the czar John McCain would have picked if he was in favor of appointing czars which he’s not so stop asking him about it.
3. U.S. practices favorite kind of armchair diplomacy - air-dropping “lethal aid” on rebels with ambiguous goals.
4. Politico poll proves that it’s easy to be panicked about everything when you know nothing about anything.
5. This week in #HillaryPillory - Thought-crime strikes again, this time care of @Harpers
6. #SCOTUS faces their biggest gender divide yet...and not over gender issues. #VoterID
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Sunday Sep 28, 2014
Sunday Sep 28, 2014
Sunday Sep 21, 2014
Sunday Sep 21, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
Monday Sep 15, 2014
Monday Sep 15, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
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 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
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