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 Jul 15, 2012
Sunday Jul 15, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. “Retroactive Retirement”, Now a Phrase the Romney Campaign Would Desperately Like You To Be Using
2. Burlington Coat Factory (and Other Companies You Aren’t Using) Owned By Bain Capital
3. Like America, Mitt Romney Has No Idea Where His Money Is Being Held, Lindsey Graham Believes This To Be An Act of Patriotism
4. Least Surprising Story of the Week: Romney Is Booed at the NAACP Convention
5. Veepstakes Continues With a New, Politically Timed Leak
6. Daddy Bush on Grover Norquist’s Middle School Dreams
7. The Governor of Maine Thinks the IRS is About To Kill You
8. General Incompetence At an All-Time High
9. The Return of Anthony Weiner, a SuperPAC with no Weiners, and The Great Cyanide Incident of 2012
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Sunday Jul 08, 2012
Sunday Jul 08, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. Romney Campaign Still Has No Coherent Position the Law They Invented.
2. Republicans Continue to Un-endorse Mitt Romney at Staggering Rate. Luckly Mitt Has Family, Friends, and Mormons to Sustain Him.
3. Surprise, We Now Have Proof that Americans Hate Bain Capital
4. Gary Johnson: A Future Ross Perot in the Works?
5. Allen West is Obsessed With Obama as Slave Owner.
6. You Can, As of Right Now, Still Get an Abortion in Mississippi and Vote In Texas, But Maybe Not For Long…
7. Apparently, American Bison To Blame For Your High Gas Prices. Irrefutable Logic From America's Cow Doctor.
8. Is It Hot Where You Are? George Will Tells Us Why
9. You Are Still Much Poorer Than The Average CEO
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Sunday Jul 01, 2012
Sunday Jul 01, 2012
In Which We Discuss: 1. We won! Obamacare Lives to See Another Day. 2. Romney Wants to Replace Obamacare With A New Plan With All the Same Policies 3. Republicans Not Super Worried About the 30 Million Uninsured, Still Crossing Fingers for Full Repeal 4. CNN, Doing "Good Reporting" After 20 Minutes of Incorrect Reporting 5. Turns Out that People Like Good Things 6. Supreme Court Strikes Down Arizona Law: Jan Brewer Curiously Thrilled, Romney Still Confused 7. Corporations Are Still People Too, So Says Supreme Court Want to hear more from us during the week? Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/BrainTrustLive or find us on Twitter @braintrustlive!
Sunday Jul 01, 2012
Sunday Jul 01, 2012
In Which We Discuss: 1. House, Though Held in Nation's Contempt, Can Still Hold Their Own Grudges 2. Romney Tries to Woo WaPo With Powerpoints, Fails 3. The Week in Tweets, Much Longer Than the Last Week In Tweets 4. Hidden News Item of the Week: Congress Did One Thing Successfully, Nobody Notices 5. JPMorgan's Dimon Thinks Earth Hitting Moon Unlikely Possibility 6. The Horrific Tragedy of 9/18 (Never Forget) 7. Texas Republican Trying to Outlaw Thought 8. Week in Fake Celebrity News
Sunday Jun 24, 2012
Sunday Jun 24, 2012
In Which We Discuss: 1. This is the Week That You'll Learn if You're Going to be Left to Die of Preventable Illness by Antonin Scalia 2. The Fast and the Furious - Boring Movie and Boring Scandal 3. The Different Between "Outsourcing" to Nebraska and Creating Jobs = The Question of Our Times 4. We Have the Same Job as Mitt Romney, Mysteriously None of the Wealth 5. John Boehner living in a "DREAMact" World. 6. Harry Reid Takes to the Streets, Has "Bros" 7. Gays Treating Reagan With the Respect he Deserves 8. Americans are Getting Dumber. 6 Reasons Why. 9. How Humans Were Created by Swastika-Loving Alien Scientists and Other Completely True Stories Want to hear more from us during the week? Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/BrainTrustLive or find us on Twitter @braintrustlive!
Sunday Jun 03, 2012
Sunday Jun 03, 2012
In Which We Discuss: 1. The Conspiracy That is Most Definitely Happening to Take Over the World 2. NYC Hates Sugary Drinks, Loves Sugary Carbohydrates 3. Florida Not Sorry For Continued Attempts to Thwart Democracy 4. Mitt Romney, Former Lover of Thing He is Now Actively Against 5. Marxist Policy Score: George W. Bush 1, Obama 0 6. "Let's Talk About Blow and Dope," Says Allen West, Republican-FL, 1972 7. Republicans Willing to Raise Taxes, But Only to Kill Innocents Abroad 8. Stimulus Money Even Helps Republicans 9. Now Unseated Thad McCotter, Rep-MI: Michigan Voters,You're Welcome Want to hear more from us during the week? Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/BrainTrustLive or find us on Twitter @braintrustlive!
Monday May 28, 2012
Monday May 28, 2012
In Which We Discuss: 1. Financial Shenanigans Still Legal, Still Happening 2. Mitt Romney Has No Idea Why He's Qualified To Be President, But Don't Worry, He Is 3. Four Years Later: Rudy Giuliani Still Believes He Is Running For President 4. Is Trump the Cory Booker of the GOP? Is He Also a "Bloviating Ignoramus?" 5. Allen West's Week As a Democrat 6. Florida's Continued Attempts to Thwart Democracy 7. The Republican Children of 2008
Tuesday May 22, 2012
Tuesday May 22, 2012
In Which We Discuss: 1. Acme Inc. (ie. Bain Capital, the Creator of Anywhere Between 1,000 and 100,000 Unverifiable of Jobs) 2. '12 Veepstakes and the Search for an Awesome, Crowd-Inspiring "Incredibly Boring White Guy" 3. GOP's Wants to Replace Obamacare With Current System 4. Tea Party Hates Banks, Being Run By Them 5. Birtherism Back En Vogue, Still Nutsy 6. Crazy State Law Round-up (Arizona's BACK!) 7. California Effectively Rids Itself of Primaries 8. Conservatives Have a New Reason to Deny Science Want to hear more from us during the week? Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/BrainTrustLive or find us on Twitter @braintrustlive!
Sunday Apr 29, 2012
Sunday Apr 29, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. Gingrich Ends Worst Campaign in History
2. Romney the “Libel-Proof Plaintiff”
3. Student Loan and Stage Three Socialism
4. Obama, Clinton, BFFS
5. House Primary Update
6. Republicans “One Mission in Life” is War on Women, Republicans are the Problem
7. Ted Nugent and Fox Mole Updates
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Sunday Apr 22, 2012
Sunday Apr 22, 2012
In Which We Discuss: 1. Ted Nugent, Bear/President Killer 2. GOP Primary Update 3. Tamping Down on the Tea Party, Tea Party Up to Shenanigans 4. Bush-Rubio VP Non-Showdown 5. This Weeks News in Mormonism, Dogs 6. West Virginia = This Week's Winning Crazy State 7. The Week in Punditry 8. Mexico Believes in Science If you enjoy the podcast and would like to hear more from us throughout the week, "like" us on Facebook athttps://www.facebook.com/BrainTrustLive or follow us on Twitter @braintrustlive!