Brain Trust Live

BTL # 181 - LADY OF LEISURE - 1/4/16

In Which We Discuss:

1. Pataki will no longer have to debate himself at the next kiddie table GOP debate.

2. Bernie Sanders shatters Obama fundraising records to close out the year.

3. Lady of Leisure Hillary Clinton wants you all to know that she approves of dodging jury duty.

4. With the 24/7 coverage of Donald Trump, you probably forgot there are other exciting races in 2016!  We’re here to remind you.

5. The Cliven Bundy domestic terrorist family rides again!

6. Taking the side of 90% of the country, Obama takes gun control matters into his own hands

7. Bill Cosby is indicted.  Hey, at least he’ll get jello at every meal in prison?

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BTL # 180 - HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPOS - 12/14/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. 195 Countries are willing to take a chance on believing in climate change, which is a far better percentage than in our own Congress

2. Ted Cruz is the new second-place frontrunner in the GOP primary because...he’s actually in first place somewhere!

3. Trump decides we should ban all Muslims...except the rich/important kind.  So don’t worry, the bin Ladens can still visit you!

4. Just about everybody is threatening to leave the GOP and run independently over a contested convention that hasn’t happened yet

5. The rent is still too damn high, but Jimmy McMillan is retiring so now nobody is working on it

6. America is losing on several fronts most notably the soda, chicken wing, and hippo-related ones

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BTL # 179 - DEADLY MONEY - 12/7/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. When can we start calling the NRA terrorists instead of lobbyists?  Is it now?

2. GOP proposes several strategies to deal with the week’s multiple mass shootings including denial, misplaced blame, and voting no on common sense gun legislation

3. Bernie Sanders is now polling higher against Hillary than Obama was in December of 2007

4. GOP releases plan in case of Trump nomination: ask Senate candidates to wear cooler clothes and dig up tree trunks for a day

5. Senate now only 60 Obamacare repeals behind House in the GOP war of healthcare-hating

6. Ben Carson will the defeat the delicious chickpea-based snack food beloved by millions, fear be damned

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BTL # 178 - ONE EXORCISM IS A-OKAY - 11/23/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Apparently the line in Louisiana politics is TWO prostitution scandals.  Still okay: 1 prostitution scandal, 1 exorcism.

2. Darkhorse candidate “Wouldn’t Vote” sneaking up on Ted Cruz and the other frontrunners in latest GOP polling

3. Julia Brownley, world’s most desperate Democrat, won’t help world’s most desperate refugees

4. Jeb! Bush is the only GOP candidate forgetting to make coded Nazi references in discussion of our refugee policy

5. Anonymous will defeat ISIS using the most annoying meme ever created: we’re apparently “Never Gonna Give You Up” rick-rolling

6. Trump supporters show themselves to be, just as we suspected, a literal racist mob

7. Sarah Palin...is planning to do something - we think - according to what we imagine she was trying to say using a collection of words

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BTL #174 - POLITICALLY SUICIDAL - 10/26/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Benghazi hearings prove that Hillary Clinton could have been a champion filibusterer. Oh, what could have been!

2. The Democratic post-debate carnage was so bad that they lost candidates who weren’t even running.

3. Sorry Jeb!, it turns out that all the money in the world can’t buy you...campaign contributors?

4. Iowa Frontrunner Ben Carson’s biggest political weakness turns out to be his only professional qualification

5. Paul Ryan’s diagnosis after joining the speaker race: politically suicidal.  Let’s have some fun!

6. House needs a pick-me-up after failed Benghazi hearings, decides to repeal Obamacare again because that’s always comforting

7. No matter where he is, what he’s doing, or which gays he’s passing judgement on, David Vitter will hire a prostitute because regular friend won’t have sex with you for money

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BTL #173 - TRUMP'S HAT PLAN - 10/19/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. America got our first, and what we hope will be our last, look at Lincoln Chafee and Jim Webb at the Democratic Debate. 

2. Joe Biden’s decision is STILL coming soon.  He knows he has to make it BEFORE people start voting, right?

3. We finally found something we agree with Trump and Carson on - that their next debate should only be two hours long.  

4. Six GOP candidates will soon learn what all of the rest of Earth already knows - that they have no prayer of being president

5. Apparently the US Government and Fox News have an equally careful vetting process

6. If there’s one thing Rand Paul hates more than polling at 2%, it’s a “dumbass” livestream

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BTL # 171 - THE YAMMERINGS - 10/5/15

In Which We Discuss: 

1. Not much actual hearing going on at the congressional Planned Parenthood yammerings

2. Kevin McCarthy’s Speaker candidacy unravels after an accidental moment of honesty

3. Oregon shooting is a remarkable reminder of how unremarkable it is to be talking about mass shootings in America

4. Bernie Sanders...the oldest guy to ever be THIS trendy

5. Hillary Clinton would love to support gays, but she can’t, mainly because she just just doesn’t wanna

6. Kim Davis: just one more American who doesn’t know Pope

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BTL #170 - CELEBRITY WATER THIEF - 9/28/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Hey guys, what does it mean that Boehner is being remembered by Democrats as a great compromiser?  Should we be concerned?

2. Walker can’t stand the figurative and literal heat at the Reagan library GOP debates

3. Florida’s entry into the GOP race is on the rise...it’s just not Bush

4. The Democratic poll numbers are fucking bananas

5. Pope’s visit finally puts the spotlight on the greatest celebrity water thief in American history.  Somebody elected this person to office, btw.

6. Who would have guessed that the makers of the adorable Beetle hatchback would be up to something so nefarious?  Only students of German history.

7.  Brazen sea turtle riding on the rise in...you guessed it...Florida!

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BTL #169 - LABOR DAY - 9/8/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. The latest polls prove that America is ready to accept almost anyone other than another Bush or Clinton

2.  Europe is Shocked, Shocked, SHOCKED that over 3 million Syrians don’t really want to stay in war-torn Syria

3. Hillary Clinton is outed as America’s unsung gefilte fish hero

4. Some enticing offers from the GOP front: Jeb Bush will speak Spanish wherever he damn well pleases, and Donald trump will be “good at the military”

5. Democrats finally rustle up enough Democrats to back Obama’s Democratic Iran deal

6. Thrice married and unwed mother Kim Davis becomes hero for Christians everywhere

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BTL #168 - #SMDWB, THE EPIDEMIC - 8/31/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. “Surprising” new Iowa polls show that everything we’ve always said would happen is happening now in Iowa, where we said it would happen

2. GOP candidates are ready with plans for our next immigration war with...Canada?

3. O’Malley and Sanders are not afraid to get all up in Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s face

4. Apparently stealing a single Mountain Dew while Black (#SMDWB?) in America is yet another offense police punish by death

5. The sanitation strike in Beirut is bad enough that it’s spawned a rare multi-religious movement (as well as great PR for their new sanitation service, Uber)

6. VMA’s are happening.  Ew.

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