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 Jul 28, 2014
Monday Jul 28, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. Israel so over it that Kerry’s not even able to set a date for his next meeting about a meeting
2. A heads up for deal-seekers: Algeria is another nation in the grips of a disappearing aircraft crisis
3. In VA reform fight, entirely reasonable bill supported by Socialists and non-Socialists alike makes its way into rainbow and healthcare-hating Tea Party territory
4. Obama will be impeached for doing productive things while being criticized for not doing productive things under new Ted-Cruz approved GOP plan
5. Sen. Chuck schumes his way into the primary jungle and pisses off the natives
Monday Jul 21, 2014
Monday Jul 21, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. CNN granted new lease on life by the latest war-zone air-travel tragedy, now in a position to accidentally report real news.
2. John Kerry taking his meeting-about-a-meeting diplomacy tour to Israel, plans to offer no concessions to anybody.
3. Granted YMCA camp sounds terrible, but not as terrible as not being able to tell the difference between laughing children and South American refugees.
4. Todd Akin returns just in time to legitimately rape the GOP’s 2014 election prospects.
5. Science finally proves what we’ve always hoped was true -- that conservatives are biologically different. Too bad they don’t believe in science.
6. This week on Hillary Pillory: Hillary Clinton carries W’s famously compassionate conservative mantle at a true meeting of the minds - an Insurance industry confab.
7. Apparently Silicon Valley technology is now in the business of manufacturing voters to sign the 6 Californias petition.
Monday Jun 09, 2014
Monday Jun 09, 2014
In Which We (BiCoastally) Discuss:
1. Tuesday’s primary elections bring mixed results for wacko candidates from both parties
2. GOP patriots now in favor of leaving behind POWs, because hey, screw due process!
3. Republicans hellbent on fixing the VA may or may not be in support of new bipartisan bill to fix the VA
4. It's the time of the month where we report jobs numbers, and update you on how last month’s jobs numbers were totally incorrect
5. Seattle residents already reaping the super awesome benefits of electing a socialist to their city council with massive minimum wage increase
Sunday Jun 01, 2014
Sunday Jun 01, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. After starting an illegal war, Republicans are suddenly re-concerned about the rule of law after Obama’s renegade prisoner exchange
2. Resignation fever sweeps the Obama administration
3. GOP still in denial about the lack of jobs that will be available after the world ends due to climate change
4. This week on Hillary Pillory: Clinton makes some hard choices concerning whether or not she wrote her own book
5. Edward Snowden refuses to heed Kerry’s call to “man up,” continues to make the even manlier choice by living in the terrifying country of Russia
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
Sunday May 18, 2014
Sunday May 18, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. NY Times editor ouster shows a surprising lack of media strategy at the paper of record
2. Neurologist Karl Rove has new medical theory that fake concussions can amount to serious brain damage when it comes to political rivals
3. Republicans show increasingly marginal grasp on cause-and-effect in their choice to
block VA funding then be furious about poor veterans care
4. We are going to investigate Benghazi again, this time focusing on the “beginning,” “middle,” and “end”
5. Improbably, somebody with the name Butch Otter is the least ridiculous person at the Idaho GOP gubernatorial debates
Sunday Apr 13, 2014
Sunday Apr 13, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. Kathleen Sebelius gets out while the gettin ’s good
2. Ukraine is either at war with itself or Russia, or maybe both, but at least it’s not at war with us
3. Equal Pay Day ends up being the perfect time for GOP Senators to block equal pay legislation
4. America’s next greatest supervillain reveals herself at a Hillary Clinton waste management convention
5. GOP’s likely presidential candidates come together to talk Benghazi, IRS, and Donald Trump’s newest Florida development
Tuesday Mar 18, 2014
Tuesday Mar 18, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. Lila and Brent forget to wear green due to early morning earthquake panic
2. CNN strikes ratings gold with it’s new “poop cruise,” the Malaysia Airlines supernatural conspiracy disaster
3. Sham elections define this week in ex-communist countries acting a fool
4. Obama appears on web comedy talk show, offers a master class if knowing your audience
5. Scott Brown is living super free these days
Monday Jan 27, 2014
Monday Jan 27, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
1. GOP bogeyman Uncle Sugar will turn your daughter into a sex-crazed birth control addict. Thanks for the warning, Hucky.
2. This week on Hillary Pillory: Planet Hillary shoots into orbit, prepares for war with Klingons, Rand Paul.
3. Obamacare sign-ups surge, giving the GOP plenty to remain seated for at this week’s State of the Union speech.
4. Note to McDonnell and D’Souza, if you’re caught committing a blatant crime, it’s not a liberal witch hunt, it’s just American justice.
5. Ashley Wagner’s mother feels way too comfortable going to the Sochi Olympics, terrorist threat or not.
6. Unfortunately, Roman peace doves are poorly trained in the art of bird war.
7. Justin Bieber is arrested during the internet’s most excruciatingly slow drag race.
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Tuesday Jan 07, 2014
Tuesday Jan 07, 2014
In Which We Discuss:
2. Rep. Boehner pats self on back for successfully carrying out the least productive year in Congressional history
3. A brief review of just how right we were in 2013
4. The Christmas Eve spin machine goes into overdrive
5. This week on Hillary Pillory: Clinton SuperPACs are already competing to run her campaign into the ground before it starts
6. Family-hating Virginia resident Liz Cheney pulls out of Wyoming senate primary against well-liked ice-cream socialite Mike Enzi