Brain Trust Live

BTL #125 - TOWNS WITH DOORS - 9/29/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. A couple of ISIS bombings and Republicans are already excited about the prospect of boots on the ground in unnecessary war.

2. Thanks to Senate discord, Eric Holder’s resignation might end up just being for show.

3. After Obama’s fake #lattesalute gaffe, how long will we have to wait for a pumpkin spice latte salute campaign from Starbucks (#PSL).

4. The struggle is real for would-be murderers who just happen to be Muslim.  It’s hard to be notorious when Al Qaeda gets all the credit for your crimes. 

5. Value Voters can’t decide whether gay marriage is just boring or a scourge on society, but they all seem to know who Ben Carson is.

6. Self-appointed Real-Life Disney Princess sues Disney for stealing her tale of having a sister and living in a village with doors.

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BTL #124 - WATCH OUT WORLD - 8/22/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. What do Ban Ki Moon, Bernie Sanders, and Sting all have in common?  They all went a’ climate marching this weekend!

2. We finally figured out what it takes to make GOP-ers fund the government: war resolutions.  Watch out world!

3. In Obamacare news, despite GOP scare-mongering, people can be trusted to pay for products they’ve purchased, just like has always worked in the past.  Hooray capitalism!

4. Secret Service combat training and sniper rifles are not enough to stop one Texas man with an important message about the sci-fi apocalypse

5. J.K. Rowling wins the day in an uber-expensive campaign against two obese Scottish lottery winners looking to buy a nation

6. Shonda Rhimes takes on the New York Times TV critic over a super un-clever play on words

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BTL #123 - LIPSTICK ON A TRACK - 9/15/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. The Palin family’s extracurriculars prove that you can put lipstick on a drunk shirtless man giving the finger to everybody, but it’s still a Track Palin

2. The US may or may not be at war with ISIS, but it’s definitely at war with itself over foreign policy semantics

3. Left-wing “money for schools, not for war” demand takes on bizarrely literal meaning

4. America learns an important lesson: refusing to acknowledge a political opponent named Zephyr Teachout is a fool’s errand

5. Hillary Clinton proves she’s running for president by pretending to believe “steak frys” are a real thing

6. CNN was right all along- you definitely will die of ebola

7. Like your 13 year-old cousin, Mark Sanford breaks up with his girlfriend on Facebook.

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BTL # 122 - FAKE FRY - 8/25/14

In Which We Discuss:

1. Obama administration casually wonders if we should stop arming our local police forces with tanks.  They’ll look into it...

2. ISIS delusionally believes they might take over India and, hell, why now throw in Saudi Arabia too?

3. #HillaryPillory : In the face of challenges from “fringe isolationist” Rand Paul, DNC assures Americans that we will definitely go to war if Hillary is elected.  Whew!

4. Hillary Clinton to headline the Harkin “steak fry,” a kind of “fry” that is mysterious to even born-and-bred Iowan Brent Thornburg.  

5. Unsurprisingly, a MN anti-gay crusader and GOP congressional candidate knows way too much about gay sex.

6. Updates on all of the most important pop culture events of the week: #Jessie Williams, #GreysAnatomy, #TaylorSwift, #MichaelSam, #IceBucketChallenge and more!

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BTL # 121 - HILARIOUS DRUNK PEOPLE - 8/18/14

In Which We Discuss:

1.  RIP Robin Williams.  Your death is at least bringing attention to the dangers of mental illness, which is something even repeated tragic school shootings couldn’t.

2. Ferguson, MO is just the latest in a series of war-torn regions that the American military, ie. a municipal police force, is having to “save” via ruthless military intervention.

3. Rick Perry really doesn’t like hilarious drunk people, is obviously no fun.

4. Nouri al-Maliki is so over it, realizes that fixing Iraq will require somebody with a desire to do so.  

5. Do not even think about nominating us for the ice bucket challenge.  We mean it.

6. As if the fear of your flight just disappearing into thin air isn’t enough, we now have proof that armless pilots are captaining planes.  

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BTL #119 - CAPITALIST COOKIES - 8/4/14

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.

6. Sarah Palin’s channel already providing a platform for horribly bigoted “real Americans” to call for Obama’s death.  Ain’t ‘murica great?

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BTL #118 - RIGHT TO REMAIN PARANOID - 7/29/14

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

6. Sarah Palin is launching a network offering countless images of an automaton with her face shaking hands with white people of all weights and ages

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BTL #117 - HOW MANY CALIFORNIAS IS ENOUGH? - 7/22/14

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.

8. Also, SINKHOLES.  So, like, that.

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BTL #116 - JESUS H. REAGAN - 7/15/14

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.

7. Speaking of healthcare, do NOT, we repeat, do NOT get your medical advice from Pat Robertson

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BTL #110 - MANLY CHOICES - 6/2/14

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

6. The American Family Association lives in fear of their gay sympathizing friends, hatches plans to combat them using the postal service

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