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 Jun 29, 2015
Monday Jun 29, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. SCOTUS continues it’s move to the left as Scalia continues his slow descent into jiggery-pokery
2. Alabama and Bree Newsome show SC and America that taking an offensive flag down is as easy as...removing a flag
3. Bernie Sanders proves he’s a contender by facing his first slate of attacks...ever.
4. Bobby Jindal announces presidential run in homemade horror film
5. It only takes two words to explain why abstinence-only education doesn’t work: Bristol Palin
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Monday Jun 22, 2015
Monday Jun 22, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Like the president and Jon Stewart, we’re sick and tired of thinking of something new to say about white domestic terrorists and their totally legal super-deadly arsenals.
2. Proving they’re only 250 years behind the times, South Carolina may finally take down their state confederate flag. It’s time to admit the dream is dead, guys.
3. Speaking of dreams, 2016 is going to be the year we finally get to officially not vote for Donald Trump.
4. Math and science finally prove that once you know Bernie Sanders, you have no choice but to love him.
5. The GOP’s Catholic hopefuls now must explain why their faith is guiding them to deny science even the Pope knows is true.
6. Women continue to get 77% of what they ask for in their battle to be on the $20
7. North Korea cures everything using a top secret combination minerals and derring-do.
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Monday Jun 08, 2015
Monday Jun 08, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Sadly, Hastert’s attempt to rid the nation of corrupt legislators in the Clinton years was always destined to be incomplete. Turns out he was one of them.
2. Not even a clown car can contain the current GOP field. And evidently the Democratic party can’t contain their candidates since none of them are actually members.
3. Will the Biden’s ever catch a break? For God’s sake!
4. Jobs. We have more of them than we used to.
5. Patriot Act. We have less of it than we used to.
6. Duggars go on television to further explain their terrible choices, further embarrass their daughters
7. A rare supercombo of Snakes AND Sinkholes strike this week’s news!
8. Huckabee. This guy.
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Sunday May 17, 2015
Sunday May 17, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. We successfully crashed the CA Democratic Convention. Screw the rules!
2. Jeb Bush battles the hypothetical question of whether Jeb Bush should be answering hypothetical questions as a candidate
3. Massive carnage on an Amtrak route they frequent won’t stop Congress from making cuts to infrastructure spending
4. We’re still giving out the death penalty, a discussion
5. Mitt Romney and Evander Holyfield tickle-fight for charity
6. Andrew Keegan brings us the most Los Angeles story ever written
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Monday May 11, 2015
Monday May 11, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Seymour Hersh bombshell: Osama bin Laden is still dead. Carry on.
2. Hillary Clinton’s new media strategy is to pretend there is no media
3. Lap band surgery was probably cheaper than Chris Christie’s football game concessions
4. The Sheldon Adelson solo primary claims another victim: common sense
5. Republican candidates hawk Bible cures for your diabetes and tax woes because...pseudoscience
6. Somebody finally stood their ground and shot George Zimmerman in the face
7. Texas does the most Texas-y thing even attempted
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Sunday May 03, 2015
Sunday May 03, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. An important review of Bernie Sanders’ long-forgotten folk career
2. Baltimore finally has a folk hero and, more importantly, an indictment
3. Ben Carson hopes to add a sequel to his hit TV biopic. Cuba Gooding-Jr is probably still available.
4. New Bridegate developments strike at the very moment Chris Christie would have liked to have been announcing
5. Rick Santorum cannot tolerate your gay marriage due to the fact that it caused 9/11 but is totally cool if Bruce Jenner feels he’s a woman. Who is he to judge?
6. Biggest boxing match in history pits domestic violence aficionado against world’s least effective politician
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Tuesday Apr 28, 2015
Tuesday Apr 28, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Bernie Sanders gives Brent the best birthday present a boy could ever ask for.
2. A message to the police: please stop killing unarmed black people. Coming up with funny headlines for those stories is impossible.
3. In a very Los Angeles move, Ted Cruz would totally protest Loretta Lynch’s appointment if he didn’t have better plans.
4. A war of the signs breaks out outside the Supreme Court. Also something is going on inside there...
5. Washington commences the yearly summit between famous comedians and the people they make awkward jokes about.
6. Bruce Jenner comes out as a...Republican gun-owner. JUDGEMENT.
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Sunday Mar 29, 2015
Sunday Mar 29, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Finally chance to remember the knockouts in Harry Reid’s amateur boxing career, mediocre Senate career
2. A beloved french fry restaurant, site of many an important high school gossip summit, now sits in a pile of rubble due to East Village explosion tragedy
3. 2016 presidential field split on important issues like male pattern baldness, country music, monarchy
4. Indiana finally gives everybody a reason to ban travel to Indiana, a net win for all Americans
5. Ellen Pao loses lawsuit, still wins at proving the tech industry is a disgusting rich boys club
6. Christian minister knows she’s a prophet because hollywood films are super predictable
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Monday Mar 09, 2015
Monday Mar 09, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Democrats everywhere to Hillary Clinton: Please stop doing the things you do
2. DOJ report paints a compelling picture of how wonderful it is to be white in Ferguson, America
3. Republican American President Bibi Netanyahu offers the fanatical clapping opportunity GOP politicians have so desperately been missing
4. Shadow Speaker Nancy Pelosi passes a clean DHS funding bill, leaves the boys to their silly squabbles
5. We again name-check the Democrats the voted to override the Keystone veto, this time with fury
6. Maryland Senate race poised to offer the exciting inter-party war we’ve been waiting for
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Monday Jan 26, 2015
Monday Jan 26, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
2. Greatest event in the history of the world descends upon Iowa, showering the state in racist quips, Hillary hatred, and groundbreaking (well...incorrect) word use.
3. Future car-elevator companions Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney share a gentlemanly lunch, studiously avoid topics of any sort.
4. New York is having two very New York problems this week: ethics scandals and fare increases. We’re most upset about the latter.
5. Does anybody know ISIS’s phone number? Japan is trying to call them.
6. When Glenn Beck pays for a concert, Glenn Beck expects Billy Joel to bring his freaking A-game!
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