Brain Trust Live

BTL # 193 - A HASHTAG PLAN DOESN'T MAKES YOU #BLESSED - 3/21/16

In Which We Discuss:

1. The oft-ignored Tuesday is waging an all-out campaign to usurp fan-favorite Saturday as Superiest day of the week

2. Marco Rubio has delivered his final second-place “victory”speech of 2016.  And life.

3. GOP’s plan to stop Trump now mostly comprised of hashtags and placing articles about how they have a plan to stop Trump

4. Donald Trump upgrades rhetoric to include a threat to take America by force if necessary

5. SCOTUS nominee-gate 2016: A case study in the art of Clintoning

6. The paper of record is now acting more like Fox News than we are.  #Endtimes?

7. Pope Francis joins Instagram.  [Insert #instablessed comment here.]

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BTL #184 - #HILLARYPILLORY, THE MOVEMENT - 1/18/16

In Which We Discuss:

1. Bernie Sanders: A man who got the most debate time at this week’s Democratic debate

2. Hillary Clinton: A woman who won’t let experience stop her from misunderstanding things

3. Iran‘s prisoner release includes a mystery man that Wolf Blitzer just learned of

4. State of the Union reveals Paul Ryan is member of the elusive pro-cancer caucus

5. Ted Cruz and ALL of New York City have a very different sense of what “New York values” consist of 

6. Flint, MI’s water situation is just another kind of state violence against black people

7. Have a happy MLK Day, America!  (Related: Have a terrible Robert E. Lee day, Arkansas!  Or better yet, just don’t have one at all...)

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BTL #183 - GUNS PER TEAR SHED - 1/11/16

In Which We Discuss:

1. This week’s Democratic polling gives new insight into the cult electability’s war on the cult of...simple arithmetic and facts

2. Trump’s first act of “figuring out what going on” will have to include figuring out who he’s depicting in his first video at

3. Former Canadian Ted Cruz , after years of being trolled by Brain Trust Live, is finally taking some heat from the people who actually believe this shit

4. Gun nuts are buying one million guns per tear Obama sheds over all the children they’re shooting

5. Another good and/or lie-filled jobs report shows the economy remains on track

6. Whatever the NYC Equivalent of #BlackTwitter is has a collective meltdown over the retirement of Dr. Zizmor

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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 #176 - THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD - 11/9/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Tuesday’s election results are garbage.  Election day is for voting you fools!

2. Ben Carson goes on the defensive about his bio, promising Americans from the bottom of his heart that he definitely did stab somebody

3. Nothing’s funny about the Keystone pipeline, so hooray!  We’ll never have to mention it ever again!

4. Jeb can fix it.  Not his image, but “it” is all taken care of.  Whew.

5. MSNBC’s Democratic forum is forgotten about by 99.9% of the 2% of people who even knew about it in the first place

6. Fox News gets the facts right, the tone confusingly wrong, while reporting on this month’s jobs numbers

7. Christians rush to the rescue of a heartbroken Baby Jesus, who in addition to taking on all of our sin now must mourn the loss of his beloved Starbucks seasonal cups

8. Sinkhole Radio returns with warnings about the many dangers, both syrup and parking-related, of going to an IHOP

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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 #167 - FRIED BUTTER AT THE SOAPBOX - 8/24/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. Brent went to the Iowa State fair for you, so you wouldn’t have to eat fried butter.

2. Americans can rest easy knowing that Donald Trump has promised to never ride a bicycle or eat Oreos ever again.  Whew, relief!

3. Scott Walker has an opinion on the 14th Amendment.  Actually, he has all of the opinions.

4. Hillary Clinton email scandal has gotten so bad, even Joe Biden thinks maybe he could be president now.

5. Greek prime minister calls news elections in effort to run against his past sel

6. Ashley Madison leak provides most comprehensive list of evangelical Christians ever compiled

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BTL #166 - REPUBLICAN DEBATE #1 (W/ GUEST KIM EATON) - 8/10/15

In Which We Discuss:

1. We recount every moment you wanted to relive at the first official Republican Debate.  So...basically all of them.

2. Like women who can’t shut down pregnancies in cases of “legitimate” rape, the GOP can’t seem to shut down the compulsion to make insensitive comments about women

3. Hillary’s Dems to their own base: Hey guys, is debating really the answer when we’ve already chosen the candidate?

4. Schumer comes out against Iran deal because, why not be a tool?

5. Like the rest of mainstream history, gay history is now popular enough to be whitewashed in film

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BTL #162 - THE DEFINITION OF UNITY IS HATING TIME WARNER - 7/12/15

In Which We Discuss:

1.  Bernie Sanders hates your cable company just as much as you, and that’s why he’s can be the President.

2. Alan Grayson has a novel idea: running as an actual Democrat in a Democratic primary.  Guess who the establishment people are supporting…

3. Donald Trump reminds us that he’s, “like, a really smart person.”  His surge in the polls proves that Republican primary voters are, like, really dumb people.

4. Jeb Bush currently has all the money but don’t worry, if you work longer hours it’ll trickle down.  That’s worked in history, right?

5.  If Germany can Shock Doctrine Greece, does this mean that California can Shock Doctrine Kansas and get rid of Sam Brownback?

6.Why can Republicans never remember the third thing?  Now even Texas border states are suffering from this scourge.

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BTL #160 - PURE APPLESAUCE - 6/29/15

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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