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
Sunday Aug 12, 2012
Sunday Aug 12, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. Mitt Romney Manages To Makes Veep Choice That Best Reconfirms His Propensity For Bad Decision-making
2. Andrea Saul, Romney Surrogate, Endorses Obamacare By Accident
3. This Week in Voter Suppression
4. Iowa = Corn
5. Even Republican Convention Organizers Embarrassed By Former Republican Primary Field
6. Our Final Olympics Update of the London 2012 Games
Sunday Jul 29, 2012
Sunday Jul 29, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. Romney Not Making the Medal Stand for Diplomacy on His First Trip Abroad
2. Obama and Romney Out Pro-Israel Each Other in a Week-Long Pointless Battle
3. Math Woes for Mitt Continue
4. Good News! Handheld Rocket Launchers Are Now Legal to Carry
5. Things Northern Cities Hate: Citizens United and Chick-Fil-A, Things Southern Cities Hate: Taste
6. Doctor Shortages, Air Shortages, Why All of Our Worst Fears Are Coming True
7. Our First Foray Into Sportscasting
Sunday Jul 22, 2012
Sunday Jul 22, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. The Tragic Shooting in Aurora, CO and How We Found Common Ground With Both Mayor Bloomberg and Rupert Murdoch In One Week
2. A Discussion Of Who Built What and Whether They Did It Alone
3. Romney’s Tax Debacle: Week 3
4. The Veepstakes Drawing Near, Consensus: We’re Already Bored
5. A Rundown of Why We’ll Never Find Out Who Is Buying Our Politicians
6. Michelle Bachmann Getting To the People’s work, worrying about fringe Muslim groups taking over the country. Don’t worry, the economy’s fine.
7. A Description of the Libor Scandal Without Any Of the Confusing Details
8. The War On Poverty Gets Added To the List of Wars We’ve Recently Lost
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Sunday Jul 15, 2012
Sunday Jul 15, 2012
In Which We Discuss:
1. “Retroactive Retirement”, Now a Phrase the Romney Campaign Would Desperately Like You To Be Using
2. Burlington Coat Factory (and Other Companies You Aren’t Using) Owned By Bain Capital
3. Like America, Mitt Romney Has No Idea Where His Money Is Being Held, Lindsey Graham Believes This To Be An Act of Patriotism
4. Least Surprising Story of the Week: Romney Is Booed at the NAACP Convention
5. Veepstakes Continues With a New, Politically Timed Leak
6. Daddy Bush on Grover Norquist’s Middle School Dreams
7. The Governor of Maine Thinks the IRS is About To Kill You
8. General Incompetence At an All-Time High
9. The Return of Anthony Weiner, a SuperPAC with no Weiners, and The Great Cyanide Incident of 2012
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Sunday Jul 01, 2012
Sunday Jul 01, 2012
In Which We Discuss: 1. House, Though Held in Nation's Contempt, Can Still Hold Their Own Grudges 2. Romney Tries to Woo WaPo With Powerpoints, Fails 3. The Week in Tweets, Much Longer Than the Last Week In Tweets 4. Hidden News Item of the Week: Congress Did One Thing Successfully, Nobody Notices 5. JPMorgan's Dimon Thinks Earth Hitting Moon Unlikely Possibility 6. The Horrific Tragedy of 9/18 (Never Forget) 7. Texas Republican Trying to Outlaw Thought 8. Week in Fake Celebrity News
Sunday Jun 24, 2012
Sunday Jun 24, 2012
In Which We Discuss: 1. This is the Week That You'll Learn if You're Going to be Left to Die of Preventable Illness by Antonin Scalia 2. The Fast and the Furious - Boring Movie and Boring Scandal 3. The Different Between "Outsourcing" to Nebraska and Creating Jobs = The Question of Our Times 4. We Have the Same Job as Mitt Romney, Mysteriously None of the Wealth 5. John Boehner living in a "DREAMact" World. 6. Harry Reid Takes to the Streets, Has "Bros" 7. Gays Treating Reagan With the Respect he Deserves 8. Americans are Getting Dumber. 6 Reasons Why. 9. How Humans Were Created by Swastika-Loving Alien Scientists and Other Completely True Stories Want to hear more from us during the week? Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/BrainTrustLive or find us on Twitter @braintrustlive!