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 09, 2015
Sunday Aug 09, 2015
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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Sunday Jul 26, 2015
Sunday Jul 26, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Sandra Bland is the latest black life that didn’t matter to police.
2. In a trend no one but us saw coming, the more Hillary Clinton talks, the more everyone stops wanting to listen.
3. Trump continues to crush it in the polls, driving the other candidates to reality show levels of desperation.
4. Louisiana takes its rightful place on the list of states with recent mass shootings. A proud day for Bobby Jindal.
5. Congress questions John Kerry on his thoughts on Iranian Unicorns
6. Obama visits his fake homeland, Kenya, and spreads the message that gays are humans too. Kenyans remain unconvinced.
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Sunday Jul 05, 2015
Sunday Jul 05, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. Get ready...we’re about to coin the term Bernie-monium! It’s happening.
2. Latest Hillary Clinton email dump proves she was right to ask to borrow a book on how to email better. Next up: a book on better "Twittering."
5. Greece does what the world has been trying to do for millenia, tells Germany to fuck off
3. SCOTUS reminds America that while the majority of them aren’t stupid, at least 5 are pure evil
4. California decides that one massive measles outbreak is enough, even if it means taking on Jenny McCarthy.
5. Greece does what the world has been trying to do for millenia, tells Germany to fuck off
6. If we’ve known anything since the first podcast, it’s that losing your mattress endorsement is the beginning of the end. Buh bye Donald!
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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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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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Tuesday Mar 24, 2015
Tuesday Mar 24, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. First ever Canadian candidate officially declares his intention to run in the 2016 American presidential race. CANADA IS FINALLY TRYING THIS, GUYS!!
2. Hillary Clinton promises that from now on she’ll tell the press directly if she’s going to yoga
3. Israel choses hate over peace, spying over diplomacy, bad polling over good polling. Obama chooses letting them fuck off over actually caring anymore.
4. GOP Congress gets another chance to totally bungle the budget process this week
5. Happy Birthday to the only 5 year old on earth you’d actually want to hang out with...Obamacare!
6. Floridians now required to seek medical attention for belief in climate science, daring to improve the gene pool
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Monday Mar 02, 2015
Monday Mar 02, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
1. CPAC answers the question: Is it possible that ISIS could be as evil as unions?
2. Netanyahu considers us family, which is we guess better than being one of his numerous abused housekeepers?
3. House GOP playing coy at revealing it’s DHS funding strategy to it’s own members, hoping to surprise even itself next week
4. Even before the ancient Barbara Mikulski’s retirement announcement, Dianne Feinstein was the oldest woman in the senate. Will she be our Strom Thurmond?
5. A supposedly more organized Clinton campaign is already so indecisive that it can’t even agree on when it’s going to start
6. Bill O’Reilly knows even less about his whereabouts than we previously gave him credit for
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Wednesday Feb 11, 2015
Wednesday Feb 11, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
2. Greece isn’t afraid to tell Germany what they really think about modern-day loans and you know, World War II
3. The house can’t remember why they’re trying to repeal Obamacare for the 56th time, but they CAN remember why Texas is awesome, and that almost makes the same point, right?
4. Political heavyweights like the 90s era governor of New York and the former governor of Virginia toss their hats into the 2016 ring. Book deals for everybody!
5. Ben Carson, the only tea-party approved pediatric neurosurgeon, makes the accidental error of showing a basic understanding of science
6. Rep./Male Model Aaron Schock needs you to know that he is not a “Downton Abbey” fan despite his office’s peacock feather decor
7. NYers get the go-ahead from scientists to clean up the subway’s pesky bubonic plague germs by licking subway poles
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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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Monday Jan 19, 2015
Monday Jan 19, 2015
In Which We Discuss:
2. Upon hearing that income inequality is a thing, car elevator-owner Mitt Romney tries to care a little but fails to convince even his own party of his change-of-heart
3. California Democrats conjure more credible contenders for 2016 senate race in two days than either political party has for president in two years
4. Much of country and world fails to recognize the irony of tweeting anti-Muslim and other racist things on MLK day
5. Surprising news: Hollywood cabal populated by ancient rich white men has no respect for civil rights stories or the historically downtrodden Lego people
6. GOP Congressmen and Senators take a group trip to Hershey, PA, enjoy chocolate syrup salad dressing and chocolate soap with the rest of the children
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