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
Nov 3, 2014
Nov 3, 2014
46 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. We’re going to lose the Senate, guys. Sorry we’ve been lying to you. Cali sun and whatnot...
2. Colorado sneaks a personhood amendment onto the ballot by convincing voters it will save their unborn babies from drunk drivers. Screw you, Colorado!
3. Do not mess with Kaci Hicox. She WILL take a one-hour rural bike ride if she damn well pleases.
4. North Korea is on the frontlines of the war against Japenese Ebola and South Korean Soap Operas, both epidemics invented by North Korea.
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Oct 20, 2014
Oct 20, 2014
1hr 1 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. If @LenaDunham’s book and Lila Nordstrom’s memory are any any guide, mock slavery social experiments were how history got taught to a generation of NYC kids in the 90s.
2. Newly appointed Ebola czar is not the czar John McCain would have picked if he was in favor of appointing czars which he’s not so stop asking him about it.
3. U.S. practices favorite kind of armchair diplomacy - air-dropping “lethal aid” on rebels with ambiguous goals.
4. Politico poll proves that it’s easy to be panicked about everything when you know nothing about anything.
5. This week in #HillaryPillory - Thought-crime strikes again, this time care of @Harpers
6. #SCOTUS faces their biggest gender divide yet...and not over gender issues. #VoterID
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Oct 12, 2014
Oct 12, 2014
1hr 7 min
Sep 28, 2014
Sep 28, 2014
1hr 26 min
Aug 25, 2014
Aug 25, 2014
1hr 5 min
In Which We Discuss:
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Jul 21, 2014
Jul 21, 2014
1hr 17 min
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.
Jul 6, 2014
Jul 6, 2014
49 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. We apprehensively present you with good jobs news that we are in no way are convinced is real. But Hooray! (?)
2. Isn’t it so totally awesome how running a business is exactly like running a government bureaucracy. Except, like, the opposite of that.
3. McDaniel/Cochran is the gift that keeps on giving. This week’s gift includes $1000 in exchange for evidence of voter fraud.
4. This week on Hillary Pillory: Polling proof that going into public is a major liability with all voting groups aside from women between the ages of 29 and 30 and non-Wal-Mart weekly shoppers
5. This week in stupid White House petitions, if Tim Howard can figure out how to stop ISIS, we’re game
Jun 30, 2014
Jun 30, 2014
1hr 14 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. Supreme Court now in the business of telling women how to use their own bodies. Because Jesus.
2. A whole bunch of stodgy white men are not happy with Obama’s attempts to accomplish things
3. Thad Cochran finds that getting elected can lead to having voters all up in your grill
4. Hillary Pillory: Is now a good time to casually forget about Iraq?
5. The World Cup is apparently going to make America the Socialist Utopia we’ve always dreamed of
6. We find proof that anti-immigration advocates wear disgusting underwear
May 27, 2014
May 27, 2014
1hr 12 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. War on Masculinity claims another victim as the War on Guns continues amassing a staggering record of defeat
2. Feminism is en vogue this month. Try it.
3. If Darrell Issa can’t win Benghazi, he’ll make sure nobody can
4. Ukraine is either at war with itself or with Russia, nobody can be sure, but one thing that is sure is that everybody is dying
5. Obama’s latest drawdown proposal brings up the important question of why we still have troops in Afghanistan to begin with
6. The Volunteer State will not be stopped by socialist Europe when it comes to murdering its own citizens in cruel and unusual ways
May 18, 2014
May 18, 2014
1hr 10 min
In Which We Discuss:
1. NY Times editor ouster shows a surprising lack of media strategy at the paper of record
2. Neurologist Karl Rove has new medical theory that fake concussions can amount to serious brain damage when it comes to political rivals
3. Republicans show increasingly marginal grasp on cause-and-effect in their choice to
block VA funding then be furious about poor veterans care
4. We are going to investigate Benghazi again, this time focusing on the “beginning,” “middle,” and “end”
5. Improbably, somebody with the name Butch Otter is the least ridiculous person at the Idaho GOP gubernatorial debates