Brain Milk: Recent Episodes
Brain Milk
Brain Milk is a liberal-tinted political podcast with 2% fat. Hosted by Dash MacIntyre of HalfwayPost.com and Adrian Polk, topics include politics, economics, history and Millennial culture.
We talk about America's love for Tim Walz, J.D. Vance's weirdness, Donald Trump's falling poll numbers, and bullishness on Kamala Harris's presidential chances.
Biden dropped out and elevated Kamala, so we survey the 2024 election, discuss potential VP picks, and share in the schadenfreude of Trump worrying that J.D. Vance is an unpopular, weird creep.
The GOP has one move: flooding the zone with shit. We discuss Rudy Giuliani's epic punitive damages, the mounting successes of the Biden economy, House Republicans' impeachment hallucinations, Republicans' obvious bluffing on the border and immigration deal, the GOP's contemporary iteration as the Know Nothing party, liberal team-killing, Culture War nonsense, and Elon Musk's dumb Cybertruck.
Our first pod in a while! Dash and Adrian break down why the GOP is just not a serious political party anymore, Kevin McCarthy's retirement, House Republicans' inability to govern, America's ongoing foreign policy crises, and Vivek Ramaswamy's dumb idea to willy-nilly fire most of the government.
Thanks to Republican primary voters' taste for the GOP's least electable candidates, Democrats are actually favored to keep control of the Senate, and the Supreme Court's gutting of Roe V. Wade has given Democrats the lead in generic House polls. We talk about all the ways Republicans have f*cked themselves heading into the midterms.
Is there hope for Democrats to keep Congress in 2022? We talk about political strategy, governmental reform, the annoyingly unplugged apathy of midterm non-voters, cry baby conservatives clinging to dumb wedge issue culture war delusions, and why Josh Hawley is crusading for masculinity all of a sudden.
Want to give back to Brain Milk and The Halfway Post while laughing at Republicans? Buy a copy of Satire In The Trump Years: The Best Of The Halfway Post. It's 259 pages of nonstop, satirical mockery of all things Donald Trump and GOP absurdity!
Liberals and Democrats have all along taken the coronavirus pandemic seriously, and we got made fun of for it, mocked for wearing masks in public, and called sheep for social distancing. Now the pandemic is virtually only killing the unvaccinated in mostly rural areas particularly in red states governed by COVIDIOTS who think somehow their masculinity, patriotism and freedom are being taken away when society tries to prevent people from dying needlessly of preventable viral infections. France is now mandating proof of vaccination or masks to go out into public places like theatres and diners, and Brain Milk thinks America should follow suit. Morons who feel culturally threatened by rational science and modern medical recommendations are prolonging the pandemic in America, and THEY'RE THE ONES who are taking away everyone else's freedom to go back to normal.
Donald Trump is under criminal investigation; Arizona is looking for bamboo fibers; Andrew Giuliani is running for NY Governor; Lara Trump and Mark McClosky are looking at the Senate; Mitch McConnell is back on his obstruction BS; Kevin McCarthy is worried about his January 6th phone call; Liz Cheney is the GOP's voice of reason.... the Republican Party is not even pretending to be a serious party anymore.
Want to give back to Brain Milk and The Halfway Post while laughing at Donald Trump? Check out Satire In The Trump Years: The Best Of The Halfway Post. It's 259 pages of nonstop, satirical mockery of all things Donald Trump and Republican absurdity!
President Donald Trump incited a deadly, insurrectionist coup attempt on Congress because he hasn't disgraced America enough, and is running out of time to squeeze in extra Constitutional crises and demolish more democratic norms. What a baby.
Donald Trump wants to parson himself, his kids, and his closest confidants... but they're all 100% innocent and did nothing wrong!
President Donald Trump is about to leave office, and we were wondering how crazy and petty his farewell address likely will be... if he gives one at all! In order to better mock Trump's closing speech, or lack of one, we take a look at a much better president's final salute to America: George Washington's Farewell Address!
Donald Trump is a lame duck, but can still do a lot of damage to America while plotting ways to stay relevant after he's forced out of the White House. We talk about the stalled presidential transition, a potential Trump News Network, the conservative social media platform Parler, and future Biden executive orders.
President Donald Trump is a big, whiny baby, and an even bigger loser. We discuss some of the coming shifts in tone, competence, and staff thanks to President-Elect Joe Biden's big, beautiful, tremendous victory over American fascism.
At the first presidential debate Donald Trump, who is losing the election pretty substantially in the polls, needed to convince voters he wasn't an asshole unworthy of the Office of the Presidency. He did not do that.
Federalist Paper #51 is about the separation of powers, but James Madison couldn't have imagined a fascist demagogue like Donald Trump and the coward Republican Party that refuses to check him.
Trump hates losing, and he's currently doing just that. So what if he dropped out of the election?
American Libertarians' utopia of a country with no taxes, regulations, or perceivable government would institutionalize an oligarchic corporatism. "No it wouldn't!" they say. But who or what would prevent it without a public, democratic government to stop the exploitation?
The Trump Cult went to a rally, and it was boring. But their God Emperor at one point took a drink of water and they chanted "4 more years" to congratulate him for not needing to use two hands. We talk about the empty shell that is the contemporary Republican Party that won't admit Trump is the toddler brain his own former top administration appointees insist he is.
Say it with me: "Democrats. Are. Not. Guilty. Of. Identity. Politics." Republicans legislate and bloviate on their conspicuous obsession with white male Christian identity politics. Democrats just look out for everyone else who gets left behind.
Profile in cowardice John Bolton is finally releasing his burn book of Trump, and in it he accuses the President of much more illegal conduct than Democrats impeached him for. Also, like all high-ranking former Trump officials, Bolton insists Trump is an idiot.
QAnon convinced a lot of Trump fans that the President was only pretending to collude with Russia in order to enlist Bob Mueller to help him arrest the shadowy cabal of governmental pedophiles and send them to Guantanamo Bay... which, according to Q's clues, should still be happening any day now.
From a surprisingly progressive Supreme Court decision to NASCAR feeling Black Lives Matter, conservatives have recently lost some culture war battles.
How is the Trump campaign doing ahead of Election 2020? We dive into his scandals, polls, and unpopularity!
Who doesn't love a good conspiracy theory? We talk a bit about Sasquatch, UFOs and more!
We discuss some of the latest satirical articles published by HalfwayPost.com, and elaborate on many themes with which President Donald Trump can be mocked.
Is Donald Trump a 4-dimensional chess-playing genius... or just an idiot? We take a look at his Twitter page and decide the latter!
Every election Republicans pander to the coal industry, but it's not Democrats and their Green New Deal that's killing it, the culprit is the free market.
Are Democrats wild radicals, or do conservatives just claim that because they're bad at political science?
The Tea Party started a decade ago after a black President had the audacity to spend some government money ending the recession and giving America healthcare. We take a look at their founding document, the Contract From America, and see how it holds up 10 years later.
We discuss some quotes Alexis de Tocqueville made about American culture in the 19th Century, and see how they hold up.
Are Millennials ruining everything, or are Boomers just at the grumpy age where they enjoy complaining about the youth?
Hey, liberals! Joe Biden might be 75% of what you want, but Donald Trump is 0% of what you want. Do the math, and vote blue so the thousands of influential bureaucratic appointments, federal judges, and Supreme Court justices are picked by a Democrat and not Trump!
It's way past time to bust the myths Republicans' believe about themselves. Democrats really need to point out to Americans that Republicans are not at all pro-life or fiscally responsible, and neither are they protecting American security or earning trust for the US abroad.
We take a look at some of President Donald Trump's tweets today, and quickly get pissed off and discuss liberal cures to the societal ills of Republican governance.
Donald Trump is not a doctor, and he's making the epidemic worse. We discuss all about how Trump is making America the new epicenter of infection.
America's Declaration of Independence lists 27 grievances against Britain's King George. We go through them all, and debate which ones would apply as contemporary grievances against President Donald Trump with a little historical help from Wikipedia.