113: Skepticrat113 - Contra Iran Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: Donald Trump sees if killing a bunch of his supporters' kids raises his approval rating ... Chicago does its best to throw more smoke in the air than Australia ... And Nancy Pelosi is gonna count to three...One...TWO...TWO AND A HALF...

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Headline Sources:

Trump stumbles into war with Iran: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-plunges-toward-the-kind-of-middle-eastern-conflict-he-pledged-to-avoid/2020/01/03/

Australia is on fire:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-50986363 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/opinion/australia-fires-climate-change.html

Impeachment Impasse Deepens in Senate, Leaving Trump’s Trial in Doubt:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/us/politics/trump-impeachment-senate-trial.html

Poll: Ivanka and Don Jr. among favorite for GOP voters in 2024: https://www.axios.com/2024-election-polls-republicans-60f37160-a4fb-48e6-b054-22bd303604a6.html

Noah wants to visit Tom and Cecil more often: https://abcnews.go.com/US/marijuana-sales-illinois-top-3m-day-legal-recreational/story?id=68051493

The Golden Globes dinner is going vegan for the first time ever:

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/the-golden-globes-are-going-vegan-for-the-first-time-ever-to-send-a-good-message/

Transcript

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0:25.0	doing,
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0:35.0	Search NTU. AC. UK. It's Monday.
0:43.0	January.
0:45.0	It's Monday.
0:48.0	It's Monday.
0:51.0	It's Monday. It's January 6th. And the word of the day is Eurasia, which means you already get the joke if you read 1984 used in a sentence.
1:02.0	The United States is allowed to murder people and
1:04.6	take over Eurasia if we feel like it. And we try this every single time a
1:09.2	Republican becomes president in my lifetime, literally. Our batting average on that being successful is
1:14.7	zero well on the taking over part maybe I mean they're dead no we're there we
1:20.4	record this on Sunday don't get cocky Don't get cocky. Don't get cocky. Right. Yeah. I'm no illusions.
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