115: Skepticrat115 - Nice Little Friday Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: Our nation unites for our quadrennial caring about Iowa ... Everyone on Fifth Avenue without a bulletproof vest should be nervous as fuck ... And Michael Marshall will join us for a Brexit interview.

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Headline Sources:

Republicans refuse to know how guilty the man they’re exonerating is: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/us/politics/trump-impeachment-trial.html and https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/31/politics/marco-rubio-donald-trump-senate-impeachment-trial/index.html

Coronavirus is going to kill us all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Wuhan_coronavirus_outbreak

Iowa Caucuses: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/24/how-iowa-caucuses-work/?arc404=true

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-iowa-caucuses-are-in-4-days-almost-anything-could-still-happen/

Facebook to Pay $550 Million to Settle Facial Recognition Suit: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/technology/facebook-privacy-lawsuit-earnings.html

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's Monday.
0:03.0	February 3rd.
0:05.0	It's Monday.
0:07.0	It's Monday.
0:10.0	It's Monday.
0:13.0	February 3rd.
0:15.0	And the phrase of the day is Leittee-semois, which is French for I am the
0:21.0	state and it's synonymous with absolute monarchy used in a sentence.
0:25.6	Alan Dershruitz created and then invoked the American doctrine of Le Ta Se Mois on behalf of
0:32.1	Donald Trump last week claiming that bribes don't count if you think you're a
0:36.2	fucking sun god and therefore everything you do to stay in power is in the public interest.
0:41.6	Yes.
0:43.0	Hey, how did they solve the problem of the French monarchy again?
0:46.0	I remember they had a great solution.
0:48.0	I feel like I was a fan.
0:51.0	Yeah, I'm pretty sure we even get cake.
0:53.0	I'm no illusions.
0:54.0	I'm Eli Bosnick.
0:55.0	I'm Heath Enright and Broadcasting Delayed from America's Far Center.
0:59.0	We are the Skeptocrats.
1:01.0	On this week's episode, our nation unites for our quadrennial caring about Iowa.
1:06.0	Everyone on Fifth Avenue without a bulletproof vest should be nervous as fuck.
	...

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