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The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

News, Government, Politics

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: Georgia values bowling over voting ... When one billionaire criminal appoints another to administer a slush fund, somehow most of that money gets “lost” ... And Donald Trump gives a coronavirus briefing sponsored by ForHims.

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Headline Sources:

Large public companies are looting relief funds for small business payroll: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/21/large-public-companies-are-taking-small-businesses-payroll-loans.html

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3562741-publicly-traded-companies-raided-ppp-pantry

Trump tells his supporters to drink bleach: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/24/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-disinfectant-sunlight-science/index.html

It was hard to get it aroused but Trump got it aroused (and other coronavirus briefing highlights): https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/20/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-task-force-sunday/index.html

Trump administration is hiring fundamentalist Christian teenagers to run major sections of the executive branch: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/21/democrats-blast-trump-federal-workers-coronavirus-199026

https://catalog.liberty.edu/undergraduate/colleges-schools/arts-sciences/history/history-ba-bs/history-ba-resident/

Brian Kemp opens Georgia back up:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/21/politics/georgia-governor-coronavirus-backlash/index.html

ACU rankings for Biden:

http://acuratings.conservative.org/acu-federal-legislative-ratings/?year1=2008&chamber=13&state1=21&sortable=1

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's Monday.
0:03.0	April 27.
0:05.0	It's Monday.
0:10.0	It's Monday.
0:13.8	April 27th.
0:15.5	And the word of the day is disinfect, which means to clean or rid of infection.
0:20.3	The other word of the day is photon, which is a type of elementary particle that makes up light.
0:24.8	Used in a sentence, regardless of what Donald Trump says, do not fill a syringe with Lysol and photons,
0:31.8	whatever that would mean, and inject it into your lungs to disinfect
0:35.2	yourself.
0:36.2	More on that coming up.
0:37.2	spoiler alert.
0:38.7	You decide.
0:39.7	Nope.
0:40.7	Please don't.
0:41.7	Absolutely. I'm Andrew Torres. I'm Eli Bosnick. I'm Heath
0:46.4	Henwright and Broadcasting Delayed from America's far center. We are the
0:50.8	Skeetocrats. In this week's episode, Georgia values bowling over voting.
0:55.0	When one billionaire criminal appoints another to administer a slush fund,
1:00.0	somehow most of that money gets lost.
1:03.0	And Donald Trump gives a coronavirus briefing sponsored by four hymns.
1:08.0	Yeah, he does.
	...

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