122: Skepticrat122 - A Flynnocent Man Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: Michael Flynn walks free ... Ahmaud Arbery doesn’t ... And we'll discuss how literal murder hornets might affect your weekend.

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Headline Sources:

Ahmaud Arbery story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/07/killing-ahmaud-arbery-draws-condemnation-calls-prosecution/

Storm builds around Barr over dropping of Flynn case: https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/496895-storm-builds-around-barr-over-dropping-of-flynn-case

Trump responds to Bush's call for bipartisan unity with a plague poem and listing his enemies:

https://www.vox.com/2020/5/3/21245726/trump-tweets-bush-coronavirus-bipartisan-unity-plague

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mitt-romney-hazard-pay-patriot-essential-workers/

Weird ass effort to kill Maduro:
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-venezuela-security/us-veteran-behind-failed-venezuela-plot-says-two-american-mercenaries-detained-idUKKBN22G2O6

Canada is giving their essential workers a pay raise they deserve: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/08/world/canada-essential-workers-raise/index.html

And now we're dealing with murder hornets: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/just-how-dangerous-is-the-murder-hornet/

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's Monday.
0:03.0	May 11th. And the word of the day is
0:16.9	Selepsis, which means a figure of speech in which a single word is applied in two different senses.
0:23.3	Used in a sentence, my exes all tell me
0:26.0	that I came with too much baggage and too fast.
0:30.0	And didn't matter to them at all
0:31.4	that I was doing an awesome selepsis bit.
0:33.4	It's B because of the murder hornets.
0:39.4	No, no.
0:40.4	I did it.
0:41.4	Mine also.
0:42.4	No, no, you just misspelled because I am no illusions
0:47.2	I'm Eli Bosnick I'm he then right and broadcasting delayed from America's
0:51.6	far center we are the the Skeptocrats.
0:53.7	This week's episode Michael Flynn walks free.
0:57.0	Ahmed Arbor doesn't.
0:58.8	And we'll discuss how literal murder hornets might affect your weekend.
1:04.8	But first, the rest and Eli Bosnick.
1:22.0	Gentlemen, I guess, before we talk about news in 2020,
1:27.0	you want to name something adorable your pets did recently,
1:30.0	something like that?
1:31.0	Great.
	...

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