126: Skepticrat126 - Jingo Unchained Edition
The Skepticrat
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
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🗓️ 6 July 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Headline Sources:
White House pivots to a “Rub Some Dirt On It” message on COVID-19: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/we-need-live-it-white-house-readies-new-message-nation-n1232884 and https://apnews.com/1e44ece4bdb023fbcd7de93def02c475
Redskins consider changing their name cause it’s crazy racist: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/07/03/washington-redskins-launch-review-controversial-team-name/
Reddit removes "r/The_Donald" from the site: https://theconversation.com/reddit-removes-millions-of-pro-trump-posts-but-advertisers-not-values-rule-the-day-141703
Russians “vote” to amend their “constitution”: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/europe/russia-referendum-putin-power-2036-intl/index.html
JK Rowling is a terfy bigot: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/jk-rowling-harry-potter-fan-sites-trans-views-mugglenet-leaky-cauldron-a9601231.html
Trump's ridiculous Mount Rushmore speech: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-mount-rushmore.html
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:07.0 | July 6th. And the word of the day is Jingoism, which means extreme patriotism. |
| 0:17.0 | And just a quick refresher on a past word of the day from Kurt Vonnegut, a grand faloon is a proud and meaningless association of human beings, for example, any nation, any time, anywhere. |
| 0:27.0 | So, the word of the day used in a sentence, Republicans are stupid. |
| 0:32.0 | Jingoism, Grand Faloon. Republicans are stupid |
| 0:34.3 | gingoism grand floon happy fourth is a lie |
| 0:35.8 | i feel like vonegan orwell would be really fucked today if they tried to write right |
| 0:41.1 | yeah |
| 0:42.4 | what do you mean that's just the news. I gotta throw this whole thing out now. |
| 0:45.8 | Keep going for fiction, getting op-eds, and be all fucked up. I'm no illusions. |
| 0:50.4 | I'm Eli Bosnick. I'm Heath Enright and Broadcasting Delayed from America's Forest Center. |
| 0:55.0 | We are the Skeetocrats. |
| 0:57.0 | In this week's episode, JK Rolling comes up with a worse idea than Wizards shitting on the floor of Hogwarts. |
| 1:02.6 | Not civil enough for Reddit turns out to have been a thing. |
| 1:05.4 | And geologists discovered that Mount Rushmore slowly inched about 10 feet backwards. |
| 1:11.2 | Somehow started gazing in all different directions. |
| 1:14.0 | But first, the rest of the intro music. |
| 1:17.0 | Joining me for headlines tonight, |
| 1:19.0 | our fellow Skeptocrats, no illusions and Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:22.0 | Gentlemen, do you have a good weekend, celebrate... No illusions and Eli Bosnick gentlemen |
| 1:28.0 | Do you have a good weekend celebrating the original Brexit of 1776? Do you think if we agree to do mouth stuff England will take us back is it too late? It's too late, but I hear the EU has an |
| 1:35.0 | open slot. In our lead story tonight, if COVID-19 was a war, it would be the third deadliest in U.S. history. |
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