128: Skepticrat128 - Electile Dysfunction Edition

The Skepticrat

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News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 3 August 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: Donald Trump will hold an election when he’s good and goddamn ready thank you ... Liberals make gun-nuts look like cowards by turning back a fascist government with leaf blowers ... And the Senate is worried that sending everyone a bootstrap is gonna make us lazy about bootstrapping a bootstrap.

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Headline Sources:

US Economy sees biggest GDP drop in recorded history: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/30/896714437/3-months-of-hell-u-s-economys-worst-quarter-ever

Herman Cain is Dead of COVID-19: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/30/politics/herman-cain-dies-coronavirus/index.html

Trump wants to postpone the election in November: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53597975

Federal troops withdraw from Portland: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/31/portland-protests-latest-peaceful-night-federal-troops-withdrawal

DHS was compiling intelligence reports on journalists and protesters: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/dhs-official-whose-office-compiled-intelligence-reports-on-journalists-and-protesters-has-been-removed-from-his-job

The Senate's not in town as $600 unemployment benefits are set to expire: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/politics/stimulus-negotiations-state-of-play/index.html

Lawmakers From Both Sides Take Aim at Big Tech Executives: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/07/29/technology/tech-ceos-hearing-testimony

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0:00.0	It's Monday.
0:03.0	August 3rd.
0:05.0	It's Monday. It's Monday.
0:07.0	It's Monday.
0:11.0	It's Monday.
0:13.8	August 3rd.
0:15.3	And the word of the day is Kynopsia, which means the eerie forlorn atmosphere of a place that's
0:21.4	usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.
0:25.0	Using the sentence, everyone needs to get over the canopsia, it's fine,
0:29.0	we're taking a time out on the entire verb to bustle right now.
0:33.3	Stop bustling.
0:35.1	Yeah, it turns out you can still spread germs
0:37.1	no matter how far up your ass your head is.
0:40.4	It's all about the breathing.
0:41.8	Yeah, I'm no illusions. I'm Eli Bosnick.
0:44.8	I'm Heath-Enright and Broadcasting Delayed from America's far center. We are the
0:49.5	Skeptocrats. On this week's episode, Donald Trump will hold an election when he's good and
0:54.3	damn ready, thank you. Liberals make gun nuts look like pansies by turning the
0:58.6	back of fascist government with leaf blowers. And the Senate is worried that
1:02.4	sending everyone a bootstrap is going to make us lazy about
1:06.0	bootstrapping a bootstrap.
1:08.6	But first, the rest of the intro music. Joining me for headlines tonight, our fellow skeptic rats, no illusions, and Eli Bosnick.
	...

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