140: Skepticrat140 - Hindsight is 2020 Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: House Republicans try to put an end to this silly democracy thing once and for all ... “HAVE YOU SEEN ME” pics of the Pfizer vaccine are showing up on the side of milk cartons ... And we play you the slideshow of our trip to 2020.

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Headline Sources:

Senate overrides Trump’s veto on Defense bill: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/us/politics/senate-override-trump-defense-bill.html

140 House Republicans to vote against counting electoral votes, two GOP lawmakers say: https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/31/politics/electoral-college-house-republicans/index.html

2020 year in review via social media: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/insights/2020/spending-2020-together-on-twitter.html

Iran announces it will enrich uranium to 20%: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-55509048

Vaccine distribution is going great: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/31/world/coronavirus-updates#spoiled-vaccine-doses-pharmacist-arrested

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/west-virginia-42-people-mistakenly-given-antibodies-instead-coronavirus-vaccine/

Retrospective of Trump's less dangerous stupidity: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/01/donald-trump-presidency-funny-moments

Transcript

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0:00.0	May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get
0:08.0	10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again.
0:15.0	Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. It's January 4th. And the word of the day is Aenou-Moumou, which means the bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.
0:47.0	Used in a sentence,
0:49.0	Happy fucking New Year.
0:51.0	A'nouu-ma.
0:53.0	You should have voted for Hillary Clinton.
0:55.0	What's the term for the relief that you feel knowing that now you doesn't have to try to explain all this
0:59.7	shit?
1:00.7	Yeah.
1:01.7	Also, he said like someone whose past self wouldn't spend a significant amount of time asking how we got so fat so
1:07.2	Check your I'm no illusions
1:09.9	I'm Eli Bosnick I'm Heath and right and Broadcasting Delayed from America's far center. We are the Skeptocrats.
1:16.3	On this week's episode, House Republicans try to put an end to this silly democracy thing once and for all.
1:22.2	Have you seen me picks of the Pfizer vaccine
1:24.6	are showing up on the side of milk cartons?
1:27.7	And we play the slideshow of our trip to 2020.
1:31.7	But first, the rest of the intro music.
1:37.2	Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow skepticism
1:40.0	no illusions and Eli Bosnick.
1:41.8	Gentlemen, it's 2021, and I, for one,
1:45.7	have never been more excited about a new,
	...

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