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143: Skepticrat143 - Acquit While You're Behind Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Government, News, Politics

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: Sarah Huckabee Sanders is running for governor ... We learn that Disney Plus has higher ethical standards than the US Senate ... And it's gonna be more like a trot or MAYBE a light canter for governor.

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Headline Sources:

Impeachment trial ends with Trump being guilty and acquitted: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/us/politics/impeachment-donald-trump.html

Biden administration finalizes deal for 200 million vaccine doses from Pfizer, Moderna: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/biden-administration-finalizes-deal-200-million-vaccine-doses-pfizer-moderna-n1257560

GA DA opens criminal probe into Trump’s call to GA Sec of State: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966332808/georgia-district-attorney-is-investigating-trumps-call-to-overturn-election

Gina Carano teams up with Ben Shapiro after getting fired from The Mandalorian: https://www.vox.com/culture/2021/2/12/22280565/gina-carano-fired-star-wars-mandalorian-social-media-conservative

Sarah Huckabee Sanders is running for governor: https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/08/politics/arkansas-republican-governor-tim-griffin-sarah-huckabee-sanders/index.htmll

This is a pretty sweet week to be a Mars nerd: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-55998848 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56013041 https://www.space.com/mars-rover-perseverance-landing-4k-video-animation

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Monday, it's February 15th, and the word of the day is Kwebiko, which means

0:18.9

a state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence, used in a sentence we learned from

0:25.2

the Trump defense team that all you need to get away with treason is Kwebiko and Kwebuki,

0:30.7

so cool. And 43 Nazi sympathizers in the Senate. Yeah, I guess we're lucky they didn't go for

0:37.4

kumatay. I don't know man, in my mind a congressional kumatayaz with Katie Porter telling everybody

0:42.4

the limbs they lost belonged to her now. Kumatay. Kumatay. No illusions. I'm Eli Bosnik. He's

0:51.4

then right and broadcasting delayed from America's far center. We are the skeptic rats.

0:55.9

Oh, this week's episode Sarah Huckabee Sanders is running for governor. We'll learn that Disney

1:00.8

plus has higher ethical standards than the US Senate. And it's going to be more like a trot or maybe

1:05.1

a light canter for governor. But first, the rest of the intro music.

1:11.6

Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow skeptic rats, no illusions, and Eli Bosnik.

1:22.0

Gentlemen, any opening statements you'd like to make about maybe due process?

1:28.0

Only to point out that I don't appreciate the way that I've been denied the opportunity to

1:31.6

make any opening statements about due process. I refuse to make any comments until you all come

1:37.4

to my office in Philly, Delphia. Philly, Delphia. No, you're your statement there was way

1:44.4

to succinct actually. We got a show to get to it all. Oh, circle back to that. So in our lead

1:52.8

store tonight, the Senate voted 57 to 43 on Saturday that Donald Trump was guilty of inciting a

2:00.4

terrorist insurrection against the US government. And that's why he's been acquitted. Yep.

2:05.6

Now, obviously we have a rule that says you need 67 senators to convict, but that rule was

2:11.6

written in the good old days of pre post truth America. So feel like it's a little different now.

2:17.2

In 2021, you can't get two thirds of the Senate to agree on a brand of peanut butter for their

2:21.7

snack time. So it seems like we can change it maybe two thirds to agree that peanut butter exists

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