143: Skepticrat143 - Acquit While You're Behind Edition
The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 15 February 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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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
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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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