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The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 16 January 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Headline Sources:
US House barely gets McCarthy as speaker and immediately does horrible things:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/us/politics/house-republicans-irs-funding.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/12/trump-impeachment-mccarthy-house-republicans/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/us/politics/house-republican-committee-weaponization-government.html
Rail and ambulance strikes: when is industrial action planned?: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/11/rail-ambulance-strikes-when-is-industrial-action-planned-in-january
Anti-strike bill: Shapps to get power to decide minimum service levels: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/10/anti-strike-bill-unveiled-in-commons-but-no-detail-on-minimum-service-levels
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders bans use of term ‘Latinx’ in state documents: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/12/politics/latinx-sarah-huckabee-sanders-order-arkansas-reaj
Attempt at First Satellite Launch From Britain Fails: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/business/uk-satellite-launch.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64218883
UK politician suspended for comparing COVID-19 shots to Holocaust: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/11/conservative-mp-suspended-for-comparing-covid-jabs-to-holocaust
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:06.5 | It's January 16th and the word of the day is once again, Back Fife and Gazette, which |
| 0:11.9 | still means a slapable face or face that's really in need of a punch. |
| 0:16.4 | Using a sentence, even Republicans are aware that Matt Gates has the platonic Back Fife |
| 0:21.8 | and Gazette, and he almost got the slap he desperately needed. |
| 0:26.1 | I learned a lot about Ejagnate. |
| 0:29.5 | Okay. |
| 0:30.5 | Heath, if you're going to use Back Fife, every time there's a punchable Republican, that's |
| 0:34.5 | the only word you'll ever use. |
| 0:35.9 | You got to mix this up, man. |
| 0:36.9 | You got to mix it up. |
| 0:37.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:38.9 | Wait, are you introducing like a no-repeat-n-y self-rule? |
| 0:40.5 | Because, you know, if we've got that, I'm going to have to rip up my entire story about |
| 0:43.2 | the Tories fucking up my country. |
| 0:44.6 | I'm going to start right from scratch. |
| 0:46.4 | I'm Michael Marshall. |
| 0:48.4 | I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 0:49.4 | I'm Heath Henry and Broadcasting Delay from America and an island that's not Europe. |
| 0:54.0 | We are the Skeptocrats. |
| 0:56.0 | From this week's episode, Kevin McCarthy speaks for a house divided. |
| 1:00.2 | We finally find the line for bullshit, not even the Tories will support. |
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