210: The Skepticrat - Motion to Staycate Edition

The Skepticrat

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Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: Eli will file a motion to vacate against Heath, Republicans continue their Mexican standoff against themselves, and Mike Lindell will put the “fraud” into “schadenfreude” … again.

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Headlines:
McCarthy ousted as house speaker: https://apnews.com/article/mccarthy-gaetz-speaker-motion-to-vacate-congress-327e294a39f8de079ef5e4abfb1fa555Nobel prize winners
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/6/who-are-the-2023-nobel-prize-winners-so-far
Trump accidentally shared nuclear secrets… again: https://abcnews.go.com/US/after-white-house-trump-allegedly-discussed-potentially-sensitive/storyFDA panel says common over-the-counter decongestant doesn’t work
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-panel-says-common-counter-decongestant-phneylephrine-doesnt-work-rcna104424
Lindell’s legal team quits en masse: https://www.thedailybeast.com/mike-lindell-and-mypillow-owe-millions-to-lawyers-actively-trying-to-ditch-them and https://apnews.com/article/mike-lindell-mypillow-no-money-election-lawsuits-047932c7207734c080b07dca8d8868a5The Hollywood writers’ strike is over — and they won big
https://www.vox.com/culture/2023/9/24/23888673/wga-strike-end-sag-aftra-contract

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's Monday, it's October 9th.
0:16.1	And the word of the day is, Devacating, a coinage that combines vacate, devastating
0:21.6	and defecating, and I had to make it up because English does not have a word to describe
0:26.4	the shit show the Republican Party is right now.
0:29.8	Yeah, also it's a very confusing direction as to what to do during a fire drill, so watch
0:34.8	out for that.
0:35.8	I am no illusions.
0:37.2	I'm Eli Bosnick, and Broadcasting Delayed from America's Far-Center.
0:41.7	We are The Skeptocrats.
0:43.7	On this week's episode, Eli will file a motion to vacate against Heath.
0:49.0	Republicans continue their Mexican standoff against themselves, and Mike Lindell will
0:53.9	put the fraud into Schadenfreude again.
0:57.9	But first, the rest of the intro music.
1:11.7	Joining with our headlines tonight is fellow Skeptocrat Eli Bosnick Eli.
1:15.7	This just occurred to me.
1:16.7	I'm curious your thoughts.
1:18.0	Do far-right Republicans oppose ADU Crane because you is a pronoun.
1:23.6	Ooh, yeah.
1:24.6	And hey, if there aren't refugee women, who's going to marry Matt Gaetz?
1:28.4	These are the questions that people have asked themselves in our lead story tonight.
1:33.8	Turned out that Speaker of the House tenure on McCarthy was just as successful and enjoyable
1:38.0	as we all said it was going to be.
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