223: Skepticrat223 - Lie Social Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: People are DYING for loans in Brazil ... We finally break our silence on history’s most fuckable popcorn bucket ... And Donald Trump is losing bigly at everything...except for national polling somehow.

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Headline Sources:

Bipartisan coalition in the House pass aid for Ukraine and Israel: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/20/house-vote-ukraine-israel-aid-johnson/

AMC Exec: "We wouldn't have made the Dune popcorn if we knew you'd be sickos about it": https://gizmodo.com/dune-2-popcorn-bucket-amc-regrets-wormussy-1851397128

Truth Social is a giant failure: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/truth-social-drama-donald-trump-lawsuits-ipo-1234999198/
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-social-media-stock-2667811934/
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/03/trump-media-is-the-most-expensive-us-stock-to-short-by-far.html

High speed rail line between LA and Vegas breaks ground this week: https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/04/20/high-speed-rail-construction-california-las-vegas/

Lady takes her dead uncle to the bank for a loan: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/17/brazil-woman-corpse-bank-fraud

Judge reads roasty memes from prospective jurors and Trump has to sit there quietly: https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-jury-selection-hush-money-case-social-media-rcna148168

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's Monday.
0:03.0	April.
0:05.0	It's Monday. It's Monday.
0:07.0	It's Monday.
0:11.0	It's April 22nd.
0:15.0	And the term of the day is kangaroo word, which means a word that contains the letters of a synonym inside of it.
0:22.0	Hat-tip to Don A for the idea.
0:24.5	Used in a sentence, two examples of a kangaroo word
0:27.4	are honorable, which contains noble, and also
0:31.0	libertarian, which contains liar.
0:33.6	Okay, I'm just glad to hear that kangaroo word wasn't your substitute for a
0:38.2	slur about Australians, so you're a weird way to start the show.
0:41.6	The fact that Australian contains stain can't be just a coincidence at this point can't it though
0:45.9	I'm no illusions I'm Eli Bosnick I'm Heath Henwright and Broadcasting Delayed from America's far center, we are the Skeptocrats.
0:54.4	On this week's episode, people are dying for loans in Brazil.
0:58.9	We'll finally break our silence on history's most fuckable popcorn bucket.
1:02.4	And Donald Trump is losing big... on history's most fuckable popcorn bucket.
1:02.6	And Donald Trump is losing bigly at everything,
1:07.2	except for national polling something.
1:09.0	Yeah.
1:10.0	But first, the rest of the intro music.
1:13.4	Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow skeptic rats, no illusions,
	...

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