237: Skepticrat237 - Dis-Appointment Edition
The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Another amazing word of the day from Susie Dent:
https://twitter.com/susie_dent
Headline Sources:
We lost an election: AmericaIsTooStupidToBeAlive.com/YouShouldaVotedForHillaryClintonAndKamalaHarris
What are recess appointments and how could Trump use them to fill his Cabinet: https://apnews.com/article/recess-appointments-trump-cabinet-gop-senate-f484a152e152e8495254d1f83877c71a
Cabinet confirmation process and recess appointments, explained: https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/14/politics/cabinet-confirmation-recess-what-matters/index.html
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to co-head new “Department of Government Efficiency: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/us/politics/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-trump.html
Tracking the cabinet picks and roasting their physical appearances: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/trump-administration-appointees/
Marco Rubio is a dehydrated cyborg video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19ZxJVnM5Gs
Democratic Governors Form a Group to Oppose the Trump Administration: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/us/politics/democratic-governors-trump.html
The Onion wins bid to buy Infowars: https://apnews.com/article/onion-buys-infowars-alex-jones-6496f198d141c991087dcd937b3588e9
https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:12.5 | And it's November 18th. |
| 0:14.3 | And the word of the day is recrudescence, which means the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve using the sentence now we fight the fuck back and time is of the recrudescence or the speed of which terrible things will happen i think we can call it zip recruiters it worked better on paper, guys. No, it looks great. |
| 0:38.1 | It looks great. |
| 0:39.3 | I have no illusions. |
| 0:40.7 | I'm Cecil something Italian. |
| 0:42.7 | Um, Heathenright and broadcasting delayed from America's la reistence. |
| 0:47.2 | We are the skeptocrats. |
| 0:49.1 | On this week's episode, all joy and hope and thoughts of a better future are sucked out |
| 0:53.8 | of the universe. |
| 0:55.7 | Democrats embrace states' rights. |
| 0:58.2 | They sure do. |
| 0:58.8 | And Donald Trump offers a no-bid contract to Elon Musk and Swamp Fillers LLC or some shit. |
| 1:05.8 | But first, the rest of the intro music. |
| 1:19.9 | Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow skeptic rats, |
| 1:22.0 | No illusions, and Cecil, something Italian. |
| 1:27.2 | Gentlemen, you want to start off with some noises before we get into the words part? What do you want to do? |
| 1:28.0 | Just warming it up. |
| 1:28.9 | Honestly, the biggest challenge |
| 1:30.6 | of the post-election version of my job |
| 1:32.7 | other than scraping myself out of bed every day |
| 1:35.0 | is that I had to learn to spell |
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