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237: Skepticrat237 - Dis-Appointment Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Government, News, Politics

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: All joy and hope and thoughts of a better future are sucked out of the universe ... Democrats embrace states rights ... And Donald Trump offers a no-bid contract to Elon Musk and Swamp Fillers LLC.

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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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