238: Skepticrat238 - Lame Duck Dynasty Edition
The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Another amazing word of the day from Susie Dent:
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Headline Sources:
FBI Director Chris Wray to resign: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/11/politics/fbi-director-chris-wray-steps-down/index.html
Kash Patel set to take over FBI: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/02/politics/who-is-kash-patel-trump-fbi-director/index.html
Amazon and Meta donate $1M each to Trump's inauguration fund: https://apnews.com/article/trump-meta-zuckerberg-inauguration-donation-c540bf7c638def11b8428e633965c718
John Fetterman joins Truth Social and calls for Trump pardon: https://www.newsweek.com/john-fetterman-truth-social-donald-trump-pardon-1999420
Trump Backtracks On Campaign Pledge To Bring Down Grocery Prices: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-walks-back-prices-down_n_675af8f3e4b04606476ba6cd
Rep. Nancy Mace says she was 'physically accosted' on Capitol grounds: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/10/politics/nancy-mace-says-she-was-physically-accosted/index.html
More than 75 Nobel laureates urge Senate to reject RFK Jr: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5031298-nobel-laureates-oppose-rfk-jr/
Why Google’s Quantum Computer Chip Willow Is A Game Changer: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timbajarin/2024/12/13/why-googles-quantum-computer-chip-willow-is-a-game-changer/
Trump uses photo of himself with First Lady Jill Biden to announce new fragrance line: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-fragrance-jill-biden-fight-fight-fight-perfumes-cologne/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:13.6 | It's December 16th. |
| 0:15.2 | And the word of the day is strewthious, |
| 0:17.9 | which means prone to ignoring unwelcome facts |
| 0:20.6 | and letting a situation worsen without any intervention. |
| 0:24.0 | Using a sentence, low information voters put the truth IOUs in Struthius. |
| 0:30.1 | Oh, Bravo, no notes. Cheers. |
| 0:32.3 | I thought Struthius was the band of the teeny tiny violin I'll be playing for Trumpers when the next COVID comes around. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm Cissel something Italian. |
| 0:42.8 | I'm I'm I'm Heathenright. |
| 0:44.9 | In broadcasting delayed from America's Far Center, we are the skeptocrats. |
| 0:48.9 | On this week's episode, our nation prepares for a second Trump insertion. |
| 0:53.2 | 77 of the smartest people in the world are standing like that disappointed cricket guy meme with their hands on their hips. |
| 1:00.0 | And you can smell like steak and ketchup for one easy payment of $199. |
| 1:05.0 | Oh no. |
| 1:06.0 | But first, the rest of the intro music. |
| 1:22.1 | Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow skeptic rats, Cecil something Italian, and Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:28.2 | Gentlemen, we have a pre-lead story and actually have some good news. |
| 1:35.1 | Last week, Joe Biden pardoned 39 people who were mostly convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, |
| 1:41.3 | along with commuting sentences for about 1,500 more people, the biggest one ever. |
| 1:46.6 | And we're done with the good news, especially considering that over Thanksgiving weekend, President Biden gave a blanket pardon to his son Hunter for any crime ever in the last 10 |
| 1:52.6 | years that Hunter may have done, including the two crimes he already got convicted for. So to be |
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