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239: Skepticrat239 - Zuckboi Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Government, News, Politics

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: Trump proposes ruining even MORE countries ... This simulation’s comic relief needs to stop saying “at least social media couldn’t get any worse” ... And we learn how a mysterious new sonic weapon could affect your weekend.

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Headline Sources:

Trump wants to take over Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/politics/trump-greenland-canada-panama-analysis/index.html

TikTok ban goes before Supreme Court: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/us/politics/tiktok-supreme-court-national-security-free-speech.html

Meta backtracks on fact checking and allows hate speech against trans people: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/10/meta-facebook-to-drop-fact-checkers-what-does-this-mean-for-social-media
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/meta-new-hate-speech-rules-allow-users-call-lgbtq-people-mentally-ill-rcna186700

Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/03/business/meta-ai-accounts-instagram-facebook/index.html

Trump gets deferred sentence, because there is no law if enough stupid people like you: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/01/10/trump-sentencing-hush-money-conviction-merchan/

Biden Officials Say the Truth About Havana Syndrome Is Still Unknown: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/us/politics/havana-syndrome-causes.html

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Monday.

0:13.5

It's January 13th.

0:15.3

And the word of day is polarization,

0:18.1

which is also the Merriam-Webster word of the year for 2024.

0:22.4

Using the sentence, given the big increase in polarization lately, which means cold,

0:28.2

we can assume that global warming was just a weird liberal panic.

0:32.3

Right, but plus side, if someone wants to throw a fireball at James Imhoff, now he has to let you.

0:37.6

Well, yeah, no, his reflexes are way slower over this last year, so motherfucker ain't going to dodge.

0:42.6

I'm no illusions.

0:44.1

I'm Eli Bosnick.

0:45.3

I'm Heathenwright.

0:46.3

And broadcasting delayed from America's Far Center.

0:48.5

We are the skeptocrats.

0:50.4

On this week's episode, Trump proposes ruining even more countries than his own.

0:55.5

This simulation's comic relief needs to stop saying, at least social media couldn't get any worse.

1:00.8

And we learn how a mysterious new sonic weapon could affect your weekend.

1:06.4

But first, the rest of the intro music.

1:16.8

Music. But first, the rest of the intro music. Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow skeptic rats, no illusions in Eli Bosnick.

1:21.3

Gentlemen, the inauguration happens in one week.

1:26.5

So how you doing with the slow click, click, click of the tragic roller coaster we're on?

1:33.3

Same as ever, man, throwing my hands up in the air and screaming.

1:37.2

Right, yeah, except in this case, two million more people on the bus to the theme park chose action park over Disneyland.

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