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The Skepticrat
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
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🗓️ 13 January 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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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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