240: Skepticrat240 - Reaching Across the Haisle Edition
The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 27 January 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Headline Sources:
Trump's insane list of executive orders: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/trump-executive-orders-list.html
Trump's Pardon Palooza: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_granted_executive_clemency_by_Donald_Trump#Trump's_Second-term_use_of_executive_clemency
Trump purges the people who are supposed to make sure he’s not a crook: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/24/trump-fire-inspectors-general-federal-agencies/
Donald and Melania launch meme coins:
https://www.vox.com/technology/396352/trumps-coin-crypto-bitcoin-regulation
Lauren Boebert Tries to Evict a ‘Guy’ From Ladies Room in Capitol: https://www.thedailybeast.com/boebert-tries-to-evict-a-guy-from-ladies-room-in-capitol/
Elon Musk is a fake gamer: https://kotaku.com/elon-musk-poe2-diablo-4-paid-boosting-fake-controversy-1851743670
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:13.6 | It's January 27th. |
| 0:15.4 | And the word of the day is broligarchy, which means a small group of dude bros who control a political structure used in a sentence. |
| 0:24.5 | Democratic Republic, kleptocratic broligarchy, potato. |
| 0:28.9 | Yeah, they do mostly look like potatoes. |
| 0:30.7 | Yeah, no, and the best preparation for them is Julian and fried in oil. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm no illusions. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 0:38.1 | I'm Heathenright. |
| 0:39.2 | And broadcasting delayed from America's Far Center. |
| 0:41.4 | We are the skeptocrats. |
| 0:43.2 | Oh! |
| 0:43.4 | This week's episode, Donald Trump runs the country the way he ran his businesses. |
| 0:47.8 | With some economic advice from the hawk to a girl. |
| 0:51.0 | That's fun. |
| 0:52.0 | And Elon Musk convinces him to send out poop emojis instead of tax returns. |
| 0:56.5 | But first, the rest of the intro music. |
| 1:20.9 | Thank you. Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow skeptic rats, no illusions in Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:32.2 | Gentlemen, welcome to the new show. We are now the America Brologarchy Alpha alpha america mckinley bald eagle podcast so there we go you're ready for some uh sweet cabinet positions yeah fuck yeah man i want to run the department of chance |
| 1:38.4 | that seems easy and they need work their chance oh okay well when joean is White House Press Secretary, will the meetings be longer or shorter? |
| 1:47.5 | Do we think? That's my question. Feels like longer. More bono. Okay. Upside. In our lead story tonight, |
| 1:55.6 | we have a giant list of evil because this is Trump 2.0 and that's how it works now. |
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