242: Skepticrat242 - Chainsaw of Fools Edition
The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 24 February 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Headline Sources:
CPAC highlights including Elon Musk waving a chainsaw and Steve Bannon doing a nazi salute: https://apnews.com/article/musk-chainsaw-trump-doge-6568e9e0cfc42ad6cdcfd58a409eb312
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5156631-elon-musk-cpac-5-takeaways/
https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-cpac-nazi-salute-gesture-wave-43a06de6184fe58940c8ae3d743bc6ba
Fox News, CNN, and Other News Outlets Urge White House to Drop Ban on The AP: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/business/media/ap-white-house-ban-cnn-fox.html
Trump parrots Russian propaganda about Ukraine: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/world/trump-putin-russia-ukraine.html
DOGE fires nuclear safety staff, then has to unfire them after deleting their email accounts: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/climate/trump-nnsa-nuclear-staff-reinstated/index.html
New Kennedy Center President Says Trump Wants to “Make Art Great Again”: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/kennedy-center-changes-trump-christmas-show-1236143238/
Chris Kluwe arrested for protesting MAGA library installation: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/former-nfl-punter-chris-kluwe-arrested-anti-trump-protest-city-council-rcna192978
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:13.5 | It's February 24th. |
| 0:15.8 | And the word of the day is a panthropist, which means one who has a love of solitude. |
| 0:22.6 | Using the sentence, I'm not happy about the pandemic, like a misanthropist, but I enjoyed |
| 0:28.9 | the pandemic as an apanthropist, right? |
| 0:32.1 | And I enjoyed all the anti-vaxxers dying, so it's about small pleasure. |
| 0:35.7 | Yeah, what do you call it if you like solitude because you hate everyone and wish they died of a |
| 0:40.2 | pandemic? |
| 0:41.5 | Anyway, I'm no illusions. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm Ilabaznik. |
| 0:44.9 | I'm Heath Enright. |
| 0:46.1 | Broadcasting Delayed from America's Far Center. |
| 0:48.5 | We are the skepticrats. |
| 0:50.4 | Oh! |
| 0:50.7 | This week's episode, we'll cover the multiple Hitler salutes of this year's CPAC. |
| 0:56.1 | The AP will ask us what we heard about Trump's latest presser. |
| 0:59.1 | And I'm also a misanthropist based on really hating 49.8% of the people. |
| 1:05.1 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:05.7 | But first, the rest of the intro music. |
| 1:16.8 | Yeah. the rest of the intro music. Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow skeptic rats, |
| 1:19.6 | no illusions in Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:21.2 | Gentlemen, here in 2025, the year of our lord. |
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