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244: Skepticrat244 - Grand Theft Autopen Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Government, News, Politics

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: Federal courts rule on if we can have a deportation catapult ... Trump voters argue that at least he makes the planes crash on time ... And Heath was excited by a headline about the Kennedy assassination but then he realized it's about JFK.

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Headline Sources:

Judge Appears Skeptical of Trump’s Use of Wartime Law to Deport Venezuelans:
nytimes.com/2025/03/21/us/politics/trump-deportations-alien-enemies-act-block.html
Mahmoud Khalil got abducted by the US government: apnews.com/article/columbia-protests-immigration-detention-mahmoud-khalil-755774045e5e82849e3281e8ff72f26d

Trump tries to dismantle the education department: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/can-trump-dismantle-education-department.html

Trump pretends Joe Biden’s pardons don’t count: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/business/media/autopen-biden-trump-conspiracy-theory.html

Trump has Tesla sales event on White House lawn: washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/16/elon-musk-tesla-trump-sales-republicans/

DOGE is ridiculously inefficient:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/22/irs-tax-revenue-loss-federal-budget/https
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lawmakers-fear-doge-cuts-will-drive-away-generation-federal-workers-rcna197085


Were the Kennedy Files a Bust?...Not So Fast, Historians Say: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/jfk-assassination-files-cia.html

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Monday.

0:14.1

It's March 24th.

0:15.8

And the word of the day is unassanus, which means united in stupidity.

0:22.0

Used in a sentence, when the public health chief gives all the chickens bird flu on purpose,

0:27.5

we're all unassanus, whether we're actually unassanus or not.

0:31.8

Yeah, well, he's an ass in us anyway.

0:34.5

Really? Because it feels the other way around, can I say?

0:37.0

Yeah, no, that too. That

0:38.4

too. I'm no illusions. I'm Ilabosnik. I'm Heathenright. And broadcasting delayed from America's

0:44.4

Far Center. We are the skeptocrats. On this week's episode, federal courts rule on if we can have a

0:50.5

deportation cataple. Trump voters argue that at least he makes the planes crash on time.

0:56.0

And I was excited by a headline about the Kennedy assassination,

0:59.8

but then I was like, oh, right, JFK.

1:02.5

But first, the rest of the intro music.

1:06.3

Music. Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow skepticrats, no illusions in Eli Bosnick.

1:21.4

Gentlemen, we have a pre-lead story really quick.

1:25.9

Donald Trump says he won the club-wide golf tournament at Trump International Golf Club

1:33.5

in Palm Beach last week.

1:34.7

Oh.

1:35.8

So we're dead and it's a simulation.

1:38.6

What the fuck is happening?

1:39.9

I hear the Red Queen crushed the club-wide croquet tournament as well.

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