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The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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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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