245: Skepticrat245 - Tariff at First You Don't Succeed Edition
The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Another amazing word of the day from Susie Dent:
https://bsky.app/profile/susiedent.com
Headline Sources:
Trump’s fascist deportations are catching US citizens: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/04/judge-orders-trump-administration-bring-back-md-man-mistakenly-deported/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/05/us-citizens-deported-immigration/
Nancy Mace got an activist arrested after he shook her hand - charges just got dropped: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/04/nancy-mace-got-an-activist-arrested-after-he-shook-her-hand-charges-just-got-dropped/
Release of Signal chat leads to SO MUCH LYING:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trumps-top-intelligence-officials-claim-no-classified-information-was-rcna197954
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/gabbard-ratcliffe-senate-hearing-signal-yemen-texts-rcna198047
NSA Director gets fired by Trump on the advice of Laura Loomer: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/03/nsa-director-fired-tim-haugh/
Phone numbers, emails, and passwords of Gabbard, Waltz, and Hegseth found online: https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/pete-hegseth-mike-waltz-tulsi-gabbard-private-data-and-passwords-of-senior-u-s-security-officials-found-online-a-14221f90-e5c2-48e5-bc63-10b705521fb7
Cory Booker delivers record setting “are we really letting this happen?” speech: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/nyregion/cory-booker-speech-reactions.html
Eric Adams will skip the Democratic primary and run for reelection as an independent:
https://apnews.com/article/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-independent-1bfd61ad5d266b030996dfe516c77a17
Trump tariff strategy cites economists - they all said he's stupid: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/04/tariffs-economists-trump-formula/
And he clearly copied his homework from an AI overview: https://www.theverge.com/news/642620/trump-tariffs-formula-ai-chatgpt-gemini-claude-grok
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:13.0 | It's April 7th. |
| 0:15.0 | And the word of the day is Arsel, a 19th century term that means to go backwards. |
| 0:29.4 | Using a sentence, we elected an arsel whose economic policy is arsling the country back to the century when arsul was a word. |
| 0:32.6 | And your arsul feel it soon if it doesn't already. |
| 0:35.2 | Making an arsle of myself. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm no illusions. |
| 0:38.4 | I'm I'm I'm Heathen. I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm Heathenright. |
| 0:41.7 | And broadcasting delay from America's Far Center. |
| 0:43.6 | We are the skeptocrats. |
| 0:45.0 | Oh, this week's episode. |
| 0:49.2 | The punishment for coming here gets almost as bad as the punishment for being here. |
| 0:52.9 | Even podcasters will be impressed with how long Cory Booker can vamp. And I asked ChatGPT how to fix the country, but I'm not allowed to say the answer. |
| 0:59.7 | But first, the rest of the intro music. |
| 1:21.2 | Okay. Joining me for headlines tonight are my fellow skeptic rats, no illusions in Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:24.7 | Gentlemen, March Madness Finals coming up. |
| 1:27.1 | I'm not really a sports guy. |
| 1:27.9 | I don't really care. |
| 1:30.6 | I got the ball in the circle. |
| 1:33.4 | But do you guys do any brackets this year? |
| 1:37.1 | Yeah, you know, I would feel better about my haven't watched a college basketball game since 1990s, as finishing eighth if Eli wasn't ninth. |
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