247: Skepticrat247 - Peter Hegseth Principle Edition
The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Headline Sources:
Elon Musk on his way out:
https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-doge-tesla-government-cuts-c47211544c5382a6207779ee95c6060b
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/02/musk-doge-cuts-congress-budget/
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/business/tesla-board-elon-musk-ceo-search/index.html
Anonymous HHS report recommends conversion therapy without consulting any experts:
https://ground.news/article/trumps-health-agency-urges-therapy-for-transgender-youth-not-broader-gender-affirming-health-care_577b6d
Trump says kids need to take some economic pain:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/us/politics/trump-tariffs-dolls-comment.html
Tariff nonsense being claimed as a "winning deal" by Howard Lutnick:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/business/economy/howard-lutnick-trump-tariffs.html
Trump celebrates 100 days in office with sycophantic cabinet meeting:
https://newrepublic.com/post/194648/maga-far-right-reaction-trump-kim-jong-il-style-cabinet-meeting
Apple Violated Antitrust Ruling, Federal Judge Finds:
https://ground.news/article/apple-violated-antitrust-ruling-federal-judge-finds_60156e
Pete Hegseth is having a really bad time:
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/22/pentagon-infighting-hegseth-fired-officials-00302709
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/28/nx-s1-5380220/trump-hegseth-pentagon
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5271365-colin-carroll-pentagon-official-fired/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:14.0 | It's May 5th. |
| 0:15.4 | And the word of the day is Uterpils, a Norwegian word that means a beer that's being enjoyed outside. |
| 0:22.5 | Using the sentence, |
| 0:23.9 | Uterpils are great, |
| 0:25.3 | and same for Uterpills with two L's in which you take Molly and then go outside, I guess. |
| 0:31.6 | Yeah, and if you don't like the beer, it's an Uter Pilsner. |
| 0:34.8 | No, that's where it comes from. |
| 0:36.7 | Yeah, I'm probably. |
| 0:37.9 | I'm no illusion. |
| 0:39.6 | Stupid. |
| 0:41.7 | I'm Elon Bosnick. |
| 0:43.1 | Idiot. |
| 0:43.7 | I'm Heathen. |
| 0:45.2 | And broadcasting delayed from America's Far Center. |
| 0:48.0 | We are the skeptocrats. |
| 0:49.8 | Oh, this week's episode, Elon Musk spends infinity dollars for literally everyone to hate him. |
| 0:56.2 | America will celebrate Trump's first hundred days |
| 0:58.1 | in office by going, oh fuck, has it only been |
| 1:00.1 | a hundred days? And Trump |
| 1:01.9 | drove our Chevy to the levee, but the levee |
| 1:04.1 | was high. But |
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