263: Skepticrat263 - Moral Kombat Edition
The Skepticrat
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode: After crossing a red line, Trump goes yellow on Greenland ... A Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize winner bribes a demon kid so she won’t get wished into the cornfield ... And Republicans invite the world's leading expert on Donald Trump's crime to headline a big public hearing on Donald Trump's crime.
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Headline Sources:
Trump at Davos: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/us/politics/trump-davos-speech-takeaways.html
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-davos-speech-greenland-stupid-moments.html
Protest at Minnesota Church Service Adds to Tensions Over ICE Tactics: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/us/politics/minnesota-church-protest-ice.html
White House Uses AI to Alter Protester’s Face So That She’s Sobbing: https://nz.news.yahoo.com/white-house-uses-ai-alter-211105749.html
Guinea-Bissau halts RFK Jr. inspired Hep B vaccine trial: https://apnews.com/article/guinea-bissau-suspends-us-hepatitis-b-study-9d172d68afb36c62a85d1236f639ddcf
Journalist Laura Jedeed applied for a job at ICE as a joke and got the job way too easily:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis-shooting.html
ICE agents slipping on ice in Minnesota and falling so hard:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/us/minneapolis-ice-protest-winter-weather.html
ICE slipping on ice montage: https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/1qaljce/ice_agents_slipping_on_ice_a_montage/
Machado Presents Trump With Her Nobel Peace Prize Medal: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/world/americas/machado-trump-meeting-nobel-peace-prize.html
Jack Smith testifies before congress: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/politics/takeaways-jack-smith-congress-testimony.html
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| 0:39.4 | It's Monday. |
| 0:41.7 | It's January 26th. And the word of the day is Roarback, which means a falsehood published for political effect. |
| 0:47.9 | Huh. |
| 0:48.5 | Used in a sentence. |
| 0:50.1 | When the DHS claims an ice agent has internal bleeding from the car we all watched not hit him, |
| 0:56.5 | for example. |
| 0:57.7 | Roar back, you're lying. |
| 0:59.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.1 | It's crazy that they murdered another person and lied about it since you wrote that intro, |
| 1:05.8 | right? |
| 1:06.3 | It's hard to keep up with it. |
| 1:07.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.5 | Yeah. |
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