59: Skepticrat059 - Gold Star Edition
The Skepticrat
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2017
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode: Florida snowflakes are unable to refute Richard Spencer's ideas ... Millions of Americans learn where Catalonia is ... And the President of the United States spends two weeks failing kindergarten.
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Headline Links:
Trump missteps on questions about fallen soldiers in Niger: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/10/21/the-cascade-of-missteps-that-turned-one-white-house-error-into-a-messy-week/
Spain strips Catalonia of autonomy: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/world/europe/spain-catalonia-mariano-rajoy.html
Malawi police arrest 140 in wake of anti-vampire lynchings: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-malawi-violence/malawi-arrests-140-in-clampdown-after-vampirism-killings-idUSKBN1CP192?il=0
Person people like Eli made famous capitalizes on it: http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/19/us/university-florida-richard-spencer-speech/index.html
Trump gives his response to PR 10 out of 10: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/10/19/trump-gives-puerto-rico-response-a-grade-of-10-out-of-10/?utm_term=.66a73a045b8d
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:03.0 | October 23rd. And the word of the day is Erenacious, which means |
| 0:18.8 | resembling a hedgehog. We have a word for that. Used in a sentence, Guy Fury has his very own word and that |
| 0:26.4 | word is erinaceous. Okay, well now I demand a fancy word for Flavortown. I feel right, right? And I'm super jealous that there isn't a word for resembling a cigar store Indian on meth because I'm no illusions |
| 0:38.6 | I'm Eli Bosnick I'm Heath and Wright and Broadcasting Delayed from America's far center. We are the Skeptocrats |
| 0:47.2 | On this week's episode Florida Snowflakes are unable to refute Richard Spencer's ideas. |
| 0:53.0 | Millions of Americans learn where Catalonia is. |
| 0:56.0 | And the President of the United States spends two weeks failing kindergarten. |
| 1:00.0 | But first, Dietratribe. There's a lot of good reasons to add a few international sources to your repertoire of news providers. |
| 1:22.0 | And American News has a bad habit of forgetting the rest of news providers. |
| 1:23.0 | American news has a bad habit of forgetting the rest of the world exists until |
| 1:26.0 | something blows up, for example. |
| 1:28.0 | It's also helpful to get a view of American politics less obscured by partisan filters, which |
| 1:31.7 | all our news seems to me, but it also helps a ton to give |
| 1:35.0 | you perspective on your role in all of this shit as an American. |
| 1:39.5 | Because on the BBC and shit like that, they're less inclined to say Donald Trump did |
| 1:43.7 | X and more so towards America did X. Now obviously I'm talking about policy |
| 1:50.3 | shit here right the BBC never comes out and says America |
| 1:52.6 | sent some batshit crazy tweets to North Korea or America says Obama's tapping |
| 1:56.8 | their phones but but they do say America pulled out of the Paris Climate |
| 2:00.5 | Accord and America is exploring a ban on trans people serving in the military |
| 2:04.4 | and America is cracking down on so-called sanctuary cities and every time I hear |
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