61: Skepticrat061 - Rapid Detax Edition
The Skepticrat
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
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🗓️ 4 December 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
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On this week's episode: We mourn a tremendous cut to our taxes ... We'll give the three famous guys who never sexually assaulted anybody a high five ... And Mike Flynn rolls over like he was about to get a happy ending.
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Headline Links:
Tax Bill: http://www.businessinsider.com/gop-tax-bill-senate-budget-committee-vote-2017-11 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/01/winners-and-losers-in-the-senate-gop-tax-bill-a-running-list/?utm_term=.35a26ced0a6f
Trump makes Pocahontas joke at Navajo veterans' event: http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/27/politics/trump-pocahontas-navajo-code-talkers/index.ht
Mulvaney takes over CFPB in mini-coup: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/11/28/judge-rules-mick-mulvaney-remain-interim-headin-leadership-fight-consumer-financial-protection-burea/902173001/
Literally everyone is a rapist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinstein_effect
North Korean ICBM can hit all of US mainland: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42160227
Michael Flynn pleads guilty and Trump accidentally tweets about obstructing justice: http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/02/politics/trump-tweet-flynn-firing-fbi-reaction/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/01/politics/michael-flynn-charged/index.html
Prince Harry is gonna marry an American https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/royal-wedding-looms-prince-harry-meghan-markle-announce-engagement-n817901?cid=emlnbn20171127
Roundup Links:
http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/20/media/att-time-warner-deal-lawsuit/index.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42160227
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-29/euthanasia-passes-parliament-in-victoria/9205472
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/105thGreyCup
http://fortune.com/2017/12/01/bitcoin-price-cme-cftc-futures/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/02/us/brock-turner-appeal.html
https://qz.com/1120731/paradise-papers-a-guide-to-the-major-revelations/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Britain, on a day like today, you already know the absolutely perfect thing to eat. |
| 0:06.0 | It comes in a bowl, you eat it with a spoon, it's absolutely delicious and it'll warm you right through. |
| 0:12.0 | Of course, it's soup. It has to be soup and of course it has to be Heinz. |
| 0:18.0 | Which leaves you with just one decision. Will it be a tried and trusted favorite or will one of the new hind soup flavours |
| 0:24.2 | tantalise your taste buds like French onion with a couple of chunks of warm crusty |
| 0:29.2 | bread topped with a little melted butter? You already know you're going to love it. |
| 0:34.1 | For warming comfort on a cold day, it has to be Heinz. It's Monday. December 4th. And the day. |
| 0:44.0 | It's Monday. |
| 0:48.0 | It's December 4th. |
| 0:52.0 | And the word of the day is epicariccy, which means driving pleasure from the pain and misfortune of others, |
| 1:00.0 | just like Schadenfreude, but more obscure and less German. |
| 1:03.6 | Used in a sentence, can't say I won't experience some epicaricacy. |
| 1:08.3 | As I watch, Lower Middle Class Rust Belt Republicans stick their tongues out, |
| 1:13.0 | waiting for all that sweet, sweet tax cut money |
| 1:15.4 | that's gonna trickle down to them never. |
| 1:17.6 | Yeah, but good news, isn't a practice run it being Australians |
| 1:20.8 | went really well, I think. Mm-hmm. |
| 1:23.0 | Oh, for sure. |
| 1:24.0 | He's going to move to Waihiki Island, Bonafat Winery Steward. |
| 1:27.0 | It's going to be great. |
| 1:28.0 | It's going to be great. |
| 1:29.0 | I'm no illusions. |
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