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61: Skepticrat061 - Rapid Detax Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

News, Government, Politics

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit http://bit.ly/2qQRi8G and enter skepticrat30.

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

https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/11/28/russian-weather-satellite-and-18-secondary-payloads-feared-lost/

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42160227

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/dec/01/south-australia-turns-on-teslas-100mw-battery-history-in-the-making

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/nov/29/un-war-crimes-defendant-claims-to-drink-poison-at-trial-in-hague-slobodan-praljak

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-29/euthanasia-passes-parliament-in-victoria/9205472

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/105thGreyCup

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ara-san-juan-latest-submarine-argentina-search-rescue-crew-over-news-a8085911.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-politics/japans-abe-re-elected-prime-minister-after-big-election-win-idUSKBN1D13LP?il=0

http://fortune.com/2017/12/01/bitcoin-price-cme-cftc-futures/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-somalia-blast-toll/death-toll-from-somalia-truck-bomb-in-october-now-at-512-probe-committee-idUSKBN1DU2IC

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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