warning most of the words in this podcast aren't fuck but some of them are this week's episode of

the skating atheist is brought to you by the letter m turns out the alphabet's diversifying

his promotional strategy now that sesame streets lost its public funding i guess and now the skating

atheist this is a traveler matthew in july visited the vatican and italy at the height of hot summer, I stood in a line with hundreds of people to wait over an hour to get into the Vatican Museum. Children, seniors, pasty whiteies like me, everyone burned in the windless oppressive sun. Given that one of the richest organizations in the fucking world could look at this torture day after day and do nothing to provide shade while rubbing their hard nipples

confirms that we did in fact evolve from filthy, needlessly cruel monkey people. It's Thursday.

Oh, that was really good.

It's October 20th.

And it's National Text Your X Day.

Don't do that.

I'm no illusions.

I'm Mila Bosnick.

And from Bruce Springsteak's New Jersey in Waycross, Georgia.

This is The Skating Atheist.

On this week's episode, we'll learn what the hell all those deadly Teslas were swerving out of the way of.

Colorado takes the everybody out of public schools,

and we'll sell you profanity even more directly than usual. But first, the diatribe. It's getting harder and harder not to sound like a conspiracy theorist these days.

But look, when the big holdup that's gridlocking the government is whether or not to strip away health coverage from tens of millions of Americans and the health secretary is aggressively pushing anti-science policies that chip away at vaccination rates, food safety regulations, and sound dietary recommendations, it's hard not to conclude the Republican health plan is just poor people dying.

Right?

I saw an Associated Press report the other day where a couple of journalists tracked down all the anti-science bills and state legislatures that are attacking vaccines, water fluoridation, and milk pasteurization requirements.

Just those three conspiracy theory hobby horses, guess how many they found?

Four hundred and fucking 20.

420 bills designed to ease vaccine mandates, remove fluoride from drinking water, promote raw milk consumption, undermine the scientific consensus, and replace sound health policy with

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