#78 Sing Us A Song, You’re The Tariff Man

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Sami and Bryan are back. They start off talking about Rudy Giuliani’s social media ineptitude on full display after tweeting out a bad hyperlink. At 8:00 they talk about Robert Mueller dropping Michael Flynn’s sentencing document recommending no prison time. At 11:30 they talk about Gina Haspel testifying in front of Congress that the CIA believes the Crown Prince MBS is directly responsible for Khashoggi’s killing. At 19:00 they talk about the market going a little whack after Trump called himself “big tariffs man” on twitter. For One More Thing they give an update on two stories of Republican corruption and voter fraud related to the 2018 midterm election results in Wisconsin and North Carolina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and for those of you who are just tuning in the Betjus Up podcast I'm Sammy Fish buying
0:09.5	I'm Brian Russell Smith and for those of you who are just tuning in, the Betches Up podcast is your weekly
0:13.9	rundown of the news explained by our two funniest friends.
0:17.0	Which is us.
0:18.0	We read the news so you don't have to.
0:19.7	Wow, great job Sammy.
0:21.3	I just want you guys to all know how many times I had to re-record that intro because I'm confusing it with all of our other podcasts
0:28.6	With the with everyone's gay I always I always want to end it with until the end of democracy I'm like wait that does not apply here
0:34.4	right and like you hear it in your ears it's like your earworm for where you are okay I also
0:39.0	feel like we haven't done the podcast together in a while I know I took a long break for some other things but you know now we're back and we're ready so Brian tell us what is getting you through this week?
0:51.8	Well you know it's everyone's favorite mayor, that's
0:56.5	sarcasm, Rudy Giuliani. So on November 30th, he tweeted out this thing where he like said, okay I'll true the tweet.
1:06.4	Mueller filed an indictment just as the president left for G20.in.
1:11.9	July,. July. In July he indicted the Russians who will never come here just
1:17.6	before he left for Helsinki either could have been done earlier or later.
1:20.5	Out of control, supervision please. So not a very special tweet, you know, he's attacked Mueller before, whatever. But the special thing about this tweet is, is that when he wrote G20 he wrote G dash 20 dot I and he did not put any spaces between it
1:37.2	it was like a period and then he forgot to make a space before the next sentence
1:40.6	yeah so sorry this is not a very visual media yeah basically so he like
1:44.8	created a link inside his tweet. So this guy Jason Velesquez, right? Yes. He owns a web design firm in Atlanta and then he so he
1:57.0	bought that domain for about five dollars and then created a page with the
2:02.1	message so Donald J Trump is a traitor to our country and he says
2:07.7	the process took about 15 minutes so every time someone clicked on that link
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