Congress This Mess
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🗓️ 2 December 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Attorney General Bill Barr said what is obvious to everyone, that the Justice Department hasn’t found any election of widespread voter fraud that would change the result of the election. As Trump winds down his presidency, he’s reportedly looking into pre-emptive pardons for Ivanka, Eric, Don Jr., Jared Kushner, and his face-melting lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
A bipartisan group of senators pitched a compromise relief bill yesterday, which would extend some federal unemployment assistance and fund state and local governments, but would stop short of offering direct payments. An estimated 12 million Americans will lose COVID-relief benefits the day after Christmas if Congress can’t come to a deal.
And in headlines: Uber buys Postmates, LA nearly shuts down COVID-testing site for gender-swapped reboot of “She’s All That,” and the story of the loneliest elephant in the world.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, December 2nd. I'm Achilles Hughes. |
| 0:08.4 | And I'm Gideon Ressonck and this is what a day the official podcast sponsor of Joe |
| 0:12.3 | Biden's orthopedic boot. |
| 0:13.6 | Yeah, get well soon, Joe. Resist the temptation to get out of that boot early to go run or |
| 0:18.2 | go snowboarding. |
| 0:19.2 | Yeah, we need you to wear the boot for your broken foot so you can be the boot for our |
| 0:23.4 | broken country. |
| 0:24.4 | That's right. Build back booter. |
| 0:26.4 | Boot back better, sir. |
| 0:35.0 | On today's show, we check in on the state of the economy and what Congress is and isn't |
| 0:38.6 | doing about it, then some headlines. |
| 0:40.4 | But first the latest. |
| 0:41.7 | It has to stop. |
| 0:44.8 | This is elections. |
| 0:46.6 | This is the backbone of democracy and all of you who have not said a damn word are |
| 0:51.3 | complicit in this. |
| 0:53.4 | That was Georgia voting systems manager Gabriel Sterling speaking yesterday at a press conference |
| 0:58.7 | about violent threats against election officials in the state, which continues to be a target |
| 1:03.0 | for Trump's election conspiracy theories. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, but in other news or kind of more of the same news, Trump's back at it again with |
| 1:09.3 | the basis claims of voter fraud and it seems like he's losing support with his own party |
| 1:13.4 | by the day. |
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