Episode 824: DOGE Keeps Failing So Hard

Cognitive Dissonance

Tom Curry

Comedy

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country's weapons stockpile, sources say | CNN USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them Thousands Protest on Presidents' Day, Calling Trump a Tyrant 'King' - The New York Times Trump says Zelensky 'should have never started' war with Russia Dems Reportedly Angry That Progressives Are Pushing Them to Act Like an Opposition Party | Common Dreams Tens of millions of dead people aren't getting Social Security checks, despite Trump and Musk claims | AP News DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million. - The New York Times Goat covered in $100 Trump bills is on display at Mar-a-Lago. Here's why | Snopes.com Two hundred UK companies sign up for permanent four-day working week | Work & careers | The Guardian Worcester MA sanctuary city for transgender community – NBC Boston COVID Pushed a Generation of Young People to the Right - The Atlantic

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0:00.0	This episode of Cognitive Dissinence is brought to you by our patrons.
0:04.3	You fucking rock.
0:09.1	Be advised that this show is not for children, the faint of heart, or the easily offended.
0:15.0	The explicit tag is there for a reason. Recording live from Gloryhole Studios in Chicago and beyond.
0:43.8	This is cognitive dissonance.
0:46.7	Every episode would be blessed anyone who gets in our way.
0:48.8	We bring critical thinking, skepticism, and irreverence to any topic that makes the news makes it big or makes us mad.
0:58.7	It's skeptical.
1:00.2	It's political.
1:01.9	And there is no welcome at.
1:04.5	Today is Thursday, February 20th.
1:08.6	We're about a month in, buddy.
1:10.4	A month.
1:12.0	Today's a month. Yeah.
1:16.8	Hoof. What is that? How many is that now? What do we got left? We got 47 left?
1:22.6	47 left, buddy. Let's see if we can do them. It's been a bad. Cash Patel today. Cash Patel. That's terrible news. That's a fucking QAnon conspiracy theorist.
1:27.9	Yep, that's genuinely leading.
1:31.1	I mean, a Q&on conspiracy theorist that's like unabashed,
1:34.5	although he said that he didn't believe that stuff in the hearing,
1:37.5	but who cares?
1:38.1	He's got a history, like a written story,
1:41.8	like a checkable history of that shit.
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