Monday, December 20th, 2021

Morning Announcements

Betches

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🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Well... it looks like the Build Back Better bill won't be passed until 2022. Next, let's share another Omnicron update, before getting to Governor Ron Desantis' new legislation that will allow parents to sue schools for teaching critical race theory. Then, we throwback to Kanye’s attempt at a presidential campaign, before closing with two court stories. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: NY Times: "Manchin Pulls Support From Biden’s Social Policy Bill, Imperiling Its Passage" Washington Post: "Health officials say omicron variant likely to cause record-high coronavirus cases, hospitalizations in U.S" Axios "Study: J&J vaccine provides little or no protection against Omicron" Twitter: "DeSantis unveils legislation to let parents sue schools that teach critical race theory" Daily Beast: "Kanye West’s ‘Independent’ Campaign Was Secretly Run by GOP Elites" CNN: "Ghislaine Maxwell's defense team rests its case after she declines to testify" NY Times: "During Testimony, Kimberly Potter Apologizes for Killing Daunte Wright" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Monday, December 20th, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements presented
0:07.4	by Betch's Media.
0:09.2	I'm Sammy Sage, and this episode is sponsored by Harper Wilde.
0:12.9	Harper Wilde makes bras that put comfort first.
0:16.3	Congress, they're just like us.
0:21.4	They left for recess on Friday, and let us know that they'll be circling back to the
0:25.3	possibility of a build-back better build next year.
0:28.8	Those until Senator Joe Manchin went on Fox News of all the channels to inform everyone,
0:34.6	including the public, the president, and the Fox host that he was speaking to, that he
0:38.8	just couldn't get there on the build-back better build, and that he will be voting no on
0:43.2	the bill.
0:44.2	He cited concerns about adding to the national debt, rising inflation, and the spread
0:48.7	of Omicron, though I'm still not totally clear on what that last one has to do with it.
0:54.3	Manchin said, quote,
0:55.3	I've tried everything humanly possible, I can't get there.
0:59.5	Have you tried just, uh, getting there?
1:07.5	Omicron, Omicron, wherefore art thou Omicron?
1:10.9	Apparently?
1:11.9	Everywhere.
1:12.9	Dr. Fauci warned yesterday that the U.S. is likely to see record numbers of COVID cases
1:17.4	and said that everyone should get their boosters, duh.
1:20.8	Omicron has a doubling time of two to three days, and already accounts for 50% of cases
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