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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Wednesday, fake news you can trust from the Babylon
b illegal immigrants removed from the census, leaving California with
a population of twelve. French President Nammanuel Macrone offers to
provide Iran with white flags. Now for the real thing.
Donald Trump's presidency came down to one vote in the
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US Senate by a former lawyer who failed the bar
exam four times. Alaska's Lisa Murkowski somber yes vote got
Trump's Taxes and Spending bill to fifty, handing the baton
to Vice President j D Vance, who pushed it into
the winter circle by breaking the tie. Three Republicans, Paul
of Kentucky, Tillis of North Carolina, and Collins of Maine
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voted no. Collins even after she insisted on fifty billion
be put in for rural hospitals. Murkowski didn't come cheap,
got at least six new offshore oil and gas leases
in the next six years, from which Alaska will receive
seventy percent of the royalties. She got Alaska whalers an
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extra fifty thousand each in business deductions, tax exemptions for
native fisheries in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, Alaskans
will get more food stamps than the rest of us,
be exempt from the Medicaid work requirements, and a lot
of that fifty billion for rural hospitals will come her way.
Democrats are calling it the Polar payoff. This bill adds
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five trillion to the debt over the next ten years,
but when you bring that up, the foe deficit hawks
known as Republicans, change the subject. Leaving the Senate floor,
Murkowski urged the House, who now has it in their
rules committee, to reject it. This could be very expensive
for them. On election Day, while this was happening, Trump
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was inspecting his new ice detention facility, five thousand beds
surrounded by alligator infestis in Florida swamp land. Only two
ways out a heavily guarded road, or deportation. You try
any other way, you won't make it. A week ago,
Defensive Secretary Pete Hegseth said, if you want to know
what happened to Iran's nuclear mountains, get a shovel. They
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have satellite photos just two weeks after the blast show
a new access road, a staging area, dump trucks, and
a crane on site. Trump a pressure on woke of
colleges and universities is working. The University of Pennsylvania abandons
it's a transgender sports program. No more guys on women's teams.
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Will restore all of the women's records and write an
apology to all of them. In exchange, Trump's Education Department
will release the one hundred and seventy five million in
embargoed research money to pen Trump Inc. Organization launches a
new men's cologne, Victory forty seven. You'll Smell like a
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Patriot not cheap, three point five ounces for two hundred
and fifty bucks. Jimmy Swaggert, who headlined the Golden Age
of TV Preachers and then starred in its scandal Pearly Gate,
has finally died at ninety. At his peak, he reached
two million a week, raised sixty million in donations. Remembered
for his blubbering confession after being defrocked by the Assembly
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of God Church, he was found with a hooker in
a New Orleans hotel room. His penance was having to
live with all of that for another thirty seven years.
Twenty years later, Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and
Stanley Tucci are reprising their roles in a sequel, The
Devil Wears Prada two. In this one, we meet Miranda's husband.
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Production began this week. Christy Brinkley, Sports Illustrated's first Super
Swimsuit model, turned seventy one. In an interview with The
New York Times, admits of her four marriages, each ending
in divorce, two were good, two were bad. Billy Joel
was one of the good ones. He's taken resumes for
number five. Get ready for volume major upset at Wimbledon.
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The American Cocoa Golf is stunned in the first round,
number two seed out twenty nine unforced errors in a
loss to unranked a Diyana Yaztram's Kha of the Ukraine.
Three of the top five women seeds and two top
ten men seeds are already gone. One more Sign of
the Times meme sent in by listener Mickey he who
has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.