Skepticrat195 - Meek Drop Edition

Episode 195,   Mar 13, 2023, 11:00 AM

On this week's episode: Watching the January 6th tapes backwards shows they were actually cleaning ... We get an inside look into just how incompetently the Tories handled COVID ... And Dilbert gets called in for a tough meeting with HR.

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Headline Sources:

Fox News' Tucker Carlson is not credible, White House says after Jan. 6 coverage: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fox-news-tucker-carlson-is-not-credible-white-house-says-after-jan-6-coverage-2023-03-08/

Mitch McConnell fell and hurt himself: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/09/politics/mitch-mcconnell-hospitalized/index.html

Matt Hancock: More leaked texts mock people in hotel quarantine: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-64831240
Boris Johnson’s massive maths mistake over Covid deaths is an embarrassment: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris-johnson-covid-coronavirus-whatsapp-math-b2292682.html

Scott Adams says Black people are a hate group:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/03/06/scott-adams-dilbert-cartoon-controversy/

Elon Musk publicly mocks laid-off Twitter employee with a disability then apologizes: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/elon-musk-publicly-mocks-laid-off-twitter-employee/story?id=97708515

IMF downgrades UK growth forecast, predicting only economic decline among G-7 countries: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/31/imf-downgrades-uk-growth-forecast-predicting-only-decline-in-g7-.html
Sunak hails ‘new chapter’ in UK-EU relations as Northern Ireland deal is agreed
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/27/rishi-sunak-deal-eu-brexit-northern-ireland-protocol