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Pat and Pete
Based on the long tradition of Muckraking journalism exposing corruption Two guys bring you the news every week and tell you why you're not alone screaming into the void. We're all going to die in the apocalypse, but at least the Muckrakers saw it coming, talked about it and made fun of it. So while your scramble to keep the fire lit and fend off the wolves that are closing in, come listen and laugh and just maybe survive just a little bit longer.
...he'll probably quit on us anyway. In this episode Pete and Bobby discuss the worst jobs they've ever had, and Pat never gets around to telling everyone about the god awful Circle K! Maybe next time, maybe next time.
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Center for Prison Reform:
https://centerforprisonreform.org/prison-reform-organizations/
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We talk Monorails again this week! Enjoy!
Oh the Urbanity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlkylGqQf1g
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Happy Halloween everyone! (And only saying so 8 days late, not bad!)
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Businesses demand not just your time but your feigning of emotions as well; suffering is not enough, you have to put on a happy face while grease from the fryer burns you and the boss gropes you. Starving on the streets is the only alternative in a world where capitalism is the law of the land!
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Ayn Rand quotes: http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/abortion.html Honest Capitalist Destroys Capitalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvirpCAbGSY
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Can't remember what happened in this episode. Enjoy!
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Want a pudding pop? Cosby walks free in the present while Rutherford B Hayes destroyed the rights of black citizens in the past. The world is truly awful, but Dear Wesley is back to give live-correcting advice here on this week's new episode of Muckrakers!
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This week we look at the amazing boom and bust cycle of the economy rocketing towards "boom!" Also, the consequences of his own actions catches up to Giuliani just in time to make no difference at all. The wheels of justice move criminally slow!
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This week we reveal the secret to not paying taxes - avoid them, don't evade them! Avoidance is the totally legal way millionaires and billionaires avoid what was once said to be as inevitable as death! Also, are businesses using almonds to murder Californians? The answer may surprise you! All this and a new Dear Wesley on this week's joint Father's Day and Juneteenth Day episode!
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Tax Avoidance Vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i00Da_r_t7g
Whitney Plantation: https://www.whitneyplantation.org/?fbclid=IwAR0s8V2aJTxypq6mT5scEk9srCVV1yULYoLPhqh3BYlvY0n2hSrD4S7tB8c
This week we discuss the reawakening Chernobyl disaster site, Q's insight into cicadas and what they mean for Joe Biden, and also a story about a man being eaten by a whale! Does this man survive and learn a valuable lesson to do what God tells him to do? Stay tuned and find out!
It's happy Pride Month here at Those Muckrakers! Today we talk Chick-fil-A, flags, oppression, and Caitlyn Jenner! Buckle up, buckaroos! It's going to be a crazy ride!
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In today's episode we'll be discussing the GOP's war on women's rights, the Palestinian conflict and the GOP trying to shutdown the investigation into the January 6th attack on the US Capitol building. Fun times ahead!
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Genuinely don't recall what this episode was about. Enjoy!
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In this week's episode, we discuss former-crack addict Mike Lindell's amazingly weird new website and all the hilarity of him having no idea what he's doing - yet still having so much passion for it! Also, high speed rails: The future we'll have, or the future we'll never have because global warming will kill us all first? Stay tuned for all that and more!
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This week we bring back the much beloved Dear Wesley segment! What will his worldly advice be for a couple wanting to give unassisted birth from home? Also, can bananas stop a forest fire? We'll not find out because we'll discuss super dumping instead! All this and another dive into systemic racism within the police force on this week's show!
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Today we discuss Micronations and just how silly of idea they are, from the Principality of Sealand to Emperor Norton, a hobo who wrote to British royalty and had his currency recognized in local stores! He actually gave a funeral to a dog as the pope... this happened in real life! Curious to hear more? Tune in and check it out!
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Greetings surviving citizens of Rome in the Eastern Mediterranean! We're here today to discuss fallen governments and civilizations, as well as not-so fallen ones that continue to thrive in the dirty underbelly of the world to this day, such as Q and all the hilarity the followers of that idea employ!
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In today's episode, we discuss the worst possible forms of government! We were going to do "how to enact real change into our current government," but realized the solution would be far too Q Shaman-ish for our tastes. So we went with a less treasonous topic. Enjoy!
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In today's episode we white-knuckle it through our own ideal forms of government and what we believe would make the best leaders. Should we breed eunuchs or simply castrate congress? Stay tuned to find out!
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Today we visit a Baby Boomer's Sexual fantasy, a Crowdsourced baseball league, and how Rome came to be called Rome.
We're not dead yet, but America may be! Stay tuned for our civilization's finale of Democracy!
The Corona Virus will kill us all. Otherwise the world is doing great, besides all the awfulness.
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IT'S EPISODE 100! WE MADE IT FAM! Join us in this very special episode where I literally do not recall a single thing that happened in it, it's all one huge blacked out blur! Enjoy!
We have the real, actual, live Wesley in the Muckeroonie studio today! This will be an ALL "Dear Wesley" episode! As this is a very special episode, we've opted to keep the last two minutes of pre-show bants, as they amuse us.
Lots of Dear Wesley stories from our listeners in this episode! Also Trump was impeached this week (episode originally recorded the day after impeachment).
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Today we discuss Xi Jin's Ping and how delicious corporations in America find it to be. Speaking of things that's gross to put in your mouth, prisoners are smoking cigs made up of tobacco spit from guards in America. That sounds bad enough that it's probably something mandatory in a Chinese prison for dissenters! All this and news about the latest Blue Wave in today's episode!
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This week, Trump destroys our Kurdish allies in order to bolster his own personal standing with the Saudis for personal enrichment while whining about the Democrats stopping him from breaking the Emoluments Clause by holding the G7 at his personal resort to further profiteer off of the Presidency. They could stop him from having his stupid get-together but not from slaughtering 100,000 Kurdish people who have done nothing but help America.
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The Kurds were betrayed by Trump and left to be slaughtered by Turkey and ISIS, but this gives Trump a great distraction from his ongoing impeachment. Also we see how Old Testament Wesley would handle a marriage problem!
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This week Wesley eats a box with a picture of pizza on it while we plot to fill his house with bees. Also Trump wants to fill "moots" full of gators and snakes because he's an insane person.
Last week we declared Trump above the law and beyond consequences. Sometimes it feels good to be wrong.
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This week Trump really outdoes himself by committing all kinds of treasonous acts while also trying to get us into war at the behest of his wealthy benefactors, the Saudis. Too bad he's officially above the law and will never face any consequences for these horrific acts!
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The third Democratic debates of the new election season were underway this week while Trump commits several more felonies, which he won't go to jail for because he's above the law!
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The BLOTUS rants and raves about non-existent dangers to Alabama while real gunshot victims are dying in the streets of Texas this week. Also Wesley sent us a picture of himself making Pizza Bread! We'll tell you all about it on this week's new show!
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Trump threatens to end birthright citizenship of military families overseas while we count down his top 15 conspiracy theories! Also we talk about the whole ProJared thing, a youtube drama which had its newest twist this week.
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The economy rapidly rockets towards a great recession from which there will be no escape. We'll talk about that, and also talk about Truman Showing Wesley on an island full of hookers and wasps! A grand ole time will be had by nobody!
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In honor of Trump calling himself the King of Israel and King of the Jews, we've dedicated an episode to pondering what if Trump fulfills the Antichrist prophesy and heralds in the end times.
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We talk gun violence yet again after the shootings in Ohio and Texas last weekend, committed by White Nationalist Terrorists who were inspired by President Trump's racist rhetoric.
Also an old lady cat fishes or gets cat fished, we're never sure which, in today's Dear Patty section!
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Lots of new fan letters this week! And we mostly talk about how we'd like to be buried, but we eventually get to the Democratic debate. And we're keeping an eye on you, Moscow Mitch the treasonous turtle!
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We try and fail to avoid talking about the Mueller testimony this week as our nation's democracy dies a slow and painful death while we watch on in horror.
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Mrs. B. Bored and Abe fill in for Pat and Pete again this week, and maybe a special guest will stop by the studio, too!
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At this point it's hard to say if this episode is late for last week or early for next week...
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Pete never wanted this opening to be used, but he lost the vote on our Twitter poll, so it will be premiered here on our Ep75 special!
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We open listener mail today and respond to Dear Abby's from the audience!
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Tomorrow (from this upload) ICE raids will begin across the nation. Trump's Gestapo will come knocking at the doors of immigrants across the nation soon, and they'll be hauled off to his concentration camps. Families will be torn apart as a standard practice. Babies will be held in baby cages until they die from the elements or nourishment. Another grotesque moment in human history will be upon us. One of our most shameful chapters. Also in this episode we talk about putting Wesley on a grapefruit diet, so that'll be fun!
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Orange Hitler has begun his holocaust with the extermination of Mexican immigrants and asylum seekers, even going so far as to fire up old concentration camps used by the US during WWII to wrongfully imprison Japanese-Americans.
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Mueller finally speaks out this week while Trump fellates Kim Jong Un! But we have more important stuff to discuss, like Wesley's birthday and fan mail!
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Let's just forget about our worries for today and go to our happy place, hidden behind a happy little tree and happy little bird, like Bob Ross intended.
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It's a subpoena bonanza as the rule of law threatens to be dead in America as Trump deflects any and all oversight left, right and center. He's blocking the courts, he's suing the sources, and he's threatening John Kerry as a distraction while Giuliani sneaks overseas to better rig the next election in his favor! And why not blatantly break the law like that? Who's going to stop him? Barr is being held in contempt of Congress, but he's above the law and can't see jail time for his crimes. No one in Trump's innermost circle will ever suffer consequences again. Justice is dead. The law is meaningless. All hail King Trump. Also new Dear Abby's where a fussy ole mother makes parties bad for her daughter! All this and more on this week's new Muckrakers!
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Barr continues to obstruct justice this week as a letter from Mueller comes out showing that he lied under oath when he said he didn't know how Mueller felt about his grotesquely inaccurate summary of the Report. Barr then adds contempt of congress to his crimes by not showing up on Thursday to answer questions for the House. Perhaps Barr is racing Trump to see who gets impeached first? Stay tuned to find out!
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A new challenger has appeared! Joe Biden enters the Presidential race as the most likely contender for the next US President, unless the Russians meddle in this election too. And why woulnd't they? They got away with it last time and have benefited tremendously from it, plus now they have experience stealing the election. It's only positives for them.
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Democracy dies this week as Trump proves yet again to be above the law, so Pete and Pat talk about youth preachers instead.
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Feckless Ghoul Stephen Miller will ramp up immigration policies even worse than the Baby Cages we already have, which has already caused the deaths of many children which were ripped away from their parents in what is now a standardized practice of cruelty. That was considered too soft of treatment for the essential service of immigrant labor, so Trump fired the lady that implemented those crimes against humanity and put an even worse monster in charge.
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Half our cast is sick this week, so stumble through this episode the same way our great, deeply divided nation stumbles on with half its population mentally ill from the disease of trusting Fox News!
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Barr was put in place to protect Trump from the consequences of the Mueller Report. His predecessor Sessions was removed for saying he would not protect Trump. Why is everyone believing Barr when he says "nothing to see here!" while hiding the Mueller Report to the fullest of his abilities?
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The Mueller Report is out - but we have a cow story to talk about instead! ...not that there's any reason to talk about the Mueller Report yet, as Barr will be hiding it from the public eye for dear life for as long as he can possibly obstruct justice.
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Did not realize this episode didn't have a description until now. Super awkward since I don't recall what it's about. I'll just do a reference to "Borb the bird" and see if Pete ever notices this!
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A busy week! Manafort gets a slap on the wrist, Roger Stone gets a slap on the wrist, Trump keeps breaking the law and keeps being above the law and unpunished... great week to be white (or orange)!
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Does Kim Jong Un love Trump as much as Trump loves violent psychopathic dictators? Trump returning home empty handed says no! And his big ploy to distract people failed to pull everyone's attention away from his criminal lawyer's testimony as Cohen spills the beans on a great many of Trump's crimes. But not all of them! The Russia stuff is still off-limits publicly until the Mueller Report is out!
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Been a very busy week in the news! Bowser takes over Nintendo. GM lays off thousands more employees after their higher ups pocket a huge bonus thanks to the GOP Tax Scam. Roger Stone publishes a death threat against a judge because people in Trump's circle assume they're invincible... and often times are proven right as Stone is still somehow free after this, getting off with a slap on the wrist.
Also, Muckrakers is officially a 5-star average rating podcast on iTunes!
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This National Emergency created for fraudulent reasons only furthers the fact that the only real National Emergency in America is Trump himself (and also gun violence and climate change and the state of healthcare, none of which will get any better until the current administration is gone).
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We have a blackface governor who tried to excuse himself by saying he wore blackface so often he mistook a picture of someone in blackface for being himself; but since it's not him all's good, right fellas? But speaking of ruined political careers, the BLOTUS gave his low-energy teleprompter-reading SOTU speech much to the bore of everyone who suffered through it.
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Too many Dems may spoil the broth of Democracy as they pile in by the thousands to vie for power, realizing they'd be running against the weakest GOP candidate in history by 2020 (lame duck Pence after Trump is impeached for obstructing justice, collusion, profiteering off his Presidency, or innumerable other crimes he commits daily. Such as eating paper. Did you know he eats paper? Also that's a crime [those papers he's eating have to be archived]. Why is this animal still left to roam around the White House? Wait, where was I going with this) and these candidates think it's all smooth sailing after the DNC. But are they collectively hurting their own chances to take our country back from the Russians? We discuss that possibility today!
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Roger Stone was arrested this morning for his role in helping to rig the election in Trump's favor - Stone being the direct link between the Trump Campaign and Russian propaganda site WikiLeaks. Also Trump loses yet again to Pelosi as the government shutdown ends! Trump's war against nearly a million Americans who couldn't be paid due to his temper-tantrum ends after 35 days.
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This week was pure madness, so we talk about wasps getting eaten by plants instead.
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We welcome our first Honorary Muckraker guest to the show today as we talk about the old story of Typhoid Mary, a cautionary tale of why you should listen to scientists when they warn you about stuff (cough global warming cough).
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Nancy Pelosi, the highest ranking legitimately elected politician in America, takes her throne as Speaker of the House this week while Putin's Puppet continues to destabilize the nation with his childish shutdown. Meanwhile, Mike Pence plays Bizarro Robin Hood by stealing from the poor (400,000 gov employees forced to work without pay) to give to the rich (him and Trump's cabinet members giving themselves a $10,000 pay raise).
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Twas the week of Christmas, and the President shutdown the government to make half a million essential service personnel work without pay and another half a mil Americans take forced time off without pay.
This week lasted a million years, and saw everything from the fraudulent Trump Foundation to the US gov shutting down. But the Notorious R.B.G. refuses to shutdown even as lung cancer looms, and she will hopefully outlive this scourge to democracy who's off to golf for 17 days while Gov Employees will be forced to keep working real jobs for no pay because Trump wants a wall he will never, ever get.
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President Individual-1 gets humiliated by Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer as he threatens to shutdown the government. But while Trump screams, tosses papers around, and refuses to get out of bed until noon the other shoe is about to drop, and the Mueller Man will some come a'callin'.
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Flynn and Cohen's sentencing recommendation memos have been released by Mueller. Through all their heavy redactions we can still see that "Individual-1" is going to be in hot water! Wonder who that could possibly be (spoilers it's Trump).
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The Mueller investigation into the Trump-Russia scandal took several dramatic leaps forward this week, and we eventually get around to talking about it after a long stretch of chatting about spiders and goats.
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Thanksgiving gave us our first slow news week since this podcast began! Also, an Alabama Man is shot by an arrow while Florida Man is caught having sex with miniature horses; all that and more on this week's episode! Oh, also Article 13 from the EU is brought up. Could be the beginning of the end of the Internet as we know it!
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Watch Democracy die in Georgia as Kemp, the guy in charge of the election, declares himself the winner! Also, what new crimes has Trump committed this week? Doesn't matter because he's above the law! All this and Brain Flake MMA on this week's Muckrakers!
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This last week was 10,000 years long. The morning after the earth-shattering midterms (an event full of thousands of individual stories of both triumph and heartache) the midterms themselves wasn't even the top story anymore!
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This is the last new episodes before the Midterm Elections! Get out there and vote like your lives depend on it - because your lives depend on it!
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This week, Florida Man was inspired by Trump's incendiary rhetoric to commit the widest spread political assassination attempt in American history!
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Tonight we debate whether a Washington Post reporter clumsily tripped and fell repeatedly on a bone saw or not. That's just as likely scenario as Trump holding the Saudis accountable for this.
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Brian Kemp is attempting to steal the gubernatorial race in Georgia, while Trump is trying to talk people into laying down and dying on the streets by surrendering healthcare to appease the worst forms of scum and villainy (insurance companies). All this and Andy Rooney on tonight's new episode (minus Andy Rooney)!
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This week we determine that the greatest poison mankind has ever known is Hope, as we've tasted its delicious flavor of honeysuckle before swiftly falling pray its bittersweet lies, which promised a better tomorrow only to crush it before our eyes. Also a PSA on not throwing tortoises into a lake!
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This week! Peter forgets to add a brief description to the episode again! Will he or won't he recall to do it next week? Stay tuned!
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The princess is in another castle.
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What a week.
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It's been a no good rotten very bad week for Trump in the news, but still much worse for the rest of America because we still have to deal with him.
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The boys are at it again with the timeline for the Trump Impeachment, Pual Manafort interviewing for a job, and speculation on if Rudy Giuliani and Nancy Pelosi will ever get married.
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Says who? Those damn muckrackers have to create intro music with their mouths, Trump lawyer and confident Micheal Cohen pleads guilty and goes to jail.
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Omarosa has tapes of trump and you know what that means, Pat won't ever get his sex robot through our muckraker logic This is a Borb. While our country burns, Borb nevertheless persists. Picture credit to @round_boys on Twitter.
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This week we talk about Alex Jones losing his show due to breaking the ToS on a number of different platforms. Freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences, no matter what the Jones apologists cry about. Also, while the Mueller walls close in on Trump and his whole abominable administration, Pence tries to use Space Force as a distraction, of all things. Can Pete's new Science Corner save us from doom, or merely herald it? Find out in today's episode!
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This week kicks off the rise and fall of Paul Manafort as his first trial gets underway. This month they nail him on fraud so that next month they'll have an established criminal to prosecute for Russian collusion. Also, Jeff Session's starts his Anti-Gay Force this week as American inches closer to becoming the Fourth Reich.
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The President attempts to start a war by yelling in all caps on Twitter this week and somehow that's real life. So in response Pete watches a bunch of Unsolved Mysteries and we talk about that instead!
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The boy discuss how to fix the system and tend the garden of democracy, increase voter turnout.
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This week we discuss Trey Gowdy's collapsing head at Peter Strzok's congressional hearing; meanwhile the President goes overseas to drive our once closest allies even further away than ever before.
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Trump supporters have taken to attacking peaceful ICE protests. Trump's Puerto Rico policies are so effective that a leprosy outbreak has started on the island. And thousands of babies are still in cages.
This episode is less coherent than most because we're sitting here watching American irreparably destroyed in ways nobody will be able to fix even once Putin's Puppet is removed from office.
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This week Trump attempted to pull a Hitler and place a scapegoated minority in concentration camps; fun fact, forcing families apart IS a form of genocide!
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This week we watch on in horror as America commits a crime so great that literally no other country on Earth does this: Snatch children from the arms of parents as a standard punishment for asylum seekers and migrant workers. They'll likely never see their children again.
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This week Trump supporters furrow their brow in a vain attempt to understand the difference between calling Ivanka names and being super racist like Roseanne. Also, can the President pardon himself? Is America ruled by a King with unfettered power? Let's find out!
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It's looking like Jeff Sessions' days are numbered as his boss rants and raves about him on Twitter, meanwhile Rosesanne rants and raves about nutty conspiracy theories, but it's her racism that got her fired.
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This week Trump Jr. is caught in a second treasonous Trump Tower meeting, while Trump senior screws up peace talks with North Korea by being an even greater lunatic than Kim Jong Un. Trump is also committing a crime by trying to influence the NFL's private business decisions, but he breaks the law so regularly now that who even cares anymore? It must be great to be above the law! All this and a great recipe for Boot Stew on today's new Muckrakers!
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This week we take a step back from the hurricane of news in the US and look at the cyclone of news in the Middle East! We delve into the history of the conflict between Israel and Palestine to better understand just how overwhelmingly screwed everyone on every side of the conflict is right now.
Giuliani keeps incriminating Trump. Trump and Cohen's pay-to-play scheme is blown wide open. The Iran Deal is dead, and so the rest of the world will never trust America to keep a promise for more than the life of a single administration ever again. This is America. Let's hope we survive it.
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Mueller's questions to Trump leaked by Trump's own team, Rudy Giuliani makes things much worse for his new client, yes Virginia the President can be subpoenaed - all of this and much more, including 100% more Ty Cobb mustache, this week on Muckrakers!
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Ben Carson is coming for your house if you're one of the 4.5 million most needy HUD recipients! Also Bill Cosby is going to prison, President Trump lied his way into Forbes 400, Newnan Nazi march update, Macron embarrasses Trump, Ronny Jackson steps down as the VA nominee, the President has a meltdown on Fox & Friends, and our own host Pete spills coffee in his lap! It's been a HELL of a week!
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The guy that screamed "AMERICA!" until his face turned purple at the RNC Convention is now representing the President in court against Mueller since the President's other lawyer got arrested under criminal charges. His other criminal lawyer also represents Sean Hannity. It's been one of those kinds of weeks.
The President's Twitter rants threaten to cause WWIII as a diversionary tactic to distract from his personal lawyer being raided by the FBI and who now faces criminal charges. Also Pat's Pirate Corner! All that this week and more on Those Muckrakers!
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Fox News assumes the role of President by making policy decisions concerning immigration and how America should respond to "caravans" coming at our borders! Also, our own host Peter goes out to sea and has an encounter with… pirates!? Pull up a chair and roast some marshmallows with us Muckrakers on the flames of Trump Tower as it burns a man to death this week! We’ll tell you a ghost story of Jeff Sessions, the evil little troll who hates women and sends them to even more brutal deaths!
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In this week's episode we determine the best way to deal with poverty in America is to trap all homeless people in a prison and make them eat each other. It's what society seems to want, right? In all the little ways society says "screw you" to homeless people, such as uncomfortable park benches or strict restrictions on where you can sleep in public. Also we cover the new government spending bill.
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Cambridge Analytica proves that while we can do great things with information technology we're in fact more likely to do really stupid stuff with it such as elect an orange dictator. And the future of A.I. (artificial intelligence) is grim and bloody. All this and the weather forecast in this week's Muckrakers!
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The hurricane of bad news for America continues to swirl and we do our best to keep track of who's being hired, fired, sued, divorced, or just plain destroying the planet this week. These are not small lists, either. Like seriously planet, CLAM YO ASS DOWN A MINUTE.
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Overseas is a deadly mess, while at home is a reality TV show mess. Explore the first world problems of Gary Cohn's retirement, porn stars suing our President, Nunberg breaking down on national TV (which we actually forget to cover), and much more!
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In this episode, we ponder where America went so wrong, and determine it's all white people's fault.
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Shockingly the most recent school massacre didn't fall out of the headlines within the past week, so we're back to tackle the issue of guns once more! Last week was all about practical ideas to regulate guns, this week is all about dealing with the issue of the NRA.
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Our mission is to become the Alex Jones of the left. We seek to create a special breed of madness, and we shall cultivate it through a constant bombardment of conspiracy theories and paranoia. The TRUTH is out there, and we will seek and destroy it! #ReleaseTheTrumpMemo #RockMeLikeAHermanCain