ORLY-EP0141 - Potpourri:  2.5 Minutes to Midnight

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #141a recorded Friday January 27th, 2017 - where we dismantle the current events for your edutainment through mostly rational conversations that make you go ‘Oh Really’! I’m your host Andy Cowen, with my usual suspects, Stephen Griffith, Amber Biesecker, and Daniel Atherton.

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1. Alex Jones of InfoWars says they have received White House press credentials.

2. McConnell says Trump border wall to cost $15 billion. The cost for clean water for the entire planet, one Large Hadron Collider, the island of Jamaica, or one USS Ford Aircraft Carrier.

3. All senior State Dept officials have resigned, rather than deal with Trump. American diplomacy values are reset to 0.

4. Trump White House senior staff still have private email accounts, not that there's anything wrong with that, now.

5. Executive orders signed allowing torture again, re-opening CIA black sites, closing America to refugees fleeing the crisis in Syria.

6. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists have moved the Doomsday Clock forward 30 seconds. It is now 2.5 minutes to midnight, thanks to Trump's comments on nuclear arms build-up and use, and climate change.

7. Trump claim 3 million voted illegally, source offers no proof, says they need months to provide evidence.

8. Trump pressured national parks service for evidence about his crowd size.

9. Trump continues to use an unsecure Samsung Galaxy S3 that does not meet the security needs of an average teenager.

10. Trump's border wall is revealed to be paid for by us, reimbursed by a crippling +20% trade tax on imports from Mexico. Mexico is our 3rd largest importer, selling us cheap electrical machinery and mineral fuels which we use to make products for export.

11. Trump asserts to Hannity: Waterboarding is not torture, and it works.

12. Trump's WH Strategist, Steve Bannon, said "the media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut".

13. Trump met with UK PM Theresa May, who changed his mind on NATO, now he likes it, and waterboarding.

14. Trump's ban on immigration from predominantly Muslim countries expressly excludes all Muslim countries where Trump has business ties or investments.

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