by Filippo DinolfoOn this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend: Riots in Minneapolis. Twitter fact-checks Trump. Monkeys steal COVID-19 samples. Plus, Sonic is getting a movie sequel! What? We have to talk about things that aren’t so heavy, too.
5/29/2020 Show Notes
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- F: WoT, Trying not to melt.
- P: Trying my hand of Hockey uniform design, laying a claim to “most cynical man in America” title
- C: Snowpiercer, Space Force, The Flash, The Last of Us, Minecraft Dungeons
- B: Valkyria Chronicles, old JRPGs, anime, books.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Four cops fired in Minneapolis for murdering George Floyd by kneeling on his neck and body until he died. One cop has been arrested and charged with 3rd-degree murder
- Protests after Floyd’s murder featured a looted Target and MPD station on fire
- B: These guys aren’t the assholes, btw. Just a response to previous assholes.
- A Karen in NY got fired after video of her calling cops on black man bird watching for false charge
- Memorial Day parties across the US were crowded with assholes
- Protests after Floyd’s murder featured a looted Target and MPD station on fire
- Hero of the Week: Twitter starts fact-checking Trump, getting WW3 underway.
- They’re looking to start generally enforcing their own rules on Trump.
- Trump signed Executive Order increasing gov’t ability to regulate social media
- P: Pretty sure the first amendment has something to say about that.
- Colin Kaepernick set up a fund to pay for defense lawyers for the protestors
- COVID-19 Dump Truck
- 5.9 million cases ww, 364k deaths, 1.7 million cases US, 102k deaths
- Trump went golfing last weekend as the US approached 100k deaths
- Mitch McConnell claims the next stimulus bill will be the last
- Trump says the US will be leaving the WHO
- Only Half of Americans Say They’ll Get Vaccinated for Covid-19, According to New Poll
- Great Clips stylist in Springfield, MO worked eight days while infected
- Trump mocked Biden wearing a mask on Memorial Day to make masks partisan
- Monkeys in India lab swiped COVID-19 blood samples and fled the lab
- Disney World will be reopening on July 15
- The Boston Marathon has been cancelled, replaced with virtual race
- Rats are coming out of their homes searching for food with restaurants shut down
- Kyoto Animation Arsonist Finally Arrested
- US Probes Soaring Meat Prices – Can’t buy this with Monopoly Money
- B: Now would be a good time to start practicing Meatless Mondays.
- P: *checks Nissin stock prices*
- Somebody bought one of those expensive 5G Bioshields to see what it really was
- Miami Dolphins turned their stadium into a giant drive-in theater
- Audi drops Formula E driver for secretly swapping in esport driver mid-virtual race
- There’s going to be a Sonic The Hedgehog sequel
- Contact us at letsweekenders@gmail.com
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