There was so much, what with the Democratic party wins, the revelations about the attack on Rand Paul by his neighbor, the Roy Moore pedophile allegations, and one famous and powerful person after another accused of the most gross sexual aggressions towards young men and women, that even a horrendous tragedy like the mass murder in a Texas church on Monday quickly got pushed out of the headlines.
Saturday Night Live reviews some of the news from last week.
Good god, the church shooting feels like last month’s news.
Fuck this place.
There is a positive way to think about some of it; there’s a breaking down of power structures occurring -- information is no longer controlled at the top and now the powerful and privileged’s secrets are more accessible.
Some of it. Unfortunately that breaking down of power structures also mean populists have more power…
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but it sounds like a normal US week.