Continuing my quest to amass evidence that cartoonists are fond of the name Bob.
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Continuing my quest to amass evidence that cartoonists are fond of the name Bob.
Samantha Bee says that it is not a good thing that people tend to only get enthusiastic about efforts to save cute species and ignore the ones that are not as photogenic. She makes a convincing case for why we should care about the ugly ones too.
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Stephen Colbert hopes to take advantage of the popularity of The Queen’s Gambit by making his own miniseries based on another classic pastime.
The above photo of Bernie Sanders at the inauguration became a widely shared meme. Seth Meyers discussed it with Sanders as well as the inauguration and what he hopes to achieve with the senate budget committee that he now chairs.
Stephen Colbert discusses what is going on with the vaccination program as well as developments with the QAnon conspiracy and their great hopes for a grand climax at the inauguration. He has an idea for something that QAnoners can do now that is as absorbing but not as destructive.
Seth Meyers also makes fun of Cruz’s pathetic attempts to ingratiate himself with Pittsburgh after he had tried to throw out all of Pennsylvania’s votes.
Seth Meyers had a good summary of Trump’s departure and Biden’s inauguration.
Stephen Colbert’s show from the night before inauguration day was also pretty good.
Trump left the White House without the pomp he had hoped for.
The outgoing president, who has broken with tradition by refusing to attend his successor’s inauguration, took a government helicopter from the White House at 8.18am, leaving what has been his home for four tumultuous years, and headed for Joint Base Andrews, a military facility in Maryland.
Trump had demanded that aides prepare an ostentatious ceremony at the base, accompanied by a sprawling audience, but two weeks after Trump incited a riot at the US Capitol, he got neither. The soon-to-be former president arrived at the military base just before 8.30am, and was met with a flat sendoff marked by a sparse crowd.
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