Saturday Night Live had a good recap of the week’s news.
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Saturday Night Live had a good recap of the week’s news.
It was interesting that Donald Trump in his State of the Union speech gave a warning about the rise in socialism in the US. It is clear that the Republicans are testing the water to see if fear of socialism bogey can be made into a successful election slogan. But they are treading warily because the actual ideas being painted as socialist, especially when it comes to health care, turn out to be quite popular.
Seth Meyers describes the right wing freak out, and his segment about nutter Phil Robertson’s statements about who provides his health care is hilarious.
Bizarro cartoons are, as the name suggests, a little strange. But I simply do not get this cartoon from January 31.
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On The Daily Show Trevor Noah has a pretty funny clip about the recent cold spell and how weather gets reported on the news.
Donald Trump’s national security advisor was on TV with a notepad on which his notes about troop movements were visible. Stephen Colbert reveals what else was on the notepad.
It is so cold today that the Cleveland area has pretty much shut down and people are being urged to stay home. Of course, this has brought out the skeptics, including Donald Trump, who think it never gets old to point out that it gets cold and snows in winter, conveniently ignoring the fact that right now Australia is going through a record-breaking heat wave.
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Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks coffee, wants to run for president as an independent because (surprise!) the billionaire dislikes the 70% marginal tax rate proposed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. He also hates the Medicare for All platform and even wants to cut Social Security and Medicare. In other words, a card-carrying member of the greedy oligarchy, the kind of Ayn Rand acolyte that former speaker Paul Ryan drools over.
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The arrest of Roger Stone adds to the ever-growing list of Donald Trump associates who have been arrested, indicted, and convicted of all manner of crimes. As this tweet says, this is one area where Donald trump indubitably leads Barack Obama.
Obama, 8 years in office. Number of indictments: 0
Trump, 2 years in office. Number of indictments: 90.
— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) January 25, 2019
Fresh from her break, she has some thoughts on the shutdown, pointing out rightly that senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell could reopen the government any time he wants to.
This cartoon by Ruben Bolling demonstrates that tariffs are ultimately paid by the consumer but that this is the only way that Donald Trump can justify his boast that he would make Mexico pay for the wall.
Tom the Dancing Bug 1422 tariff man