Evangelical Christians in the US love the Ten Commandments even though they are pretty vague and are far from guaranteeing that you are a good person even if you follow them to the letter.
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Evangelical Christians in the US love the Ten Commandments even though they are pretty vague and are far from guaranteeing that you are a good person even if you follow them to the letter.
Seth Meyers looks at all the liars and lies that have enveloped the Trump administration and how their stories keep changing.
This is the question that is on people’s minds after Donald Trump tweeted his name following his awkward performance at the G20 meeting in Argentina.
Seth Meyers looks into this question.
In an irony that Meyers missed, it turns out that the phrase ‘scot free’ may have originated to describe someone who avoids paying taxes.
In the last show before he goes on break until 2019, he tackled the topic of the dangerous spread of false information on the internet and how companies like Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter are conveniently switching between portraying themselves as publishers and platform providers to escape responsibility for not doing much to stop it.
Readers may remember when I wrote about this business in Japan founded by Ishii Yuichi that will supply you with a fake family or friends that will meet your specific needs.
So far, Yuichi has amassed about 800 employees to fulfill just about every role imaginable. Yuichi himself has been keeping up elaborate lies for years. Since the early days of the business, he has been pretending to be the father to a young girl, whose biological father left when she was just a baby. The girl believes Yuichi is her real dad.
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Trevor Noah asks the right question but the answer is obvious. These shows are not interested in informing the public but in pleasing their sponsors and getting ratings and they know that stupid people who reinforce ignorant views draw audiences, Donald Trump being the prime example. It is just a human version of David Letterman’s ‘stupid pet tricks’ segment on his former show.
His latest episode on Patriot Act deals with the way that Donald Trump and the Republicans took an already bad deportations policy under Barack Obama and then made it much worse by being really cruel and heartless, that has now extended to even tear-gassing families at the border and has resulted in children choking.
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