This is a very powerful video. It starts out with Jimmy Kimmel making fun of Donald Trump during the Oscars last night, and then goes on to provide tons of evidence that Trump doesn’t care one bit about his base. Trump says things that they will like, but they are all lies. It doesn’t matter, because his base eats them up.
Hillary Clinton called them “deplorables”, but they aren’t. They are “panderables”. Trump consistently panders to them, but doesn’t actually do any of the things that he promises. This works, because his base never gets respite from the powerful feeling that they are forgotten. They just don’t realize who it is who is actually doing the forgetting.
And it looks like Biden and his team realize this and will be broadcasting to the voters!
Here is Biden’s first election ad after his powerful SOTU speech, and he points out that “Donald Trump believes the job of the president is to take care of Donald Trump.”
Stephen Colbert makes fun of the fact the Supreme Court can’t decide if Trump can’t just ignore any law he doesn’t like. So they are just going to drag their heels until the problem just magically goes away.
Donald Trump recently started selling shoes. And SNL decided to make fun of them. As they say, the shoes don’t make you any better, they just let you lie about it and get other people to believe it.
John Oliver pulls off a magnificent episode about rampant grift by the Supreme Court, with a special emphasis on Clarence Thomas. And don’t miss the end of the show!
I know some people were upset by Jon Stewart’s first Daily Show in 9 years, because he said something negative about Joe Biden. It didn’t bother me, and as most readers of this blog know, I’m absolutely in the bag for Biden, and have been for many years.
I sincerely hope that the people who were upset didn’t decide to give up on Stewart’s second installment, because it is wonderful and hilarious, as Jon shows how much Tucker Carlson is a complete jerk, who doesn’t even believe the things he says.
Donald Trump has now repeated publicly that if a NATO country is delinquent on its dues, that he would not only refuse to aid that country, but would allow (and even encourage) Russia to do whatever they want with that country.
I just want to point out that Trump is notorious for stiffing people who have worked for him. Maybe we should encourage people to whom Trump owes money and are delinquent, to do whatever they want to Trump.
Also, is there any doubt that Trump is a pawn of Putin? The news media reported that Trump ordered Republicans to kill the bipartisan border measure, so he could campaign against Biden. But the same bill included aid to Ukraine so they could defend themselves against Russia. Has anyone in the media noted that maybe Putin wanted that bill to fail?
You know, Jon Stewart’s Daily Show was one of the biggest things that convinced me to start writing this political humor blog. And now, close to 9 years since Stewart walked away from that role, he is returning to doing what he does best. However, he is only going to be hosting the show on Mondays. Luckily, he is executive producer of the show, and since it is still called “The Daily Show”, there will be other people hosting on days that are not Monday.
Republican supporters of Donald Trump created the meme of “Dark Brandon” to attack Joe Biden. But Biden and his administration liked the meme so much they adopted it as their own. So they are continuing to lean into the meme in hilarious fashion. Here are some “Dark Brandon” signs that sprouted during the third Republican debate on Nov 8, 2023:
My last post was about Republicans going nuts and claiming that the Super Bowl was rigged in the KC Chiefs’ favor by the “deep state” so that Taylor Swift and her boyfriend Travis Kelce could endorse Biden during the game. Alas, even though Kelce and the Chiefs won the game, there was no endorsement.
But that didn’t stop Dark Brandon (aka, Joe Biden complete with laser eyes) from having fun with the situation by posting this to X-Twitter after the game:
The MAGA-sphere is having a full-on meltdown hissy fit about Taylor Swift, who had the audacity to encourage young people to vote. How Dare She!!!
I would write more about this, but Brian Tyler Cohen does an excellent job in his thorough video “Taylor Swift sends Fox hosts into Meltdown”. It is less than 10 minutes long — watch it!
Today was a very bad day for Republican politicians. Here’s a few things that happened:
Ronna Romney McDaniel, the chair of the RNC, announced she will step down later this month. Since she became the chair in 2017, the Republicans have done poorly in 3 elections, including losing a presidential election, and is doing terribly in fundraising. So you might think she is leaving because she is doing a bad job. But no, the reason she is leaving is because Donald Trump has been badmouthing her, and last weekend announced about her, “I would say right now, there’ll probably be some changes made.” But as you might guess, McDaniel is not the problem, Trump is the problem.
Trump has completely taken control of the Republican party, and McDaniel does whatever Trump tells her to do. And of course, when Trump fails, it is always someone else’s fault. So the Republicans are going to get some new RNC chair right in the middle of a presidential election.
Next, as you probably already know, Trump ordered GOP Senators to kill the bipartisan bill to fix the immigration problems at the Southern border. The only reason he did this was because he can’t stand for Biden to have any “wins“. As a result, everyone now knows that Trump doesn’t want to fix the border, he just wants to use it to score political points. It is likely that this will backfire, since even Republicans are condemning it.
Next up, the House Republicans decided to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas today for not doing his job to protect the southern border, but they miscounted how many votes they had, and the impeachment failed. So not only did they fail to pass the bipartisan bill to fix the immigration problems, their hypocritical attempt to blame it on Mayorkas failed.
But wait, there’s more! The Republicans insisted that funding for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan be included in the immigration bill. But they just torpedoed that bill, so instead they brought up a bill that only included funding for Israel. You guessed it — that bill also failed. Which is a big loss for Trump because he loves strongmen like Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.
Last, but not least, an appeals court slammed Trump down today, pointing out that being president does not mean that Trump is immune from criminal prosecution. That means that Trump can be tried (and convicted) of the Jan 6 insurrection. May he rot in jail.
