Jimmy Kimmel has a special monologue for you to send to Trumpy Republicans you know. It is actually pretty sweet.
Kimmel says: “Tonight’s monologue is for Republicans. If you have someone in your life who is either planning to vote for Trump or thinking about it, please send this to them. Ask a Republican you love and respect to watch this. The whole thing. As a personal favor to you. We are a week away from the election so make sure to get out and vote on Tuesday, November 5th.”
You may be wondering why I am posting two videos by the Lincoln Project in a row. Well, there are a couple of reasons. First, this one made me laugh, it is cute and serious at the same time.
Second, I do not want the US to be a single party country. I believe in competition, and fair debate for our country. However, I do not want our democracy to be destroyed by a tin-pot dictator, nor do I have respect for any party that kowtows to such a dictator. I sincerely hope that either the Republican Party wakes up and returns to being the party of Lincoln, or – lacking that – is replaced by a new party.
It is interesting to click on the “Watch on Youtube” link, and read the comments. In addition, right now as I am writing this, there are no down-votes for this video. That gives me hope.
Which reminds me of a quote from Samuel Adams, one of our founders, “To have a villainous ruler imposed on you is a misfortune. To elect him yourself is a disgrace.”
On October 14th, Donald Trump held a Town Hall in suburban Philadelphia, during which he “demanded his handlers play a series of his favorite tunes, including Sinéad O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U,” the celestial “Ave Maria,” and the song that has become his bizarre signature: the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” Then, while his supporters started leaving, Trump “danced” for 40 minutes.
In return, we give you a song (complete with nuns dancing) that is a takeoff from The Sound of Music, titled “How do you solve a problem like a MAGA”. Enjoy!
Dave Bautista points out that Trump is a crying baby. So why do male voters seem to love him. Maybe for the same reason that he loves the very gay song “YMCA”, especially the “macho man” line.
Apparently, Americans only remember the things they heard over social media, like in the last 24 hours.
Like, do you remember back when Donald Trump refused to release his tax returns, and blatantly lied, claiming that he couldn’t release them because he was being audited? Nobody (including media) mentions this anymore (well, I guess other than me).
Does anyone remember the movie Idiocracy where humans became stupid? Maybe it actually happened, but we forgot.
In fact, it did. “Harmful exposure to lead [specifically in leaded gas] during childhood has affected more than 170 million US-born adults as of 2015, leading to a population-wide drop in IQ, says a new study.” Here’s the study, from researchers at Princeton University.
But the story of how this happened is not well known anymore. In fact, oil companies suppressed it even though they knew it was killing people. Indeed, the man who invented leaded gas contracted lead poisoning.
In all, it is believed that lead has been responsible for the loss of over 825 Million IQ points in the US alone. In addition, the use of lead in gasoline between 1940 and 2015 correlates strongly with the rise in crime, and once we stopped using it, a decrease in crime in the US. However, lead is still used in fuel for aviation.
Donald Trump blames crime on immigrants, but he should be blaming the oil companies who put lead in gasoline instead.
Hilarious video from Jimmy Kimmel. But probably not safe for work. In addition to Trump farting while blustering at a rally, and claims that the Democrats can control the weather (if that were true, then Mar-a-Lago would have been swept out to sea a long time ago). There is also some fishy business (named Trumpy Trout), and last but not least, all those cheesy items Trump is always hawking to his rabid followers were made in China. I guess he’s trying to get rid of the merch before he slaps a huge tariff on China. Sheesh.
How did we ever have a president who is a conman, grifter, crook, cheater, liar, shark, charlatan, gangster, scammer, faker, imposter, scoundrel, fraud, humbug, racketeer, hustler, fraudster, swindler, confidence man, scamp, defrauder, bilker, deceiver, fleecer, flimflammer, mountebank, rascal, offender, rogue, thief, shyster, hoodlum, lawbreaker, chiseler, and more. How the hell did he get anyone to believe in him, let alone vote for him? We have so many bad names and labels for Trump, you’d think they would know better.
Today is Jimmy Carter’s birthday. And not just any birthday. Carter is 100 years old! In fact he is the only president of the US to live that long. He also has the record for years lived after leaving the presidency. In a side note, he is the first president to have been born in a hospital.
His longevity is amazing, since Carter has been in hospice (end of life) care since February 2023. But he still has work to do as he is looking forward to voting for Kamala Harris.
This Tuesday night is the Vice Presidential debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz.
As I’m sure all of you know, FDR’s vice president John Nance Garner described the vice presidency as being “not worth a bucket of warm piss”. Luckily, Walz has already helped the prospects of Kamala Harris by creating the meme about Trump and Vance being “weird”, which flummoxed the Republicans.
In addition, the Los Angeles Times says, “the modern history of vice presidential debates is notably lacking in both gravity and moments of true political significance. In fact, since the first match-up of presidential understudies nearly 50 years ago, precisely zero have made a shred of difference in the race for the White House.”
I still haven’t decided whether I can put up with listening to Vance, but my guess is I might tune in, but will reserve the right to turn it off at any time.
Is it apropos that the debate is going to be held in the very studio that once was the domain of Captain Kangaroo?
I’ll just say it up front: every American should watch this interview with Mark Cuban. Cuban has a lot of important things to say, about Trump (including the debate with Harris, and about Roy Cohn), why the heck Elon Musk is supporting Trump, and why lower-class white people like Trump, even though Trump has no respect for them. It is a long video, but worth every second.
I’m not a big fan of the interviewer, who likes the sound of his own voice just a little too much, but this interview works well because Cuban often takes control of it.
Some of you know that I have worked as a CEO, and it is very refreshing to hear a billionaire talk about what capitalism should really be about, rather than what capitalism has become in our country — all about “winning” by making as much money as possible, no matter who you hurt in the process. Cuban talks about how Kamala Harris knows this, and is working to make things better, for everyone.