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Monthly Archives: June 2016

Trump’s Email Scandal?

The Trump campaign was caught sending fundraising emails to politicians. That wouldn’t be weird, except that they were sent to politicians in other countries, like the UK, Iceland, Australia, and elsewhere. It is hard to know where all the emails went, but there were a lot of them. Multiple email blasts were sent out both […]

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Trolling the GOP Convention

Ronald Reagan’s son Ron has rented a billboard in Cleveland so he can troll the GOP convention using his father’s own words. Here’s an example: © FFRC The quote on the billboard really is from the Republican’s Saint Ronnie. The speech it comes from is even more explicit: We in the United States, above all, […]

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Equal Rights

I’m very happy about the Supreme Court ruling throwing out the Texas law that had already closed half the abortion clinics in the state and would have closed half of the remaining clinics if it had fully gone into effect, leaving just ten clinics for the entire state. What really pisses me off about the […]

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Is This Becoming the New Normal?

© Tom Tomorrow Has it really been just a year since Donald Trump announced he was running for the presidency? It seems way longer for some (unknown) reason. You can make a 23 panel comic just by quoting Trump’s greatest hits from the last year. And as Tom Tomorrow put it “Obviously I’m only scratching […]

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Britain Blinks on Brexit

Samantha Bee has a marvelous rant about Brexit and Donald Trump. Extra special bonus for Doctor Who fans (like me!) is having not one but two Doctors from Doctor Who appear (both of them Scottish). Watch David Tennant read aloud some of the hilarious tweets blasting Donald Trump. And remember, don’t blink!

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The Debt Will Jump Under Trump

Will Republicans start accusing the Wall Street Journal (owned by the same people who own Fox News) of having a liberal bias? It wouldn’t surprise me after they published an article titled “Study Sees Debt Jumping Under Trump, Staying Steady Under Clinton“. This is not just the WSJ’s opinion. Several studies have analyzed the tax […]

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Late Night Political Humor

[Jokes from June 20, 2016] “Congrats to Chelsea Clinton, who welcomed her second child over the weekend. After the birth, Bill brought flowers, while Hillary brought a focus group to help name the baby.” – Jimmy Fallon “Chelsea Clinton gave birth to a son this weekend. Unfortunately, due to his young age, he’s a Sanders […]

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Theory and Practice

The UK Brexit vote has politicians and pundits theorizing about how that vote, and the ensuing economic turmoil, could have any parallels in Donald Trump’s campaign for the US presidency. After all, both Trump and Brexit are fueled by anti-immigrant sentiment and isolationist reactions to increasing globalism. For a minute, let’s ignore the irony of […]

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What would it take to get a Trump voter to change their mind?

Jimmy Kimmel wants to know: This is kinda scary, but it is still funny.

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Why Britain Joined the European Union

This hilarious skit from a British comedy called “Yes Minister” is a little old, but it is suddenly hilarious. And includes a pretty accurate definition of “diplomacy”.

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Location, Location, Location

When Donald Trump was in Scotland opening his new golf course, he tweeted about the UK vote to leave the EU. He responded: This is yet another example of Trump’s inability to understand reality or speak the truth. Scotland voted overwhelmingly (62% to 38%) to remain in the EU. Which brought on a shit-storm of […]

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Trump’s VP List

Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, who now works for CNN, says that there are “no more than four” names on Trump’s VP list. I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that Trump has four children over the age of 21. Although Jimmy Fallon also has a different possibility:

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Late Night Political Humor

[Jokes from June 16, 2016] “One year ago today, Donald Trump announced he was running for president as he rode down an escalator. And our country’s been going down that escalator ever since.” – Conan O’Brien “Today is the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump’s announcement that he would run for president. It’s hard to believe […]

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Gun Control

Who’s in charge of our gun laws? Right now we are seeing fights in both houses of Congress over common-sense changes to gun laws. We already require background checks when someone buys a gun from a gun dealer, but that is easy to get around by buying a gun online or from an individual seller […]

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Legalization

An interesting article in Scientific American says that since legalization of Marijuana in Colorado, the number of high school students who use the drug has gone down. The opponents of legalization claimed that legalization of weed would cause teen usage to increase. What’s even more interesting is that the percentage of high-school students in Colorado […]

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