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Monthly Archives: August 2016

Multiple Personality Tweets

A data scientist has analyzed the tweets coming from Donald Trump, and says that clearly many of the tweets are coming from someone other than Trump. Probably some staffer. People had already noticed that some of the tweets posted the the tweets were coming from two different phones: an Android phone by Samsung, and an […]

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Having Your Back

You know those people who get to stand behind the candidate at political rallies? So they can be seen while the candidate speaks? Last week seems to have been a big ironic example of the fact that the campaigns themselves don’t have much control over who gets to stand there. First, a local TV station […]

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Late Night Political Humor

[Jokes from Aug 1, 2016] “The New York Post yesterday published several nude photos of Melania Trump that were taken during her modeling days. Trump’s communications adviser said the photos are a ‘celebration of the human body as art’. To me they look more like a celebration of the human body as a paycheck, but […]

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Make Your Office Great Again

This is a one-minute humor video from the BBC. What’s really funny is all the little in-jokes. How many can you catch?

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Late Night Political Humor

“This week, Hillary Clinton’s running mate Tim Kaine spoke at the Democratic convention and some people online said he came off as a corny dad. Or as Joe Biden put it, ‘The student has become the master.’” – Jimmy Fallon “Turns out Melania Trump’s professional website has been deleted following allegations that she lied about […]

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Trump the Terrorist Founded ISIS!

© Scott Bateman Trump continues to claim that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton co-founded ISIS. Even conservative foreign policy experts admit “What Trump is saying is not a legitimate criticism. What he is saying is just plain nuts.” And “If anybody else would be saying this, you’d be saying, ‘Oh my goodness. How on earth […]

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Off the Deep End?

Donald Trump seems have lost it, and is being reduced to lunatic raving in order to get attention. On Thursday, he just kept repeating his accusations that Barack Obama is the founder of the Islamic State (despite the fact that the IS was founded in 1999, ten years before Obama became president, and even before […]

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Late Night Political Humor

[Jokes from July 28, 2016] “Tonight Hillary Clinton gave her big speech at the Democratic Convention, officially accepting the nomination for president. The speech went well, but the lightning shooting from her hands was a bit much.” – Jimmy Fallon “Hillary Clinton broke the glass ceiling, and just in case that point was lost on […]

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This is How Democrats Will Take Back the Senate

Ann Kirkpatrick is running for the Senate against John McCain. She has released a devastating ad that directly links McCain to Donald Trump, while showing Trump saying nasty things about McCain. This is how Democrats can use Trump as a weapon against Republicans: I’m noticing that Republican politicians are slowly announcing that they are not […]

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Trump Says No to Transparency

During the Republican primary, Donald Trump claimed he couldn’t be bought. Well, it sure looks like he is now for sale. He’s even bragging about how much money is being donated to his campaign. And what’s worse, we have no idea who is buying him. Trump is refusing to name any of his fundraising bundlers. […]

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Stalling Tactics

Last night, Donald Trump announced that his wife Melania will hold a press conference sometime “over the next couple of weeks” to address allegations that she violated US immigration laws by working illegally in the US. Who is willing to bet that no such news conference will actually happen, and that Trump is just trying […]

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Voter Fraud?

Many Republican controlled states have passed voter fraud laws, which make it much harder for people (cough, Democratic-leaning voters) to vote. Electoral Vote has a short, pointed article about voter fraud, pointing out what a fraud it is. Here’s an excerpt (and by excerpt, I mean about half the whole article): From time to time […]

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Late Night Political Humor

[Jokes from July 27, 2016] “Tonight, President Obama is going to make a speech trying to convince people to vote for Hillary Clinton instead of Donald Trump. It’s a speech entitled, ‘I Can’t Believe This Is Necessary.’” – Conan O’Brien “The first sentence of Bill Clinton’s speech was “In the spring of 1971, I met […]

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Manchurian Candidate?

© Ruben Bolling Can Donald Trump really be called a Manchurian candidate if he betrays his country willingly?

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Late Night Political Humor

[Jokes from July 26, 2016] “Of course, it’s the Democratic Convention, which began last night. There were several big moments, and by the end, everyone was chanting ‘I’m With Her!’ Unfortunately for Hillary, they were talking about Michelle Obama.” – Jimmy Fallon “Experts are saying that the highlight of the Democratic Convention’s first night was […]

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