Tuesday, February 28, 2017
If you watch Donald Trump give his speech to Congress tonight, just remember the words of Jon Stewart:
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Build a wall to keep out illegal immigrants from Mexico? Block refugees from entering the US? Ban even visitors from Muslim countries? And that’s just what the Trump administration says they want to do. It doesn’t include recent incidents like the son of legendary boxing champion Muhammad Ali being detained for hours when entering the […]
Monday, February 27, 2017
Donald Trump has tweeted that he will not attend the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. Trump has not fared very well at past events, becoming the butt of too many jokes for his ego to tolerate. The last time a president skipped this dinner was back in 1981, when Ronald Reagan didn’t show up because […]
Monday, February 27, 2017
[Jokes from Jan. 30, 2017] “President Trump on Friday signed an executive order that bans citizens from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States for 90 days, bans refugees from entering the United States for 120 days. There were demonstrations in just about every major city yesterday. People went to the airport to […]
Sunday, February 26, 2017
Two years ago, the Supreme Court struck down laws against same-sex marriage as unconstitutional. Before that ruling, 36 states (plus the District of Columbia and Guam) already issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples. This disparity allowed scientists to study the effects of the change, and the results showed an interesting benefit. Researchers at Johns Hopkins […]
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Holy Freedom Fries! France is currently in the middle of of their presidential election, and it is full of drama. The conservative front-runner was recently implicated in a corruption scandal, which has created openings both on the far right (nativist Marine Le Pen) and the left (radical centrist Emmanuel Macron). But voters are unhappy. And […]
Friday, February 24, 2017
On Friday, Donald Trump gave a speech at CPAC. But before Trump spoke someone wearing a suit passed out Red, White, and Blue flags with Trump’s name on them. People began waving them. Except, the colors were not in that order, they were White, Blue, and Red. Apparently unbeknown to the attendees, that is the […]
Friday, February 24, 2017
Private, for-profit prisons have failed. They cost taxpayers more than public prisons, are less safe for prisoners (the one private prison in Idaho has 4 times the number of prisoner-on-prisoner assaults than the seven public prisons in the state combined), have had repeated scandals (including one where judges were bribed by the prisons in exchange […]
Friday, February 24, 2017
Nobody knows the reason Trump needs to lie and say stupid things so much.
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Speaking of Ironic Reversals, today the CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) opened, and one of the first speeches tried to blame the “alt-right” on the left. The speech was made by Dan Schneider, the executive director of the the American Conservative Union, which runs the CPAC conference. The alt-right is a small, far-right movement that […]
Thursday, February 23, 2017
I guess 1984 just happened 33 years late. Because, evidently, now 2 + 2 = 5. © Jen Sorensen
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
I have not been comfortable in the role of making fun of everything Trump does. After all, one of the main things I’ve been complaining about is the Republican Party being the “party of no” — opposing pretty much everything Obama ever did or said. So it is with great relief that I have TWO […]
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
[Jokes from Jan. 25, 2017] “President Trump has called for an investigation into voter fraud during the presidential election. Trump said, ‘I mean for God’s sake, look who they chose!’” – Conan O’Brien “Tonight President Trump continued with his mysterious and puzzling claim that voter fraud cost him the popular vote in the election. He […]
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
the House Committee on Oversight and Government is in charge of looking into legal and ethical problems in the federal government. During the Obama administration, they were relentless in its investigations of Hillary Clinton. First on her role in Benghazi, and then on her use of a private email server. None of these investigations ever […]
Monday, February 20, 2017
During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump answered questions about his lack of experience by claiming that he would hire the best people to run his administration. But apparently, that was just another lie. We are just one month into his administration, and already he has lost a White House Communications Director, National Security Advisor, Secretary […]
