Sunday punnies
Mano Singham
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Here is a photo of a woman who is clearly shocked by something she sees on her phone.
She's easily shocked when looking at screens. pic.twitter.com/uEjlVAgflE
— Ernie Smith (@ShortFormErnie) June 25, 2018
Mark Frauenfelder points many photos that Ernie Smith has found where this same woman is shocked.
She really should get some help. It is not good to be shocked so often and so easily by so many things.
One periodically reads news stories of spokespersons for Donald Trump going on news talk shows (other than Fox News) and then being taken to task by the hosts for their evasions or lying. “That’s great!” you think, someone is finally telling it like it is to these people. But Michelle Wolf, in a very good segment, exposes this for the charade it is. It is all a game played by the media and politicians and their spokespersons to provide entertainment to the rubes, with the same scenario played out over and over again.
The story about the children of undocumented immigrants being separated from their parents and being sent to destinations unknown and where reunification becomes difficult for long periods because of the lack of a proper paper trail is bad enough without the additional stories about the abuse suffered by the children while in custody.
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Stephen Colbert attacks the policy.
TONIGHT! There is the right side of history and then there is the side of history where the Trump admin defends their policy of separating children from their parents. #LSSC pic.twitter.com/Wneh1PHgzR
— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) June 19, 2018
He makes two points: One is that there is no law that demands it be done as Trump and his people maintain, and that the Bible is a terrible basis for any governmental action.
Here’s another of Galifianakis’s passive-aggressive interviews with famous people. And because I am so clueless about contemporary pop culture, I have no idea who Cardib is.
Seth Meyers gave his take on the recent summit in Canada. In it he shows a puppy named Baxter.
But that Baxter is an imposter. Here is the real Baxter the Wonder Dog, taken in my backyard a few days ago.
John Oliver does a nice job of summarizing the state of the investigation by Robert Mueller and the efforts by Donald Trump’s supporters at Fox News to preemptively discredit it.
It is absolutely disgusting that the children of undocumented immigrants are separated from their parents for weeks on end with no contact. I would like to think that one day we will look back on this shameful episode and as a nation feel deeply embarrassed and try to make amends. But given how people manage to avoid doing so for past shameful acts (genocide of Native Americans, slavery and Jim Crow, internment of Japanese-Americans, massacres in other countries, and many more), I am not hopeful. Americans are absolutely convinced that they are a fundamentally decent, even exemplary, nation and people who hold such views can never be persuaded that they are just as capable of cruelty as anyone else.
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