Late Night Snark: Dinner Is Served Edition
“Last week Trump ate dinner at Mar-a-Lago with Kanye West and a prominent white supremacist named Nick Fuentes. We don’t know exactly what happened at that dinner except that no one ordered latkes.”
—Trevor Noah
“Only Donald Trump would defend himself by saying, I was only planning to eat with one anti-Semite.”
—Jimmy Kimmel
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Late Night Snark: Biden’s BFD Edition
“President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act—a huge achievement. It makes the single-biggest investment in addressing climate change ever. While I’m here, I should probably talk about some of the other existential threats facing our nation: the enormous gaps in wealth and income, the threats to our democracy. But I really think one of the most serious issues facing our country today is just how big a dick Ted Cruz is.
Late Night Snark: SCOTUS Fallout Continues Edition
“Men have had all kinds of reactions to last week’s abortion ruling. Ever since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade urologists have seen a spike in vasectomies. I’ve never personally performed a vasectomy, but I’d like to try my very first one on Samuel Alito.
Late Night Snark: Yeah, It Was A Coup Edition
“Congress held its first public hearing on the January 6th Capitol attack. The footage was rough to get through. Five minutes in even Mike Pence was like, ‘I’ve had enough. Let’s see what’s happening on RuPaul’s Drag Race.’”
—Jimmy Fallon
“Fox News decided not to carry the hearings about January 6th on their news network.
Maine Folklife Center:
Across New England, and certainly throughout Maine, a tradition of baked bean suppers takes place in community institutions such as churches, granges, and firehouses…
While Boston is known as bean-town, only in Maine can you ever really get to know beans. B&M (Burnham and Morrill) baked beans of Portland still bakes beans in huge iron pots in brick ovens before they can them for distribution around the country.
Late Night Snark: 2009 Wayback Machine Edition
The late-night hosts are off this week, so we thought it’d be fun to see what the hell was going on in our world when President Obama reached his six-month mark, as his former VP/current POTUS did ten days ago. Some one-liners from July, 2009, when we were still using Oxy10 by the gallon and our voices were just starting to change:
“Dick Cheney is writing his memoir.
Late Night Snark: Jim Jordan & Other Pathogens Edition
“Among the unvaccinated in the United States, covid cases are once again on the rise, due to the highly-infectious ‘Delta variant.’ The rising cases are being fueled by vaccine hesitancy, which itself is being fueled by a dangerous pathogen scientists are calling the Republican party.
Late Night Snark: Over Here and Over There Edition
“President Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, making Juneteenth a federal holiday. But 14 members of the House voted against it. They look like the white paint sample section at Home Depot. Whaddya think, honey—should we paint the bathroom Mike Rogers or Thomas Massie?”
—Jimmy Fallon
“Joe Biden spent the day in Geneva for a much anticipated summit with Vladimir Putin.
Still the best history lesson on the founding of our country I’ve seen. In fact, it’s certified “100% Texas School Board approved”:
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Our annual posting of the original Cheers and Jeers from July 4, 1776—discovered gathering dust and mold behind some rotten drywall at the farm of Phinneas Pawpatch on July 5, 1776—starts below the ye olde folde.
Important Netroots Nation Update
We pretty much knew this was coming, but now it’s official: due to the coronavirus pandemic, the in-person convention scheduled for Denver won’t be happening. But the good news is, we’ll still be meeting virtually August 13-15 through the wonder of Tim Berners-Lee’s mysteriously magical invention called the world wide web.