COMEDY
"If you find yourself unable to laugh at something, unable to find anything worthy of satire — especially in a politician like Joe Biden — you may be blinded by your own worldview. A president who has been in politics for five decades promising hope and change. A politician who campaigned against the abuses of the Trump administration and then, once elected, did the very things his party once decried. A president heralded as a return to normalcy who is now proposing ideas that threaten our norms and institutions at a far more fundamental level than Trump ever did . . .
"The Left often argues that comedy should “punch up” and “speak truth to power.” Who’s more powerful than the president of the United States? Or a Democrat-controlled Congress pitching increasingly unhinged ideas that threaten to undermine our democracy? Or a leftist movement that has taken over corporations, sports leagues, corporate America, and schools from kindergarten to college? If the point of comedy is to make some kind of moral point with every joke, well, comedians like Samantha Bee are quickly going to find that they have simply become defenders of the establishment after all.
"Bee’s comment that Biden isn’t really a worthy target just reeks of desperately needing your audience to agree with you. It’s also just obviously false; hypocrisy is ripe ground for satire, so politicians are always worthy targets — on the left and the right." Kyle Smith, National Review Online I admit. I don't know who Samantha Bee is.
COVID
"We better learn to laugh at this irrational mask stuff, I guess, because we're going to be wearing them for a long, long time." David Limbaugh, Townhall
"Having virus does not guarantee immunity." Drudge Report
THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE . . . CALIFORNIA
"Tiny terriers chase very large bear out of CA home." Drudge
. . . MINNEAPOLIS
"Minneapolis Target holds semi-annual 'Everything Is Free' Sale." Babylon Bee
REPARATIONS
"Men demand reparations from women due to Eve eating the apple." Ditto
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