Election years: when rich people hire smart people to figure out what idiots think so the rich liars can lie to the idiots more effectively, and trick them into supporting anything at all. Expand your smart person political vocabulary by watching this incredibly helpful video.
Discussing how geopolitics, trade deals and constructivist identity theory can make the Ukrainian crisis understandable? Nah, more than 140 characters. If you try “Ukraine Bites”, you’re guaranteed to sound just like a real-life talking head, spouting incessantly about Putin as the reincarnation of Hitler, the resurgence of the Cold War, and how Russia’s brazen breach of international law to maintain its influence over a country is like so, totally not OK!
Frustrated by his inability to provide answers to his questions, Oregon congressman Earl Blumenauer digs into the Deputy Director of Drug Policy at a congressional hearing, telling the director that he is “part of the problem”, among many other awesome, wonderful things.
“I go out of my way at every opportunity to get my picture taken standing next to black people. That ain’t hate, that’s love.”
Rightly poking fun at Mitch McConnell’s asinine new advertisement, “McConnell Working for Kentuckians”, The Daily Show inadvertently sparked a viral trend. Known as #McConnelling, thousands of Americans have submitted their own dubbed and edited versions of McConnell’s video to the Daily Show for review. Here are some of our personal favorites.
