Category: Heckuva job, Trumpy

Old men yell at each other

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I can’t remember which comic made this observation, but it struck me as incisive:

Imagine somebody from outside of America looking at this presidential race, “You people have 330 million people to choose from, right? And from that vast selection, these two are your best choices to be your leader? How bad are the rest of you?”

Some of Jost’s best Jests

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Colin Jost had a different gig this Saturday Night. He did the comedy monologue at the Nerd Prom (2024 White House Correspondent’s Dinner). I thought his punch lines were only so-so, but that’s a tough crowd and he punched at both sides, delivering a few hard body shots at everyone, even Sleepy Joe. He likes Biden, but he gave him hell on some sensitive matters:

“I have to admit, it’s not easy following President Biden. I mean, it’s not always easy following what he’s saying.”

“My Weekend Update co-anchor Michael Che was going to join me here tonight, but in solidarity with President Biden, I decided to lose all my Black support.”

“I’m not saying both candidates are old, but you know Jimmy Carter is out there thinking, ‘I could maybe win this thing.’”

He had a few other solid zingers:

“We’re all here tonight at nerd prom. Well, not ALL. Matt Gaetz is at regular prom.”

“Can we just acknowledge how refreshing it is to see a president of the United States at an event that doesn’t begin with a bailiff saying ‘all rise’?”

“President Biden, isn’t it crazy that he’s only our second Catholic president? And what’s even crazier is that in just a few short months, we’ll have our third in RFK Jr. I’m kidding. Like his vaccine card says, he doesn’t have a shot.”

“I would really like to take a moment to recognize all the print journalists in this room. Your words speak truth to power. Your words bring light to the darkness. And most importantly, your words train the AI programs that will soon replace you.”

Trump hilariously accuses AOC of being a poor student

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Trump seems never to have come across that famous proverb about people who live in glass houses. One of his professors, long before Trump entered politics, called him, “the dumbest goddam student I ever had.”

AOC’s response was to the point:

The alleged Trump report card pictured above is a ridiculously bad forgery. Donald and I were both students at Fordham University in calendar year 1966.

The problems with the forgery are:

1) It is anachronistic. Nothing looked that sophisticated in 1964-66.
2) Many of the grades on that report did not exist at Fordham then. In that era, there was no A-, B-, C-, D+, D- or F+. Many of the old-time teachers didn’t even like the new-fangled “plusses” and awarded only A, B, C, D, F.
3) The course numbering is wrong. In that era, the second semester of an intro course at Fordham would be numbered 12, not 102. That changed in the 67-68 year, but Trump was gone by then.
4) All real grade reports from Fordham in that era are clearly dated “Jan” or “June” of the appropriate year, marking the month after the conclusion of the semester, as shown above. The fall semester of 1966 would be dated “Jan 67,” as shown above. The spring semester would be dated “June 66.”

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I will certainly be happy to compare grade reports with The Donald for that 1966 year, and will be pleased to add a large side-bet to the winner (me).

In fairness, Trump was not a D student at Fordham (as pictured by the fake grade report). Two people who saw his grade reports said they were in the C+ to B range. That’s not bad, but Mary Trump points out in her book that Trump’s sister did all his home assignments for him, so I suppose he would have not done that well on his own.