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 The news may have slowed last month, but that’s only because campaign season has kicked into high gear. With an orange-haired-small-handed-troll/truth-teller—who-tells-it-like-it-is-to-save-America increasingly likely to lead the Republicans and a shrill-harpy/only-woman-who-can-get-things-done likely to lead the Democrats, you can be sure that this summer and fall will be a drag-down, knock-out brawl. But before that, we still have to get through USPOL May 2016!  114th Congress Bingo Card As mentioned above, there’s not much to speak of on the Congressional side of things (unless you count commemorations of Prince and Bison), but there’s still a little bit to talk about (and it’s mostly bad news)
 Other News, featuring the Clinton Corner Hillary Clinton was mean enough to force a genial old man to scale back his political campaign. Obviously this means you shouldn’t vote for Hillary! In other news…
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Link to the White House Correspondents' Dinner, which you should definitely watch because it was amazing.
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Litany Unheard posted:Link to the White House Correspondents' Dinner, which you should definitely watch because it was amazing. Wilmore's Andrew Jackson joke was hilarious and also left the press corps cowering in fear. CNN people are the most thin-skinned babies. I always assumed they knew they were a joke.
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JonathonSpectre posted:I just want to remind everyone of something. This needs to be in the OP.
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Can I reccomend a book for the book pile? Savage Inequality by Johnathan Kozol, though slightly dated (written early 2000s), is a pretty brutal picture of the width and breadth of the de facto segregation of the American public school system. It is a relatively short, engaging read that I really encourage anyone interested in systemic inequity give a look into. Lower-education policy tends not to get much play in these threads, but for my money it is possibly the single most important civil rights/class issue currently at play. I worked in an elementary that feeds one of the high schools covered in the book for a year and feel comfortable in saying that bad schools not only hobble kids relative to their good-school peers but actively damage them and instill an earned distrust of authority from literally day one of grade one.
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Dexo posted:This needs to be in the OP. I honestly considered it, but didn't have a good place to put it.
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ctrl+f "In bad news" 1 of 11 matches Did any good news happen at all? Also might want to add the SCOTUS passed on Texas' voter ID law to the bad news list. From what I heard on the radio this means the laws are hey until a lower court does something (after Nov).
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PhazonLink posted:ctrl+f "In bad news" Thanks for reminding me.
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Goddamn Boehner just flat does not give a gently caress anymore. The whole skit was great. And goddamn Obama's final comments on the press are loving great, ending with the literal mic drop. Dick Milhous Rock! fucked around with this message at 09:14 on May 1, 2016 |
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TheOneOutside posted:Goddamn Boehner just flat does not give a gently caress anymore. The whole skit was great. Why should he, he finally got his grand bargain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIJoAb1bUOc
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Why does everyone have a Yoda rape avatar now?  e: welp Rappaport fucked around with this message at 13:19 on May 1, 2016 |
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I hadn't even posted in this thread yet that seems premature
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I hadn't even posted in this thread yet Apologies, I was reading the rest of last month's thread before coming here, and obviously I couldn't ask in last month's thread 
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I just came in to say everyone should watch Larry Wilmore because that poo poo was off the charts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IDFt3BL7FA Also the Prez got some nice digs in too
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Yea, if the title was not already it, I would suggested USPOL MAY: two thugs interrupt elegant dinner in DC.
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I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but the "hot take" reaction from the media is that Wilmore flopped. Did he actually suck, or is this the media being oblivious again, like they were with Colbert?
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Media says jokes in its expense weren't funny. I believe it.
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The CNN burns were great and the dead silence only made them better
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I think it was 50-50. Some of his jokes were pretty meh, but he had some pretty sharp rear end burns that none of the journalists laughed at
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HookedOnChthonics posted:Can I reccomend a book for the book pile? Savage Inequality by Johnathan Kozol, though slightly dated (written early 2000s), is a pretty brutal picture of the width and breadth of the de facto segregation of the American public school system. It is a relatively short, engaging read that I really encourage anyone interested in systemic inequity give a look into. Lower-education policy tends not to get much play in these threads, but for my money it is possibly the single most important civil rights/class issue currently at play. I worked in an elementary that feeds one of the high schools covered in the book for a year and feel comfortable in saying that bad schools not only hobble kids relative to their good-school peers but actively damage them and instill an earned distrust of authority from literally day one of grade one. Well, this looks great, I needed something to make me even more depressed. Should be perfect.
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I just watched Larry Wilmore's bit and God drat what a bad rear end, anyone who says that set was "bad" works for a loving media company. It wasn't quite up there with Stephen Colbert just roasting the gently caress out of W. Bush right to his face but it was beautiful. In case you've forgotten, here are the two jokes from that 2006 Correspondent's Dinner that are burned into my brain forever. "This President is a man who believes the same thing on Wednesday as he did on Monday... no matter what happened on Tuesday!" and "Now the polls say that less than one-third of Americans approve of the job this man is doing as President. But doesn't that mean that over two-thirds of Americans approve of the job that he's NOT doing?" This was with Bush about 10 feet away. To his credit, GW did his best to roll with the punches but Laura Bush was so coldly furious she could have done the "chill a Dr. Pepper" thing Wolverine and Iceman did in X2.
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I got to say the Zodiac subset was a little flat. Rest of it killed. But, as always, Obama was the best comedian on the stage. Extra props for Diamond Joe's three pairs of sunglasses.
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JonathonSpectre posted:I just watched Larry Wilmore's bit and God drat what a bad rear end, anyone who says that set was "bad" works for a loving media company. It wasn't quite up there with Stephen Colbert just roasting the gently caress out of W. Bush right to his face but it was beautiful. The follow up to the 1/3 joke was likening it to backwash in a glass of water, which was the really stunner of the set.
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Joel McHale's set had a similar vibe to it. It's up there in my top 5. Cecily Strong or Wanda Sykes had the weakest Obama WHCD. Seriously though, if you haven't watched Seth Meyer, Joel McHale, or Jimmy Kimmel do their sets, do so now. They're great. But Joel is basically in The Soup mindset while talking about "the media." No punches pulled.
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Warcabbit posted:I got to say the Zodiac subset was a little flat my favorites quote:Well, welcome to “Negro Night” here at the Washington Hilton, or as Fox News will report, “Two thugs disrupt elegant dinner in D.C.” quote:You got some jokes. Mr. President. The president’s funny. Stay in your lane, man. You don’t seem me going around president-ing all the time, right? I don’t go around passing health care, and signing executive orders, pardoning turkeys … not closing Guantanamo. Oh wait, maybe I did do that.... quote:All I’m saying is that in less than eight years, Mr. President, you’ve busted two time-honored stereotypes. Black does crack, and apparently once you go black, it looks like we are going back. quote:Al Sharpton, I think, was here tonight. You know, I’m surprised Al is a Hillary supporter. You don’t put a relaxer in your hair for 40 years and not feel the burn. That just doesn’t happen. It’s impossible. quote:Bernie’s been hanging around with rapper Killer Mike. Or as Hillary Clinton calls him, Super Predator Mike. quote:Donald Trump, now Donald Trump says he’s going to try and be more presidential. It’s true, he’s serious about it, too. So he says that now, when he boasts about his genitalia during a debate, he’s only going to refer to it as his President Johnson.
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PhazonLink posted:ctrl+f "In bad news" I thought SCOTUS was giving the lower court until the Republican convention to make a decision since they've been stalling with the justification that "it's too close to the election"...since 2014.
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HookedOnChthonics posted:Can I reccomend a book for the book pile? Savage Inequality by Johnathan Kozol, though slightly dated (written early 2000s), is a pretty brutal picture of the width and breadth of the de facto segregation of the American public school system. It is a relatively short, engaging read that I really encourage anyone interested in systemic inequity give a look into. Lower-education policy tends not to get much play in these threads, but for my money it is possibly the single most important civil rights/class issue currently at play. I worked in an elementary that feeds one of the high schools covered in the book for a year and feel comfortable in saying that bad schools not only hobble kids relative to their good-school peers but actively damage them and instill an earned distrust of authority from literally day one of grade one. Kozol is cool. He came to my college when I was a freshman and spoke about segregation still exists in schools, and when he went around trying to raise the budget for inner city schools, he'd meet with rich people who sent their kids to boarding school who'd say "how would increasing the budget make the situation better?" I bought his book "The Shame of the Nation" which talks about said segregation in depth.
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I'm predicting neither Bernie nor Cruz drop out until June. Cruz maybe even later since he's basically LARPing as the frontrunner.
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SgtScruffy posted:I think it was 50-50. Some of his jokes were pretty meh, but he had some pretty sharp rear end burns that none of the journalists laughed at But standing up in front of that many people and describing, even in imprecise detail, what a bunch a miserable shits they all are, and how loving ashamed of themselves they ought to be, and how the one small consolation of a Trump Presidency is that half of them will be murdered (maybe that's me adding the last bit)... ...that takes a kind of courage. Good for him. Incidentally it feels good to belong to something, whatever the gently caress this is 
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Jonas Albrecht posted:I'm predicting neither Bernie nor Cruz drop out until June. Cruz maybe even later since he's basically LARPing as the frontrunner. Cruz is riding the crazy train all the way to Cleveland.
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HookedOnChthonics posted:Can I recommend a book for the book pile? Another recommendation I recently read: $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing In America, by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer. It's essentially an up-to-date, very policy-heavy version of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed, and an excellent, absolutely horrifying exposé of the simple fact that "1.5 million households with roughly 3 million children were surviving on cash incomes of no more than $2 per person, per day in any given month” in 2011. To very basically explain why, according to Edin and Shaefer, the current welfare program is dependent on work and for some people and their children it is just literally impossible to find any work, let alone work that will pay enough for long-term housing. The horrifying result is welfare-for-work's natural byproduct. Thanks moral hazardites!
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Kilroy posted:Larry Wilmore is not very funny. Larry Wilmore is an incredibly funny guy with a critical flaw he is not the best orator. He is great at coming up with and writing funny material he's just not always able to execute the talking part of it.
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Combed Thunderclap posted:Another recommendation I recently read: $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing In America, by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer. Check out Ehrenreich's Economic Hardship Reporting Project. They've brought some really good pieces to fruition. It's directed by Alissa Quart, who reported this feature on 24 hour daycare for Pacific Standard a couple years ago.
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Epic High Five posted:Did somebody spend like a hundred bux on Yoda avatars last night or is this mod fuckery Either way, it's pretty funny.
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