Never forget that
- Macklemore
- Kehlani
- Zara Larsson
- Dua Lipa
- Ariana Grande
- Theodora
- Bjork
- Coldplay
- Elyanna
- Olivia Rodrigo
- Chappell Roan
All risked their careers for speaking out against the genocide in Palestine
INCLUDE THEM IN YOUR PLAYLISTS !
I watched Trump’s speech at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night.
It’s hard to articulate how sad it made me.
Sad and embarrassed and exhausted.
Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can’t tell one.
People think humor is a talent. It isn’t. It’s a capacity. To make someone laugh you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at yourself you have to step outside of yourself and see what everyone else sees. For one second you have to be just another person in the room.
Most people can do this by the time they are nine years old.
He has never once managed it. Not in fifty years of cameras. Not for a second.
That is not a quirk. It is a symptom. The muscle that lets you tell a joke is the same one that lets you feel what another person feels. A man who cannot survive being laughed at cannot imagine being anyone but himself. He will only ever be generous when it is photographed. He will only ever be kind when it is filmed.
There is a name for it.
So he stood up there and did what he always does. He hit down. He made jokes about people’s weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesn’t like, and mocked them. Always mocking. And when no one laughed he blamed his speech writers.
The cruelty dressed as humor has worn so thin.
And for the 30% of you still in the cult who will inevitably call me a crackhead and blame it all on my Dad, all I can say is please, for the love of God, open your eyes. Wake the fuck up. Have some dignity. Have some pride.
Joe Biden wasn’t standing at that podium last night. Donald Trump was.
And at the end of it he put on a red hat that said Trump 2028 and told the room he was running again. No one laughed because everyone knows he has no intention of leaving.
Just another joke at our expense.
This could be an unpopular take but this is an incredible proposal, even if it’s stupid. Also, we should just be happy it was two thrill seeking lovebirds and not terrorists who exposed this security failure. Clearly the Empire State Building isn’t secure enough from bad actors.
BREAKING NYT:
Government documents raise new doubts about Trump's unsubstantiated claim that "vandals" sabotaged the Reflecting Pool.
There's no indication the peeling blue coating and algae blooms were caused intentionally — and the Trump admin knew that.
https://t.co/v1C77s4eQp
Remember when a kid got years in North Korean prison for stealing a poster and everyone was like “what a terrifying country!” and now Americans are facing years in prison for touching floating paint chips...??
DONALD TRUMP IS WEAK ON ALGAE. THANKS TO ME, CALIFORNIA HAS BEEN ALGAE-FREE FOR 2000 YEARS. PEOPLE CALL ME CRYING, "THANK YOU FOR WINNING THE WAR ON ALGAE!" MANY SAY TRUMP FEARS ALGAE BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE ALGEBRA. HE HAS SURRENDERED AND WILL TURN US INTO UNITED STATES OF ALGAE!