I watched Trumpโs speech at the Correspondentsโ Dinner last night.
Itโs 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 canโt tell one.
People think humor is a talent. It isnโt. Itโs 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 peopleโs weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesnโt 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 wasnโt 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.
Ben Affleck's mother Chris Affleck passed today. I was unaware of her longstanding activism for Palestine. Now his disgust and revulsion at genocidal Zionist Bill Maher and Sam Harris's deranged racist Islamophobic rants makes perfect sense. RIP, you raised a good son.
There is NO defense that Ben Johnson is scared of with this #Bears WR Room. I fully expect them to be contenders in the NFC with this offensive talent and playcalling #DaBears
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I'm not sure how recent this video is, but it reportedly shows an attempted armed carjacking. According to reports, a young Black male allegedly attempted to carjack the man in the red shirt. The intended victim then drew his firearm and fired multiple rounds, fatally shooting the suspect.
What do you think? Was this a justified act of self-defense, or do you see it differently?
Every American should be outraged by what Trump has done to our nation's 250th birthday celebration. What should have been a once-in-a-generation moment to unite the country has been turned into another vehicle for division, propaganda, and political gain.
We uncovered how he hijacked America 250 โ watch to see how.
In what was likely a gang-related shooting yesterday, two men were killed in Dunning.
This incident inspires two questions:
Where were the violence interrupters (CVIs) to prevent these two deaths?
How will @ChicagosMayor's new Office of Gun Violence Reduction stop gang crime?
Grand Theft Auto VI is now available to pre-order.
All pre-orders will get the Vintage Vice City Pack, a collection of items that flash back to when the neon burned brightest.
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PANCHO AND MACHO GOT STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN BEERS FOR FATHERโS DAY AND ALMOST MADE HIM TEAR UP ๐ญ
This is the greatest video you will watch today.