Just for Xeets and Giggles (12.2.23)

A lot happened this week, as this excellent summary indicates.

Well, I don’t have “notes,” but I do have commentary from around the internet. And it’s pretty darned on point.

The week started off with Fox in rare form, even for Fox. Biden responded to a Fox reporter asking if he was “too old to be running” by remarking, “That’s stupid.” Then this happened.

So, “continues to face questions” means… yours?

Despite four national polls out this week now showing Biden ahead of Trump, people predictably continued to wring their hands. My favorite response to the gloomsayers:

As good economic news continues to emerge about inflation (back to 2021 levels) and growth (a whopping 5.2% adjusted in Q3), Fox decided to cherry pick examples of high prices to make its watchers believe everything is still terrible.

Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) (I know, who?) declared he would not be running again in his district after his campaign to primary Joe Biden fizzled. He also appears to not understand what it means to actually oppose Joe Biden.

The big news this week of course was that George Anthony Devolder Santos has been expelled from Congress. I know, right? While this is a serious and historic move that puts the already thin GOP majority at risk of even worse paralysis, it also occasioned some amazing commentary from people who are normally not that funny.

And I didn’t know Wonder Woman was a punster!

But there were warnings, too, from Republicans about the kind of precedent this could set. This response though…

Maybe that’s actually why the GOP is worried?

And know it’s not the season, but this is still good. Sent to me by a friend:

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In other political news, two men who really hate each other got to do it before a national audience. Gov Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Gov. Ron DeSantis (F-FL) (the F is for Fascist, or is it Foolhardy?) went head to head on the Fox Network with Sean Hannity “moderating.” Now, you’d think that this would give DeSantis a huge advantage. But it didn’t help him at all. This clip is an example of the 🔥 Newsom brought to the debate. Watch DeSantis smile like he’s an alien in a human’s skin, and listen especially to that last line!

It was readily apparent that DeSantis is unused to having actual opposition and having to answer for his record in any way, whether on Covid, the housing insurance market, migrants, you name it.

In other news about terrible Florida leaders, there was this doozy, with accompanying take downs.

Remember, these are the folks who pushed the Don’t Say Gay bill and have terrorized LGBTQ+ families across the state.

Maybe call it “Moms for Libertines”?

I don’t want to hear another word about traditional marriage from these people.

Henry Kissinger, who helped topple democratically elected governments and led secret bombing campaigns on neutral nations killing thousands, died this week.

Al Franken with a bit of history:

This one was out of left field but excellent for its timing.

A+ post here, wish I’d thought of it:

This is an actual account that remarks whenever famous people who are not Liza Minnelli die.

Also this week, First Lady Rosalynn Carter was laid to rest. Fun story: I once served her champagne at a fundraiser hosted by Ma when I was just a kid. I asked her if she engaged in “pillow talk” with the president. It was something I’d heard Ma wonder aloud. The First Lady laughed loud and openly, and my mother rushed to usher me away. (This story is in my book, MA IN ALL CAPS. Makes a great holiday gift!)

Speaking of saying awkward things aloud, there’s this amazing clip.

And this comment reflected a bit of how I felt.

Donald Trump has been ranting about his excellent cognitive skills, which of course is a huge tell. I don’t know who made this, but they get major props. [Update: Credit Barry Blitt: https://www.barryblitt.com)

A pause for this important Public Service Announcement.

Elon Musk continues to be a terrible person despite his best efforts to try and undo the damage from his antisemitic posts.

Of course, he, like Trump, can’t help himself with the self-owns. This week he also amplified (checks notes) the PizzaGate conspiracy—the one that claimed Satanic Democrats were sex trafficking children from the basement of a D.C. pizza shop, which of course had no basement.

Musk is getting all his facts wrong again but that doesn’t seem to bother him or his tens of millions of fan boy followers.

This gets 1st prize for prescience:

Musk’s posts caused several advertisers including Disney and the Washington Post to pause ads on the X Platform. Musk was interviewed and he responded, in startling fashion, that the companies should not advertise. To Bob Iger of Disney, he said, “Go fuck yourself.” But that wasn’t even the worst (best?) part of the interview! It was this moment in this clip.

In other entertaining news. The movie “Napolean” opened, and this was the best take on its ad campaign, from the famed station in London.

Okay, a quick cute animal break! Just a few this week.

This cat looks like my roommate Blair using his upside down table rack thing. Watch clip here.

And I may need to get this game for my own cat, Shade. Watch here.

My favorite video this week comes courtesy of this playful bird.

NBA next!

Humans can make some amazing things, as evidenced by this piece of art. Mesmerizing clip.

In places like country music, there appears to be an artistic divide.

Some guys do seem to complain a lot for what they have. This apparently AI-generated image had me in…tears.

Chap GPT: ”Show me a picture of a guy juggling things that make a grown man cry.”

This next video also has folks in tears from grown men acting stupidly. Watch it here.

File this next one under “kids making us feel old.”

It’s Hallmark Holidays movie season, so this seems like a good reminder.

This next question went south very fast.

Two dad joke pieces.

I don’t know why it’s funnier to watch aliens tell dad jokes, but it just is. This clip is so silly, but I love it.

Okay, okay, one more and that’s it, I promise!

Have a great Saturday!

Jay

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