July 2020
“The Trump campaign’s intent is to hold the Republican national convention in Florida even as coronavirus cases surge in the state, though it plans to move several of the events outdoors. The president is now holding a three-day outdoor event in Florida, in August – it’ll be worth watching just to see Trump lap up glasses of water like a thirsty golden retriever. Poor Mike Pence is going to be sweating like he’s sitting through a Drag Race marathon.” —Jimmy Fallon
“While California shuts down again, Disney World reopened for visitors in Orlando, Florida, which is crazy. Right now, the boring part of Disney is the rollercoaster, while the scariest part is standing in line.” —Jimmy Fallon
“What’s happening in California is a preview of what the next year is going to look like for a lot of places – gradually reopening, and then shutting down when things get dangerous. This whole thing – without a vaccine, without tracing, without enough testing – it’s like trying to have sex in your parents house. Things are ramping up, you know, and then you hear something creak – it’s your dad getting a snack in the kitchen, you gotta shut everything down until it’s safe again. The reversal of course flew against numerous proclamations of victory over coronavirus by conservative commentators in May and June, particularly on Fox News. Maybe not a great idea for conservative media to take a victory lap in the middle of a pandemic. Some of these clips from Fox News have aged poorly as a salute to premature salutes. I know there’s a lot of politics tied up in who’s rooting for which state and policies to succeed, but coronavirus has no politics. It doesn’t give a shit what state you live in. In that sense, coronavirus is the most bipartisan thing to happen to America since hating Jussie Smollet.” —Trevor Noah
“A magisterial collection. An emotional roller coaster. Soon to be a cult classic.
A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night On Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”