“After a disastrous first debate appearance in Nevada last week, the former New York City mayor and billionaire Mike Bloomberg was praying for an easier debate this time but it doesn’t seem like it worked. Right off the bat, Senator Bernie Sanders said the economy was working well ‘for people like Mr Bloomberg and other billionaires’, while Senator Elizabeth Warren pointed out Bloomberg’s past financial support for Republican campaigns, including the South Carolina senator and Trump stalwart Lindsey Graham. Bloomberg did not help himself when he touted his record for supporting Democratic candidates with a telling slip of the tongue: ‘I bought – I, I got them.’ That’s not a good look. (imitating Bloomberg): ‘There’s a ton of Democratic candidates that I bought, I mean that I own, I mean that I pay, I mean that I bribe – that’s poor people’s words – that I supported, that I supported.’ Bloomberg didn’t do himself any favors with that answer for two reasons. One, money in politics is one of the things that most people are angry about in this country. And secondly, you probably shouldn’t brag about buying people in South Carolina.” —Trevor Noah
“Another senator, Amy Klobuchar, tried to play up her midwestern roots in the gun reform debate; when she reads proposals, she said, she thinks ‘do they hurt my Uncle Dick in the deer stand?’ Uncle Dick in the deer stand? And where’s Aunt Vagina, in the beaver hut? I feel like even Uncle Dick was sitting at home watching that being like, ‘I think at a debate you can call me Richard.’” —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.”
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