Yeah, it got the job done, but no one’s really happy about it (maybe my body is their choice)

November 2022

“Last night was not the red wave in the midterm elections that many expected it to be. Republicans are still poised to potentially take control of both the House and Senate, but the night as a whole was definitely not the huge win that they were expecting, so it feels like a loss. Which is really strange for me about politics. It’s the only place where you can technically win but still lose because people thought you were going to win more. Basically, Republicans got the handjob version of winning. Yeah, it got the job done, but no one’s really happy about it.” —Trevor Noah

“One of the reasons so many people were surprised by last night’s results is that for weeks, pundits have been saying that there are only a few issues that really matter to Americans right now – inflation, crime and whatever the hell is happening with the Twitter checkmarks. Pundits also assumed that voter concern over abortion rights had faded, but I guess all those experts have been fired and will never be allowed back on television, because it turns out they were just a little bit wrong. Voters in California, Vermont and Michigan enshrined abortion access, while conservative Kentucky struck down an amendment which would have removed the right to abortion from the state constitution. It turns out abortion rights did not fade away as a concern, and it’s crazy that people ever thought it would. What women out there would be like ‘you know, it really bothered me over the summer when the state government wanted to take control of my reproductive system, but now I’m like whatever, yeah, maybe my body is their choice.’” —Trevor Noah

https://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2022/08/1001-ways-to-make-america-great-and.html

“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth 

and Orwell’s 1984.”