the NCAA asked women to cough into a handkerchief and whisper ‘it’s nothing.’ (that’s four and a half Michael Bloombergs)

“The pandemic is having a devastating impact on the economy – restaurants alone could lose $225 Billion in the next three months. For scale, that’s four and a half Michael Bloombergs.” —Samantha Bee

If we were to take one lesson from the shutdown, which of course we won't. Maybe we'd think a little more about the things we are and aren't willing to spend money on. This year we've allotted more than seven hundred billion dollars in defense spending. That's more than the government spends on education, transportation, energy, agriculture, space, justice, the environment, Veterans, Health and Human Services, Commerce, homeland security, housing, the interior, labor, the Treasury and the State Department, COMBINED! That is such a huge number that if you typed it into a calculator and turned it upside down it would say, “Use this money to pay for universal healthcare, you boobs! --Samantha Bee

“It’s no secret that the NCAA is mistreating its female athletes at the March Madness college basketball tournament. After being criticized by some players for vast discrepancies in weight rooms between the men and women, the NCAA apologized but their real message had already been sent. Women athletes are worth less than men. The NCAA also provided the women with less opulent swag bags, lower-quality food and less accurate Covid tests. Basically, while the men got the gold standard of virus testing, the NCAA asked women to cough into a handkerchief and whisper ‘it’s nothing.’” —Samantha Bee

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.”