1/ This isn't good....
Uh oh. Photo: NTB SCANPIX/AFP via Getty Images
I do not think this will come as any surprise to you, given the strong trends in cruise news that have emerged over these past 12 months, but let’s give it a try: The first passenger vessel to resume sailing in the Caribbean during our pandemic era just had a coronavirus scare. According to reports from people traveling on the SeaDream Yacht Club’s SeaDream 1, five people on board have now come down with COVID-1
2/ Rudy Giuliani [Kate McKinnon] visited Weekend Update....a hilarious four minutes.....
3/ Thomas Frank with a challenge to Biden - can he reform the Democratic Party to benefit working people, because if he doesn't Dems are
doomed to failure again....
Ding-dong, the jerk is gone. Finally, we have come to the end of Donald Trump’s season of extreme misrule. Voters have rejected what can only be described as the crassest, vainest, stupidest, most dysfunctional leadership this country has ever suffered.
Congratulations to Joe Biden for doing what Hillary Clinton couldn’t, and for somehow managing to do it without forcefulness, without bounce, without zest, without direction and without a real cause, even.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/07/trump-defeat-election?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
4/ George Monblot in the Guardian with a depressing thought.....we were lucky to have Trump who is hopelessly incompetent at governing - next time
the authoritarian wannabe won't be so stupid....
It brought a tear to the eye and a hand to the heart. Joe Biden, in his acceptance speech, called for unity and healing. He would work “to win the confidence of the whole people”. I just hope he doesn’t mean it. If he does, it means that nothing has been learned since Barack Obama made roughly the same speech in 2008.
5/ It's worth a try to reach out....but don't hold your breath....
6/ John Oliver doing what he does best - comedic reporting on the election.....one of his better shows, 27 informative minutes....
7/ I found this most interesting - how Biden can outmaneuver Mitch McConnell and appoint his Cabinet....
The spectre of President Biden being hamstrung by a vindictive Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, has a number of people worried, including me until I watched a recent episode of Glenn Kirschner’s Justice Matters on YouTube.
8/ Victory time.....
And for an explanation of the first panel, here's the urban dictionary....
An epithet term for supporters of Donald Trump.
MAGA = Make America Great Again, a favorite slogan of Trump supporters.
Chud = A reference to the 1984 film "C.H.
U.D." which is an initialism that stands for
Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers.
Characterized by their diaper-shaped bodies and red ballcaps these grotesque beings can often be found sweatily
schlubbing their way to and fro from various Trump events.
9/ Interesting and very readable story about how liberals don't understand the appeal Trump
has for his 70m supporters....
As I watch America wrestle with the task of un-electing an orange-tinted ball of insecurity and pettiness, I’m trying to figure out how to sum up my feelings in a way that does more than express frustration and/or despair. Try as I might, I don’t think I can do it directly. So let’s try an analogy or two.
10/ SNL's cold open did a most amusing Biden victory press conference on CNN.....some good zingers here....8 minutes...
Jim Carrey and Maya Rudolph as the victorious pair, and Alec Baldwin as you know who....
11/ Why the election wasn't a Biden landslide....it's the economy stupid....
12/ Tom Tomorrow on the election.....
13/ I'm not as pessimistic as Andrew Sullivan, but the Republicans are capable of anything to hang on to power.....
Sullivan is worried.....a disturbing article....
It may well be the wisest, sanest strategy to treat Donald J Trump as an inconvenient bystander in the weeks that lie ahead before the inauguration of Joe Biden as president of the United States. Trump lost the election more decisively than he first won it in what he called a “landslide”, and the margins for his opponent are far greater than could conceivably be overturned by any recount, or legal challenge. Not taking the bait of Trump’s defiance of the results is the cardinal rule in dealing with the child-like figure still in full tantrum mode in the White House. It’s nothing to worry about: just a ploy. And the strategy of staying largely above the fray worked beautifully for Joe Biden in slowly prying the short and vulgar fingers of Donald Trump from the presidency.
So fine. Don’t hyperventilate, Sullivan. It’s all going to be fine. Breathe.
But it’s not fine. Not even close.
14/ I know you're over it, but Bad Lip Reading has done the first Trump/Biden debate.....nine weird minutes....
15/ Weekend Update with the lads making some decent jokes....four minutes...
16/ Some of Trump's evil players you've never heard of....
Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
The Trump White House holds many horrors. Some have become well-known. There’s Jared Kushner, the son-in-law, and his dreadful wife Ivanka; white nationalists Stephen and Katie Miller; the unbelievably named Chad Wolf at the Department of Homeland Security; and Betsy DeVos, who appears to be on a personal mission to privatize the public education system.
17/ Is he gone yet?
18/ SNL watches Trump leave the White House....very funny....2 minutes...
19/ Silly but very funny SNL sketch about firing black people.....five minutes, and you are guaranteed to laugh...
20/ Interesting story from a woman who moved to Germany....who's never coming back to the US....
Like most Americans, I am deep in the throes of election anxiety. Unlike most Americans, I don’t live in the US. But even from over here, across the Atlantic, I know that Biden has to win for the US to survive. I also know that if he does, it’s not going to fix everything. For a lot of people, it probably won’t fix much at all
21/ The best TV of the year....so far...
Clockwise from left: We Are Who We Are, I May Destroy You, The Baby-Sitters Club, The Good Lord Bird, and The Queen’s Gambit. Photo-Illustration: Vulture, Netflix, HBO, Hulu and Showtime
Today's video...
How the Dutch build a tunnel under a major highway over the weekend.....wow....30 seconds...
Today's medical joke....
I wasn’t allowed to say anything until today, but it's now okay for me to share that I have volunteered for the
Covid-19 vaccine trials that a local Hospital is running in partnership with Pfizer. It's important that we all do our part to beat this virus.
The vaccine is the one that has been developed in Russia. I received my first dose this morning 06:20 am, and I wanted
to let you all know that it’s completely safe, with иo side effects whatsoeveя, and that I feelshκι я чувю себя немного
стрно и я думю, что вытл осные уши. чувству себя немго страо.
Today's Hollywood Squares jokes
Q . Paul, what is a good reason for pounding meat?
A. Paul Lynde: Loneliness! (The audience laughed so long and so hard it took up almost 15 minutes of the show!)
Q. It is the most abused and neglected part of your body, what is it?
A. Paul Lynde: Mine may be abused, but it certainly isn’t neglected.
Q. Do female frogs croak?
A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.
Q. If you're going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be?
A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.
Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years?
A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.
Q. You've been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman?
A. Don Knotts: That's what's been keeping me awake.
Q. According to Cosmopolitan, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think that he is attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if he's married?
A.. Rose Marie: No, wait until morning.
Q. Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?
A. Charley Weaver: My sense of decency.
Q. What are 'Do It,' 'I Can Help,' and 'I Can't Get Enough'?
George Gobel: I don't know, but it's coming from the next apartment.
Q. As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands while talking?
A. Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old question Peter, and I'll give you a gesture you'll never forget.
Q. Paul, why do Hell's Angels wear leather?
A. Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.
Q. Charley, you've just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get any during the first year?
A. Charley Weaver: Of course not, I'm too busy growing strawberries.
Q. In bowling, what's a perfect score?
A. Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.
Q. During a tornado, are you safer in the bedroom or in the closet?
A. Rose Marie: Unfortunately Peter, I'm always safe in the bedroom.
Q. Can boys join the Camp Fire Girls?
A. Marty Allen: Only after lights out.
Q. When you pat a dog on its head he will wag his tail. What will a goose do?
A. Paul Lynde: Make him bark?
Q. If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?
A. Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark..
Q. According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the habit of kissing a lot of people?
A. Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army.
Q. Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his head, what was he trying to do?
A. George Gobel: Get it in his mouth.
Q. Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?
A. Charley Weaver: His feet.
Q. According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed?
A. Paul Lynde: Point and laugh.
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