Sunday, June 5 – Trump’s
enterprises have been sued 3,500 times.
As John pointed out, TV doesn’t have enough legal drama to cover
that. After adding up every episode of
every Law & Order variation, he
added other lawyer shows until he ran out, a great way to show how insane that
is. He also looked at Trump University,
including tidbits from its skeevy “playbook” and a little on the judge who’s
hearing the case, who Trump thinks should recuse himself because he has Mexican
heritage (yeah.) The main story on debt buyers continued the
“slimeball” theme. They buy old debts
for pennies on the dollar and rake people over the coals to pay them, even if
they’ve passed the statute of limitations, declared bankruptcy, or passed
away. Luckily, John is spectacular; he
not only started a debt buying company to prove how disturbingly easy it is, he
bought a bunch of debt and had nearly $15,000,000 officially forgiven at the
end of the episode.
No Daily Show again this week. One thing that I want to mention is that I
really like how the show has covered bathroom bills and the issue of trans
rights over the past couple of months. I
remember when the subject first came up on the show, I was a bit apprehensive;
I hadn’t been overly impressed with what little LGBTQ-related stories they’d
previously done (or with standup pieces I’d seen from Trevor dealing with LGBTQ
people, honestly,) and while this was the first time I’d seen the show and/or
Trevor talk about trans stuff in particular, I wasn’t sure how thoughtful the
commentary or the jokes would be.
But
really, I think they’ve hit it out of the park.
I love that they did an entire episode centered around trans folk, and
their continuing coverage of the North Carolina situation, bathroom bills in
general, and the Obama administration’s response has been excellent. Every story they’ve done on this topic, for
me, has been funny, informative, hard-hitting, and most importantly, very
earnest. The show is really standing
with trans people here, and I’m glad to see that.
A lot
of what’s sprung out of this continuing story is crazy and ripe for
satire. North Carolina suing the federal government when the
DOJ tells them their law is unconstitutional?
And willing to lose billions of dollars of federal education funding
over it? A man who supports a law to
discriminate against people appears on TV comparing himself to Martin Luther
King, Jr., Gandhi, and Jesus? That’s insane, and perfectly ridiculous.
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