Sunday, October 1 – This week’s Trump
news included the president 1) deriding Puerto Rico for needing aid after a
hurricane and later spewing nonsense how “great” they were doing “on the
deaths” (what is this even,) 2) defending the healthcare bill’s defeat by
repeatedly (falsely) insisting that a Senator was in the hospital, depriving
the GOP of a vote it needed, and 3) openly lying about his tax reform plan
being “really bad” for the super-rich like himself. The main story on forensic science, while
interesting was a bit of a letdown with everything going on, but it was still
good to get the staggering numbers on just how inconclusive forensic evidence
in a criminal case can be. The best part
was the CSI: Crime Scene Idiot trailer we got at the
end, starring a clueless, forensics-obsessed, dramatic-sunglasses-removing,
tasteless-pun-spouting officer and featuring the likes of Samira Wiley and Josh
Lucas – so funny!
Monday, October 2 – Strong words from
Trevor on the Las Vegas shooting. He
challenged the idea that “now is not the time” to talk gun control and
questioned the sense of people focusing instead on hotel security. Next was Trump calling out Rex Tillerson on
Twitter for bothering to try engaging
in diplomacy with Kim Jong-un – I loved the bit about “all Kims” looking alike
to Trump. Good story on the continuing
situation in Puerto Rico, especially Trevor asking how Trump can be a
billionaire/the U.S. president and still be the most insecure person on
earth. He also covered Tom Price’s forced resignation and the fact that Price was already on Trump’s shit list for
not doing more to get rid of Obamacare; the bit envisioning Obamacare as Bruce
Lee was great. I really enjoyed the
interview with BET’s Robin Thede, as she discussed her penchant for being the
first Black woman to do something and she and Trevor bonded over Beyoncé love.
Tuesday, October 3 – The clips from Trump’s Puerto Rico visit were suitably pathetic and tonedeaf, with Trump cheerfully
lobbing paper towels(??) into a crowd of hurricane victims. More on the Las Vegas shooting, with Fox News
grasping for a way to spin it. I loved
Trevor’s contempt for Sean Hannity’s delusional “good guy with a gun” fantasy,
and the montage showing Fox News’s hypocrisy in insisting not to “politicize”
the shooting was excellent. The story on
OJ Simpson’s release from jail was a little all over the place without much in
the way of a real point – mostly just a loose collection of OJ jokes, but there
were some good ones in there.
Representative Jim Himes was the guest; he and Trevor lamented how often
there are mass shootings for him to speak against, and he hammered home how
vital it is for Congress to offer anything but silence in response to this.
Wednesday, October 4 – Let it be
noted: we now live in a world where the
Secretary of State is forced to hold a press conference (not precisely) denying that he called the president a moron.
Yeesh. Next was a good story on
meddling from Russian hackers, looking at how they’ve used social media, not
just to sway swing states before the election, but to generally foment
ideological clashes among Americans – the dueling Twitter accounts sporting
#BoycottTheNFL and #TakeAKnee were
telling. Neil Brennan dropped by to talk
gun control. I liked what he said about
the difficulty of fighting a symbol, and his plan to trick Congress into gun
legislation with another symbol, having the “scary” Black NFL protesters hold
AR-15’s instead of kneel on the field, was depressing in how true it was. Enjoyable interview with John Hodgeman,
especially his story about him and his daughter pretending to be ghosts at a
local cemetery.
Thursday, October 5 – Boo on Cam Newton
thinking the mere idea of a female sports reporter using football terminology
is “funny.” Short bit on new disaster relief funds, with Trevor conceding that Trump (finally) did something good but
reaired the tactless tape of his lobbing paper towels into a crowd of Puerto
Rican hurricane victims. Next up was the
irony of the outspokenly pro-life Rep. Tim Murphy stepping down after news came
out that he urged his mistress to get an abortion. I especially liked Trevor’s comments on
Murphy’s excuse that his public pro-life remarks are written by staff and he “just”
reads them. For Throwback Thursday, the
show revisited the release of the Access Hollywood tape; I couldn’t believe
that was a year ago. Black-ish creator Kenya Barris was the
guest, talking about pushing boundaries and his continued amazement that his
show is on the air.
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