"Hi. Alex Steed joins Katy, Cody, and Jonathan to talk about the protests in Los Angeles, the FBI manhandling Sen. Alex Padilla, and the return (and arrest) of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Here is Wired.com's guide on how to protest safely: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-pr...."

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Anyway, in conclusion, to hell forever with Donald Trump and everyone who still, despite everything, thinks he's doing a good job, as usual.

"Hi. Donald Trump's relentless executive orders and illegal slashing of federal funding are already hurting Americans, including his own voters."

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No Warmbo, no finger puppets, no "evil Katy jumping in via a video call" or whatever, no corn slop dripping from the ceiling, no time travel, no multiple versions of Cody, none of that shit in this video. Just Cody Johnston sitting in front of a camera for an hour and twenty minutes (minus however much time the ad breaks wasted, since I skipped past those, as I always do). The only "bit" in this video was Cody refraining from saying any swear words at all, until the final minute or two of the video.

I wish all SMN videos were like this. (Aside from, perhaps, the no swearing thing, because as he proved by almost breaking that no-swear rule at several points during the video, a lot of the goddamned fucking dumbshit that Trump and Elon and their criminal co-conspirators are currently doing can only be adequately described with the involvement of intense profanity.)

(EDIT) Oh, right, I didn't note it at the time as I was watching the video, but JD Vance was apparently a person who benefited from DEI. How about that. (And, no, that wasn't a JD Vance/Peter Thiel joke.) (/EDIT)

(EDIT 2) Just a reminder that, seriously, Trump has not been in office for even a full fucking month yet. (/EDIT 2)

"Hi. Well, we're doing this again.... I guess. So, let's ask the tough question: are Americans just plain stupid for electing Donald Trump?"

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The gist of the above video:

1. Voters in general = ignorant and gullible and inattentive and very checked out of politics on the whole (because politics, granted, is indeed very fucking banal and insane and enraging), but not necessarily full on stupid, and as such it almost, almost makes sense that more of them voted for the loud, obnoxious, brazen liar/con man/criminal who claims he very definitely has real, true, totally legitimate plans to Fix Everything™ instead of for the establishment bozos who appeared (to ignorant, gullible, inattentive, very checked out eyes) to have been, at best, keeping everything bad or, at worst, actively making everything worse, in large part because the loud, obnoxious, brazen liar/con man/criminal repeatedly, incessantly said they were.
2. Democrats (specifically Democratic politicians) = very definitely stupid, for myriad reasons.
3. Liberals (extended from Democrats and distinct from progressives [and mainly referring to vapid talking heads on the ol' boob tube and the not so ol' social media]) = apparently secretly racist, sexist, transphobic, MAGA-lite shitbags all along, who don't have a clue what they're talking about, because now they're apparently trying to blame "special interest groups" (like, you know, immigrants and trans people and Palestinians) instead of their namby pamby, wishy washy, milquetoast, "trying to please everybody but actually pleasing nobody" candidates (e.g. Biden and Harris, see point #2), even though said politicians didn't even really do all the "bad" stuff that the pundits are claiming cost them the election (e.g. "bad" stuff like "caring too much about" immigrants and trans people and Palestinians). Let's just say pants-on-head stupid and leave it at that, I guess.
4. Republicans (specifically, the vile, self-centered, hypocritical asshats who knew and continue to know that Trump is eminently terrible and have explicitly said so in the past, but who now pretend to adore the taste of Trumpian dingleberries) = vile, self-centered, hypocritical asshats who slurp the shit on Trump's ass hair either out of cowardly fear of reprisal, out of the hope that Trump can directly benefit them at the expense of everyone else, and/or out of petty, hateful revenge for racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, etc. very stupid reasons.
5. Some More News (both the creators and the fans of the show): could and should and need to do better.
6. In conclusion: We, all of us, even those who voted for Trump, are almost assuredly about to be properly super fucked by Trump and his incoming administration of utter clowns (with apologies to clowns for the unfair comparison), and we need to be prepared for the consequences of that, despite the fact that this is a thing that was easily predicted and long foreshadowed due to the very words that have come out of the face-anuses of Donald Trump and those who disingenuously support Donald Trump. We're all in this together, whether we like it or not.

"Hi. Today we're looking at vice presidential candidate JD Vance's weird Nazi lie about migrants from Haiti eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, something that didn't happen and that he knows didn't happen."

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Pre-watch: How in the blue hell did they manage to get an entire hour and half worth of video out of the utterly asinine topic of Haitians allegedly eating pets, when all they needed to say is that Trump/Vance are being weird, being racist, being hateful, and, most of all, being liars?

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During watch: Seriously, keep in mind that this (i.e. JD Vance) is the man who would become POTUS should Donald Trump first, heavens forbid, become POTUS again and then second, heavens endorse, die or something. Brrr... *ugh*shiver* It would be a lateral move, at best. Vance couldn't be worse than Trump, but he almost assuredly wouldn't be better than Trump, either. Just equally terrible, but in a host of horrifying new ways. In any case, it's just one more reason in a list of by now at least a trillion reasons why Trump should never again be allowed within a million miles of the White House.

I like that they keep showing that clip from the Harris/Trump debate with Trump, stony-faced, saying the moronic lie, and Harris on the other side just laughing and gesturing in a "can you believe this lying moron?" kind of way.

"Crypto-Nazi account 'End Wokeness'" *weary goddamned sigh + facepalm leaving a slap mark on my forehead + rolling my eyes out of their sockets + shaking my head back and forth to the point of being able to fly if I only had rotors attached*

Oh, it's connected to Project 2025, too? *weary goddamned sigh + facepalm leaving a slap mark on my forehead + rolling my eyes out of their sockets + shaking my head back and forth to the point of being able to fly if I only had rotors attached*

There is, apparently, a Neo-Nazi group with the name of "Blood Tribe" that exists within the United States of America. And here I thought things couldn't possibly get even more fucked up than they already are. Nah, I'm just joshing, things can and will absolutely get way more fucked up (definitely if Trump wins, and probably even if, heavens support, Trump loses). Oh, and this "Blood Tribe" is apparently behind the racist rumors about Haitians eating pets. Wow. Imagine that. But the mere fact that an American Neo-Nazi group called "Blood Tribe" even exists at all in the year 2024 CE is mind-boggling enough. Well, maybe not so much, if one simply looks back at the past decade or so, I suppose. (By the way, this is what the founder of "Blood Tribe" looks like, apparently. Could not possibly be more stereotypical.)

So, for reference going into the latter two-thirds or so of the above embedded Some More News video, here is another Some More News video.

Cody repeating Donald Trump's own "criminal genetics" phrase with a big picture of an angry-looking Donald Trump onscreen is just... *chef's kiss.*

"Because, surely, JD knows what he's doing. He's stupid if he doesn't." Cody, Cody, Cody... stupidity and malice are not mutually exclusive.

"But it's weird for a vice president to say." Cody, JD Vance is not vice president yet, and, heavens condone, he never will be.

"Anyway, speaking of stupid Nazis." Followed by... Holy shit sudden Fucker Carlson jump scare. Welp, gotta add him to the tags now, too, I guess. *weary sigh* For reference. (Also for reference.)

*insert that Toy Story meme, with the "X" being the word "Lies," in this case*

Really appreciate that Cody keeps reminding us that JD Vance once called Donald Trump "America's Hitler" (among many other truly terrible and terribly true things he said about the former SCROTUS IMPOTUS, prior to him becoming a Trump tiny mushroom licker himself).

In conclusion, "What a piece of shit that guy is. You suck, JD. You're America's Hitler's pet. Congratulations. Go to hell, poop in your own mouth, and swallow. Oh, this just in. There's more. When you're done swallowing that poop that you pooped, poop that out and swallow that. Dipshit."

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Post-watch: Yeah, okay, I see how they managed to stretch "'Haitians eat pets' is a stupid lie told by stupid liars" into a full hour and a half video. Because it's not just about that, but also about all the stupid lies and bullshit that fed into that and led up to that. Makes sense now. Still, in the end, it really was just an hour and a half of Cody finding many different ways to say that Trump/Vance are being weird, being racist, being hateful, and, most of all, being liars.

Also, my middle fingers are pretty tired now, especially thanks to that Fucker Carlson jump scare. Instantaneous hoisting of both middle fingers has pretty much become a reflex action now, whenever that asshat appears on my screen.

Anyway, this was yet another Some More News video with no Warmbo, no finger puppets, no evil Katy, and no other pointless, distracting bullshit like that. They're on a roll right now. Heavens approve. Still a bunch of embedded-in-the-video-itself ads through which I skipped forward, as always, but meh, that'll never not be a thing anymore, apparently.

"Hi. In Part 2 of our Reagan series, we're looking at how Ronald Reagan's presidency altered how both parties think about politics, why it pushed Democrats to the right, and how Reagan's tactics and racist dog whistling paved the way for the rise of Donald Trump."

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Follow up to this one.

Wow... Reagan's campaign slogan really was "Let's Make America Great Again." Holy fuck. Well shit, that just makes MAGA even worse, since it's just a blatant, banal ripoff. So... completely par for the course for Dumbshit Jackass Trump, in other words. (If nothing else, it's so nice to be able to say, for the first time in a while, that I'm too young to remember that shit. Still... it feels like that should have been something I would've heard about before now, even so. Huh...)

Oh, and a whole bunch of other really terrible, shitty things were discussed in the above video, too.

"It's still his blueprint for governing, no matter what he says."

Of course it is. He's a fucking liar, same as always.

"'I know nothing about Project 2025,' Trump wrote on Truth Social. 'I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they're saying and some of the things they're saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.'

"How can Trump both know nothing about Project 2025 and 'disagree' with it? He doesn't say."

Hint: It's because he's a fucking liar, same as always.