So -the President-Elect is Donald Trump…Really? John Oliver devotes his entire show to investigating how it all happened, and talking us into staying here instead of moving to Canada. It’s a tough sell.
“Instead of telling our daughters; ‘One day you too can be president,” quips Oliver: “We’re saying’ That no grandpa is too racist to become the leader of the free world!'”
Here’s a heart-stopping prediction.”Donald Trump is going shape the Supreme Court for decades to come.” The stars are aligned in such a way to make it true, unless Ruth Bader Ginsburg lives to be well past 125. Drink to her health! John reminds us, that whatever it takes – we must continually remind ourselves that this – is not ‘normal.’ We must stay here and fight – but not with clubs, or tweets, likes or protests. We must take action and make contributions to organizations helping anyone who will be negatively impacted by Trump and his grisly crew.
Subscribing to a real newspaper is extremely important because – without what passes for media, Donald Trump would not be sitting where he is today. John gives the media the lion’s share of blame. Our ‘President-Elect’ sees no difference between trash-rags and alt-right media and actual journalism, neither do his followers. He won an election by quoting headlines from sensationalist, fact-free click bait sites…Said Trump “I read it on the internet” and he scoffs at fact-checking. That’s our president!
In closing, a host of people state why they believe 2016 sucked, and offer it a sincere flying finger send-off. Meanwhile, John Oliver enters a football arena, where a gigantic electronic 2016 awaits demolition. See if you don’t agree that blowing up 2016 is the most spectacular part of the entire year!