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John Mulaney was "deeply irresponsible" joking on SNL that "nothing much will change" if either Trump or Biden wins


https://www.thedailybeast.com/snl-host-john-mulaney-jokes-nothing-will-change-if-biden-beats-trump

"The stand-up comedian delivered an inexplicable 'both sides' bit about Biden and Trump just three days before the 2020 election," said Matt Wilstein, calling his comments "a major miss" in an otherwise solid monologue. "On November 3rd there is an elderly man contest," Mulaney said. "So there’s two elderly men and you’re supposed to pick your favorite of the elderly men,” he continued. “You can put it in the mail or you can go and write down which elderly man you like and we’ll add them all up. Then we might have the same elderly man or we might have a new elderly man. But just rest assured, no matter what happens, nothing much will change in the United States. The rich will continue to prosper while the poor languish. Families will be upended by mental illness and drug addiction. Jane Lynch will continue to book lots of projects.” As Wilstein notes, "those three examples may be broadly true, but for Mulaney to tell the millions of people watching SNL three days before the election that there is essentially no difference between Donald Trump and Joe Biden can only be described as deeply irresponsible." Wilstein points out that Mulaney did urge viewers to vote. "You’ve got to vote," he said. "Vote as many times as you can, fill in every circle, every dot they have, fill them in."

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I don't agree that Mulaney was irresponsible, he just wasn't trying to put a thumb on the scales, which for as how much I dislike rump (putting it mildly), I will give him credit for.
And there are arguments to be made both are bad examples of what America should be offering for leadership.
But rump is genuinely evil while Biden is more of the same one step forward, two steps back type we are used to.

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Not sure why you are spelling it rump. People that hate him do not even call him that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtqp-RUw87M

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My way of showing I have no respect for the guy. No capital, just four letters and everyone knows who I'm talking about.
And he's the rump of everything that's bad about this country. It is a word and has connotations, unfortunately for him.

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Exactly.

Fill them all in.

The government wouldn't print a bunch of empty circles and not let you fill them in,,,, would they??? NO.

Fill them in, ALL OF THEM.

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