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"At press time, sources confirmed Clinton had raised $17.6 billion in the first 45 seconds of the campaign."
Mongrel wrote:Onion: Hillary Launches Campaign To Raise $100 Million Or Else She’ll Run For President
The Year Is Ending: Here’s What That Means For 2018.
By Chris Cillizza
Jan. 1 marked the start of 2018, the most recent year America has ever experienced. It’s been 2018 for almost 12 months. Believe it or not, there’s an even newer year on the horizon. But before we get to that, we need to get to the bottom of what is happening to 2018.
1. 2018 was the newest year in politics since 2017.
Think back to January. 2018 was the newest thing in Washington, and no one had any idea how it would go. Now, believe it or not, pretty soon it will never be 2018 again. That’s a massive rise and fall, but it’s typical of how fortunes can change in an instant in the age of the first Reality TV President.
2. 2018 lasted for 12 months.
Can you believe it’s been only 12 months since 2018 began? To put that into perspective, 12 months is the average amount of time that passes between when a child begins kindergarten and when they begin first grade. We’re as far away from the start of 2018 now as the second season of “Game of Thrones” was from its first season.
And Winter is Here.
3. It’s been almost a year since America experienced anything like this.
Year changes don’t happen every day. In fact, they happen, on average, only once every 365 days. The last time Americans faced the end of a year — and the beginning of a new one — was almost exactly one year ago. With the rise of Twitter and the 24-hour news cycle, our political attention spans have only been shrinking. How many people alive today remember what it was like the last time we faced a national transition this significant?
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Thad wrote:The Opposition with Jordan Klepper is pretty clearly a case of Comedy Central going, "Well, The Nightly Show didn't work out as a replacement for The Colbert Report; clearly what we need to do is make another show that's exactly like The Colbert Report." On down to using the exact same "black Republicans always get invited up onstage right behind the podium" joke that Tim Meadows was doing on Colbert in 2005.
It's not bad. I like Klepper; it's got potential. The first episode didn't hit it out of the park or anything, but then, Colbert took awhile to really find his groove too.
But in a world where we've already got 2 weekly political comedy shows headlined by former Daily Show correspondents, a late night show headlined by a former Daily Show correspondent, and The Daily Show itself, plus Jim Jefferies and Seth Meyers (and I guess Bill Maher but fuck that guy), shit's getting a little crowded. I'll probably check back in with Klepper periodically, but I can't see my way toward watching this four nights a week at this point.
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