DEFEND KIMMEL

“I think we found out yesterday that Donald Trump is almost as obsessed with Jimmy Kimmel as he is with his bunker ballroom. On the one hand, he is into this he's got this fetish for authoritarian aesthetics. On the other hand, he remains this thin skinned little boy who actually hates being laughed at and actually fears being laughed at more than just about anything else.”

“This pursuit of a so called golden ticket, I understand. This is the time when everybody's craving stability. It's a scary time. The problem is that without risk, we get nowhere. You if you're not taking on any risk, you're not growing. And so even though it sounds like counterintuitive advice, I think we have to warn people that running towards the supposedly safe thing might actually end up being inhibiting.”

“I think you wanna pair a craft with a need. A craft is a special skill that you have some expertise, something you do really well that other people don't know how to do. Your craft protects you. Because, listen, the job market is cruel. We can be fired at any time. But your craft is yours. It can't be taken away from you. It prevents you from being treated as disposable or interchangeable.”

“Can we just call out the utter hypocrisy of Donald Trump who claims that he was the free speech president? Remember how free speech was a big thing? Do you remember when the entire right was devoted to fighting against cancel culture? They get into power, and what do they do? They have their own cancel culture, and he has gone into overdrive in trying to shut up critics, telling people not to say various things, using the cudgels of government like Brendan Carr to go after folks.”

“And this, I feel like, is such a great metaphor for Trumpism. Right? You have all Republicans, and they can't legislate themselves out of a fucking paper bag. I was worried that we might cruise into a midterm with $2 gas and Republicans passing legislation, but two, we're cruising into it with $4 gas and Republicans just completely committing seppuku once again.”

“Lindsey Graham, not content with that, comes out and says, we're gonna have the taxpayers pay for most of all of this. And everybody even the Republicans are going, wait. The ballroom the Bunker Ballroom was supposed to be paid for with private donations. And now Lindsey Graham, Donald Trump's chief most enthusiastic, desperate fluffer, comes forward and says, no. We need to stick the taxpayers with the tab for all of that.”

“Did you when when when Donald Trump called into the little squawk box the other day and somebody had given Rashida how long wars were, and he's reading it well. World War one was this long, and World War two was this long. And I've only been at this for five months. But then he said, and the Vietnam War, I would have won that very easily. This is the war that he where he dodged the draft claiming that he had bone spurs.”

“We're seeing AI interviews now. I am meeting young people who are like Jody. I applied for a 150 jobs. I didn't meet anybody in the process, and the only interviews I had were AI interviews. Your answer is analyzed and crunched by the AI and then sent to the hiring company with recommendations. That is exactly what young people are saying. They're saying, I don't feel seen. They're saying, hiring is a black box.”