JD Vance's Latest "Joke" Is Going Viral For All The Wrong Reasons | HuffPost Latest News

"Get it? The joke is that we might kill some totally innocent people! Haha that's funny, right?"

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alanavalko/jd-vances-latest-fishing-joke 

 

The serious point at the heart of Biden’s latest anti-Trump joke

"[W]hen the pandemic hit, Trump failed the most basic duty any president owes the American people: a duty to care and a duty to respond. Remember when he told us, 'Don't worry; this will all be over by Easter'? Remember when he told us, literally, inject bleach? ... Think about it. Because he failed to care, not only did people die, but millions of Americans lost their jobs, their homes, their livelihoods."

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/serious-point-heart-bidens-latest-anti-trump-joke-rcna149404

 

Opinion: Why Justice Alito's 'jokes' are so stunning | CNN

It was all incredibly unbecoming of a Supreme Court justice. But Alito's behavior also points to something more insidious: how lightly and un-seriously he appears to take these proceedings, which could have dire effects on people's lives across the country…

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/06/opinions/justice-alito-scotus-jokes-children-kkk-filipovic/index.html

Alito joking about a Black child wearing a KKK costume: What happened at oral arguments for the Colorado gay marriage case.

But when you start lobbing around references to "Hamilton" and "Black Santa" and "Ashley Madison" and the riotously funny prospect of small Black kids dressed up as Klansmen, you're in wholly new territory. So today's hearing at the highest court in the land was about levity and mockery, and all the trivial examples of imaginary harms that will never come to pass. This is not just erasure of LGBTQ interests; interests in which the state has an important and established interest in protecting. This is about mocking the obvious implications of creating a carveout from antidiscrimination laws with fatuous slippery slopes and petty humor. 

It's bad enough that this is what passes for sober analysis at the court in this case—that is already its own mess. Instead of reflection on that point, we have to grapple with the fact that it comes from the selfsame jurists who see every critique of their own conduct as intolerable...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/12/oral-arguments-colorado-wedding-alito-incomprehensible.html

Video of a microchip reader finding a chip in a vaccinated woman’s arm was posted as a joke - PolitiFact

"You guys believe anything on the internet," she said in a second comment...

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/01/instagram-posts/video-microchip-reader-finding-chip-vaccinated-wom/

‘I don’t kid’: Trump says he wasn’t joking about slowing coronavirus testing - POLITICO

Administration officials have scrambled in recent days to clean up the president’s remarks from his weekend rally in Oklahoma.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/23/trump-joking-slowing-coronavirus-testing-335459

Donald Trump, Jr. “joked” that Joe Biden is a pedophile. - Vox

President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump, Jr., tweeted and Instagrammed a reference to the widespread “Creepy Joe” meme on Friday — one labeling former Vice President Joe Biden a pedophile.
https://www.vox.com/2020/5/17/21261636/joe-biden-creepy-joe-meme-donald-trump-jr

You clowns believed our demand for an impeachment vote, and now the joke is on you - The Washington Post

How I laugh at the House Democrats! They should be ashamed of themselves for believing (as naive children believe) that we meant anything we said! Oh, what a laugh! Put on your cap and bells! Yes, you are the source of my mirth, and I laugh into the face of you, ho ho! Dingle dingle! That is me, doing an onomatopoeic rendition of the sounds that your folly makes! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/30/you-clowns-believed-our-demand-an-impeachment-vote-now-joke-is-you/

Trump suggested his Alabama deception was a big joke. But NOAA isn’t laughing — and neither should we - The Washington Post: Analysis

The president suggested this weekend that he was toying with the media. Implicit in that is that he's been dishonest, and he knows it.
https://beta.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/09/trump-suggested-his-alabama-deception-was-big-joke-noaa-isnt-laughing-neither-should-we/

Rather than defend democracy, Trump jokes with Putin - The Washington Post: Opinion

The U.S. president should stand up for freedom, not joke with an authoritarian about election interference and the "problem" of a free press.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/rather-than-defend-democracy-trump-jokes-with-putin/2019/06/28/d162d164-99bb-11e9-916d-9c61607d8190_story.html

Trump again jokes about staying on as president for more than two terms - The Washington Post

Ahead of the Mueller report's release Thursday morning, Trump jokingly suggested he might remain in the Oval Office for "at least for 10 or 14 years."....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-again-jokes-about-staying-on-as-president-for-more-than-two-terms/2019/04/18/05a5afce-6207-11e9-9ff2-abc984dc9eec_story.html

Trump and Trump, Jr. blasted for joking about genocide in attacks on Democratic 2020 presidential candidate - Raw Story

President Donald Trump was highly criticized on Saturday for making an apparent joke about genocide during political attack on a 2020 campaign challenger. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/trump-trump-jr-blasted-joking-genocide-attacks-democratic-2020-presidential-candidate/

For some Republicans, the current immigration crisis appears to be a laughing matter - The Washington Post: Analysis

Jeff Sessions appears to be making light of a very heavy situation ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/06/27/for-some-republicans-the-current-immigration-crisis-appears-to-be-a-laughing-matter/

Jeff Sessions Jokes About Family Separations Amid Controversy Over U.S. Border Policy -- HuffPost

“We hear views on television today that are on the lunatic fringe, frankly.”....
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-sessions-family-separations-joke_us_5b32f207e4b0cb56051d1f12

Trump can threaten and use vulgar language but Michelle Wolf can't tell jokes? - USA TODAY

Within 10 minutes of Michelle Wolf's 'vulgar' and 'nasty' act, she was already being drawn-and-quartered in the Twittersphere. Wait, what about Trump? ....
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/04/30/donald-trump-michelle-wolf-vulagrity-white-house-correspondents-dinner-column/564215002/

Fox hypes bogus FBI 'secret society' dozens of times -- then goes silent after it's revealed as a joke -- Raw Story

Fox News on Thursday ceased discussion about an alleged anti-Trump "secret society" in the FBI after the notion was revealed as a joke. According to TV Eyes, Fox News made 90 mentions of the so-called "secret society" in January. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/fox-hypes-bogus-fbi-secret-society-dozens-times-goes-silent-revealed-joke/

Trump’s website is coded with a broken server error message that blames Obama | TechCrunch

If you’re a fan of Easter eggs hidden in source code, this is a pretty good one. Apparently, as Washington Post data reporter Christopher Ingraham observed on Twitter, some Trump administration and GOP websites have a portion of code with a joke that throws shade at Obama’s golf habits, the irony nowhere to be found....
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/28/trump-500-internal-server-error-obama-joke/

The Disturbing Truth Behind Trump and Pence's Horrific Anti-LGBT Joke -- The Cheat Sheet

Recently, President Donald Trump rocked the Internet with jokes he made about Vice President Mike Pence's highly conservative views.

A New Yorker expose revealed that Trump mocked Pence in a meeting with a legal scholar. When the conversation turned to LGBT rights, Trump gestured at Pence. He said, "Don't ask that guy—he wants to hang them all!"

That comment finds some basis in fact. We dug up some equally disturbing stances Pence has held throughout his career. ...
https://www.cheatsheet.com/culture/the-disturbing-truth-behind-trump-and-pences-anti-lgbt-joke.html/

8 Ways Leading European Officials Perceive America's Big Embarrassment in the Oval Office | Alternet

Trump seems to think the world started when he took office.....
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/8-ways-leading-european-officials-perceive-americas-big-embarrassment-oval-office

WH: Trump Was 'Making A Joke' When He Endorsed Police Abuse In Speech - TPM

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday that President Donald Trump was just joking last week when he advocated police abuse during an address focused on gang violence by undocumented immigrants in Long Island. ...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sanders-trump-making-a-joke-police-abuse