Entire ESPY monologue here. I thought Shane did a great job. A little Norm tribute to end it. Not all politics of course. Not many laughs from the audience.
The last time the fantasy industrial complex massively smashed head long into objective reality there were 1.7 million excess deaths caused by Covid in the US (a per capita rate 5X that of Canada). But creepy sexual behaviour surely has more purchase with the MAGA brain, so this collision might resolve differently?
(Note: so far, powerful market signals have just about prevented the collision between Trump’s economic shenanigans and reality, but he seems hell bent on running out of runway.)
Its crazy how obvious the con job was the entire time though.
There's a deep power in just telling people the shit they want to believe. Most are too apathetic or unsophisticated to observe or understand information contrary to their base beliefs.
The whole Epstein thing is a failure by both the democrats and the republicans. People talk about conspiracy theories, but this was one of those theories that turned out to have legs.