I can only answer #1. It’s clear from 99.999% of MAGA type profile pictures that you’re only taken seriously if it’s taken in some sort of vehicle and with sunglasses on.

Unlike last year when Levine took his shirt off.

The place to start is Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States:

This and she made him a shit ton of extra money. Royalties go to the songwriters.

I guess, if people think that someone else not knowing anything about a band they enjoy is an insult.

In Canada in recent years, there’s been a major awakening to the institutionalized racism and injustice the country has perpetrated against the First Nations and Inuit peoples by the government.

“I’ve watched Young Republican clowns foam at the mouth trying to talk around that fact.”

This article should be mandatory reading. I studied history in Canada, on the margins of the US propaganda machine, so I’m aware of most of this, and agree wholeheartedly, but absolutely shocked and appalled to learn that:

I’d contest that Twitterers aren’t more ignorant than the general populace, but they seem more ignorant because it’s more likely their ignorance will be noticed by others.

Yes. Proletariat = workers; Bourgeoisie = the owners of production. The middle class emerged between the exploited and the exploiters, thanks to things like labor unions, collective bargaining, and government imposed labor regulations.

Oh hey guys. SNL needs to stop with political humor because Weekend Update sucks at it so much. It sucks so much I included four jokes from it in the Stray Observations section of my review.

Well shit, Bill Clinton. Where was the self proclaimed “liberal democrat” who claims to have voted for your wife in 2016 Dershowitz when you were impeached?

Edited after reading further down. Kinja sucks.

If they can afford to live in a $28.5M estate, they can afford to buy Stanford a fucking new rowing boathouse or some sort of building to get their kids accepted there the legit rich people way and avoid all this going to jail stuff.

He might have knocked her up, and she might be the fiance we see in the flashforward... but yeah it’s pretty fucking obvious that ultimately Sophie will use the emerald ring to propose to him.

I found it more annoying that he was like:

It got a B because Weekend Update isn’t The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Great lines and Jost seemed surprised by them. I was wondering who slipped those in, and first thought Che, but coulda been Villasenor as well,

I gotta start skipping the sections about WE Update and the cold-open if it involves political characters. The whining about it is truly insufferable.

I think they were sticking with the world’s main religions. Nobody cares what Scientology purports.