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I just don’t get the people who want to deny Harris the White House. Ironically, my friend was wary of voting for Harris for the exact opposite reason. She felt Harris isn’t strong enough on Gaza. You know what I told her? Take care of your own house first. How can we do anything about Gaza when our rights are being taken away, when we might be arrested or shot at and killed for protesting one way or another? Why can’t Muslim people in the US understand that Trump wants to ban Palestinians from the US and deport the ones already here? He has already made the US a hellhole for immigrants as he spreads lies about them eating pets and stealing jobs and saying they’re being imported from prisons and insane asylums. He stokes the flame of antisemitism by saying if he loses, blame the Jews and is pretty much telling his voters to attack us if he loses tomorrow. (Disclaimer: I’m pro two-state solution and always have been) I’ve been saying since he decided to rerun that I’d vote for my 96 year old grandmother with dementia over him. I’d vote for a paper bag over him. And so I will proudly cast my vote for Harris tomorrow because, just like what Oliver said, I might not agree with everything she says, but at least with Harris, my children and I will have a future. I’m not so sure with the orange guy.

Rio is I think the fourth variation of death we’ve seen in the MCU. We saw one version in Black Panther, one in Moon Knight and one in the last Thor movie. In Moon Knight, it was even explained how different people have different afterlives and trips to the after life. For all we know, Rio is specific to witches. So who knows who or what Tony may have seen?

That opening Bar Mitzvah scene was excellent except for the Torah reading. It should have been sung. For getting so much right, why did they get that one part wrong? It’s interesting that Billy Maximoff, who’s Jewish in the comics, gets reincarnated/inhabits the body of a Jewish child, who is also Jewish in the comics. I love the representation. It makes me feel seen.

Yes. And they all smell like cat litter.

It seems like they were in the normal world while Agatha was in her own world and while Agatha saw herself in the crime drama, the residents simply saw Agatha as crazy.

Poor Jason Bateman, never getting to work at McDonald’s because Kamala took his job. Still, The Hogan Family was an adequate consolation prize.

He didn’t officially have Alzheimer’s as president but there are a lot of people who said after he was diagnosed that the signs had been there. I don’t know, I was a kid. Both my stepdad and grandfather were in hospice and both hospices were run through hospitals, one of which was run by the city, so it’s just foreign to me that hospice could be for profit like that. It was great for my family. My grandmother was given a “friend” with whom she would go out for coffee. When my stepdad was near the end, and became delirious and violent and we couldn’t take care of him at home anymore, he was placed inpatient where he passed away several days later. It was a nice place, very calming. My stepdad’s mother was also in inpatient hospice, interestingly the same place I went to preschool, yes I went to preschool in a hospice. Supposedly having little kids around made the patients feel better. Meanwhile, I could have sworn John Oliver covered hospice before. I remember watching a segment not that long ago that hit all the points John made: the private hospice companies, people going door-to-door to sign up people for hospice, losing the ability to get treatment if they’re signed up, a bunch of hospices being run out of the same building, etc. if it wasn’t John Oliver, who covered it? Adam Conover?

So nice to have the Arby’s digs back.

The John Oliver Bear cakes are now available at Deising’s bakery in Kingston. If only I lived near by to pick one up. https://www.deisings.com/

When talking about how ubiquitous it is, I’m kind of upset that John didn’t mention Shucked, the musical about corn. All joking aside, I thought ethanol gasoline was supposed to be a good thing. Talk about the devil you know, vs the devil you don’t.

I hate to tell John but those Seders and Shabbat dinners at the protests were all but performative. One girl posted a picture of eating challah at a Shabbat dinner during Passover. Anyone who knows anything about Passover knows that all bread and products made with flour aside from matzoh, is verboten throughout the entire week. Then there was the “Seder plate” at UCLA that had all the Hebrew written backwards while the English was correct. Also, regarding the protests, I know someone- and will gladly give you the name if asked- that was at the protest against the apartheid in the 80s. He said the blockading of Hamilton hall was figurative. They blocked the outside of the front door, did not block any of the other doors, didn’t vandalize or destroy any college property and allowed people to come and go as they pleased. And then there was the protest at City College where 60% of the people arrested weren’t even affiliated with CCNY. But yes, let’s ignore the parts of the story that do not align with your narrative. Mind you, I’m a Jewish person who went to both Columbia (during the second intifada) and City College so this whole incident is very personal to me.

Oh, how I missed Jessica Williams.

It does not stop working after 70 days. Yes, patients may plateau but that’s just because they’re bodies have reached new set points and the only way to continue to lose weight is to increase the dosage, but that is a conversation they need to have with their doctor. disclaimer: I’m on monjouro, in the same family but slightly different than ozempic. I’ve been on the medication, the lowest dosage, for over 6 months and it has brought my cholesterol into a normal level, I am no longer pre-diabetic and I have lost over 20 pounds. I still exercise when I can but dieting does not work for me. And it cuts down on cravings so big! I can have junk food in my house and not touch it for weeks. It used to be gone in hours.

Oh Jillian. She just thinks it’s so easy to lose weight on diet and exercise alone. For some people, it’s just not sustainable. I’ve lost significant amounts of weight in the past but that always entailed major calorie restriction and hours at the gym. Now that I have a family, I’m lucky if I can sneak away for an hour or two a week. And that includes pretty much every single former contestant on The Biggest Loser, or did she forget the study that showed they all ruined their metabolisms? And yes, ozempic is for life and can have horrible side effects but do you know what else does? Anti-rejection meds for transplant patients, High blood pressure medications, even some antidepressants. There’s even studies that show taking insulin can increase the risk of cancer but I’d like to think the alternative, dying, is a little worse. Anti-depressants also have an increased risk of suicide but that doesn’t mean we should get rid of them. I do, however, agree with her on the ultra-processed food.

Arizona has been slowly turning blue. Now that Sinema is out, there is nobody to split the democratic/ independent vote. I'm not saying it's a lock but the Arizona people didn't elect Lake once...