Best of the Week!
Current obsessions + top 5 jokes & more!
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Current Obsessions
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POST: Current Obsessions
A quick dive into some of the media I’m obsessing over.
Each weekday I send five jokes to subscribers who then vote on their favorites. Below are THE TOP FIVE JOKES OF THE WEEK!
Note: Whenever there is a tie, I become the deciding vote.
MONDAY: 6-23-2024
The massive tax and spending cuts package that President Donald Trump wants on his desk by July 4 would loosen regulations on gun silencers and certain types of rifles and shotguns. And this Legal Use of Intensive Guns Initiative so to speak… unfortunately spells out Luigi. In fact, Democrats should be called it the Luigi Bill, just to see how their colleagues react on the other side.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
TUESDAY: 6-24-2025
President Trump lashed out at Israel and Iran for possible violations of a ceasefire, telling reporters at the White House: "You know what we have? We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the f*** they're doing." Begging the question: Did he just learn about these nations four days ago?
[read the other jokes from that day here]
WEDNESDAY: 6-25-2025
An ABBA book reveals the band's little known connection to AC/DC. Apparently, both were named by someone dealt the worst possible letters in a game of Scrabble.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
THURSDAY: 6-26-2025
The Trump Phone no longer promises to be made in America and is instead ‘designed with American values in mind’ — meaning we’re about five revised promises away from learning that “Trump Phones” are actually “The Flat Half Of A Cheeseburger Bun.”
[read the other jokes from that day here]
FRIDAY : 6-27-2025
Windows’ infamous ‘blue screen of death’ will soon turn black. A color shift that DOGE has deemed an drastic escalation of the “woke mind virus.”
[read the other jokes from that day here]
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BEST OF THE BEST!
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