Five Jokes: 12-2-2024

The FBI's New Director, Meta's World-Spanning Cable, Biden's Pardon For Hunter, A Comedic Royalty Wedding, and Vaping Goes To The Supreme Court

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• Kash Patel, author of the pro-Trump children’s book The Plot Against the King, is set to replace the current FBI director — undoubtedly boosting sales for his follow up children’s book Peek-A-Boo, FBI See You!

  

• Meta is reportedly planning to build a world-spanning fiber-optic subsea cable for its own exclusive use. Not saying Mark Zuckerberg has some really freaky search history, but that sounds a lot like something a billionaire with some really freaky search history would do.

• President Biden has pardoned his son Hunter Biden despite pledging not to — giving credence to those who thought one of the Thanksgiving turkeys he pardoned seemed familiar.

• Eddie Murphy’s son Eric Murphy has popped the question to Jasmin Lawrence, Martin Lawrence’s daughter - sparking a debate on both sides over whether their first child should be named Delirious or Runteldat.

  

Finally…

• The U.S. Supreme Court is taking up the issue of vaping and e-cigarette regulation. The case has resulted in a rare outburst from Clarence Thomas after a test-puff from an e-cig, stating, “Damn, that’s tasty. Am I a computer now?!”

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