Five Jokes: 2-27-2025

Bezos's Washington Post Mandate, Australian Politics, Milky Way Stars, Andrew Tate's U.S. Return, and Elon Musk's Potential 'Daily Show' Appearanxe

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Hey! It’s Thursday in America, after some frustrating technical difficulties my interview with Micaiah Johnson is NOW out for the public to consume —

— and something about 2025 makes me feel like —

Anyway, here are FIVE JOKES!

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• In a stunning announcement, Jeff Bezos declared that The Washington Post's opinion section will now exclusively focus on "personal liberties and free markets." Rumor has it he’ll pen the first entry under this mandate with an op-ed titled Dear Lauren, I’m Taking The Personal Liberty Of Opening My Side Of The Relationship To The Free Market 🚀.

• Three mainstream political parties in Austria have agreed to form a government that excludes the far-right Freedom Party. A formal measure taken only because the Freedom Party didn’t get the hint when it was blocked out of the Democracy group chat.

• Something unexpected is spewing stars into the Milky Way. Turns out, stars are the result of intergalactic Taco Bell.

• Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are charged with human trafficking in Romania, have left for the U.S. after a travel ban on them was lifted – leaving brothers Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. worried they’re on the chopping block

Finally…

• Elon Musk could soon be sitting opposite Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show.” Cause for concern, as Musk could soon adopt the current Daily Show model for governmental power. “I’m the Monday president, and these six will rotate as president Tuesday through Sunday…”

  

  The technical term for this is, of course, Nightmare President Rotation…

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• Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus…

• President Donald Trump posted a bizarre AI-generated video to social media Monday evening depicting an imagined future version of Gaza with bearded belly dancers on the beach, a giant golden statue of Trump, money raining from the sky, Elon Musk eating pita and a “Trump Gaza” hotel…

• The French voice actor behind Apex Legends' Wraith, Pascale Chemin, has shared a statement revealing that the whole cast refused to sign an agreement that meant their voices could be used for generative AI training…

• And… the Georgia State Election Board on Wednesday voted to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to enforce a subpoena against a conservative group that was unable to produce evidence to support its claims of ballot stuffing in the state.

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