Five Jokes: 5-19-2025
Verizon vs DEI, Broadway On CNN, Trump vs. RFK Jr., Oklahoma History Lessons, and A Cursing Darth Vader
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Verizon is ending its DEI policies to get the FCC's blessing for its $20 billion Frontier deal. And are we shocked? I mean, if American history has taught us anything… when it comes to ‘frontier’ deals, diversity is sold separately.
The Broadway production of Good Night, and Good Luck, starring George Clooney, will be broadcast live on CNN. The network hopes that, compared to regular daily news, a play set in the cold war 50s about the rise of McCarthyism will leave viewers whispering, “Ah… must be nice…”
Insiders say Trump’s alliance with RFK Jr. is falling apart — reportedly, faster than their faces.
Oklahoma’s new social studies curriculum will ask high school students to identify “discrepancies” in the 2020 election results. But if the state was really into exposing hard truths, it’d have students identify “discrepancies” in their family tree.
Finally…
Fortnite players are already making AI Darth Vader swear — and for the first time, Luke Skywalker’s reaction in The Empire Strikes Back makes sense…
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