Five Jokes: 7-1-2024

Trash Apps, Value Menu Wars, Supreme Court Verdicts, Personality Cults, and The BET Awards

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• A new Mac app uses animated flies to tell you when to take out the trash. Simply toss your phone into the trash. Then, when it rings or buzzes it’s time for a toss! And after re-purchasing your phone three weeks in a row, you should get the hang of it!

• Restaurant chains including McDonald’s, Burger King and Starbucks are duking it out over value meals. To which many Americans are saying, “Okay, now do the same but with health care!”

• The US Supreme Court will rule today on Donald Trump’s claim that he’s immune from criminal charges over attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Officials on both sides of the aisle worry this sets a precedent for even more rulings on things Donald Trump has claimed.

• North Koreans are seen wearing Kim Jong Un pins for the first time as his personality cult grows.

  

Drawing natural parallels to a competing personality cult surrounding the entity known as “Baby Yoda.”

Finally…

• O.J. Simpson was featured in the BET Awards’ “In Memorium” video. And it got pretty awkward for the one white member of the audience, O.J.’s 1993 Ford Bronco.

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