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1. TODD YOUNG ON HIS BIPARTISAN PITCH: Sen. Todd Young of Indiana led the Senate GOP s campaign arm. He s also one of the few Republicans to score an invite to the Biden White House. And he s currently working with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on legislation to counter China.
Here s a peek at some of the highlights:
A former aide to the legendary Sen. Dick Lugar, Young sees himself as unapologetically pragmatic. He also wants to reshape the GOP: A temperamental, dispositional conservative whatever language you might choose who believes that our party clearly needs to adapt to the times …
SNL s cold open airs out the stink of GOP Congressman Matt Gaetz s various scandals
Screenshot: Saturday Night Live
It’s an old and tiresome cliché that comedians are sad when a truly reprehensible, world-worsening politician leaves office. Because then what will they joke about, get it? Ugh. Well, have no fear, as the resounding ouster of former president and human shitpost Donald Trump has left those slapdash satirists at
Saturday Night Live plenty of festering detritus to pick up, slap a wig on, and toss out at the top of the show to recognition applause, if nothing else. This week’s GOP flotsam was especially ripe, as the Daniel Kaluuya-hosted episode began with a cold open centered on multiply alleged (checks notes) sex criminal, sex trafficker, statutory rapist, sexist H.R. nightmare, and empirical douche, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).
The Atlantic
The actor has risen to fame largely for tackling meaty, dramatic roles. But his
SNL performance proved he’s also a formidable comic.
On Saturday Night Live, Daniel Kaluuya showcased a remarkable range that buoyed the entire show.Will Heath/NBC
Who’s afraid of Daniel Kaluuya? According to the actor, that would be the British monarchy. “I’m Black and I’m British,” he explained in his opening monologue during last night’s
Saturday Night Live. “Basically I’m what the Royal Family was worried the baby would look like.”
That dig at the royals comes just a few weeks after Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, told Oprah Winfrey that there had been “concerns and conversations about how dark” their son would be when he was born. Kaluuya didn’t dwell on the royals in his monologue, though. The British Ugandan actor swiftly moved on to comparing American and British racism: “Let me put it this way, British racism is so bad white people le