I truly don't know what's going on with SNL. Their opening sketch was entirely about (once again, as they've done week after week after week) trashing President Biden as old. Never mind that they still haven't done one quip on the show about Trump (who is the same age) echoing Adolf Hitler or saying he wants to be a dictator. Or showing dementia.
The sketch included referencing him as the guy "people call 'Sleepy Joe.' " No, "the people" don't call him that -- Trump, they guy who was found liable for the equivalence of rape, calls him that! These days, though the show can be funny, I fast-forward through it, hoping it finds its compass. By the way, to be clear, I don't mind SNL doing "Joe Biden is old" jokes. (Though this went far beyond that and was not only an entire sketch -- but came at the very opening of the show.) What I personally mind and find inexplicable -- knowing that democracy is quite literally at stake, and especially since their core audience is young, the segment of the public least likely to engage in politics and vote -- is them not yet even referencing that Trump has echoed Hitler or said he wants to be a dictator. And virtually nothing on Trump being just as old and
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