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O Say Can You Please Entry 17: Smash Gordon The Trump White House right now... Image Source: Twitter (@redrawings)     No, Mr. President, this is far from fine. This is a sinking ship 500 miles from any land. This is like surviving three lightning strikes. This is a Richter 10 earthquake. This is what it took for America to even have a shot at ousting you. That “this” will be covered on today’s O Say Can You Please.     Gordon Sondland, Ambassador to the EU, testified today as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The consensus regarding his testimony is that it was pivotal in the case for impeachment, at the very least. Many a Trump supporter’s bubble should’ve been burst today. In fact, I am decently sure that quite a few were. If you are a Trump supporter whose bubble wasn’t burst, this is your only warning. I’ve got the pin to pop them all.     Now, I should probably stop stalling and get to the testimony. The...

O Say Can You Please Entry 16: To Tweet or Not to Tweet (That Is Our President)     The New York Times just published an incredibly interesting article on our current President’s history on Twitter . That may not seem very important, but Trump has an extensive catalog of ridiculous tweets. These include -- but are not certainly not limited to -- incidents of bullying, wacky conspiracy theories, and befuddling typos. It’s a dumpster fire of unintentional self-parody, and I (along with many others) see an opportunity to riff on it and wait for the inevitable “#MAGA” comments. Let’s just get on with this.     The article opens by detailing the evolution of “#FakeWhistleblower.” It was first tweeted out by an obscure far-right account that has tweeted in support of the QAnon conspiracy theory . This fringe online movement believes that the world’s elite are all liberal, Satanic pedophiles, and that President Trump is the only one who can stop them from sta...