| Description |
xvii, 216 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Contents |
The Pentagon Can't Account for 21 Trillion Dollars (That's Not a Typo) -- How to Create a US-Backed Government Coup for Fun and Profit! -- The Pentagon Failed Its First-Ever Audit amid a 21 Trillion Dollar Scandal -- The Top Four Times Americans Have Been Lied into War -- I Know Which Country the US Will Invade Next -- Nearly 100 Thousand Pentagon Whistleblower Complaints Have Been Silenced -- Everyone Has Fallen for the Lies about Venezuela -- Artificial Intelligence May Destroy Humanity by Accident (but It Won't Apologize) -- Trump's Military Drops a Bomb Every 12 Minutes, and No One Is Talking about It -- The Media Never Mention the Number One Cause of Climate Change -- Our Planet's Wonders Never Cease -- The Mainstream Media Is Lying about the California Fires -- We Have Less Than a Second Left -- Wall Street Is the Definition of a Ponzi Scheme (Literally) -- Goldman Sachs Just Admitted Curing Diseases Is Bad for Business -- One Man Could End World Hunger, but He Won't -- The Silver Bullet to Stop the Corporate State Pillage -- A Good Day on Wall Street Is a Bad Day for Most Americans -- The Pentagon and Microsoft Are Quietly Hijacking All US Elections -- A Foreign Internet Company Rigged Our Elections (and It Wasn't Russia) -- A New York Times Story Just Accidentally Shredded the Russiagate Hysteria -- While Our Police Kill Thousands, Congress Works to Protect the Police -- Our Criminal Justice System Serves to Protect the Villains -- Three New Studies That Will Make You Rethink Systemic Racism -- Eighteen Ways Julian Assange Changed the World -- She Ways the "Resistance" Gave Trump a Dictator's Toolkit -- A Brief Digression on Whether Consumerism Changes Love -- Debunking the Washington Post's Lies as They Debunk Donald Trump's 1,950 Lies -- How to Write Propaganda for the New York Times, as Seen in an Attack Piece on Me -- American Society Would Collapse If It Weren't for These Eight Myths. |
| Summary |
Our US empire is in steep decline. In order to wrest complete control over the globe and feed a rapacious thirst for resources and wealth, the American ruling elite is wreaking havoc around the world. Meanwhile, average Americans are suffering, legs trembling under a mountain of debt as they toil at unfulfilling, underpaying jobs. And those with enough time and energy to get angry and fight back are told that the answer is to vote for one of the two pro-war, pro-Wall Street corporate parties claiming to be their savior. This epic tragedy does not sound like the beginning of a joke. But somehow comedian and TV host Lee Camp makes it both funny and interesting. Whether he is setting his sights on the scandal of. 1 trillion worth of unaccounted-for financial adjustments at the Pentagon or the scorching environmental and human tragedy caused by climate chaos, it's unsurprising that one of our most incisive political commentators is technically a comedian. Camp knifes his way through the jungle of fake news, alternative facts, mainstream media lies, and government blackouts, trailblazing a path between Hunter S. Thompson and Jon Stewart. Perhaps the present-day story of America can only accurately be told by a comedian, otherwise no one would believe it. In a world where con men are heralded as leaders, locking up peace activists is perceived as justice, trumpeting state propaganda is considered journalism, and mocking environmentalists is championed as strength, it's only appropriate that a comedian is viewed as more reliable than the evening news |
| Subject |
United States -- Civilization -- 21st century -- Humor.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century -- Humor.
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American wit and humor.
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Political satire, American.
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American wit and humor. (OCoLC)fst00807457
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Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
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Political satire, American. (OCoLC)fst01069725
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Humor. (OCoLC)fst01423696
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Humor.
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| Added Author |
Hedges, Chris, author of foreword.
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Dore, Jimmy, author of introduction.
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| Cover Title |
Bullet points and punch lines : the most important commentary ever written on the epic American tragicomedy |
| ISBN |
1629637858 |
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9781629637853 |
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