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Late night hosts roll their eyes at the GOP’s ruse to deny Coke, Mitch McConnell’s hypocrisy for corporate money
“I read that 40 percent of adults in the US have been vaccinated. So when you see someone without a mask, is that a fun game of vaccinations or idiots?” Jimmy Fallon joked on the Tonight Show on Tuesday. Texas Rangers had 38,000 fans at the start of the season, he added. “When they came in, all the fans got a Dr. Fauci Bobblehead who just shook his head. It was a strange game, it was the first time referees tried to throw themselves out.” Meanwhile, “President Trump has told his supporters to boycott the company in response to Coca-Cola opposing Georgia’s law restricting communications – but look at this picture taken in his office yesterday “said Fallon. “Yes, you see it? He has a bottle of Coke on his desk. But don’t worry, Trump fixed it by taking out a Sharpie and writing ‘Pepsi’.” The Late Show offered Shasta’s Cola as laissez-faire. “Protest drink of choice.” Republicans have called “Coca-Cola Woke-a-Cola” and they say they’ll drink Pepsi instead, ”Stephen Colbert said on The Late Show. “They wanted to go with RC Cola until they discovered that it stood for radical communism: the taste belongs to the proletariat.” The Republican “leading the charges against these companies” isn’t actually Trump, but Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, Ky., Who “threatened punitive measures against the protesting companies,” Colbert said. “Yes, company, Mitch McConnell wants you to stay out of politics.” So I’m sure every day he will give back the $ 4.3 million he has accepted from corporations over the past five years. “McConnell later made it clear that he“ doesn’t talk about political contributions. ”But“ Cash isn’t the only way McConnell is a hypocrite here, ”Colbert said, playing a 2013 clip of McConnell in which he said “Every company in America should be free to participate in the political process.” “I would call this a privately owned company,” he said, “but it’s already 100 percent company owned.” “Our former president is with Newsmax today surfaced where he encouraged his MAGA heads to boycott baseball and warned not to wake up, “said Jimmy Kimmel, who pointed out Trump’s hidden Coke bottle on Kimmel Live Monday.” This is the step: Now that things are go well, there is no way they can blame Joe Biden for turning the country around, so Trump and Co. like to say that someone else has to run the country. “You can see that and a new Ken Burns mockumentary below. More Stories from theweek.com5, hilarious cartoons about MLB versus the GOPGallup: Democrats are now 9 percentage points more outnumbered than Republicans thanks to Republican independence
