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@hankg @shoq I'm one of the few who thinks it's still valuable. We're humans; we need to connect; and the heart of the #WHCD – roasting the most powerful person on Earth on live TV, in front of every powerful person in DC, as he just sits there and takes it – is a healthy levelling tradition that's been considered valuable literally for millennia, including medieval kings having jesters and Roman generals during parades being accompanied by a peon who keeps repeating "remember, thou art mortal."

The fact that Trump cancelled it (not because of COVID, but because his fragile ego couldn't handle it) says much about how important and valuable it is.

For 15 years, I’ve been turning off the #WHCD, even before Ana Marie Cox gave it a cutesy nickname that even further normalized a truly terrible tradition that is so emblematic of how much control the overlords have over journalism, and all of us. Fuck those people.

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Video is cued to #RoyWoodJR. The ending is a magical moment, imo.

:youtube: Biden turns the podium over to Roy Wood Jr with a warning about Dark Brandon at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, hosted by Roy Wood Jr. #WHCD #WhiteHouseCorrespondents
Starts at 2:27:00

youtube.com/live/l5pvye1fqpM?f