RT @sarafischer: There were concerns that #WHCD weekend would be dead, given tension between the @WHCD
@DeanObeidallah #Resist means #DoNotComply.
#Cancel the #NerdProm (or #WHCD ) because they are #FailingMedia cowards that you can only laught AT!
Is it odd that I’ve seen zero clips from the #WHCD floating around?
Here’s how the local newspaper covered last night’s #WHCD dinner: https://wapo.st/3JDtvE3
Via #Acyn
The #Republican candidate for president owes half a billion in fines for #BankFraud and is currently spending his days farting himself awake during a #PornStar #HushMoney trial and the race is tied?!? The race is tied. Nothing makes sense anymore.
#GWはフォロワーさんが増えるらしい is now trending across Mastodon
#WHCD is now trending across Mastodon
Via #Acyn
#ColinJost: We are all here tonight at nerd prom. While #MattGaetz is at regular prom
I want a president who can actually have moments of genuine levity and make fun of themselves at events like the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
President Biden showed that tonight, and has in the past.
“Trump’s speech was so embarrassing the statue of Robert E. Lee surrendered AGAIN.”
—President Biden
@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.
Roy Wood Jr. burned Clarence Thomas *to the ground* last night at #WHCD. #SCOTUS https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1652506986792079362?s=20
"We disrupted the rich and powerful because Joe Biden's approval of deadly new oil and gas projects is killing the planet," said the campaign group @ClimateDefiance. "We will continue to disrupt until we end fossil fuels." #ClimateAction #WHCD
https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-blockade-whca-dinner
Video is cued to #RoyWoodJR. The ending is a magical moment, imo.
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
https://www.youtube.com/live/l5pvye1fqpM?feature=share&t=8840
Serious question, how the hell did two Dooceys and a Crenshaw get tickets to the White House Correspondents'Dinner? #WHCD
Roy Wood, Jr. "We all can see Clarence Thomas but he's owned by Harlan Crow and that's what an NFT is." #WhiteHousecorrespondentsdinner #Blackmastodon #SCOTUS @blackmastodon #Blacktwitter #WHCD