Samantha Bee's monologue on the 2010 midterm election — the election that will.i.am didn't make videos for, the election where progressives stayed away from the polls, the election that put the obstructionist, do-nothing radical right into Congress and the vicious, do-everything right into state houses across the USA — is hilarious, but like everything Bee does, it has a sting it its tail. (via Metafilter)
The 2010 election was the most important one in American history
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