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00:00I love McDonald's, I love jobs.
00:02Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the headlines and stories
00:07covering the 2024 U.S. election that we promise we didn't make up, but we kind of wish that we did.
00:12You have the morals of an alley cat.
00:19Either this was a Freudian slip or the leader of the free world's cognitive processes
00:23have truly deteriorated beyond all rationalization, and we don't know which is scarier.
00:28I'm going up to my granddaughter's birthday in New York, then we're going to watch a debate,
00:33and then tomorrow I'm doing 9-11.
00:35Biden had boldly claimed that he would be, quote,
00:38doing 9-11, as if it were something that you do, like the dishes, or, you know, not 9-11.
00:44My God, he admitted!
00:46This isn't the first time Biden's faculties have made waves online.
00:50Various clips of him falling down stairs have circulated because, to be fair,
00:55the president of the United States not just falling down one set of stairs,
00:58but falling down multiple stairs is a tad alarming.
01:02It does beg the question, if Biden falls down a set of stairs and no one is there to film it,
01:07did he do 9-11?
01:09We're joking.
01:10Please don't get mad at us.
01:11Please.
01:15What began as an attempt at fear-mongering symbolism
01:18meant to liken immigrants to a fictional cannibal became a meme.
01:22Ain't that the way it goes?
01:25Trump has spoken on Hannibal Lecter, excuse me,
01:34specifically Anthony Hopkins' portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, a lot.
01:42He claimed that Hopkins had proclaimed that he, quote,
01:45loved Donald Trump, but there is no record of him having said this.
01:49Perhaps this exchange took place behind closed doors.
01:52Something like this.
01:55Wow, that was really powerful.
02:04Let's give those two some privacy.
02:09The 2024 US presidential election has finally answered the question
02:13we've all had on our minds for the last 200 plus years as a country.
02:17What do the cat people want, besides cats?
02:25Well, for destroying my couch.
02:28They have spoken.
02:30They will be meowing out the vote for Kamala Harris.
02:33This outcry of support from the feline population
02:35is in direct response to a comment made by Trump's running mate, J.D. Vance,
02:39who claimed that the Democratic Party was run by, quote, childless cat ladies.
02:44Hey, J.D. Vance, the child-having dog person store called,
02:48and they're running out of you.
02:49What's the difference?
02:50You're their all-time bestseller.
02:55Well, I had sex with your wife.
03:06You know, they should really hire me as Kamala Harris's speechwriter.
03:09That would have killed.
03:11Now, in all seriousness, please rise for the catchinal anthem.
03:26Various A.I. photos and deepfakes have been spread across both Truth Social and X
03:30in support of Trump's campaign,
03:32using falsified celebrity likenesses to attempt to garner support.
03:36On Sunday, Donald Trump reposted this image
03:38that appears to be A.I. generated of Taylor Swift as Uncle Sam.
03:43I accept, Trump wrote of the fake endorsement.
03:46When pollsters conduct their exit surveys,
03:49their number one question should be,
03:51did this video of Will Smith and Chris Rock
03:53sharing spaghetti with the former president mobilize you to vote?
03:56If the answer is yes, you are immediately entered into a raffle
04:00to win one free year of computer science classes at your local community college.
04:05This could save our nation.
04:07Totally unrelated, but have you guys seen this?
04:10It is real and definitely not fake.
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04:12Don't we love WatchMojo, folks?
04:14They're so wonderful.
04:15One of the greatest YouTube channels, maybe in the world, possibly ever.
04:19They've got the best countdowns,
04:20and frankly, no one's ever made a better, more tremendous countdown than they have.
04:26Except maybe me.
04:27I would maybe do an even better one, but I don't want to.
04:30Number 16.
04:32Walls is a knucklehead.
04:34Come on, America.
04:35Who among us hasn't harmlessly forgotten
04:36where they were during the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident?
04:40When Walls was questioned on the discrepancy
04:42of his claim to have been in Hong Kong at that time,
04:44he fired back with a bulletproof retort.
04:47He's a knucklehead.
04:48I've tried to do the best I can,
04:50but I've not been perfect, and I'm a knucklehead at times.
04:52That's extremely reassuring.
04:54Thank you, Governor.
04:55No further questions.
04:56Let's move on to your next issue.
04:58Crazy Taxi for Sega Dreamcast.
05:00Do either of our vice presidential candidates
05:02have playable character mods for this 1999 video game?
05:06Don't worry about it, America.
05:07Tim Walls does.
05:08Leaders do the work.
05:12Mind your own damn business.
05:13When pollsters conduct their exit surveys,
05:15their second question should be,
05:17Did the Tim Walls Crazy Taxi mod mobilize you to vote?
05:20If the answer is yes,
05:21you are immediately entered into a raffle
05:23to win one free year of computer science classes
05:26at your local community college
05:28and a Sega Dreamcast.
05:34If Trump ever decides to leave the business world
05:37and the political sphere,
05:38we think he's just soft-launched his new career pivot,
05:40the world's hottest new DJ.
05:42Let me hear that music, please.
05:44At a Pennsylvania town hall mere weeks before the election,
05:47Trump proclaimed that he was done with questions
05:50and threw on the most eclectic playlist of all time.
06:00We're talking Ave Maria into YMCA
06:03into Memory from Cats eclectic.
06:05All alone with the memory
06:10This went on for approximately 40 minutes.
06:13Unfortunately for him,
06:15they don't call Pennsylvania a swing state
06:17because of the citizens' collective love of jazz.
06:20At least I didn't consider that possibility until just now.
06:23In other news,
06:24Herbie Hancock for president in 2028.
06:35Though Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race
06:38in July of 2024,
06:40once upon a time,
06:40he had been vying for re-election by the American people.
06:43And what's more important to a presidential campaign
06:46than trendy merchandise of a politician in his 80s
06:49with lasers shooting from his eyes?
06:53You may be wondering,
06:54who is Dark Brandon?
06:56To which we would reply wholeheartedly,
06:59we envy you and your freedom from the shackles
07:01of this deeply online pseudo-satirical nonsense.
07:04Do you enjoy playing around with the Dark Brandon meme?
07:09No, I resent the hell out of it.
07:19But nevertheless,
07:20Dark Brandon co-ops the conservative insult,
07:23let's go Brandon,
07:24while also attempting to put a leftist spin
07:26on the dark MAGA internet subculture
07:28by depicting Biden as a sort of otherworldly action hero.
07:32And after the Kansas City Chiefs won the Superbowl,
07:35you posted this on social media and wrote,
07:38you wrote just like we drew it up.
07:40It was a fair enough attempt at relevance,
07:42but the Dark Brandon shop has officially gone dark.
07:45The next time you drive past
07:46a Dark Brandon yard flag at half mast,
07:48please pay your respects.
07:54Are you disappointed,
07:55frustrated,
07:56perhaps downright displeased
07:58with the current gamut of candidates
07:59across the political spectrum?
08:01Don't lose hope America,
08:02a third party write-in candidate
08:04is here to save the day
08:05as they are famously known to do.
08:07Well, I believe I'll vote for a third party candidate.
08:09Go ahead, throw your vote away.
08:14A disgruntled man from Texas
08:16has legally changed his name
08:18to literally anybody else
08:20and has his eyes on the presidency.
08:22I went to the polls dissatisfied,
08:24you know, and I thought to myself,
08:26it would be so much better
08:27if we had a way to kind of reset the election,
08:29you know, to have a neither option,
08:31you know, or just to say literally anybody else.
08:34To some, this may seem to be a desperate whack
08:36at 15 minutes of fame
08:38and a couple hundred bucks in merchandise sales.
08:40But to Mr. Else,
08:42this is so much more than that.
08:44This is about democracy and change
08:46and probably merchandise sales.
08:49And folks, is anything more
08:51inherently American than that?
08:53Good for him.
08:54Get your bag, literally.
08:55This was all about getting attention,
08:58forwarding the idea
09:00and resonating with people
09:01who shared that sentiment.
09:06Say what you will about the man,
09:07but Donald Trump has one of the greatest
09:09back catalogs of insane tweets of all time.
09:12A moment to reflect
09:14on some of these historic posts.
09:16We all remember that fateful day,
09:18January 9th, 2021,
09:20when the former president
09:21was effectively banned from Twitter.
09:23Twitter run by CEO Jack Dorsey
09:26saying after close review
09:27of the president's recent tweets,
09:29it banned him due to the risk
09:30of further incitement of violence.
09:32Which if you ask Trump,
09:34was the greatest threat to justice
09:35to take place that week.
09:37Fast forward to 2022
09:39and Elon Musk,
09:41formerly Twitter,
09:42currently X's new owner,
09:43but not real dad,
09:44reverses the ban
09:46and welcomes Trump back to the platform.
09:48Elon Musk has reinstated
09:50former president Donald Trump to Twitter
09:52after running a 24 hour online poll
09:55asking Musk's followers
09:57if he should reactivate Trump's account.
09:59Since then,
09:59Trump has prioritized
10:01his own social media outlet,
10:03Truth Social.
10:04But in August 2024,
10:06Trump sat for an odd interview
10:07with Musk on X
10:09and concurrently made some posts
10:10on the platform.
10:11Their crime rates coming down
10:13and our crime rates
10:14going through the roof
10:15and it's so simple.
10:16This tanked Trump media stock
10:18by almost half
10:19as his supposed return to X
10:22spells trouble for the future
10:23of Truth Social.
10:25As the company's key shareholder,
10:27this translated to billions of dollars
10:29in losses for Trump personally.
10:31An interesting business strategy
10:32to say the least.
10:33It's a bold strategy, Cotton.
10:35Let's see if it pays off for him.
10:39Lest we forget,
10:40Harris' Democratic nomination
10:42coincided with a much larger
10:44historical event,
10:45Brat Summer.
10:51But arguably more significant
10:53than the DNC naming Kamala Harris
10:54their candidate for the presidency,
10:56Charlie XCX announced
10:58that Kamala was brat.
10:59Not only did this cause
11:00Gen Z chaos online,
11:02Harris' team leaned hard
11:04into the title by rebranding
11:05her X profile
11:06with a brat green banner.
11:07It's obvious that Harris
11:08had a greater appeal
11:09to young voters,
11:11or really voters in general
11:13than Biden.
11:14But this moment sealed the deal.
11:16We guess the apple
11:17don't fall far from the tree.
11:18Because when you think about it,
11:20we've been looking at you
11:21so long that we only see me.
11:23Also, we're so Julia.
11:25Wait, what were we
11:26talking about again?
11:34Listen,
11:35we know that Ron DeSantis
11:36will not be elected
11:37the president of the United States
11:38in 2024.
11:40He's out of the race.
11:46We already know this.
11:48But for a brief moment in time,
11:50the governor of Florida
11:51was pleading his case
11:52to the nation
11:52with a bewildering campaign slogan.
11:55Make America Florida.
11:57We here at WatchMojo
11:58are not here to make
11:59broad generalizations
12:00about the desires
12:01of the American people.
12:03That's above our pay grade.
12:04You can't pay me enough, Max.
12:06But we will go out on a limb
12:08and say this.
12:09One Florida is more than enough.
12:12Maybe making America Florida
12:14would be a good plot
12:14for a sci-fi original film.
12:17In a world where America is Florida,
12:19one man fights off
12:21a tropical storm of alligators
12:22with a chainsaw,
12:24an iguana,
12:24and a heart of gold.
12:26Hey, that could be something.
12:27Write that down.
12:43What do you think of
12:44when you picture a president?
12:46Someone smart?
12:47Someone resilient?
12:48Someone with a clear vision
12:49for the future?
12:50Perhaps.
12:51But now I'd like you to imagine this.
12:54What if the president
12:55of the United States
12:56was stinky?
12:57Stinky!
12:59Now open your eyes.
13:00I pictured your eyes being closed
13:02before you were imagining the president.
13:04It's January 2017.
13:06Donald J. Trump is inaugurated
13:08into the highest office.
13:09And guess what?
13:10He's stinky.
13:12I know.
13:12I didn't take this news lightly either.
13:14Former Representative Adam Kinzinger
13:16took to Axe to claim
13:17that the former president's odor
13:18was so pungent
13:20that he recommended
13:20wearing a mask in his presence.
13:22Trump fired back via spokesperson,
13:25claiming that Mr. Kinzinger
13:26quote,
13:27farted on live TV
13:28and is an unemployed fraud.
13:30I'm sorry.
13:32I cannot think any good car idea
13:34because this guy keep farting.
13:35We here at WatchMojo
13:36cannot confirm or deny
13:38the stinky allegations.
13:40We're just here to rank the facts.
13:41You have the good car ideas.
13:46Number eight.
13:46Biden's dead.
13:47Pass it on.
13:48What do you think of
13:49when you picture a president?
13:51Someone smart,
13:52someone resilient,
13:53someone with a clear vision
13:54for the future?
13:56Perhaps.
13:56But now I'd like you to imagine this.
13:59What if the president
14:00of the United States was dead?
14:06Now open your eyes.
14:07You're Republican Congresswoman
14:09Lauren Boebert.
14:10And guess what?
14:11Your president,
14:12Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.
14:14is holding office as a dead man.
14:16I think we have to.
14:18Acknowledge the possibility
14:19that the president may be dead.
14:23Biden announced having caught COVID
14:25a few days before he dropped
14:26out of the presidential race.
14:27It's been the honor of my life
14:29to serve as your president.
14:30Which kept him physically
14:31out of the public eye
14:32for about a week.
14:33But for Boebert,
14:34this wasn't the full story.
14:36And she repeatedly demanded
14:38proof of life
14:39from the president over X.
14:40While we here at WatchMojo
14:42can confirm that Joe Biden is alive
14:44as of October 2024,
14:46we are currently imagining him
14:48in a Weekend at Bernie's type situation.
14:50We have no comment
14:52on whether or not that's funny.
14:59Well-behaved furries
15:00rarely make history.
15:02And make history these furries did.
15:10Also known as Sieged Sec,
15:12this group of hacktivists
15:13have had some high-profile targets
15:15over the years.
15:16To name a few,
15:17the Nebraska Supreme Court,
15:19NATO,
15:20and most recently,
15:21the Heritage Foundation,
15:22which is the organization
15:24behind the controversial Project 2025.
15:40But alas, nothing fur can stay.
15:43And the group has announced
15:44their retirement from cybercrime
15:46to focus on their mental health
15:47and to steer clear of the FBI.
15:49But who knows what the future holds
15:51for the self-proclaimed
15:52gay furry hackers.
15:54If the Oceans franchise
15:55taught us anything,
15:56it's that a good crew
15:57can't stay apart for very long.
15:59So next time you see a furry
16:01leaving a casino,
16:02you may want to alert the authorities.
16:13It's nearly impossible
16:14to log on to any social media site
16:16on any given day
16:17and not see at least one post
16:19about Elon Musk.
16:20The man loves attention.
16:22And as we know,
16:23throughout this election cycle,
16:24he has been an outspoken supporter
16:26of Donald Trump.
16:30He even pledged that each day,
16:32he would give a million dollars
16:34to a randomly chosen swing state voter
16:36who signed a petition
16:37from his political action committee,
16:38raising serious questions
16:40about the legality of the offer.
16:45Just quirky billionaire things,
16:47we suppose.
16:48But before that whole ordeal,
16:49an appearance by Musk
16:50at a Pennsylvania Trump rally
16:52became a massive meme
16:53as he was captured
16:54enthusiastically leaping in the air.
16:56You know what they say,
16:58shoot for Mars.
16:59And if you miss,
17:00you'll land in Butler, Pennsylvania.
17:02Trust me,
17:02people are saying this.
17:08Anyone who watched
17:09the 2024 presidential debate
17:11between Biden and Trump
17:12should receive a stimulus check
17:14from the United States government
17:15as a pain and suffering settlement.
17:17Um, that was painful.
17:19Please don't make me relive this.
17:21OK, fine.
17:22Let's relive it together.
17:23Um, dealing with everything
17:25we have to do with, uh, look,
17:30if we finally beat Medicare.
17:34They're taking Black jobs
17:35and they're taking Hispanic jobs.
17:37And by the way,
17:38I told you before,
17:39I'm happy to play golf
17:40if you carry your own bag.
17:42Think you can do it?
17:43What is there to say
17:44that has yet to be said
17:45about this debate?
17:46It was bad.
17:48It was really, really bad.
17:50Let us know in the comments
17:51if you would like for us
17:51to publish top 10 things
17:53I would rather do
17:54than rewatch the Biden-Trump debate.
17:56Here's a preview.
17:57Number 10.
17:58Go to the optometrist
17:59and wait for 45 minutes,
18:01but then realize my appointment
18:02is actually tomorrow.
18:04Number nine.
18:04Watch the 2015 Netflix sitcom
18:07Real Rob.
18:08Number eight.
18:09Shake a rock out of my shoe.
18:11Number seven.
18:12Nevermind.
18:12You get it.
18:13Loud and clear.
18:15Number four.
18:16The J.D. Vance of it all.
18:18What do you think of
18:19when you picture a vice president?
18:20Someone smart,
18:21someone resilient,
18:23someone with a clear vision
18:24for the future?
18:25Perhaps.
18:26But now I'd like for you
18:27to imagine this.
18:28What if the vice president
18:30of the United States
18:31had a thing for furniture?
18:33Now open your eyes.
18:34Is this joke old yet?
18:36I didn't think so.
18:37As Trump's running mate,
18:38J.D. Vance has been doing
18:40an excellent job so far
18:41of being the center
18:42of many, many odd headlines.
18:45He has this idea that
18:46you should get extra votes
18:48if you have kids.
18:50Extra votes?
18:51Yeah, he suggested
18:52that you should have extra votes
18:53if you're a parent.
18:54Really?
18:55I think there's lots of things.
18:57You don't even get that
18:58in your own house.
19:00Most notably,
19:01a rumor had spread on X
19:03that Vance had sexual relations
19:05with a couch.
19:06While this is presumably untrue,
19:08it's proven difficult for the senator
19:10to shake the gossip.
19:12Harris's running mate, Tim Walz,
19:13has even poked fun at Vance,
19:15telling him to, quote,
19:16get off the couch and debate him.
19:18Ouch.
19:19I wonder how many writers
19:20it took to come up with that one.
19:22That is, if he's willing
19:23to get off the couch and show up.
19:25You see what I did there?
19:30Number three,
19:31one million assassination attempts.
19:33Obviously, there's nothing funny
19:35about an attempted assassination
19:36on anyone's life.
19:38604 Saturday evening,
19:40before an adoring and roaring crowd,
19:42former President Donald Trump
19:44steps to the podium.
19:45But with that said,
19:46if there was a graph
19:47where the Y-axis represented
19:49how many times someone
19:50tried to assassinate you
19:51and the X-axis represented
19:53how funny it was,
19:54there would be a direct
19:55positive correlation.
19:56The attempts begin to feel
19:58less like breaking news
19:59and more like the latest season
20:00of Only Murders in the Building.
20:02We need to focus.
20:03Only murders in the building.
20:05Only murders in the building.
20:08But the building is
20:09Trump International Golf Club,
20:10and instead of Steve Martin
20:12and Martin Short
20:12gallivanting around Manhattan,
20:14it's Trump's security guard
20:15playing subway surfers on his phone.
20:222. The Many Adventures of R.F.K. Jr.
20:35R.F.K. Jr. is arguably
20:37one of the most, um,
20:39interesting presidential candidates
20:41in recent history,
20:42and that's saying a lot.
20:44But if he's good at anything,
20:46it's getting ahead of the news.
20:48Wondering why Mr. Kennedy
20:49may be a tad forgetful?
20:51A parasitic worm ate
20:52a portion of his brain
20:53and then died, of course.
20:54Cause of death?
20:56Starvation.
20:58Remember when a deceased bear
21:00seemingly appeared out of thin air
21:01in Central Park in 2014?
21:03Well, that was just
21:04little old Robert F.
21:05doing one of his classic
21:06bear jokes, naturally.
21:07I said, let's go put the bear
21:09in Central Park
21:10and we'll make it look
21:10like he got eaten by a snake.
21:12It'll be fun, funny for people.
21:15Oh, ha ha ha ha, I get it.
21:19You were making a joke
21:20about all the people
21:21killed by bicycles.
21:22We would like to thank you,
21:24Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,
21:25for keeping us on our toes
21:26this election season.
21:27We know so, so much more
21:30than we need to know about you.
21:32God bless America.
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21:48Number one, the legitimately
21:50frightening sociopolitical implications
21:52of the role that both AI and memes
21:54have played in this
21:55presidential election cycle.
21:57In this essay, we will explore
21:59how our ever-evolving internet culture
22:01influences how the American people
22:02make their decisions on election day
22:04through a thorough examination
22:06of each of the above examples.
22:07Just kidding.
22:08More silly Trump time.
22:10Number one, the Springfield fiasco.
22:13It's hard to imagine
22:14a wilder snowball effect
22:15than this meme.
22:16What started as an unfounded claim
22:18regarding Haitian immigrants in Ohio
22:20was then spread online by JD Vance
22:23and ultimately made it to prime time
22:24when Trump exclaimed the now viral quote,
22:37This blew up online almost instantly
22:39and led to a remix.
22:41And because why not,
22:42an accompanying TikTok dance.
22:46Folks, I'd say we've had a lot of fun
22:52together over the course of this video.
22:54Remember the catchinal anthem
22:56and crazy taxi?
22:57Us too.
22:58So instead of spending
22:59our final moments here
23:00unpacking why a TikTok dance
23:02to a quote about eating pets
23:04from a presidential candidate
23:05is how you say WTF.
23:12Let's remember the good times
23:14because the real viral moment
23:16Friendship?
23:17Sure, let's go with that.
23:18Our exit poll question for you all is
23:21are these viral moments
23:22an important conduit
23:23for widespread political discourse
23:24or are they a slippery slope
23:26to misinformation?
23:27Alternatively,
23:28which former US president
23:30would have loved TikTok dances?
23:32Let us know your thoughts
23:33in the comments.
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