Bullet Points and Punch Lines: The Most Important Commentary Ever Written On the Epic American Tragicomedy

Bullet Points and Punch Lines: The Most Important Commentary Ever Written On the Epic American Tragicomedy

Bullet Points and Punch Lines: The Most Important Commentary Ever Written On the Epic American Tragicomedy

Bullet Points and Punch Lines: The Most Important Commentary Ever Written On the Epic American Tragicomedy

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Overview

Our US empire is in steep decline. In order to wrest complete control over the globe and feed a rapacious thirst for resources and wealth, the American ruling elite is wreaking havoc around the world. Meanwhile, average Americans are suffering, legs trembling under a mountain of debt as they toil at unfulfilling, underpaying jobs. And those with enough time and energy to get angry and fight back are told that the answer is to vote for one of the two pro-war, pro–Wall Street corporate parties claiming to be their savior.

This epic tragedy does not sound like the beginning of a joke. But somehow comedian and TV host Lee Camp makes it both funny and interesting. Whether he is setting his sights on the scandal of $21 trillion worth of unaccounted-for financial adjustments at the Pentagon or the scorching environmental and human tragedy caused by climate chaos, it’s unsurprising that one of our most incisive political commentators is technically a comedian. Camp knifes his way through the jungle of fake news, alternative facts, mainstream media lies, and government blackouts, trailblazing a path between Hunter S. Thompson and Jon Stewart.

Perhaps the present-day story of America can only accurately be told by a comedian, otherwise no one would believe it. In a world where con men are heralded as leaders, locking up peace activists is perceived as justice, trumpeting state propaganda is considered journalism, and mocking environmentalists is championed as strength, it’s only appropriate that a comedian is viewed as more reliable than the evening news.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781629637853
Publisher: PM Press
Publication date: 03/01/2020
Edition description: None
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Lee Camp is an American comedian, writer, activist, and host and co-creator of the hit comedy news show Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp and Redacted Tonight: VIP on RT America. He’s a former Headline writer for the Onion and a former staff humor writer for the Huffington Post. He has performed thousands of stand-up comedy shows throughout the US and internationally. He’s also the creator and host of the web show Moment of Clarity. His other books include Moment of Clarity, and his 2018 stand-up comedy special Not Allowed on American TV has received rave reviews. He’s also the cohost of the weekly podcast Common Censored.


Chris Hedges is an American journalist, Presbyterian minister, and visiting Princeton Universitylecturer. His books include War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction; Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle; Death of the Liberal Class; Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, written with cartoonist Joe Sacco; Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt; and his most recent, America: The Farewell Tour.


Jimmy Dore is an American comedian and social critic, producer of The Jimmy Dore Show, and the author of Your Country Is Just Not That Into You.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi

Introduction xv

The Pentagon Can't Account for 21 Trillion Dollars (That's Not a Typo) 1

How to Create a US-Backed Government Coup for Fun and Profit! 8

The Pentagon Failed Its First-Ever Audit amid a 21 Trillion Dollar Scandal 15

The Top Four Times Americans Have Been Lied into War 22

I Know Which Country the US Will Invade Next 30

Nearly 100 Thousand Pentagon Whistleblower Complaints Have Been Silenced 37

Everyone Has Fallen for the Lies about Venezuela 43

Artificial Intelligence May Destroy Humanity by Accident (but It Won't Apologize) 53

Trump's Military Drops a Bomb Every 12 Minutes, and No One Is Talking about It 58

The Media Never Mention the Number One Cause of Climate Change 64

Our Planet's Wonders Never Cease 71

The Mainstream Media Is Lying about the California Fires 73

We Have Less Than a Second Left 78

Wall Street Is the Definition of a Ponzi Scheme (Literally) 82

Goldman Sachs Just Admitted Curing Diseases Is Bad for Business 88

One Man Could End World Hunger, but He Won't 93

The Silver Bullet to Stop the Corporate State Pillage 99

A Good Day on Wall Street Is a Bad Day for Most Americans 105

The Pentagon and Microsoft Are Quietly Hijacking All US Elections 112

A Foreign Internet Company Rigged Our Elections (and It Wasn't Russia) 119

A New York Times Story Just Accidentally Shredded the Russiagate Hysteria 129

While Our Police Kill Thousands, Congress Works to Protect the Police 136

Our Criminal Justice System Serves to Protect the Villains 142

Three New Studies That Will Make You Rethink Systemic Racism 150

Eighteen Ways Julian Assange Changed the World 156

Six Ways the "Resistance" Gave Trump a Dictator's Toolkit 166

A Brief Digression on Whether Consumerism Changes Love 172

Debunking the Washington Post's Lies as They Debunk Donald Trump's 1,950 Lies 176

How to Write Propaganda for the New York Times, as Seen in an Attack Piece on Me 187

American Society Would Collapse If It Weren't for These Eight Myths 202

Index 210

About the Authors 217

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