Samantha Bee weighs in on the hiring of Stephen Bannon, and the other terrible choices Trump could be making to fill his cabinet.

Yes I realize that Ben Carson has now taken his name out of contention, but it's still funny to see him chasing after his luggage.

I almost forgot this show was on last night, and only caught it becasue I was channel surfing.

Glad I did though because Samantha Bee has a gift for putting things into perspective.

Which is important, especially since this guy is out of the picture.

John Oliver eviscerates the third party candidates competing in this election cycle, with some very uncomfortable facts.

Well I've been earning about third party candidates for several months now, and also pointing out their various flaws, but leave to John Oliver to take it to a new level while also making it laugh out loud funny.

Just the sound of Jill Stein singing alone is enough for me to dismiss her out of hand.

Can she not hear herself?

However I might give that Joe Exotic a second look just because I am impressed with a partially crippled southern gay man who stands fearlessly in a cage with lions and tigers as if they are simply over sized house cats.

That seems like the kind of guy that might scare the shit out of Vladimir Putin.

For those still thinking about voting for Gary Johnson.

Self-professed liberals who prefer Gary Johnson because he's not Hillary Clinton...I mean, lol pic.twitter.com/cM8oZre9y2

— Kate Oh (@kathoh) September 21, 2016

I swear I think that if the majority of the people who dislike Hillary Clinton actually knew the truth about her, instead of gobbling up the steady stream of bullshit about her online, they would not only vote for her but volunteer to work on her campaign.

So who exactly is ready for that 3 AM phone call?

Gary Johnson believes that presidential candidates being well informed is a bad thing because knowing "a foreign leader or geographical location" means putting our military in "harm's way." Wait, what?

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

“Talking about a foreign leader I respect, I have a hard time with that one,” Johnson told MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell. “That’s just who I am. And now I’m going to have to pick out a world leader and there’s going to be something wrong with them. And now I’m going to have to defend them! Well, maybe I think too much.” 

“You are running to be commander-in-chief,” Mitchell reminded the candidate. 

“Yeah, and you know what?” Johnson trumpeted back. “The fact that somebody can dot the i’s and cross the t’s on a foreign leader or a geographic location then allows them to put our military in harm’s way!”

You ever get a headache so bad that it hurts to blink your eyes?

Yeah well this gave me one.

First off the President of the United States does not have the luxury of not knowing things about the world around him. After all he is kind of forced to make some incredibly important decisions which can often affect not just America but every other country as well.

Second, knowing about where these countries are, and who is leading them, does NOT mean that we are then somehow obligated to drop bombs on them and send our troops to die on their soil.

In fact knowing more about them, and understanding their culture and history, can often help to avoid conflict or intervention.

You know in some ways I am in total agreement with Gary Johnson when it comes to keeping our soldiers from fighting in unnecessary wars.

You bet, high fives all around on that one.

However then I also am reminded that the reason that we got into these last two unnecessary wars in the first place was because we had a President in office who was woefully ill informed about the countries that he arrogantly thought he could invade and conquer with few negative repercussions for our military.

He was wrong.

So sorry Mr. Johnson, I would rather have a President who knows a lot, and would recognize the appropriate time for military intervention, than to have a President who knows little, and could very well leave us vulnerable to attack.

I am not a hawk, but I am also not an idiot.

Sadly the same cannot be said for Gary Johnson.

The Libertarian VP candidate thinks that Hillary Clinton is the most qualified presidential candidate. Wait, what?

WATCH: Libertarian VP candidate Bill Weld: Not sure anyone is more qualified to be president than Hillary Clinton. https://t.co/DQRZnigfdA

— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) September 30, 2016

I am not sure that any of their campaign advisors bothered to inform Bill Weld that it is traditional to name the person at the top of YOUR ticket as the most qualified for the job, but perhaps somebody should get on that.

Though to be honest considering how flaky and uniformed Gary Johnson has demonstrated himself to be, you can hardly blame Weld for his moment of honestly here.

Of COURSE Hillary Clinton is the most qualified candidate running, that is why the smart folks have been for her from the beginning. 

Third party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein will NOT be at the debates.

Courtesy of Politico: 

Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein failed to make the cut for the first presidential debate on Sept. 26, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced on Friday afternoon, in a significant blow for their campaigns. 

Though Johnson and Stein satisfied two of the criteria necessary to participate – that they be constitutionally eligible and have achieved ballot access in a sufficient number of states to win a theoretical Electoral College majority – neither met the threshold on polling.

This is a very good thing for Hillary as it allows her to focus all of her attention on her one true opponent, and bad news for Trump who has never debated one on one and likes to use others on the stage for distraction.

And let's face in this election Stein and Johnson are really nothing more than a dangerous distraction which can undermine the seriousness of this contest.

This first debate is incredibly important, and could really define this race in many ways.

My prediction is that Trump will do badly, but that the bar will be set so low for him that if he does not vomit on himself or fall off the stage some media outlets will suggest that he held his own.

On the other hand Hillary will have to answer each question, and follow up question, in complete sentences while standing on one foot and juggling chainsaws just to meet expectations.

The positive thing for her is that she can probably do that.