January 2023
“It has been a day of pure uncut Peruvian blue flake Schadenfreude, watching the GOP stab each other in the throat. Kevin McCarthy, a longtime Trump acolyte from California, has long wanted the job of speaker and seemed like a shoo-in in November. But Kevin McCarthy has one major weakness: his weakness? Facing backlash from even farther-right members of his own party, McCarthy lost three votes, with even less support at the end. Remember, there’s more important things in life than winning or losing. There’s making fun of Kevin McCarthy for losing.” —Stephen Colbert
“New York congressman George Santos, who during his campaign lied about, and I’m rounding down here, everything. Among the things Santos lied about: where he went to high school, where he went to college, working for Goldman Sachs, owning 13 properties (he lives at his sister’s in Huntington), and that his grandparents survived the Holocaust. He also claimed his mother died in the September 11 attacks, then said she died a few years later, then admitted she died in late 2016. That is a horrible thing to lie about. His poor mother must be spinning in all of her graves.” —Stephen Colbert
“Kevin McCarthy’s inability to secure the vote for speaker of the House was a monumental failure that has not happened in 100 years. We are relishing in the backlash against McCarthy from even more pro-Trump members of his own party. If there’s one political lesson we’ve learned the past six years, it’s that there is always someone who is more pro-Trump. Whatever line of decency you draw in your head, someone else is going to walk right through that motherf*cker. Even Trump himself knows there are people out there more pro-Trump than him. McCarthy did everything he could to cozy up to Trump and the Maga circus in the House and he’s still facing a revolt from the looniest members of the GOP. McCarthy even visited Mar-a-Lago for a photo-op with Trump days after the January 6 attack. Did McCarthy think one visit to Mar-a-Lago was going to magically solve everything? That place is the opposite of Disney World. It’s where dreams go to die. If you ever find yourself at Mar-a-Lago and you’re not wearing a blue windbreaker with FBI on the back, that’s how you know you made some wrong turns in life.” —Seth Meyers
https://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2022/08/1001-ways-to-make-america-great-and.html
“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth
and Orwell’s 1984.”