March 2021
“Joe Biden’s approval rate is almost 60%. It’s also helpful that Biden isn’t proving to be an easy target for the GOP base. Turns out spending a year calling someone senile and sleepy doesn’t make him a good boogeyman, citing one GOP spokesperson who claimed, ‘there’s just not the antipathy to Biden like there was Obama. He just doesn’t drive conservative outrage.’ Hmm, I wonder what was different about Obama that enraged their base? Maybe the royal family knows.” —Stephen Colbert
“In the last year, white women have been joining QAnon in droves, becoming the primary drivers of the conspiracy movement. So-called ‘Q-A-moms’, often members of natural or holistic birth communities, have been targeted by posts about child sex trafficking conspiracies that appeal to their protective maternal instincts. These posts often don’t mention Q specifically but hint at larger conspiracies of sex trafficking cover-ups in the familiar soothing, Instagram-friendly aesthetic common to wellness ads. ‘Pastel QAnon’, as I call this recruitment method, is at least better than the first name they gave it, which is ‘crazy bitch shit.’” —Samantha Bee
“The faux cancel culture wars fomented by Fox News in the face of Biden’s popular Covid relief bill is ridiculous. As Congress passed a bill to provide critical aid to Americans during a pandemic, Fox News hosts such as Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity lamented the removal of Pepe Le Pew from an upcoming Space Jam sequel. Personally, I can’t believe Fox News is defending someone who’s French. If this was 2003, they’d be referring to him as a ‘freedom skunk’. Remember when conservatives canceled french fries? Seriously, imagine being an actual adult and spending any amount of time at all complaining about a decades-old cartoon character being left out of a movie. The point is, guys, there’s a pandemic raging, millions suffering or out of work, and you’re spending your time defending the Looney Tunes, the whole thing is just, well, I want to say looney tunes, but that seems redundant.” —Seth Meyers
https://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-magisterial-collection.html
“A magisterial collection. An emotional roller coaster. Soon to be a cult classic.
A combination of Bukowski’s The Last Night of the Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”