In this moment of political darkness (he nut-punched New York’s fattest cats)

“I don’t know about you guys, but tonight my heart is full of something I have not felt in almost a year, and that is … good? Democrats swept races across the country, offering a sharp rebuke of the Trump administration.

Today Democrats are walking around with a spring in their step like a divorced mom in her 40s whose new haircut just got her carded at two different bars.

Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old state assemblyman didn’t just defeat Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa, he nut-punched New York’s fattest cats. The billionaires had the knives out for Zohran, pumping massive amounts of cash into anti-Mamdani groups. I’m talking big-roll high-rollers including the cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder, son of Estée, who donated $2.6m to stop him; hedge fund investor Bill Ackman, who spent $1.75m on anti-Mamdani campaigns; and Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, who spent $2m.

So it’s a bad day for billionaires. Or as it’s also known, still a pretty good day! They’re still billionaires.

Speaking to supporters after clinching the victory, Mamdani offered a different political vision than the federal government in Washington. “In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light.”

And as always, the port authority will be the smell. —Stephen Colbert

https://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2025/04/thats-no-way-to-say-goodbye-new.html 

“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”

 

He believes the world is a better place for his spreading buckshot throughout the entire region of Mr. Wittington's face (I'm not even sure he's buying it anymore)

"Vice President Dick Cheney is standing by his decision to shoot Harry Whittington. Now, according to the best intelligence available, there were quail hidden in the brush. Everyone believed at the time there were quail in the brush. And while the quail turned out to be a 78- year-old man, even knowing that today, Mr. Cheney insists he still would have shot Mr. Whittington in the face. He believes the world is a better place for his spreading buckshot throughout the entire region of Mr. Wittington's face." --Daily Show correspondent Rob Corddry

"As for what exactly a bad day for Bush might look like, oh, how about being a captive audience member at the funeral of a civil rights pioneer in front of thousands of people, none of whom voted for you except the woman sitting right next to you and possibly your dad. But I'm not even sure he's buying it anymore." --Jon Stewart, on Coretta Scott King's funeral

http://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2022/03/1001-ways-to-make-america-great-and.html

“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth 

and Orwell’s 1984.”

 

By Trump's standards he is over performing (not, as I had assumed, by a woman in a pantsuit)

The National Parks Service has approved an application for a white civil rights rally in Washington, D.C., this August. That should make for some interesting chants. "What do we want! Seriously, what do we want? I mean, we're doing pretty great, right? Seems like we shouldn't be having a march." --Seth Meyers

President Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was destroyed today by a man with a pickaxe. And not, as I had assumed, by a woman in a pantsuit. --Seth Meyers

IKEA has announced plans to test out small-scale stores that could fit more easily into city environments. Just as soon as builders can figure out the instructions. --Seth Meyers

http://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2016/06/john-hulse-collected-poems-1985-2015.html “A magisterial collection. An emotional roller coaster. Soon to be a cult classic. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night On Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”