People say I’m an absentee father, but if that were true, why would I have this World’s Best Dad mug? (honorary senator)

October 2022

“Herschel Walker, the former football star turned Republican anti-abortion candidate, his campaign has been rife with scandal amid news that he paid for his then-girlfriend’s abortion in 2009 (he denies this; she provided a check and signed a ‘get well soon’ card), and that he lied about working with law enforcement. And in a debate last week with Democratic opponent Raphael Warnock, Walker dismissed scrutiny on his law enforcement credentials by flashing an honorary deputy’s badge. I don’t know what’s crazier in this story: the fact that this man lied about being in law enforcement, or the fact that he pulled out a fake badge during a debate. Or the fact that after the sheriff’s association said that his badge is just an honorary one, he said ‘no, they’re wrong.’ Though rebuked by the debate moderator, Walker has doubled down in news interviews, calling his honorary badge ‘legit’. Does he treat every symbolic object like this? He’d be like ‘people say I’m an absentee father, but if that were true, why would I have this World’s Best Dad mug?’” —Trevor Noah

“But there was one upside to Walker’s insistence on the legitimacy of his fake badge. This means that Georgia voters don’t even need to elect Herschel Walker senator. They could just give him a certificate that says ‘honorary senator’. He won’t know the difference!” —Trevor Noah

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.”