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K2SO's avatar

I've lost my fear of the Great Orange Fartmonster. He was roundly whipped by a geriatric who can barely walk up stairs, then his candidates were curbstomped against all historical precedent. In a surprising turn of events it seems that moderate Republicans see through his bloviation and don't actually support coups by idiotic blowhards. Colour me pleasantly surprised.

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John Birmingham's avatar

IKR!

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LANA DE JAGER's avatar

“The vague gestures and meandering sentences shadow-walking through Sigmund Freud’s hand-drawn map of the deep unconscious created an emotional ambience akin to realising that a mile-long slab of visceral fat has escaped the containment facility under America’s largest drive-thru liposuction clinic and is sliding ever closer to your open mouth.“

That gave us gooseflesh!! You’re a genius, JB.

Trump… you could nearly be sorry for the guy but all that support is super baffling.

The Child of Trump, Bride of Chuckie is DeSantis. I’m very afraid of that half man half Hitler. Hardcore biblebashing antagonist. Eek.

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John Birmingham's avatar

Yeah DeSantis is terrifying but there’s a lot of ex-Republican operators who think he’s unelectable in a general national election. He’s just too weird

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LANA DE JAGER's avatar

Weirder than Trump? Fingers crossed.

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John Birmingham's avatar

Way weirder

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ken's avatar

De Insanitis is going to build a wall along the Alabama and Georgia border and form an all-white fascist enclave of deranged xenophobes, with the right to shoot any suspected democrats on sight.

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isabel robinson's avatar

The "visceral fat...sliding closer to your open mouth" imagery made me gag!

Only for a moment, because I was afraid to have my mouth open after reading it.

Big slimy hunks of lard are always going to make me think of Trump from now on.

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Michael Barnes's avatar

"The stabby Halloween guy in Halloween" like you don't know his name. Hats off to you for watching any of his press conference/announcement I avoid that, well I want to say like the plague but recent behaviors in our society mean I have to retire that phrase.

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Chris Paxman's avatar

I like it when the monsters come back, but then get the coup de grace from the protagonist...hopefully this translates as jail time for the sad/angry orange blimp.

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ken's avatar

My nightmare has become a reality. A thing worst than climate change has announced its intention to become the most dangerous thing in the universe, again. That presidential parvenu will probably return as a steroid-infused Caligula. The Oval Office will be named the Throne Room and decorated in the chintzy style of Mar A Farrago in view of the fact that many lies and myths babble from the upper orifice.

The announcement that rancid Rupert has withdrawn his blessing, sent shivers through the ice-cold hearts of the Koch Bros and all the other carpetbaggers of state and county political hopefuls. The attendees at the hall of the king noticed that his enormous ego is overpowering, like a cheap Eau de Cologne.

Now that Gina Ironheart has been exposed as a gingerbread man groupie, I'm trying not to mention the name of he who must remain nameless in this missive, the share price of Hancock Prospecting

hit rock bottom and kept on going. She was expecting a Macy's parade extravaganza, but it degenerated into a billionaire's bragging match, like schoolboys saying my dads got more money than your dad. The guests were taken aback when they were charged an entrance fee of one bar of bullion, a mere bagatelle for these lads and WAGs, but paying to use the toilet was a bit rude, even for these grifters.

His detractors will claim that all the attendees were paid actors dressed in hired tuxedos.

Melania has had enough of the being the most powerful lady in the world gig, she will now be replaced by a deep fake hologram, so she can stay atop his, I dodged that name again, golden New York tower teaching Baron to be an obnoxious little shit, just like his father.

His main campaign strategy will be voter suppression, relying on his supreme court toadies to suppress any challenge. When it gains power it intends to do a liar from the shire trick and appoint himself speaker of the house as well, now that Nancy has fled with all her insider trading fortune. People have commented that he, you know, reminds them of a pox doctor's clerk, hanging around the back door of a down market bordello, touting for business.

Upon his retirement from office, he intends to endow a university course in a new branch of psychiatry to examine Freudian psychosis in the working of his mind.

On the slim chance of going to jail, there will probably be a mass breakout of hardened criminals, afraid of the stain on their street cred with boys in the hood.

I feel I have to apologise for my appalling grammar, for instance, I always thought that Syntax was a fine for being caught fiddling with myself.

Can I use Sebaceous Turd in a future ramble? Plus It's a great conversation starter at parties.

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John Birmingham's avatar

Every week I wait for this. And you never disappoint

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Jamie Dodson's avatar

John, glad that Trump can't RELIFE and terrorize mankind for centuries. (SHATERED SKIES ohmage) Question: Did Pennsylvania Republican Senate nominee Mehmet Oz make Oz residents consider a new moniker? He might have ruined it for the Land Down Under. Just saying …

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John Birmingham's avatar

I gave it some thought

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Jamie Dodson's avatar

And ... ;0)

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