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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI don't know if y'all know this...but shit be cray.
There's been a lot of madness out there lately, but today? Today was like a supercut of Nic Cage Screaming outtakes that Werner Herzog deemed "too frightening."
The weekend was kinda quiet, at least by recent standards, right? All 36 members of the Scott Baio fan club showed up for Mayor McCheese's "Pittsburgh not Paris" rally, while thousands participated in March For Truth protests in more than a 100 cities, so y'know...Both sides.
On Saturday, a horrific terrorist attack took place in London. Given the opportunity to do his job and Lead the Free World, Donald J Trump (the J stands for "Fuckhead," was determined to rise to the challenge. Pacing the hallowed halls of the White House, looking to the portraits of great American leaders from Washington to Lincoln to Roosevelt, he said "Boys, I'm out of my element here, and I need your help...what should I do?"
And, because he's perpetually high on over-the-counter speed and his favorite Hong Kong Black Market hair growth tonic, he hallucinated that a painting of Millard Fillmore came to life and told him "Insult the Mayor of London, my good man! It's the only Presidential thing to be done!" before climbing out of its frame to sexually assault a portrait of Nancy Reagan.
And insult London's Mayor he did! Wielding his twitter account like a Sword forged from the Most Diseased Horseshit in All the Land, he did chastise Mayor Sadiq Khan for counseling calm in the face of a terror attack, when everyone knows a REAL leader's job is to fan the flames of fear with crazed, ill-informed, racist ranting, and if that happens to be exactly what a terrorist's wettest dream is, well so fucking be it.
The Associated Press took the extraordinary step of informing its readers that the President of the United States of America should not be considered a trustworthy source of information during a time of crisis, (What? Just because he was tweeting fear-mongering propaganda from the fucking Drudge Report before anything had been confirmed? SNOWFLAKES.) which is so fucking embarrassing that Mount Rushmore turned hot pink for the shame of it.
Anyway, Shart Garfunkel wants everybody to know what a big tuff boy he is when it comes to terrorism, and how we all need to be Strong and Not Politically Correct and Totally Normal-Sized-Handed like him, and so he fired off his deranged tweets and promptly ran away to play golf with a retired football player, because THAT IS HOW A MAN LEADS, YOU LIBTARD FEMINAZI CUCKS! Surely when the Michael Bay twelve-part docudrama film of the Shart Regime hits theatres, this is the point where music swells into a mashup of "Proud to Be an American" and "America, Fuck Yeah!" as images of a bloated orange Toe golfing in slow motion are juxtaposed with those of that Dirty Mooslim Mayor Fellah actually Doing His Job During a Crisis, and there won't be a dry eye in the house. Straight fucking Capra, that.
Meanwhile, Mad Dog Mattis made his makeshift mea culpas for his misanthropic master's madness. He's seriously telling our understandably shaken allies "bear with us." BEAR WITH US, we're all trying to figure out how to survive this insanity, I promise I'll hit him with a rock before he orders a nuclear strike on Laos "just to make sure the button works." Heaven help us all.
Speaking of Mattis, see that shit in Politico where the national security team walked Lil' Man Shart through the speech he was supposed to give at the NATO summit, and it included giving the thumbs up to Good Ol' Article Five, but when he gave the speech, he was all, "You're not Steve Bannon, I don't have to do what you say," and instead gave Article Five the finger and had Russian hookers piss on it? Isn't it comforting to know our Idiot Manchild President has figured out how to lie to the handful of adults in his inner circle, like some sort of incorrigible Dickens orphan? "Oh no, Jim, I would never declare war on North Korea just to distract the country from Comey's testimony, TEE HEE."
Donnie's tweeting day was hardly done, of course. He had a bunch of things to say about his racist-ass travel ban executive order, for one. He bitched and moaned about how much we need his Big Bad Ban, and how it was a mistake to switch to the Watered-Down, Cuck-y, P.C. Second Version of his Big Bad Ban.
The lawyers he has hired to defend his executive order in court, whose case is based largely on A) No It Is Not a Ban and B) No It Is Not Just a Watered-Down, Cuck-y, P.C. Version of the Original E.O., have presumably wandered into woods, having taped thirty pounds of raw steak to themselves, screaming "Eat me! FUCKING EAT ME YOU PUNK ASS BEARS" for reasons beyond this writer's comprehension.
Seriously, Circus Peanut Syndney Greenstreet (I know, just let me have this one) is fucking up his own travel ban's legal prospects so bad, Kellyanne Conway's husband went online to say "DUDE! STOP SHITTING IN YOUR OWN TACO BOWL ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID well of course you are but ARE YOU EVEN MORE FUCKING STUPID THAN WE THOUGHT?
The Failing New York Times later published a piece about how Dorito Mussolini is upset with his Loyal Huntin' Dawg, Beauregard, over all his recusin' and failin'-to-defend-travel-bans and whatnot. AG Sessions refused to comment for this piece, even when he was offered some peanut butter, which he usually gets all excited about.
Drumpf went on to blame Democrats for obstructing all the ambassadors he hasn't nominated yet, and also for making his fingers so freakishly, pathetically, short.
Captain Planet Nemesis/EPA Head Scott Pruitt came up with a genuinely clever method of fulfilling his idiot boss' empty promises to bring coal jobs back: just tell everybody you already did it and hope nobody bothers checking! Pruitt told Meet the Press that they've created 50,000 coal sector jobs, which would mean literally doubling the number of coal jobs that there are in the entire fucking country. While this is rather embarrassingly obviously untrue, Pruitt went on to claim that he can beat Super Mario 3 in four minutes, and also throw a wicked split finger fastball at 96 MPH with an absolutely sick last-second drop and he totally owned Mike Trout in little league but he hurt his arm pushing this supermodel's Corvette out of a ditch this one time. Also he has a smokin' hot girlfriend. In Canada.
Mitch McConnell and his team of raisinesque mean white people returned from their recess, having promised a draft of their Obamacare repeal bill, instead able to offer only a stack of Denny's receipts and a notebook where Susan Collins had doodled a half dozen pictures of Ted Cruz getting eaten by cats. Apparently the task of stealing health care from millions of their constituents without getting blamed for, y'know, KILLING A FUCKTON OF PEOPLE, is kinda tricky. WHO KNEW?
Word is, the Senate GOP caucus is now considering holding a vote on an ACA repeal bill they'd know in advance would fail, just allow the party to move on to failing at tax reform. If this wasn't the biggest pack of assholes in the country, you'd almost feel bad for 'em. You sort of picture all these crusty old white folks sitting around in depressed silence until Lamar Alexander goes "We just can't govern, can we, fellas?" and John McCain says "Nope," and then then Marco Rubio starts crying and they cheer him up by letting him punch Ted Cruz a few a times.
Kellyanne Conway and that one creepy Nazi dude went on the teevee to tell us that the President's tweets, literally THE THINGS THE PRESIDENT SAYS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE WORLD are not accurate representations of the President's thoughts or policy or something, and the fact that I'm scanning the internet to see if Star-Wars-branded straightjackets might just happen to be a thing, and if so do they make them in my size, is just a coincidence, I assure you.
Politico published a sad little reverse mash note about how everybody hates Reince Pubis and he'll probably be fired before you finish this sentence because he is a shitty little weasel who sucks at his job but who the fuck would want a gig that's basically Shart wrangling all day long, the benefits package is migraines and ulcers and never having any self respect for the rest of your life and also probably jail, so Reincy-Poo probably gets to remain the President's personal Grima Wormtongue until sometime in 2019 when he finally snaps and gives Adam Schiff all the recordings he's been secretly making of Boss Shart trying to hire people to kill the entire FBI.
McClatchy told us the GOP is working on making the midterms a "referendum on the media," because that's exactly the position a healthy political party should be in after two years of total control of all three branches of government. Anyway, good luck with that, boys. It can't be any worse than running on your record of collaborating with the most corrupt administration in American history and trying to kill a bunch of us so rich people can have more money, to be fair.
Sean Spicer was in the doghouse today (a literal doghouse Drumpf had built in the corner of the Oval; Spicer has been existing on a diet of bone-shaped biscuits which he must earn by performing tricks for his boss' amusement.), so Sarah Huckabee Sanders wandered out to tell the press that while the President has ruled out invoking executive privilege to stop James Comey from testifying on Thursday, he's leaving the Run-Screaming-Into-the-Hearing-Swinging-Two-Ball-Peen-Hammers option on the table.
Oh, and then there was that shit with the leaked NSA memo about Russian state hackers trying to hack into American voting software vendors shit and all that. Whatever. Of course they did. Russia hacks everything these days. They're probably hacking me, right? VLAD PUTIN HAS THE BEST ASS AND ALSO DOES A KICKASS KARAOKE VERSION OF KISS ON MY LIST THAT MAKES ALL THE AMERICAN GIRLS WET WITH VLADLUST wait, who wrote that?
The leaker of this particular document was promptly arrested, and everybody's using words like "Opsec" because it makes them feel all cool, and her name is Reality Winner, actually fucking REALITY WINNER, which has me convinced that the last six months have been an elaborate prank on me personally and everybody's about to jump out from my closets like it's The Game, right? RIGHT???
Somehow, in the midst of this Sharknado full of Iowa State Fair outhouses, the Thumb That Somehow Governs Us decided that the one thing America really needed today, right goddamn now, is to have the air traffic control industry privatized. He set up a big fancy signing ceremony where he signed...fuck knows? It wasn't a bill or an executive order. He just likes signing things. "Look Mr. Bannon, it's my name! Just like on the buildings!"
You guys, I can't even get to everything. There's the thing about the Kushner family's debts in China, and a loser reporter trying to start shit with Mad Maxine Waters, and holy hell the crap with Qatar, but I'm about ten minutes away from being a Jackie Earle Haley character, so maybe we can catch up on the shit that fell through the cracks tomorrow.
(I did enjoy the bit where Sadiq Khan told Tangerine Idi Amin to shove his forthcoming state visit up his little orange butthole, though.).
Anyway, I assume Shartboy bombs something, probably San Diego, before Comey's testimony, so maybe I'll see you in the trenches!
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Many thanks in advance for your timely insights, twisted humor, and deeply offensive language!!
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,641 posts)But all is well now......at least here in DU-Land.
Thank you.
Docreed2003
(16,865 posts)I snorted at "Dude! Stop shitting in your own taco bowl!"
So much great stuff...sadly, I googled "Star Wars themed straight jacket" and came up empty handed.
Eko
(7,318 posts)But this time it fell flat to me. I apologize, its funny, snarky, sarcastic and very intelligent, extremely well written (enough that I suspect you are a writer) but, unfortunately its pretty much true. And that's not funny. Its not snarky or sarcastic, its fracking depressing. As hell. I read a piece earlier where FOX uses political conflict and resolution to elicit dopamine responses in people to make them want to watch the news, it occurs to me that you are doing the same thing, albeit for a much better reason but still. I never like it when people devolve to name calling to prove a political point, when they do that they have lost the argument, and that is pretty much what your entire post is. I'm not trying to be a jerk, I really love your writing, just, perhaps, you could channel it to something positive,,,,, maybe you would be doing us and yourself a much better service. Maybe we could use that more than this. Maybe we could use more John Adams and less Jefferson. As it is though, keep on keeponing and thanks.
calimary
(81,323 posts)Definitely a Fan of TheFerret!
Sometimes I guess one has to take the sardonic humor of a situation like this - even though when you think about what's written, it honestly ISN'T that funny.
I must admit I do take comfort in reading things like this. Reassures me that I'm not alone in feeling exactly as this describes. This guy makes me feel like America has collectively stepped in a colossal splat of dogshit. And we can't yet get it off our shoes.
Eko
(7,318 posts)proven exactly what I said, Congrats.
calimary
(81,323 posts)dalton99a
(81,526 posts)Thanks, Ferret.
burrowowl
(17,641 posts)dchill
(38,505 posts)Cray. Exactly right, azhuzhel.
Lugnut
(9,791 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)underpants
(182,834 posts)tblue37
(65,409 posts)KT2000
(20,584 posts)we all need this -
Mountain Mule
(1,002 posts)I luvs DU's TheFerret!
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)your post get 8,000+ views in one hour. I'd tweet it but I haven't cared to logon twitter for quite a while.
jeffreyi
(1,943 posts)Made my day.
oasis
(49,390 posts)Granny M
(1,395 posts)Excellent post!
Thanks TF, your more therapeutic, and produce even more laughs then my pot prescription.
Lars39
(26,109 posts)"You sort of picture all these crusty old white folks sitting around in depressed silence until Lamar Alexander goes "We just can't govern, can we, fellas?" and John McCain says "Nope," and then then Marco Rubio starts crying and they cheer him up by letting him punch Ted Cruz a few a times."
Whiskeytide
(4,461 posts)... you can love or hate this, but you cannot deny the entertainment value. The nicknames alone are worth the read.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)48 hours without TheFerret is about all I can take before physiological symptoms join the psychological ones.
PelicanScot_V3
(70 posts)LOL! I've been calling him the Circus Peanut Stuffed Hazmat Suit this week. Thanks for the rant. Been hitting refresh for days to see this.
Cheers!
Auggie
(31,174 posts)nocalflea
(1,387 posts)Seriously. If my favorite high school English teacher read that, he'd die of joy .
FlightRN
(194 posts)much needed laugh.
niyad
(113,369 posts)FlightRN
(194 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)niyad
(113,369 posts)BSdetect
(8,998 posts)cp
(6,636 posts)Thank you for your brilliance. Funny to the millionth power.
kimbutgar
(21,163 posts)Better than the rude pundit. Keep up the good work Ferret!
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)"I'm about ten minutes away from being a Jackie Earle Haley character, so maybe we can catch up on the shit that fell through the cracks tomorrow."
Okay, TF - it is now tomorrow!!
ps please feel free to use "Cheeto Broderick Crawford*" again...it may be my fave of ever!
Love,
Jackie
Lucky Luciano
(11,257 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,742 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Very clever! I'll be seeking you out from now on for a "ferret" fix.
trailmonkee
(2,681 posts)That opening
JudyM
(29,251 posts)Truly original, though -- love every pathetically alt-real installment.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)- Russia hackers caused Qatar crisis (CNN)
- Eric Trump siphoned off kids cancer money (Forbes)
- The top appellate attorneys declined to represent DJT, and they confirmed subpoenas in a money laundering investigation (Yahoo)
- Comey told Sessions not to leave him alone with the president (NYT)
- Coats was asked by Trump if he'd help obstruct justice (WaPo)
- Sessions offered resignation
It's almost literally too much to keep track of. Outlets don't even report on each other's scoops because they are coming so fast.
TheFerret
(630 posts)I went out tonight. Let's see about a two-day wrap up tomorrow.
What's truly unfair is that I'll be unable to watch the Comey testimony. Let me know how it goes, folks...