Our National Masculinity Crisis

From The Daily Show

Johnson's bit about "Pandora's box" could be MTG's threat to spill the beans on everybody.

Now maybe she's got something and maybe she doesn't, but it points to Daddy State Awareness Guide, Rule 6:

Total criminalization

If we're all guilty, then you can't hold me responsible without the risk of exposing your own culpability.

I'm just so fucking sick of all the Intrigue At The Palace.

Desi Breaks It Down

It's not about why she lost. It's about how the fuck did that guy win?

Typical

Because if they aren't just a buncha whiny-butt pussies, then they're weak-brained and easily fooled by cynical manipulators who need to inflate people's egos so they'll stay distracted from being fucked with their pants on.

Last Night's Hi-Lite

Trump's "unity message" was about nothing but himself, and it was a typical Daddy State threat.

"Drop all the charges against me or I'm gonna have my goons fuck you up."

Guns

Gun crime has something to do with gun proliferation.

Gun proliferation has everything to do with coin-operated Republicans.

Today's Daily Show

Desi Lydic Foxplaining: Tucker Gets Fired

The Bad Guy With An Ad Agency

Jordan Klepper Fingers The Pulse

A trade show ad features a guy dressed in jeans, a t-shirt, and a backwards ball cap, poised to use his AR15 against protesters.

2 years later - Kyle Rittenhouse.

A perfectly straight-line connection may be a bit of a stretch, but dismissing any probability of a connection is foolish.

Today's Daily Show

with Sarah Silverman

"You'll be so outraged by this next story, you'll rip out all your pubes in one pull."

Jordan Klepper Fingers The Pulse - Nikki Haley For POTUS

Today's Wack-Doodles

Top 10 Desi Lydic bits

Nothing New Here

At about 21:40 -

What makes people predisposed to chase conspiracy fantasies?

We've seen all this shit before.

• Salem Witches
• Commies At The Pentagon
• Poisoned Halloween Candy
• Satanic Panic
• Freed Slaves Are Coming For The White Women
• and and and

The difference now of course, is that mass media isn't a casual gathering down at the town square or a coupla guys printing up pamphlets, or a newspaper or radio or 5 TV channels. The intertoobz gives these manipulative assholes a near-instant global reach, so the damage that a single bullshit story can do is amplified and accelerated so it starts to look like a fusion bomb has gone off in cyberspace.

If the nonsense stays with "I woke up in a bathtub filled with ice and then noticed I was missing a kidney", that's one thing. But when someone with actual real world political power picks up almost any random crap, runs with it, and embellishes it with "stolen election", then it escalates to a whole new level of dangerous shit.

Jordan Klepper Fingers The Conspiracy

Storm Talk

"It's tough to make predictions - especially about the future." --Yogi Berra

There's an awful lot of what I think right now is not much more than loose talk (equivocate much, Mikey?)

There's all kinds of tough-guy posturing - which prob'ly has about a 15% chance of leading to anything but lots of drunk MAGA rubes sitting around grumbling and muttering and pissin'-n-moanin', which is what they do best after they've raged themselves silly with their highly practiced bluff & bluster.

Of course, this could be wishful - even magical - thinking on my part.

But if these barstool warriors couldn't muster themselves to do anything but shit in the rotunda at the Capitol - when they had at least one weapons stash in Virginia, and guys with boats to ferry them across the Potomac - why am supposed to buy all this bullshit now?

Boats? Really?

Trump and QAnon and Bannon and the pillow guy and a host of others have been making threats and predicting big things for years now, and nothing happens. Nothing ever happens.

That's not to say there won't be incidents. There will be incidents. Because these assholes are going to drag this thing out, hoping to get enough rubes amped up to spark the revolution. I'm not convinced that'll play out, but we're going to see plenty of examples of how Stochastic Terrorism works.

Expect better, and prepare for worse.

Jordan Klepper

JK: That's how the democratic process works - sometimes the person you want to win doesn't get enough votes, and you accept it and you move on.

 

MAGA: Yes

 

JK: Who do yo think won the last election?

 

MAGA: Trump

A Civil Society

Jordan Klepper went to a Trump rally in Iowa.

Trump is actually still the president, but is somehow unable or unwilling to do things he says he's going to do, and he is absolutely not, in any way, responsible for anything bad that's happening, while taking full credit for all things good.

Come to think about it, that's pretty much the way things were when he was in office, so yeah - maybe these idiots are right(?) There's a scary thought.

Resting Constipation Face

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Tyranol - when you need to forget you've been supporting the bad guys

A Look Back

Jordan Klepper - The Daily Show

Today's Culture War Dispatch

"My dearest Karen...I have run afoul of the woke police, who, in this case, are the actual police..."

The Daily Show:

And I'll say it again.

If they think the key to winning elections is the heat they can generate by pimping white backlash to Critical Race Theory, then the GOP is confirming the tenets of CRT itself.

Republicans are acknowledging the premise that race - and thereby oppressively racist policy - is their central issue.

It's Not A Joke

Except that it is a joke. "The Hungarian Vector"

Jordan Klepper Fingers The Pulse

Something A Man Once Said

Listen for the part about living in chaos (near the end at about 7:15), and how it's not sustainable.

- and "we've already won".

A Look Inside

Sean Spicer treats the WH press corps like a bunch of kindergarteners pic.twitter.com/skjUKe4lJK

— Mдтт Иegяiи (@MattNegrin) April 5, 2017

And again - why do we get better insight from half-hour comedy shows than we get from the Press Poodles?