#And the satirizing of American politics

[iiidunno]

I just finished the boys holy feckin shit

what do I do with myself now?

[politijohn]

Source

Is this really satire?

[davidaugust]

Brilliantly done Scottish Sunday Herald TV guide.

via (at)phillyguy25.bsky.social

[artemisia-black]

Most mornings, I’ll watch American news/political pundits as background noise for emails.

Today on a vox pop, a woman said that Jesus Christ would need to have a visa if he was alive today and wanted to get into the United States (otherwise she would protest against it).

GIRL WDYM.

Imagine telling your lord and saviour, “Unless you can turn that water into a green card, you’re not crossing this border.”

We’d have Jesus of Nazareth as a cast member of 90 day fiancé, marrying Karen from Ohio for that K-1 visa.

Deport our Lord 2025

[theamericanidiot]

Breaking Idiotic News: Recent polls are showing that Sam The Eagle, of The Muppets, will most likely be the presidential candidate for the US Democratic Party in 2028.

When we asked him what made him decide to throw his star spangled hat in the ring after so many years of denying interest in the position, Sam said, “It is beyond offensive that President Trump is appropriating the Muppet culture for a second term. If the American people would like a puppet as commander in chief they should be able to vote for a true Muppet! What Muppet is more patriotic than me?”

When we asked President Trump to comment on this recent development, his team declined. Later that day, however, President Trump posted the following on Twitter. “Tomorrow we change the bird of the USA! The corrupt left pricked the eagle for us and now it is time for a real manly bird to take its place. Our new bird is the beautiful cassowary! Such a big beautiful bird! The biggest in the sky! The best American bird.”

It is not yet clear if the president understands that the cassowary is a flightless bird.

[aria-greenhoodie]

Happy July 13th

[alien-of-earth]

Trump was so brave for ending gender inequality by making everyone AFAC (Assigned Female at Conception). Truly inspirational, what a revolutionary king.

[themisinformer]

Nation’s Biggest Dumbass Doesn’t See Need for Department of Education

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Calling the government institution “completely unnecessary,” the country’s biggest dumbass, President Donald Trump, has once again stated his intention to completely dismantle the Department of Education, claiming that there isn’t a reason for it to exist in this day and age.

“The Department of Education is a complete and utter disaster,” Trump said in a post to Truth Social. “We’re wasting billions of dollars to educate our nation’s young people when they all have social media, television, and books that they can use to learn completely for free. It’s all one big waste, people!”

Trump has also expressed concern about the supposed “woke” learning content being taught in schools across the country. “There’s no learning going on anymore,” Trump claimed. “It’s all indoctrination. They’re teaching kids to hate America, and that’s something that I just can’t stand for.”

Trump’s plan to dismantle the Department of Education has received criticism as it would cause public schools to lose a significant amount of their funding, and could severely hurt programs such as special education and low income student assistance, something that Trump has brushed off.

“All kids need to know is the truth, and we have Truth Social for that,” Trump concluded.

[hitlersmanifesto]

I just found out that people from other countries watch American news for entertainment

I have an Irish friend who says that American news is like the fake news on The Boys and he watches it to laugh at us

guys. we’re so cooked.

[satiricaljusticewarrior]

Continuation of satirizing the Brian Thompson murder debacle.

Jimmy Kimmel from ABC, who once wore a shirt against gun violence, has decided to make light of those siding with Brian Thompson’s murderer. https://x.com/tomselliott/status/1866826845729198322?s=19

Other instances of prominent media and political figures siding with the murderer:

The Daily Show equating a proven self-defense case in court with shooting a defenseless man in the back. https://x.com/TheDailyShow/status/1866921478949609752

AOC says that whatever the left doesn’t like is considered violence, which then justifies the left’s actual violence. https://x.com/alanhe/status/1867274875859349565?s=19

Anyway, those who find the murder acceptable are children on their parents’ insurance, not people who actually struggle with insurance. https://emersoncollegepolling.com/december-2024-national-poll-young-voters-diverge-from-majority-on-crypto-tiktok-and-ceo-assassination/

About Biden’s $43 billion failed program and Starlinks:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/18/bidens-425-billion-rural-high-speed-internet-plan-/

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1834668384300286313

As for my claim that more people per capita die in the UK and Canada: A 2009 study determined that 45,000 people in the US die every year due to lacking insurance. Meanwhile, in the UK, 120,000 people have died, which is outright more—not just per capita. In Canada, it is 17,000, even though Canada has around 8.35 times fewer people than the US. So, in the US, this would be over 141,000 people dying due to inefficient healthcare, which would be more than three times the estimated supposed victims of the US healthcare system that Brian Thompson was meant to be blamed for. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/07/americans-healthcare-medical-costs

If the left wants to argue that it’s preferable for more people to die from poor healthcare than for people to have medical debt, they can start an honest discussion. But this isn’t why Brian Thompson was murdered or why he is being vilified by the murderer’s supporters.

I know there will be arguments that the US has a lower life expectancy than the UK and Canada. However, claiming that this is due solely to the US healthcare system conflates correlation with causation. Other factors have a direct impact on life expectancy in the United States.

For instance, 18% of the US population has severe obesity, which reduces life expectancy by at least 10 years (https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/12/close-to-half-of-u-s-population-projected-to-have-obesity-by-2030/). Additionally, 16.7% of the U.S. population struggles with substance use disorder (https://americanaddictioncenters.org/rehab-guide/addiction-statistics-demographics). The US also shares an open border with a country that has a lower life expectancy.

These are just the most obvious factors affecting life expectancy. Unless these issues—and how they differentiate the US from Canada and the UK—are addressed, it is unfair to blame the US healthcare system for the difference in life expectancy.

PS: My previous cartoon has been further validated by swing voters who admitted they voted for Trump because they were turned off by left-wing ideas.

https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-dnc-and-the-democrats?publication_id=239058&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=2dyylb&utm_medium=email

[newwavesylviaplath]

do u guys think charlie kirk is part of the smile 2 marketing

[9ofspades]

Opinion:  I'm an Anti-Specsser and Everyone Else Should Be Too

Why are you wearing glasses?  

No, seriously.   Why the fuck are you still wearing glasses?  

The epidemic is over.  I don't know anyone who worries about nearsightedness anymore.  Do you hear anyone talking about it?  Do you see nearsightedness germs flying around?  No, because it's OVER.  

Look, I don't know how to break it to you, but a thin piece of glass in front of your eyes isn't going to help protect you from macular degeneration.  It's a false sense of security, an illusion; like if you just keep looking through them you can pretend that the world has crisp sharp edges.  Well, guess what?  The world is blurry.  You don't know where empty space ends and your body begins.  In fact, it doesn't.  Your body is mostly empty space.  

Everything happens for a reason, anyway; so if you get into an accident because you can't drive without your glasses?  Tough cajones; take your punishment like God intended.  It's your fault for having bad genes, which you got because of... original sin, or something.  I don't know, I didn't actually read the Bible.  I just believe vehemently in every word of it, except the words you use to disagree with me.  Because that's wrong.  

I don't think I'm doing anything wrong by yelling at glasses-wearers on the street.  It just fills me with such visceral, incandescent rage when I see a pair of pince-nez balancing on someone's nose.  It's like they're sending a direct fuck-you to people like me, who choose not to wear glasses.  So of course I have to yell at them; it's just simple self-preservation - if I don't, pretty soon everyone will be wearing glasses, and ganging up on those of us that don't, because we're "jeopardizing public safety" or "a danger to the common good."  I don't need to listen to that.

When you declare you're on the opposite side from me with that flag you wear right on your face, you shouldn't be surprised when I treat you like an enemy.  "What sides?" you ask?  "There's no 'sides' here; everyone is just choosing-" oh, shut up.  You're so naive.  Of course there are sides.  There's sides to everything.  What about a circle? you say.  Inside and outside.  There.  Now don't you feel stupid.  

And those circles you wear on your face mark you as being on the inside.  I don't like that.  Nobody likes being left on the outside.  So stop wearing them.  That way I can find something else to be angry about, like freckles.  I think I'll take on freckles next.  If you have them, stop having them.  You're being too different from me and I don't like it.

[davidaugust]

Fox Business says the average price of a dozen eggs could be nearly $5 by the end of the year, which would be the highest-ever recorded average price. Turns out surrendering our human rights does not lower the price of breakfast after all.

[jinxstark]

'War on drugs' poster but the drugs pictured are HRT and birth control

[theamericanidiot]

Breaking Idiotic News: Virtual whales officially join Orcas in their hunt to ruin the days of billionaires.

Over the past few years there have been multiple reports of Orca pods taking down boats, with many marine biologists reporting that they believe the Orcas are doing it to improve their hunting skills.

However, when we sent out our field reporter, Dory, who can speak Whale, she reported back that the Orcas were simply creating a distraction for the American billionaires. The distraction was put in place by the entirety of the Whale community, with the aim of ensuring Americans would not win the artificial intelligence race.

When the virtual Whales were asked why they did not want the Americans to win the not that amazing race towards superior AI development, they commented, "did you see what the Americans did after they won the space race? Litter and space junk every where! Not on my internet!"

[violet-phoenix-nebula]

I am... probably gonna play this more than once. I'm fucking dying. It's brilliant and it slaps.

God I hope Taylor sees this.

Edit: start at the 2 minute mark if you want to skip the little intro skit + the sponsor.