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Top 10 Idiots

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Top 10 Conservative Idiots Wiki

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This is a guide to the blog known as the Top 10 Conservative Idiots. The Top 10 Conservative Idiots is a weekly comedy news blog hosted on Democratic Underground. The current era of the Top 10 began on Dec 6th, 2015 and is currently in its' ninth season. Even numbered seasons run from January - Memorial Day weekend, while odd numbered seasons run from June 1st - December 20th, with the exception of the 1st season which ended shortly before the 2016 election. The "show" is hosted in a format that begins with a monologue about random news, followed by a video from one of the major liberal pundits (John Oliver, Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher, Conan O'Brien, Trevor Noah, or Saturday Night Live), followed by a brief description of each piece in the Top 10, followed by a musical act - usually from a liberal musician (though during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, this feature has been temporarily discontinued). The show also has recurring segments on various topics.

Season 1 (Dec 2015 - Nov 2016) : https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016169212
Season 2 (Nov 2016 - May 2017) : https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029078791
Season 3 (Jun 2017 - Dec 2017) : https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210008235
Season 4 (Jan 2018 - May 2018) : https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210083764
Season 5 (Jun 2018 - Dec 2018) : https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210720590
Season 6 (Jan 2019 - May 2019) : https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211623942
Season 7 (Jun 2019 - Dec 2019) : https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212164633
Season 8 (Jan 2020 - May 2020) : https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212831883
Season 9 (Jun 2020 - Dec 2020) : https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213570012
Season 10 (Jan 2021 - Jun 2021) : https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214798830
Season 11 (Jun 2021 - Dec 2021) : https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215586273
Season 12 (Jan 2022 - May 2022) : https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216216353
Season 13: (Jun 2022 - Dec 2022) : https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216941147
Season 14 (Jan. 2023 - May 2023): https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217564760
Season 15 (Jun 2023 - Dec 2023): https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218079280
Season 16 (Jan - May 2024):

Recurring Segments:

- How Is This Still A Thing? - A segment asking about the popular status of current trends, conservative talking points, or items in the news that are gaining traction about things that should be left in the past, but inexplicably aren't.

- People Who Somehow Got Elected - A segment detailing the news centering on one particular politician and how that person either holds an office or continues to hold an office.

- This Fucking Guy - A segment similar to "How Is This Still A Thing" that details one particular person or pundit, usually second or third tier republican commentators or religious personalities.

- Holy Shit - A permanent weekly feature created to mimic all the pomp and circumstance of your Sunday sermon, in which a "pastor" presents religious themed news of the week in the language that the Christian right can understand. This pastor is usually accompanied by a gospel choir, yes men, a Bible-like "Good Book", and a congregation.
NOTE: Starting on October 10th, 2021, Holy Shit will become a stand alone spinoff series from the Top 10 with expanded sermons and additional content including answering your prayers from the Holy Shit prayer line, and introducing new religion themed segments in a bi-weekly format.

- Top 10 Investigates - A permanent weekly feature. Created to poke fun at the ridiculousness of sensationalist prime time network news, this segment features news on a particular topic in an investigative format.
NOTE: As of Edition #11-1, Top 10 Investigates will no longer be a weekly feature. It will be a recurring feature.

- The Trumper Games - When a prominent member of the Trump administration either leaves or is fired, the shakeup prompts the host to show why this "tribute" was eliminated in a Hunger Games style broadcast. This segment is done in the style of the announcement broadcast of the Hunger Games TV show within the movie.

- What's Up With Brazil? - A series designed to poke fun at all of the ridiculous news coming from South America's largest country.

- What's Up With India? - A series designed to poke fun at all of the ridiculous news coming from one of the world's largest countries with the world's largest population.

- What's Up With China? - The world's largest country and home to one of the largest populations in the world is currently going through the darkest period in its' history and we document the latest developments in this segment.

- What's Up With France? - France's Yellow Vest protests are tearing the country apart for a small minority going up against the French government, and this segment covers all the insanity going on in and outside Paris.

- What's Up With Texas? - A special 5 part docuseries filmed during our Texas Roadshow that takes us through the inner workings of the Lone Star State and why people have such a love / hate affair with the largest state in the union.

- What's Up With Brexit? - The British special election that saw a large majority of the voters wanting England to leave the European Union is what one might call a "clusterfuck" and it's their equivalent of having Trump president - each day is an absolute shit show and utterly embarrassing, and we comb through the madness.

- So That Happened - When there's so much crazy stuff that happens in the news that it's impossible to keep up, we put all of it into a blender and hit puree and attempt to figure out what exactly happened.

- Ah, It's Not So Bad - A new segment that attempts to find the silver lining in otherwise extremely horrible news items.

- Top 10 Heroes - These are the shining stars of the Top 10 who we feel deserve their own entry. As the late great David Bowie once said - "If we could be heroes, just for one day."

- People Are Dumb - What's a blog called "Top 10 Conservative Idiots" without a segment about stupid people? This is a random, free floating segment that focuses on stupid people doing stupid things, set to the backdrop music of Depeche Mode's "People Are People".

- I Need A Drink - A segment where we kick back, have some drinks, get drunk, and discuss literally anything in the news as long as it doesn't relate to politics.

- Beating A Dead Horse - When a topic, talking point, or news item has been beaten to death by conservatives or anyone else in the news for that matter, Beating A Dead Horse explains that the topic needs to end because it's been beaten to death already.

- Profiles In #Civility - After California representative Maxine Waters suggesting that the right and left be more civil to each other, this segment documents that it indeed has the opposite effect.

- Explaining Jokes To Idiots - When a movie, documentary, TV show or other news item draws scorn from the media and from reviewers, this segment explains the concept of humor to people who don't quite get it.

- We're All Gonna Die - When there's an item in the news that could signal a worldwide catastrophe (disease, war, pollution, etc), this segment makes fun of the sensationalist way network news predicts that, yeah, we could all potentially die from this.

- Is It Racist? - It's the new game that's sweeping the nation! When a politician or celebrity is accused of dishing out some old school racism, this game will help you decide what's real and what isn't. Oh and yeah it's probably racist.

- This Week In Hate - This segment covers all the horrible things (or thing) that the AM hate radio sphere is talking about this week and mercilessly mocks their horrible talking points.

- Top 10 Movie Vault - When a movie, popular or otherwise, dominates the headlines whether it's good or bad, the Top 10 Movie Vault will dissect all the madness so you can make a choice whether or not to go see it.

- Top 10 Mystery Machine - Channel your inner Scooby Doo and help solve a mystery that might be taking over the headlines! And they would have got away with it too, if not for those meddling kids!

- World Tour - While discontinued, the World Tour featured news and culturally relevant information about the country of the week and followed a format that featured many different countries around the world and graded them on a scale of how likely you are to visit that particular country.

- This Will Work, Fact! - The news may be clueless what to do in a situation where one story dominates the news, but we have solutions, and that's what this segment is for!

- Top 10 For Dummies - Created in the style of the popular series of "For Dummies" how to guides, this feature centers around a lecture series about one particular topic spread through a series of multiple parts.

- Deep State Diaries - A segment created that examines all of the branches and services that make up the United States government and explains what they actually do to conspiracy theorists and grades them on a scale of how likely they are to survive the current administration.

- Red State Diaries - New for season 11! Much like our season 3 World Tour, this tour is going to give a brief introduction of all the states that voted conservative in the 2020 election and just talk about them and find out what is up, then give them a rating based on a four point scale.

- What's Up With Texas? - Our special 5 part series explored the Lone Star State in search of the immigrant crisis, bad times at Chik-Fil-A, gulf coast cleanup, and campus life at rivaling universities.

- #KnowYourMeme - If your friends or relatives are passing around pro-Trump memes on Facebook, Twitter, or your social media platform of choice, this segment will explain in plain English, using facts, that those memes are complete and utter bullshit. Or in Trump's language, fake news.

- Keeping Up With The Candidates - In a hotly contested political season with 24 candidates running, the Top 10 is going to present to you our first ever official voters' guide with a handy way to keep track of all 24 candidates running and some extra bonus content in the election to end all elections!

- Conspiracy Corner - When there's an event that cannot be explained through logic and reason, people turn to conspiracy theories to explain the unexplainable. We turn on our trusty tin foil hats to cut through all the madness surrounding what's real and what's fake!

- The Maskhole Files - 2020 is the year of the coronavirus pandemic and as such, those who refuse to wear masks, which we call appropriately, "Maskholes", are freaking out in public day after day and refusing to abide by CDC guidelines. We put all the best (or worst) tales of this sub genus of humans in this segment.

- Parlerfiles - When alt right trolls get banned from mainstream social media sites, they flock to message appropriate forums like Parler and Gab, where they can be as dangerous and scary as they want to be and free from consequences! This free floating segment complies some of the best (or worst) of the insanity out there.

- Good Guys With Guns - Whenever guns and mass shootings dominate the news, it's always fun to take a look at the lighter side of stupid people with weapons and refute popular NRA talking points. Responsible gun owners? We got plenty of them! And it's never the right time to talk about guns because these people let the guns do their talking for them!

- The Top 10 World Of Sports - Our first ever sports related segment is going to take a look at all kinds of sports whether it's the major leagues or the minor leagues, the big leagues or the most obscure! Everything from baseball to basketball to hockey to rugby to football to soccer to dodgeball, you name it, we'll cover it!

- The Road To The White House - The election of Joseph R. Biden was unprecedented with him ousting incumbent president Donald Trump. This segment, now discontinued, document the journey from the end of the election to the inauguration of President Biden and Vice President Harris and beyond!

- Late Stage Capitalism - When corporate greed reaches unprecedented new heights, corporations begin to siphon your every last dollar in unspeakably horrible new ways! Late Stage Capitalism explores all of the terrible things that the Jeff Bezos' and Richard Bransons and Elon Musks and Mark Zuckerbergs of the world come up with to squeeze your wallets!

- The Pride Files - Our first ever segment dedicated to the LGBT themed news of the day! Whether it's the local pride parade or it's transphobia, or it's a wedding shop that refuses to bake wedding cakes for the billionth time, we're here to cover all of the gay themed news whether it's good or bad!

- The Top 10 World Of Sports - Our sports themed segment covers all the sports news of the world - whether it's an NFL football player shooting his mouth off about vaccines or a soccer player goes streaking, we're there for it!

Stupidest State Contest:

An annual contest that takes 16 states (usually all red states but that could change any time) that centers around the fictional "National For Fuck's Sake Association" and four distinct conferences from two leagues - the Layover League and the Flyover League - in 16 match ups that take course over the season and the championship is held on the season finale. Each conference has a variety of states that all center around one thing that binds them. The conferences are as follows:

- Batshit Conference - The Batshit Conference is the conference that centers around states that the craziest news comes from, and they elect the craziest politicians possible.
States: California, Washington, New York, Rhode Island, Maine, Georgia, Kentucky, Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire, Texas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Hawaii
- The Gun Nut Conference - The Gun Nut Conference is centered around the states in the country where gun rights are put above human rights, and the senators and representatives elected to Congress have a place on the NRA's fabled A+ list.
States: Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Missouri, New Mexico, Oregon, Montana, Illinois, Maryland,
- The Fiscal Irresponsibility Conference - Generally centering around mid western states, the states in this conference are states where money influences state legislation, and lawmakers are influenced by conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation.
States: Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Connecticut, Iowa, Wisconsin, Colorado, Alaska
- The Family Values Conference - This conference centers around the states where the churches, Jesus, and God take precedent over judgement and due process.
States: Indiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Ohio, Louisiana, South Carolina, North Carolina,

Wheel Of Corruption:

The Wheel Of Corruption is a Top 10 feature that spans the entire length of the edition. The name of these editions is different from the regular Top 10 in that they make fun of ridiculous movie sequel or franchise titles. A giant wheel with about 50 different options spins and the host must discuss whatever the wheel lands on. Each entry in the Top 10 lands two spins. Common elements include clips without context, guacamole, and t-shirt cannons.

Top 10 Live:

The fifth season of the Top 10 has been going out on the road to comedy clubs across the country.

The Top 10 Twitter Account

The official account for the Top 10 Conservative Idiots is @10Idiots which updates regularly with new Top 10 editions, previews for the next week and tweets relevant information pertaining to the liberal community. Note: As of December 31st, 2022, due to Elon Musk's hostile takeover of the Twitter platform and his gross mishandling of it, the Top 10 Twitter account and the Holy Shit Twitter accounts will both be terminated. New accounts will be setup on Mastodon.social in 2023. An official Top 10 Conservative Idiots Subreddit is also in the works.

The Holy Shit Twitter Account

Pastor Initech has setup the official Twitter account for the Holy Church Of The Top 10. If following all the wacky things the Christian right says and does is your thing, then hit up the official Twitter account at @churchofTop10. You can chat with the good Rev, and get your prayers answered and even suggest new topics and sermons for the church to cover! Note: As of December 31st, 2022, due to Elon Musk's hostile takeover of the Twitter platform and his gross mishandling of it, the Top 10 Twitter account and the Holy Shit Twitter accounts will both be terminated. New accounts will be setup on Mastodon.social in 2023.

The Top 10 Mastodon Accounts

The Top 10 has shut down the official Top 10 Twitter accounts and has setup shop on Mastodon! Now follow the Top 10 at:

- Top 10 Conservative Idiots: Top10ConIdiots@mstdn.party
- Holy Shit: churchoftop10@mstdn.party

Both accounts will be active as of 1/1/23.

The Top 10 G-Mail Account

Another way to get in touch with the Top 10 is through the official G-Mail account which is found at: Top10Idiots@gmail.com, you can e-mail the Top 10 with any questions, comments, concerns, and yes, we even accept hate mail!

Initech Productions

Initech Productions is the company that puts on the Top 10 live production. The home offices for the Top 10 are located close to our main stage, the Observatory OC in Santa Ana, California.
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