None of this is really happening, right? RIGHT?
How crazy is shit these days? Well, they're exhuming Salvador Dali. They are literally DIGGING UP SALVADOR DALI'S BODY AND HE WILL LEAD AN ARMY OF ZOMBIE SURREALISTS THAT SHALL SWEEP ACROSS THIS EARTH AND DESTROY THE WORLD OF SANITY FOR ALL TIME.
Fuck, y'all, I can't even figure out Baron Golfin Von Fatfuk's tweets anymore. One day Russian interference is fake news and a hoax, the next it happened but I guess it's Obama's fault because...shit, I can't fucking figure out why. Like, sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and I think I've got like, an ingenious idea for the next HBO serial, and I write it down and go back to sleep and when I wake up my notepad says "NHL Playoffs - but with Pandas!!!!" and I'm forced to come to terms with the fact that my barely-awake self is perhaps not quite Hemingway. Not Shart Garfunkel, tho. He fires those thoughts straight off into the official Presidential record.
Further Shart House spin holds that the Candycorn Skidmark was SUPER CLEVER in using his totally-made-up story about having tapes of their conversations to deviously trick James Comey into...into...into confirming every detail of the story that he's been telling all along, only under oath, and also getting Bob Mueller appointed Special Counsel and getting the President investigated for obstruction of justice...? I guess? Yeah, he's a real goddamn chess master, that Donald Trump.
Over the weekend, the Marmalade Shartcannon sat out Pride and refused to continue the tradition of hosting an iftar dinner during Ramadan, but he sure did golf a whole fucking bunch.
To really drive home just where the administration's priorities lie, they're defunding the State Department office that monitors and combats anti-semitism abroad, and, somewhat cartoonishly, DHS cut off funding for a program that helps people transition away from White Supremacist hate organizations. Hey, you can't expect a guy to shrink his own base, AMIGHT?
Speaking of the weekend and white supremacists, Team Shart turned out not one, but two hilariously-under-attended "rallies" in D.C. on Sunday. For a little extra comedy, the two wee-as-their-God-Emperor's-hands gatherings decided to go to war...with each other! It seems RIchard Spencer's pathetic American Nazis and Jack Posobiec's Shakespeare-fearing Shartkins each think the other faction is super-lame! In a bit of fun irony, they're BOTH RIGHT! Anyhow, they're yelling at one another on twitter, waving competing Gasden Flags and generally making asses of themselves, as is their habit.
Also, in perhaps the most stunning news in all of human history, it seems as though Jared Kushner was not able to bring peace to the Middle East.
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It seems Jar-Jar, as a representative of the U.S. government, went to Mahmoud Abbas of Palestine with a list of Bibi's demands, which didn't go over so well. You can't blame Jared, tho...it's not like ANYONE WHO'S DONE TWELVE MINUTES OF READING ON THE SUBJECT COULD'VE TOLD YOU HOW COLOSSALLY FUCKING STUPID THAT WOULD BE MY GOD JARED HOW DO YOU EVEN GET YOUR PANTS ON YOU FUCKING IDIOT?
Or wait, maybe it is.
(Jared is also probably still embarrassed that he held a press conference and allowed the world to hear his weenie little castrato voice, but he did, and we can all laugh at him forever now.)
Gowdy Doody took over the Oversight gavel, and promptly announced that he won't be doing anything to investigate Russia, or the President's blatant obstruction of justice, cuz after all, Drumpf is not a Democrat.
In the background, a few voices in the Right Wing Media Bubba-uhl seem to have, through some miracle, hit simultaneously on the talking point that "So what if Donnie Darko collaborated with a hostile foreign power to win election! There's nothing illegal or wrong about that!" (It is both super illegal and super wrong.) If this is what passes for "getting out ahead of a story" these days, heaven help us all.
Didja see that shit where the Failing New York Times published a full-page list of All the President's Lies? What'll be extra fun is next week when they find some out-of-work coal miner in Pennsylvania, and run down that list one by one, revealing he believes every single lie is gospel truth and that the lamestream media is composed entirely of Hollywood lesbian terrorist refugee atheists.
Sean Spicer continues to hide his shameful love handles by banning cameras during press briefings. Jim Acosta remains pissed and pissy about this development; my sources tell me plans to settle the issue with Spicer INSIDE A STEEL CAGE AT SUMMERSLAM. (There was a fun little bit of trolling where CNN invited a courtroom sketch artist in, and y'know what they say, Sean, the sketch artist adds 15 pounds, and O how we will laugh at this when they start throwing journalists in prison!)
I guess ol' Sergey Kislyak is takin' the last train to Moscow, and headin' home! Seems Daddy Vlad has recalled him. I dunno, in spite of all the ongoing controversy, that seems unnecessary, since apparently no member of the Republican Party can ever recall being in a room with Sergey, which I assume is his mutant power.
Princess Ivanka went on Fux and Frendz to say she tries to stay out of politics, despite having a job in the White House, which I can only assume is an attempt to Gaslight me personally. Well it won't work, Ivanka! I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE I LEFT THAT BROOCH, AND YOU'LL NEVER TELL ME ANY DIFFERENT!!!!!!!
Oh hey, it was SCOTUS decision day, and we finally got to meet Neil Gorsuch, Unremovable Arbiter of All American Law For Life. The good news is, he's an absolute monster, who thinks guns have more rights than LGBT Americans; he may as well be Scalia's brain transplanted in a younger body, and he'll be on the fucking bench for decades.
Wait, did I see good news? That's the bad news. The good news I JUST SAVED A FUCKTON OF MONEY ON MY CAR INSURANCE HAW HAW HAW HAW HOPE EVERYONE ENJOYS HAVING REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS WHILE THEY'VE GOT 'EM.
Speaking of SCOTUS, they kinda sorta held up a watered down version of the watered down version of the Shart's travel ban. The ban was supposed to be a temporary fix while the administration figured out XXXtreme vetting or some shit, and that deadline was weeks ago, but who's counting? Anyhow, since we've all been overwhealmed by the tidal wave of refugee-born violence that the Ban was supposed to prevent, I guess it's THANKS FOR NUTHIN', SUPREMES.
Oh wait, what's that? No refugees or visitors from the travel ban countries have done anyone any harm? Even though white supremacists are running amok, coast to coast?
HUH. WEIRD.
The big gnus, of course, is still Mitch McConnell's attempt at one-stop serial killer immortality.
There weren't too many GOPers willing to defend the bill on the Sunday Shoz, mostly because selling this massive-upwards-redistribution-of-wealth-bill as a "health care" reform without breaking down in Austin-Powers-villain-style laughter is much, much harder than it looks. Still, a few tried.
Knowing that a bill that kicks millions off of their insurance and cuts billions for Medicaid will be cripplingly unpopular, they just marched out and told everyone that their bill neither kicks anybody off insurance nor makes any cuts to Medicaid. Naw, it gives people MORE insurance and also a pony and three boxes of Thin Mints and a handjob from a supermodel!
Hey, if their voters think Cheeto Himmler's gonna get Mexico to pay for that border wall and that Podesta ran a child sex slavery ring out of a pizza joint, getting them to believe that Medicaid cuts aren't Medicaid cuts really isn't that heavy a lift.
In further evidence of his strategic genius SHARTUS told an interviewer that not only did he call the House version of the AHCA "mean," but that BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA stole "mean" from him, which might be fair, since more folks are opting for words like "cruel," "medieval," or "murderous." What can I say, Donnie? "Mean" really IS your brand.
Donnie insists he wants a bill with "Heart." Heart...as in, a steady supply of human hearts for Steve Bannon to eat, after soaking them overnight in gin, of course.
Meanwhile, Kellyanne was all, hey, get a job, all you children, elderly and disabled folks, as well as the people who work at shitty companies like Wal-Mart that refuse to pay a living wage, because Kellyanne is a garbage human being who probably spends a substational chunk of her day hoping that Hell isn't real.
Ron Johnson, a real intellectual heavyweight in the modern Republican Party, compared charging a person with a preexisting condition more for health insurance to charging a driver who gets into a wreck more for car insurance, which makes sense, because almost every baby born in America pops straight from Mom's womb to the front seat of a Range Rover and goes on a coke-fueled joyride.
Anyhow, the CBO score dropped this afternoon, and it's pretty much what you'd expect. 22 million more uninsured, with more to come once the Medicaid cuts kick in in earnest, higher premiums for shittier insurance, especially for the poor, but godDAMN do the rich get a sweet, sexxxxxxy tax break!
So far Dean Heller and Susan Collins have claimed the two get-out-of-jail-free cards, so Lisa Murkowski and Shelley Moore Capito are squirming a bit. On the other side of things, lunatics like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are upset that the bill leaves too many takers alive, and even the feral clowns of the House Freedom Caucus insist that more American corpses be thrown atop their sacrificial pyre, because whatever God these bastards worship needs to bathe hourly in the blood of the senselessly dead, I guess.
Reuters tells us that the rest of the world hates us more and more every day under Tangerine Idi Amin's reign. And that's even AFTER he went to Saudi Arabia to harness the power of the mighty Orb. The effect is especially pronounced in our closest allies like Canada and Mexico, and the Shart himself is viewed less favorably than even his Uncle Vlad. Are we the bad guys now? Did we like, turn heel?
Well, if shit isn't cray enough for ya, Martin Shkreli and Joe Arpaio are going on trial and Grover Norquist is tweeting stupid shit about sales tax and Justin Trudeau is high-fiving kids at the Pride Parade wearing rainbow socks which isn't fair, I remember when we had a cool President, and didn't live in fucking Bizarro WestWingland, fuck you Canada.
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Baron Golfin Von Fatfuk (had to see that again) 
People forget that not only was Dali a fascist, but he wrote/spoke repeatedly about his sex-fantasies-with-fascists dreams. "Strong" men were a turn on.
The world never made sense. What's so horrific is that, for a few years at least, we were able to delude ourselves into thinking that humanity was improving.
I'm very glad that I'm meeting with my psychiatrist in a few days. 
Also, I totally missed the Sunday gatherings, and therefore the dustup between Posobiec and Spencer!! I love that shit!! Off to find out more details on their tiff, but meanwhile, in great big letters,
THANK YOU!!!
Baron Golfin Von Fatfuk
I apologize for my delay in a kick, but, I've been busy seeking a new belief system to replace my obviously flawed and recently discarded faith.
I may return to the Mother Religion of Bokononism. (I was an adherent in my youth and it seems to be calling me again.)
Vonnegut was truly a conduit of higher foma.
Ha! Jar-Jar! I knew it. Somehow he escaped from the Carbonite block Lucas had suspended him in, married into the-children-of-the-candy-corn-skid-mark, and took out a balloon loan of over a Billion clams from the Russian Syndicate. Only Jar-Jar could fuck up this badly! 
Good to see you haven't lost your sense for blunder. NGU!
Your posts are awesome! Thank you!
I wish DU still had weekly articles/columns like those posted on the homepage back in the days of DU1.
Hey Skinner! TheFerret should have a weekly column and also, please bring back the weekly Top 10 Conservative Idiots column as well!
I'll be sure to check for the top 10 on Wednesdays!
Except they are all great!
The big gnus, of course, is still Mitch McConnell's attempt at one-stop serial killer immortality.
There weren't too many GOPers willing to defend the bill on the Sunday Shoz, mostly because selling this massive-upwards-redistribution-of-wealth-bill as a "health care" reform without breaking down in Austin-Powers-villain-style laughter is much, much harder than it looks. Still, a few tried.
Love the blank space to recover from the shock of Jar Jar not doing any good.
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Thanks!
