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Netanyahu Nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

July 8, 2025 in Humor, Politics by admin | Permalink

This is such low-hanging fruit, it hardly feels worth the effort, but what the hell. Getting nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Netanyahu is like getting nominated for Father of the Year by Homer Simpson and King Lear (two guys who obviously belong in the same sentence).

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Americans (of the Republican variety) like authoritarians

September 10, 2016 in Humor, Politics by admin | Permalink

When I was in elementary and middle school, the Vietnam War was still raging, and even we young ones were taking sides. No friendships were terminated over the divide, at least among us young ones. The only effect my family’s ardent anti-war views had on me was that it probably led to my exclusion from the Cub Scouts. I applied, but never heard back. Even then, I was fine with that. I hadn’t been that enthusiastic about joining that quasi-military association to begin with, and the only long-term losses resulting from my exclusion were to things like my knot-tying ability and my ability to fashion a lean-to out of sticks and leaves, which I am constantly hearing I absolutely suck at. Of course, the guy who is always telling me about how much my lean-to construction skills suck can’t filter his pee for potable water worth a damn. “It always tastes like pee,” I tell him. But I digress.

One of my conservative, pro-war friends was an Italian-American kid, who was very bright and a great debater. LC, I will call him, was also a fan of Benito Mussolini (and now, presumably, of Trump). LC loved to get a rise out of me by singing the praises of old BM (which we’ll call him both for short and for accuracy of description). “BM brought order out of the anarchy of Italy.” “BM made the trains run on time.” You know. That sort of stuff.

So, today, when the Donald praises Putin, his words, which seem treasonous to us, resonate with a significant portion of his base, which actually yearns for a strong (authoritarian) leader, as well as for the end of rights for people of color, the closing of our borders, and just in general making America great (= white) again.

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Trump Likes Putin Because Trump Wants To Be An Authoritarian

September 8, 2016 in Humor, Politics by admin | Permalink

People are scratching their heads over Trump’s doubling down on his praise of Putin. As he told Matt Lauer, he likes Putin because Putin is a strong leader. And very popular, too, with an 82% approval rating.

Apart from the fact that no one should give any credence to the approval ratings given to dictators in their own countries–are you really going to say you don’t approve of your fearless leader?–it is clear that Trump admires Putin’s strength above all else.

Well, maybe not above everything else. Trump also likes him because Putin has made Trump think that Putin likes him. Trump is auditioning for the role of Putin’s lap dog.

But I digress. Trump really admires Putin’s strength. Of course, Saddam Hussein was strong, at one time. So was Idi Amin. (Amin didn’t just fire people; he ate them!) You could add lots of other enemies of the U.S. to the list: Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini (who Trump appears to be channeling facially), just to take examples from the 1940s–the halcyon days of Trump’s childhood. (In fairness, Trump was born about a year and six weeks after Hitler and Mussolini died, so he never had the pleasure personally.)

I suspect that Trump would have good things to say about all of these men, especially in the context of comparing them favorably to Obama, whom Trump claims is a very bad, weak man who wasn’t even born here.

What all this comes down to is that Trump aspires to be an authoritarian President (to the extent that he aspires to be President at all). Of course, there probably are a lot of Americans who would like an authoritarian President, just as there probably are a lot of Americans who think ignorance is a qualification for the office.

If Trump is elected, old Vladimir will have a friend in D.C.–a fact that Trump actually views as a selling point.

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In wake of Massachusetts upset, Obama reveals new jobs plan

January 20, 2010 in Humor, Politics by admin | Permalink

January 20, 2010 

Spurred on by the disappointing outcome of the Massachusetts special election, President Obama has revealed his new jobs plan:  It starts with putting the Republicans back to work. 

More to come . . . .

The Latest on Fox

September 12, 2009 in Humor, Politics by admin | Permalink

With the so-called Health Care Reform “debate” raging and on the eve of a taxpayer march on Washington (brought to you by the loonies who gave us tea parties and brought guns to town meetings), I’ve been thinking of some of the news stories we can expect from Fox and Rush in the coming days and weeks. I’ve looked into my crystal ball — in the shape of a glass of beer — and here are some of the headlines that are on the horizon, brought to you by the folks who lost the last election:

1. New Report Reveals That Obama Administration Took No Steps To Prevent 9/11.

2. Obama Deliberately Makes Dumb White People Ashamed That They Are Dumb White People.

3. Obama Lost China.

4. Obama Failing To Check Danger Posed By Newly Resurgent Socialist Workers Party Of America.

5. Exposed! Obama Read Marx In Sophomore Poly Sci.

6. Obama Seeking To Create An Achievement Gap Between Children And Their Crystal-Meth Addicted, High School Drop-Out Parents.

7. Obama’s Government Death Panels: A Threat To My Insurance Company’s Death Panels.

8. Seniors Rally Against Obama’s Socialist Government Health Care Program: Urge That Medicare Be Protected From Government Takeover.

9. “Obama A Bambi Sympathizer?” Asks NRA.

10. Obama’s Election: Tyranny Of The Majority?

And to show that Fox isn’t obsessed solely with destroying Obama, I anticipate that we’ll see this story soon:

“If Evolution Was True, Why Am I And All Of My Friends So Stupid? Case Closed.”

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