this week in stupid: June 27 edition

Couchfuck pats it, Donny chats it, and so much more..

Jun 27, 2026

as another stupid week comes to a close here in America, let’s look back at the dumbest fucking shit that happened.

monday: HA HA THAT’S GREAT

hey, did you know that Usha McGee, the wife of Vice President Couchfuck McGee, has her own podcast?

yeah, I couldn’t give a single shit about it, either — but just check out what happened when this week’s guest was her furniture-fornicating spouse.

Usha: “today’s special reader is my husband, vice president of the United States, JD Vance. thanks for joining us today, honey.”

Couchfuck: “of course — good to see ya.”

‘good to see ya’? holy shit, is there a more painfully awkward person in American politics than JD Vance? it’s like half his brain was screaming, ‘act like you’ve met her before. do something normal. pat her knee. HER KNEE!’ — and the other half was all ‘huh, what?’

he touches that knee like he’s terrified of it. he pats that thing as if it were a snarling dog, and he’s unsure if it will bite him or not. what a loving couple.

you know, before Couchfuck entered the scene, the Most Awkward Politician award went to Ron DeSantis, the Florida fascist who brays like a hyena —

— and carries himself like a lizard-creature from outer space wearing an ill-fitting human skin suit.

‘hi, I’m just a normal, appendage-bearing mammal, why do you ask?’

move over, Ron. your trophy has been snatched by the guy who can’t even figure out how to make small talk in a doughnut shop.

‘how long have you been working here? HA HA, that’s great.’

what’s it like when Couchfuck gets home after a long day of doing whatever the fuck it is he does, and Usha greets him at the door? what is their pillow talk like?

‘good to see ya. how long have you been my wife? HA HA, that’s great.’

tuesday: wut?

sometimes the stupid just writes itself.

I can’t even with Riley Gaines. let’s just move on.

wednesday: we built this racism

hey, let’s check in with the woman who shits a massive brick if a black Santa crosses her path. I’ll bet she has something really nuanced and compassionate to say about the Supreme Court’s ruling that Preznit Fuckwit gets to kick every Haitian immigrant out of the country.

“look, this has been going on for over a dozen years. go home! get out! we know our country’s better than yours. that’s because WE filled it with our work ethic, and our culture, and values. you being here only dilutes it for us, those who built it. and live it. we don’t want you. get out. go home. GO BACK TO FUCKING HAITI!”

I’m sorry, but what’s this ‘our work ethic’ that Megyn’s yammering on about? because the last time I looked, the guy at the top of America’s food chain is some lazy fuck who spends every weekend cheating at golf.

can we please dispense with this fairy tale about how America was built by white people?

what has Megyn Kelly built? did she build the plantations of the south? oh no, I’m sorry, that was the result of hundreds of years of the forced unpaid labor of enslaved black people.

maybe Megyn Kelly built our railroads. oh no, wait, that was done by Chinese immigrants who worked under dangerous conditions for low pay.

in fact — as far as I can tell, there’s only one thing in this country that white people can authentically claim to have built, and that’s ‘this city, on rock and roll.’

thursday: even triggers aren’t this triggered

imagine being so bigoted that your entire day is ruined just by catching a glimpse of those people on your TV.

if you’re presidential side-piece Laura Loopy, you don’t have to imagine. it’s pretty much how you live your entire life.

Just when I thought I have reached my daily quota of Islamic bullshit, I turn on the TV and Turkey is playing the US.
Everywhere you look these days, Islam is in your face.
I’m sick of it.

what is Laura Loomer’s problem? isn’t Turkey one of our allies? isn’t their President Erdogan on of Donny’s bestest despot snugglebunnies?

lighten the fuck up, Laura. it’s a soccer game, not a Muslim call to prayer.

or is it?

now, I’m not a much of a sportsball guy, so I thought ‘huh, what if Laura has a legit complaint? maybe Turkey’s team is overtly Islamic.’ — though I’m not even sure what that would mean. do their players only face Mecca? so I asked Google’s janky six-fingered plagiarism robot to show me some photos of Turkey’s World Cup team. this is what it spit out.

come on, it’s just regular dudes. how is any of it ‘in your face’ Islamic? wait — is Loopy triggered by the crescent-and-star motif of the team’s uniforms? that’s Turkey’s flag, for fuck’s sake.

come on, that’s not even Muslim, it’s fucking Ottoman. in fact, it predates Islam. help me out here, Google’s janky six-fingered plagiarism robot. do me a solid.

The Star and Crescent: While historically associated with Islam, the crescent and star symbols pre-date the religion, appearing on ancient coins and emblems in the region dating back to the Hellenistic period.

pick up a fucking book every now and then, Laura. you might actually learn something besides ‘how to be a hateful asshole.’

friday: the further adventures of Some Fucking Idiot™

on Friday, some fucking idiot got the ball rolling by posting his new design for the US passport.

The U.S.A.’s New Passport, which says, “Welcome, but be good!” President DJT

I have a question: why is the fucking idiot so proud of this pose? he’s standing there like he’s about to endure a rectal exam. is this really the image he wants to project?

‘welcome, but be good?’ who is the fucking idiot talking to? does he not understand who a passport is for? does he imagine that passports are issued to foreigners when they arrive on our shores? (I’ll bet Megyn Kelly thinks that, but I digress.)

the fucking idiot had one item on his public schedule Friday — a speech before the Faith and Freedom Coalition. of course, it was an incoherent, off-topic mess.

no, seriously — it was incoherent on steriods.

the fucking idiot’s speech was so incoherent that Fox New had to cut away.

afterwards, the fucking idiot invited all his Cristofascist besties back to the Oval Bordello for more blathering. of course, he couldn’t be bothered to learn anything about the topic at hand, so he compared religion to the one thing he gives a shit about: money.

as always happens with these dog-and-pony shows, as soon as it was someone else’s turn to start talking, the fucking idiot fell fast asleep.

and the fucking idiot continued to sleep, even as his crackpot ‘spiritual advisor’ Paula White praised him for standing up like few thought possible, maybe even being the greatest stander-upper of all time.

and even though all that dumbfuckery was happening right in front of their faces, not one reporter stood up and ask ‘what the fuck is wrong with you?’

how fucking idiotic is that?

saturday: ?

hey, it’s still morning as I sit here writing this — but give it time, I guarantee you that some dipshit wingnut is going to do something stupid before the day is over. you can set your watch to it.

it’s time for some Daily Claudia, isn’t it?

let’s make it a Selfie Saturday. here we are — um, somewhere next to water — on September 19, 2019.

and this one’s from the Coast Guard House in Narragansett, RI, on September 21, 2023.

have a non-stupid Saturday, everyone. don’t be a fucking idiot.

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