this week in stupid: May 30 edition
Bobby Brainworms gets bit, Preznit Fuckwit gets hit, and so much more...
as another stupid week comes to a close here in America, let’s look back at the dumbest fucking shit that happened.
monday: biggest. brainworms. ever.
oh shit, it looks like two of Bobby’s brainworms have escaped his head and are trying to get the fuck away.
what a fucking weirdo. who does this?
those, Julie Tsirkin, are two snakes. apparently, Bobby Brainworms and Dr. Oz were hanging out — as one does, because crackpots of a feather flock together — when two of the unluckiest snakes ever happened to slither onto Oz’s patio. Bobby just couldn’t help but wander into the fray, scooping them right up and frolicking with them. this bro can’t leave nature alone.
admit it: you were rooting for the snakes, weren’t you?
if ever shit needed to be giffed for posterity’s sake, it’s the moment the Marvelous Mister Measles gets bitten.
ace job, bro.
folks, I gotta tell you a true story. one summer about 30 years ago, Ms Spouse and I are renting a house in Hyannisport, a short walk down the beach from the Kennedy compound. and one day, Ms Spouse and daughter Katie are walking on that beach, and here come two Kennedy children (they were obviously Kennedys, all Kennedys look alike — those are some strong genes.) anyway, Katie goes running over because these two Kennedy children are carrying a wounded cormorant, and one of the Kennedy kids says — I shit you not — ‘our Uncle Bobby captured this bird. he collects animals.’
‘collects’ is doing a lot heavy lifting in that statement — especially when you apply it to the maniac who keeps a chainsaw in the trunk of his car, in case he runs into any random dead whales that need their heads lopped off.
that’s right, Julie, I said whales. hey, but who are we to judge?
tuesday: how inconvenient
after twenty-four-seven scandal factory Ken Paxton crushed incumbent John Cornyn in the Texas Senate primary, the Republican Party got caught up in a bit of a sticky wicket. they’d been saturating the airwaves with anti-Paxton attack ads — because nobody except Dear Leader wanted Paxton to be the candidate in the first place. he’s too fucking toxic.
so after Donny fucked with their merry little plans, the GOP did the only thing it could: they tried to memory-hole that shit, and quietly deleted their ads.
yeah, well guess what, homies: the internet never forgets. you can’t delete anything in the twenty-first century. here’s one of the ads they tried to shitcan.
“this is the sound of Texas. and this is how it sounds under Ken Paxton. homicides, highest in nearly 30 years under Ken Paxton. rape up 40% under Ken Paxton. aggravated assaults up nearly 30% under Ken Paxton. car thefts nearly doubled under Ken Paxton. 250+ human trafficking cases dismissed under Ken Paxton. AG’s trafficking unit, 40% quit under Ken Paxton. sex traffickers walked free under Ken Paxton. violent crime up across Texas under Ken Paxton. Texas deserves better than the sound of Ken Paxton.”
wow, it sounds like this Ken Paxton guy really fucking sucks. thanks for doing the Democratic Party’s work for them, GOP.
how super fucking hilarious is it that the national GOP now has to waste millions of dollars on ads boosting Paxton — the shit-kazoo who just allowed a confessed child rapist to go free — all because Dear Leader is an unpredictable piss-baby who can’t be relied upon to play along? answer: very fucking hilarious.
wednesday: the incredible shrinking fascist fest
on Wednesday, Freedom 250 — the MAGA-aligned concert series that Donny cooked up as part of his infantile co-opting of America’s 250th birthday — announced their lineup. it was a grab bag of has-beens, never-weres, and wow-are-they-still-even-alives, with a few legitimate acts mixed in.
after the list went public, a super cool thing happened — one by one, the performers started dropping out — because no one told them they’d be appearing at some MAGAfied piece of shit fascistpalooza, and when they found out, they were all ‘are you fucking kidding me? get me outta here.’
Freedom 250 now looks like this.
and MAGA is melting all the way down.
boo fucking hoo, crybabies. here’s a pro tip: try to be less of a toxic piece of shit, and decent people won’t go running when they find out who you are.
thursday: is it gay to be gay?
you have to say this about the manosphere: they spend a fuck of a lot of time worrying about shit that no one else worries about.
Men are naturally more attractive than women on average, that’s why women need makeup
This isn't me being gay, it’s science
Look at a peacock or a cardinal, male vs female, females get mogged
Greek statues dedicated to the peak aesthetic form? Overwhelmingly men
“this isn’t me being gay, it’s science.”
oh, it’s science, is it? how do you know it’s science? did you get Ivanka to help you crunch the numbers?
fact check: dude, this isn’t science. this is you being super gay. you’re attracted to dudes — and there’s not one fucking thing wrong with that.
friday: the further adventures of Some Fucking Idiot™
on Friday, some fucking idiot’s handlers kept him far away from the press — which in retrospect was a wise move, because the fucking idiot had a very bad, very awful, very no good day.
first off, the fucking idiot shat out some incoherent nonsense onto his crappy app about how he was headed to the Situation Room ‘right now,’ to make a ‘final determination’ about whether or not to bomb the shit out of Iran.
I’ll bet you thought that since the fucking idiot thanked us for our attention, that this time he really meant it.
well, I hate to burst your bubble, but the fucking idiot punted again.
after that, the fucking idiot’s day quickly unraveled, with him getting smacked upside the head by a series of judges.
that’s right, the fucking idiot got royally shit on. one judge put a temporary block on that $1.8 billion slush fund that was created to enrich Donny, his cronies, and all the fuckheads who did January 6th.
a second judge reopened the fucking idiot’s so-called ‘settled’ lawsuit against the IRS, and asked the fucking idiot and his two felonious failsons to explain why it wasn’t fraudulent.
to add insult to injury, a third judge told the fucking idiot to pry his stupid name off the Kennedy Center, pronto, and to forget about closing it down for two years.
and that’s the decision that caused the fucking idiot to go ballistic. he crapped himself raw all over his dumbfuck app, posting a 652-word whine-fest.
don’t even bother reading this burst trash bag of grudges and grievances. let’s just sum it up in one succinct gif.
later, Fox News aired a pre-taped interview with the fucking idiot — and again, I have to ask: is it gay to be gay?
but because the fucking idiot — colicky, demented, and too unpredictable to be let off his leash in public — was kept out of sight all day on Friday by his handlers, not one reporter had the opportunity to stand 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?
here’s Ms Spouse having a quiet moment at Stonecrop Garden in Cold Spring, NY, on October 27, 2016.
and this one’s from September 18, 2025, at the restaurant Blu Pointe in Newburgh, NY.
have a non-stupid Saturday, everyone. try not to get bitten by any snakes.
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this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:
practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.
to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.
we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.
here's one for the stupid hall of fame: two years ago today, Donny was convicted of 34 counts of business fraud. how stupid were we all for believing there would actually be consequences?
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit—
oh look, the White House released another phony medical report.
"Trump’s doctor recommends he lose weight and exercise more but says he is in ‘excellent health’"
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/29/politics/trumps-doctor-recommends-lose-weight-exercise-health?cid=android_app
yeah, right