this week in stupid: November 1 edition

Kid Rock wears it, Donny Convict shares it, and so much more...

Nov 01, 2025

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

monday: blessed are the grifters

let’s get this week started off right, with one of the most insanely batshit history lessons you’ll ever hear.

MAGA cultist pastor Shane Vaughn: “Donald Trump was prophesied — or predicted, rather, by the founding fathers of our nation. I plan to show you that our founding fathers prayed for a strong man like Donald Trump — that, in fact, they wanted a strong man like Donald Trump. someone that would bring salvation to a nation. America needed exactly what our founders intended — a strong man. a king who would break the deadlock and get America moving forward. his name: Donald Trump.”

what in the hallowed name of Counterfactual Jesus is this ludicrous horse shit?

bro, where are you getting your information from, that our founders secretly prayed for a king? is it from Jesse Duquette?

dude, Jesse Duquette is a cartoonist.

what a racket these ‘MAGA preachers’ have. you just sit yourself down in front of a mic and a camera, and fart out some laughable twaddle onto YouTube about how Dear Leader was chosen by god. MAGA is so clownfuckingly stupid, they eat it right up — because it’s exactly these low-wattage nincompoops want to hear. presumably, these preachers are raking in the dough.

I really need to get in on this fleece-the-gullible-cultists gravy train, because I can make shit up with the best of them. hey, did you know that our founders secretly prayed for a Secretary of Defense who could flip a skateboard into his own nuts?

look, it’s right there in the Federalist Papers.

tuesday: not a kid. also not rocking

oh look, Fox News found object Jesse Watters brought found ‘musical’ object Not-A-Kid Rock onto his show, and the ‘Kid’ made a funny.

Kid: [puts on surgical mask] “guess what I’m gonna be.”
Watters: “Fauci?”
Kid: “a retard!”

hysterical stuff. don’t quit your day job, ‘Kid.’ oh wait, you don’t have a day job.

I have a question: what the fuck even is a ‘Kid Rock’?

apparently, this washed-up has-been’s “career” consists of making music-adjacent noises and braying in a microphone at MAGA events. how is that sustainable?

if you saw this geriatric, not-even-close-to-being-a-Kid Rock walking down the street, would you even know who he was?

here’s a fun idea for Not-A-Kid Rock: how about he cover his face with that mask all the time? at least then he’ll have an excuse for not being recognized by anyone.

here’s a fun historical fact: failed-actor-and-current-ICE-clown Dean Cain blocked me on Elon’s Nazi Bar when I made this same joke at his expense during the pandemic.

it’s a quip so nice, I’ve now made it twice.

wednesday: blessed are the joyless scolds

here’s a grand October tradition: Christian evangelicals shitting all over Halloween.

Amanda Grace: “so, I want to speak to these people that want to take part in these ceremonies today. that want to take part in horrific wickedness today. you are nothing more than a slave to Satan and his kingdom. he hates you, he cannot stand you, because whether you like it or not, you’re made in the image of God. and you are just a means to his end. you are a slave to his exploits. you are in bondage to do his bidding.”

lighten the fuck up, Francis.

holy shit, lady. I just wanted to dole out some candy to kids.

I’m pretty sure Satan has more important stuff on his plate right now, what with an entire White House to run.

seriously, could evangelicals please shut the fuck up already and let the rest of us have our fun? it’s not our fault that you can’t find joy in anything, so stop shitting all over ours.

thursday: nondenominational joylessness

hey, why should Christian evangelicals have all the fun? here’s ‘messianic rabbi’ Jonathan Cahn, to chastise us all for holidaying wrong.

“you’re sending your children out to celebrate a holiday that focuses on evil, darkness, witches, spirits, death. so likely dress up as evil creatures, go to the houses of strangers, commit extortion or vandalism, and then get diabetes.”

don’t threaten me with a good time, fucknut.

friday: the further adventures of some fucking idiot

on Friday — while millions of Americans were going without paychecks, wondering how they were going to pay their skyrocketing insurance premiums, and struggling to feed their families — some fucking idiot bragged about having inflicted his terminally vulgar lack of taste onto the White House’s Lincoln Bathroom.

seriously, the fucking idiot posted twenty-four photos of this gaudy bordello-themed nightmare.

because we really need to know that the golden soap dishes bear the Seal of the President of the United States. way to focus on what’s important, you fucking idiot.

look at these ludicrous toilets.

oh no, wait — that last photo is of the toilets in Saddam Hussein’s palace in Basra. really weird how Saddam’s shitter has the exact same marble. do all these authoritarian fuckwads buy their fixtures at the same Home Despot?

the fucking idiot then bragged about whatever hellscape abominations he’s bringing to bear on the Kennedy Center.

nobody asked for this shit — but I guess you’re welcome, America.

and then, to top it all off, the fucking idiot held a ‘Great Gatsby” themed party at his vermin-infested Florida golf motel.

because nothing says ‘I’m an unfeeling, out-of-touch fuckwit’ more than throwing some gaudy gala for your plutocrat cronies, while millions of Americans are going without paychecks and struggling to feed their families.

let them eat golden toilets.

and not one reporter stood up and asked ‘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.

do you have a nomination for This Week in Stupid? email me at jefftiedrich@gmail.com. thanks!

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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.

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