this week in stupid: September 13 edition

MAGA maces her face, Dear Leader stinks up the place, and so much more...

Sep 13, 2025

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

monday: I meant to do that

folks, if you’re a MAGA, and you’re determined to mace the shit ouf of protestors who showed up to an anti-ICE demonstration, it helps to know which end of the doohicky the spray comes out of.

spoiler alert: yup, she maced herself — and not in the performative Nancy-Mace-beclowning-herself-in-front-of-a-unisex-bathroom way.

she did it in the very, very bad oh-my-god-my-eyes-my-eyes way.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR LACK OF ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER, UNKNOWN MAGA PERSON.

you helped our week get off to a great start. no notes.

tuesday: wait, isn’t that— ?

check out Fox News found object Jesse Watters. every now and then he accidentally comes so close to getting it.

“prices are still high. can’t Trump just bring in some corporate executives and just say ‘hey guys, there's going to be a socialist revolution in this country if guys you don’t do something, please do something? get this stuff down.’”

hang on, do I have this right? Jesse wants Dear Leader to dictate the cost of goods and services? he wants the central government be in control of industry?

Jesse, I’ve got Karl Marx on the phone. he says he’s got a cool new hat that he wants to send you.

wednesday: unity this

you remember Alabama Senator Katie Britt. she’s the christofascist tradwife who sat in a suspiciously-generic looking kitchen and spoke in a weird singsong whisper as she gave a universally-panned response to Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union Speech.

fast-forward to this week. in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, Katie Britt’s was one of the few voices on the right who actually called for peace and unity.

and now, here’s MAGA-bro-with-a-podcast Brenden Dilly to give a reasoned and not-at-all-unhinged response to Katie’s tweet.

“you want to talk about unity? shut the fuck up. this is why you should have been in the kitchen. I have no idea what these people are thinking. no thanks. no thanks, fuckin’ Katie Britt of Alabama. you can literally, you can fuck off with that bullshit. no thanks. shut the fuck up, woman.”

Brenden seems nice.

women of MAGA, I hope you’re paying attention. MAGA will pretend to tolerate your attempts to have a seat at the table, but never forget that their misogyny goes up to eleven — and the moment you step out of line, it’s shut the fuck up, girlie.

now get back into that fake-looking kitchen, Katie. Brenden wants a sandwich.

thursday: worst parenting advice, ever

just because our entire nation was in the middle of tearing itself apart last week over the death of Charlie Kirk, that doesn’t mean MAGA couldn’t take a little time out to do a racism. here’s Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon to teach a master class in how it’s done.

“if you’re a Christian white parent who loves the lord and love their children, that you need to have a talk. the talk that we’re referencing is the talk that takes your children, according to their maturity, at the appropriate time, and says ‘there are certain parts of town that you can not go. and there are certain people that you cannot be around. if there’s someone who is black in our church, and they’ve been in our church, and we know them and love the lord Jesus Christ, great. we’re not talking about that person. but we’re talking about when you go into a crowd of people. if you go into a crowd of strangers, and they’re white strangers, there’s some danger. if they’re black strangers, there is thirty times more danger. them’s the facts.’ and it is actually a failure of your parental duty, white parents, please hear me, if you teach your children growing up, if you lie to them, and say, ‘all people, and all races of people in our country are the same.’ they are not. you are actually depriving your child of factual, truthful information that could save their life.”

holy shit. I can’t even.

friday: the further adventures of some fucking idiot

some fucking idiot got dragged out of bed way too early in the morning on Friday, and sat down for a batshit interview with the vapid bobbleheads of Fox & Friends, a happy-talk chat show also known as Romper Room For Racists.

the fucking idiot claimed powers he doesn’t have.

the fucking idiot made promises he will in no way be able to keep.

the fucking idiot imagined that the people of Chicago will throw flowers and greet him as a liberator.

the fucking idiot announced that he was going to investigate George Soros, because reasons.

and then the fucking idiot claimed that it was really no biggie at all that Russia flew drones over Poland, because — and I quote — ‘they fell into an airspace.’

afterwards, when a reporter caught up with the fucking idiot — who was rushing off to spend the weekend at his New Jersey ex-wife cemetery — and asked, ‘how are you dealing with this tragedy and the loss of a friend,’ the fucking idiot’s response was to blither incoherently about his wonderful new White House ballroom.

“I think very good. and by the way, right there, you see all the trucks, they just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years, and it’s going to be a beauty. it’ll be an absolutely magnificent structure. and I just see all the trucks. we just started so it’ll get done very nicely and it’ll be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually. thank you very much.”

and the fucking idiot didn’t get 25th Amendmented on the spot. 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.

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