what’s dumber than a MAGA? nothing.

yesterday was a banner day for wingnut idiocy

here’s a quick self-test anyone can do to check their own intelligence.

take a look at Donny Convict. do you see a deteriorating carnival clown with radioactive tangerine skin and cotton candy hair, spewing the most batshit nonsense to ever ooze from a rancid anus-mouth?

or do you see God’s Own Perfect Avatar On Earth?

if you answered the latter, congratulations. you’re a fucking idiot.

as I’m typing this at 8:26am Wednesday morning, Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen is on a plane bound for El Salvador.

“I’m here at the airport, I’m about to board my flight for San Salvador. the goal of this mission is to let the Trump administration, to let the government of El Salvador know, that we are going to keep fighting to bring Abrego Garcia home, until he returns to his family. I hope to meet with representatives of the government. I hope to have the chance to actually see Kilmar and see what his condition is. but we are going to keep fighting, because this is a miscarriage of justice.”

here’s how the dumbest fucking imbeciles on the planet reacted: by screaming LOGAN ACT! Chris Van Hollen is practicing foreign policy! it’s against the law! he’s a witch! burn him! BURN HIM!

oh look, even professional ratfucker Roger Stone joined the stupidfest.

free clue for the dimwitted: the Logan Act makes it illegal for private citizens to conduct US foreign policy. Chris Van Hollen is not a private citizen — he’s an elected US Senator. he gets to fly anywhere he wants and talk to anyone he wants. how fucking hard is that for MAGA to understand?

here is an actual violation of the Logan Act that went on right under our noses, for years — and it involves Donny Convict, because of fucking course it does.

did you know that the whole time he was out of power, Donny had his own “shadow secretary of state” who flew around the world, cooking up secret deals with right-wing regimes?

‘Building an authoritarian axis’: the Trump ‘envoy’ courting the global far right

Richard Grenell’s shadow foreign policy campaign is unsettling diplomats and threatens to collapse US interests

For Donald Trump, he is “my envoy”, the man apparently anointed as the former US president’s roving ambassador while he plots a return to the White House.

Meet Richard Grenell, vocal tribune of Trump’s America First credo on the international stage and the man hotly tipped to become secretary of state if the presumed Republican nominee beats Joe Biden in November’s presidential election.

that, my friends, is how you violate the Logan Act. Donny was a private citizen — and yet, somehow, this Very Special Boy had his own personal “roving ambassador” going around and fucking shit up.

In recent months, he has pitched up in Guatemala, where he tried to stymie US state department pleas for a peaceful transition of power by backing rightwing efforts to block the inauguration of the liberal president-elect, Bernardo Arévalo, on supposed electoral fraud grounds about a poll previously declared “free and fair” by international observers.

was Grenell also cooking up private deals with El Salvador? we’ll probably never know.

of course, you know why MAGA lives in a smug bubble of ignorance, with fairy-tale beliefs untrammeled by reality: they have propagandists filling their ears with patently untrue fever-swamp nonsense, twenty-four hours a day.

did you know that Dear Leader has already won his trade war with China, and they’re on the verge of collapse? according to MAGA, it’s true. here, listen to Fox News found object Jesse Watters lean into the derp.

“what you’re seeing right now is Trump is getting the entire world to rally with us against the Chinese. if he can cut deals so they lower their trade barriers against us, invest in the United States, bring those factories here and raise their trade barriers against China, what that does to China is it collapses their economy. mass unemployment, and then possibly the regime gets toppled. so if they don’t want their regime getting toppled, they have to cut a deal with us.”

spoiler alert: none of this is true. none of those things are happening in China right now. they’re doing just fine without us.

China is in fact — on a daily basis — finding new ways to tell us to go fuck ourselves sideways.

The Chinese government has told the country’s domestic airlines to stop accepting deliveries of Boeing jets as a trade war between the world’s two largest economies escalates, Bloomberg News reports.

Boeing declined to comment. The aviation giant’s shares fell $2.59, or 1.6%, to $156.74 in morning trading.

now feast your ears on Georgia Rep. Rich McCormick, dutifully repeating the latest Republican anti-science talking point.

“I grew up in Oregon, where they had great drinking water, no fluoride added, and I don’t remember any people I knew had autism.”

Jesus, where do you even start with this drivel?

here are two fun facts about McCormick. first, he was born in 1968. he grew up in a world where autism was barely understood and generally misdiagnosed.

During the period McCormick grew up in Oregon (late 1960s to mid-1980s), autism diagnoses were significantly less common than they are today. In the 1960s and 70s, the reported autism prevalence was as low as 1 in 10,000. This low prevalence was largely due to limited awareness, narrower diagnostic criteria, and less systematic screening. Many individuals who would now be diagnosed with autism were often misdiagnosed or overlooked entirely.

I grew up in the 1960s. I don’t remember anyone being autistic, either — but I do know of one kid who got classified as ‘retarded’ because no adult realized he was near deaf and couldn’t understand what anyone was saying to him. so yeah, let’s return to those halcyon days of serene fucking ignorance.

here’s the second fun fact: McCormick is a physician. he knows better than to spew this crazy-ass shit.

so why does he do it? because Bobby Brainworms Jr — a dangerous anti-science conspiracy crank — is now head of Health and Human Services. Bobby believes that if you get anywhere near fluoride, you’ll come down with a bad case of autism.

so now, if McCormick wants remain a Republican in good standing, he has to dutifully repeat this bullshit.

it’s a fucking cult that gets dumber by the day.

here’s a hopeful sign: yesterday, 152-year-old Chuck Grassley, the oldest elected official in America, held a town hall — and holy shit, did his enraged constituents ever give him an earful.

voter: “are you going to bring that guy back from El Salvador?”

crowd: “yeah!” [applause]

vote: “why not?”

Grassley: “because that’s not a power of Congress.”

voter: “the Supreme Court said to bring him back.”

second voter: “he’s defying the Constitution.”

third voter: “Trump don’t care. if I get an order to pay a ticket for $1,200 and I just say no, does that stand up? because he’s got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said no!”

crowd: “yeah! yeah!”

Grassley: “the president of that country is not subject to the Supreme Court.”

crowd: [jeers and boos]

it turns out that disappearing innocent immigrants into foreign slave-labor gulags — and then promising to do the same to American citizens — is a losing issue for Republicans.

whooda thunk it?

and please, stop feeding us this utter fucking nonsense about ‘we can’t make El Salvador do what we want.’ if Donny can get ahem alleged rapist and trafficker Andrew Tate back from Romania, he can do the same for an actual innocent man. Donny just doesn’t want to — because cruelty is the point.

I’ll give Chuckers credit — at least he didn’t have his constituents tased, like Marjorie Three Brain Cells Greene did.

check out Marge’s goon squad, completely overreacting to the presence of an angry voter.

I didn’t include the part where this poor soul gets tased — it happens after the end of this clip — because it’s fucking medieval and grotesque. but if you have a strong stomach, you can find it on the internet.

here’s your hero of the day: Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who absolutely does not mince words.

“Bakersfield, this is a matter of fact: Donald Trump is a criminal. he was found guilty of 34 felony counts of fraud, found liable for sexual abuse. if he wants to find the rapists and criminals in this country, he should look in the mirror.”

that’s right, AOC was in Bakersfield, CA — where Donny won by 21 points in 2024 — and she got a raucous welcome.

let’s gif that shit for posterity’s sake.

stay angry, people. stay loud.

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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.