In the course of writing my weekday pieces, I stumble upon many funny, ironic or even bad takes on the week’s news. I’ve been collecting them as I go, and now I want to make them available over the weekend as a thank you to my paid supporters, who will also now receive my Sunday look ahead with a chance to ask questions.
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Sick burns from gas stoves
If you’re not a Fox News watcher, you might have missed the latest faux outrage. Apparently the government is now coming for your gas stoves! A member of the Consumer Product Safety Commission had the gall to suggest that gas stoves, which are huge emitters of carbon and also pose hazards to household air, could one day be banned. That quickly morphed into Joe Biden “comin’ fer yer sterves!”—something that is not at all true and nowhere in the works.
The House’s most consistently inebriated member, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), predictably weighed in, possibly high on gas fumes:
So did the new House Judiciary Chair and defenders-of-all-things-American except male college athletes, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH):
(Jordan is painfully workshopping his GOP House Judiciary’s earlier “Kanye. Musk. Trump.” tweet that was so embarrassing they ultimately had to take it down.)
The internet went to work on this absurd culture war battle cry. Here are some of my favorite responses. This one was fired off by AOC herself, taking on Mr. Jackson:
Right in the pocket, as usual.
Slow clap for that keen response to Jackson…
Just imagine if we had to ban lead gasoline today.
My parents had this coil-top stove in these awful apartments they rented out. It’s triggering.
Major props on this one for the two-fer, combining another story about how conservative activist Matt Schlapp fondled a male staffer without his consent:
And this is a nice segue to the next batch of excellent takes:
The Santos saga keeps getting funnier and sadder all at once
Our least favorite fabulist, and hopefully soon to be ex-Rep. George Santos (R-NY), aka Anthony Devolder and many other names, remains in the hot seat. Riffing on Santos’ claim about his sports prowess, which GOP state party officials in New York revealed to the internet’s delight during their presser this past week, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes just couldn’t resist:
A brand we haven’t heard much from in, oh, decades, stepped into the chat.
And this is just plain funny, no further commentary needed:
In other news…
We’ll be spending a lot of time explaining the difference between Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s classified documents, but this did it fairly succinctly:
Here was the self-own of the week, noticed by one of my favorite Congressmembers, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA):
Over in Missouri, I had to confirm that the state legislature was actually busy banning sleeveless attire for women legislators, but it’s true:
Here’s my favorite comment on that:
The GOP Committee chairs were announced by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and the image of that illustrious group drew some attention:
And finally, something that has nothing to do with politics but everything to do with the yawning cultural chasm between the generations:
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Feel free to share the fun, and have a great weekend!
Jay
Thanks for taking one for the team (going on the bird site so others don’t have to!)
Jay, you are a light in the darkness. Shine on, and thank you!