The Week in Tweets and Memes
Here’s my weekly roundup of the amusing and sometimes epic takes I stumbled across during the week while doing my research. It was going to be offered exclusively as a thank you my paid supporters, but many indicated privately that they don’t need a special thank you and would like to see me continue to offer this free to everyone. Tell you what: If I can get a couple or three new paid subscribers each Saturday that I put this together and post this, it will pay for itself and I’ll continue to offer it to everyone. Sound good? Help me keep the funnies coming! Now, on to the week in tweets and memes.
The week kicked off with Super Bowl Sunday. The right quickly took offense at the Black National Anthem, which has been around for over 120 years, being sung at a game, no matter that there were two African American quarterbacks leading the conference champion teams for the first time in history, in a league where the majority of the players are Black. So the left was having none of their dog whistling.
The game also featured a glitzy halftime show by Rihanna. That prompted a few opinions, but I concurred most with this one:
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger may have been great on the January 6 Committee, but he’s still a bit of a dweeb. And George Takei took note.
And in a week where we seemed to shoot down everything in our skies, this won the moment:
Speaking of UFOs and triggered Republicans, there was this gem:
With all the talk of air balloons, someone found it important to let us know about this particular world first. Does my substack need a NSFW warning?!
The replies though…
Speaking of air balloons and Sponge Bob, and to balance out my teasing about Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green’s choices in attire at the State of the Union, here was Sam Smith showing their newest (audio on for this…)
Republicans tried to own the libs over (checks notes) farmland, and the results were not impressive. This one had me SMH. You had one job!
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), who covered repeatedly for ex-president Trump’s alleged clean bill of health and physical fitness, decided he would weigh in on Joe Biden. No irony here. None detected.
Besides Hunter Biden’s laptop, there was another laptop in the news, this one formerly in the hands of a Trump aide who (checks notes again) copied classified documents onto it. That seems to have gotten little attention in the press for some reason.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna aka Anna Mayerhofer (R-FL) joined hopefully soon-to-be-ex-Rep. George Anthony Devolder Zabrovsky Santos as one of the biggest liars to get elected to Congress, at least according to reporting by the Washington Post. Not only is Luna not part Ashkenazi Jew (nor somehow raised as a Messianic Jew, as she had claimed) but her grandfather actually served in Hitler’s Wehrmacht. I shouldn’t have laughed at this next tweet, honestly.
To make it a hat trick, a third fabulist has emerged in the GOP House: Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), whose resume also appears to be completely fabricated. The list of lies is impressive.
Um, question from the back: Who lies about being a sex-trafficking expert? It’s just so…specific a lie. And it makes you wonder, truly. There’s more to this story, you can count on it.
I would say that if they kicked all these liars out the GOP, Kevin McCarthy would lose his majority. But actually if you kicked out all the serial liars from the party, you’d have no one left at all.
To close out, I need to report a murder that happened this week. Daily Show guest host Chelsea Handler had created a cheeky video about what it was really like to be a childless woman.
That didn’t sit so well, though, with the misogynists over at Fox News. Tucker Carlson invited a fellow hater on, and along with Ben Shapiro, decided it would be wise to come after her on a very personal level. You can watch that entire piece of trash talking here, if you really want to see it. But it was Handler’s clapback that won the Internet—proving that if you come for Chelsea Handler, you’d better not miss. Here’s a summary of their attacks and her amazing response. Warning: Graphic language.
That made me pretty happy, even if the images it conjured were quite icky.
Have a great weekend! And thanks in advance if you volunteer as one the folks today who will help underwrite my work!
Jay
I was never a big Chelsea Handler fan but I have to reassess that now.
Balloon model? Is there anything Kim K can't do?
Andy Ogles (what an appropriate last name) meant that he's an internationally recognized sex trafficker, damn that spell check.