The Week in Tweets and Memes

The week began with high drama in Congress as the vote on the budget bill and debt ceiling raise drew near.

Kevin McCarthy unveiled the negotiated package to his caucus, confident that he would lose little support. Click here or on the tweet below to see how that went.

Republicans complained during the process that Joe Biden is senile and “can’t find his pants.” First of all, Rep. Ilhan Omar pointed out how odd that statement is.

Also, if the president can’t find his pants, what does that say about the GOP?

While giving a speech before the Air Force Academy at commencement, Biden turned and tripped over a sandbag left on stage. He wasn’t hurt, but the right seized upon it as evidence the President is too old and infirm to run the country.

Some on the left responded rather epically.

Rep. Ronny Jackson, the famously sober and not-at-all-crazy Congressmemember d from Texas, went on a tirade about how Biden has “no situational awareness” while walking. So they rolled the tape of Rep. Jackson overlaid with that tirade. Click the image below to enjoy the footage.

And Joe Biden took it all in stride.

More contenders jumped into the GOP primary for the presidential nomination. Mike Pence plans to announce early next week, which prompted this great question and even better response.

Ron DeSantis showed he’s really original and hard-hitting with this new campaign hat (warning: may induce nausea)

Hard pass.

It was another week of revelations as news of a tape emerged, of a conversation recorded in July 2021, during which Trump apparently apparently acknowledges that he has a classified war plan to attack Iran but can’t show it because he can’t declassify it. Oops.

Trump also congratulated North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after his country was elected to serve on the WHO’s executive board. Actor Mark Hamill for the take down here.

While congratulating is BFF Kim, Trump also decided to come after this former press secretary.

When former Trump advisor Jenna Ellis, whom Trump has also blasted, pointed this out, Mehdi Hasan delivered the kill.

The fall of Twitter continued, with a new valuation that is really quite shocking. The left couldn’t help but poke a bit of fun.

And use Elon’s own words against him, because it’s fish in a barrel stuff.

Pride month kicked off, and this year feels different. Homophobic and transphobic attacks are on the rise, with stores like Target and brands like Bud Lite in the spotlight. Still, us queer folk have irony and humor as our weapons, so…

Here was one example of the right-wing nonsense:

That got a quick fact check.

Videos of anti-gay haters trashing Pride displays at Target made the rounds. This guy nailed the difference:

Target rather shamefully caved and pulled the merchandise down or moved it to the back of the store. But even demonstrably homophobic Chick-Fil-A came under friendly fire for having a corporate diversity and inclusion program. That led to this candidate for “unintentional best of the internet.” Click image to play. It’s really something!

Cue The Lincoln Project.

Since we’re now talking about the “Lord’s chicken” in our culture wars, this meme resurfaced and made the rounds.

And since we’re also talking about people using Brownshirt tactics to attack symbols of vulnerable minorities, we should mention the twitter feud between Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine on one side and anti-trans activist and podshitcaster Tim Pool on the other. Morello threw out some Pride-related messaging that got people like Pool upset:

He didn’t stop there.

That brought out Pool, with the lame and nonsensical comeback.

The comments and quote tweets were brutal.

And this of course had to reemerge:

Rather than rage against a machine, this doggo in the vid was just splashing against nothing. There’s a life lesson here.

He had the splashies, but fake anti-vaxxer video creators were back with the shakes. They’re just so ridiculous, someone had to set it to a soundtrack. Now it’s kinda awesome. Click image to enjoy.

Imagine your 2015 self looking at one of these. Dad joke…or joke’s on dad?

I tried this with my corgi Hudson and it totally worked. 🤣

And I think I’m a terrible person deep down inside because this made me laugh out loud.

Have a great weekend!

Jay

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