Der Postmeister Postmaster General
Donald Trump had a problem. A problem called “democracy.” See, he LIKED being President, (well, not the work part, but definitely charging the Secret Service to pee) but those rat-bastard Founding Fathers built all these dumb ol’ “elections” into their dumb ol’ “Constitution,” and smack dab in the middle of an economy you personally wrecked and a pandemic you disastrously mismanaged is nobody’s idea of a great time for a performance review.
Pigfucker Multipurpose Trump Tool
Devin “Pigfucker” Nunes was an early adopter of Donald Trump’s unique blend of authoritarianism and kakistocracy, and it’s not hard to understand why; it takes a whole lotta institutional white supremacy to keep men so maliciously mediocre in positions of power.
Wrinkly Gamera Breaker of Senates
There is no greater proof that the Republican base has no goddamn sense than Mitch McConnell’s consistently dismal approval rating from voters of his own party; the man is absolute ghoul, yes, and certainly he projects little folksy warmth, but he puts Ws on the board. Big ones. More than anybody I’ve ever seen.
Reichskommissar Floridaman Death Cult Reality Show Competitor/Actual Fucking Governor
One of Trump’s earliest congressional taint remoras, Ron DeSantis rode a wave of I’m With Stupid first to the Florida GOP’s 2018 gubernatorial nomination, and then, because learning from mistakes is apparently for cucks, to a narrow general election victory.
Liar Tuck Middling Telefascist
To level with y’all up front, I think Tucker Carlson is the most dangerous man in America. He’s the mouth of American fascism, and Donald Trump’s unofficial Chief Disinformation Dispenser, and, ultimately, a manufacturer of brownshirts.
The Vainglorious MTG Actual Fucking Congresswoman, Heaven Help Us
Take an unusually weak mind, surgically remove evolution’s hard-won capacity to tell fact from fiction, fill the empty spaces with hate, and you’ve got Marjorie Taylor Greene. Drop that mind in the middle of the I-know-we’re-not-supposed-to-dismiss-MAGA-whites-as-racist-hillbillies-but-COME-ON shithole known as the Georgia 14th, and you’ve got the dumbest, most malicious member of the United States Congress, and ascendant American fascism’s loudest, vilest mouth.
Incesto, the Treasonous Clown Freelance Legal Idiot
When Rudy Giuliani, having just chugged a bottle of methamphetamine-laced NyQuil, stumbled onstage to deliver his apocalyptic sermon of fear at the 2016 Republican Nation Convention, you knew something was deeply fucked in this country.
NUMBER TWO
Vice-President
Mike Pence is the Patron Saint of Mediocre White Dudes, and the Roman God of Failing Upwards.
A Democrat in his youth, Pence, like many men of limited intelligence, turned to religious conservatism for the convenience of being able to end arguments by claiming God shares his every fear and prejudice, while forgiving his every shortcoming, how convenient.
POMPEY THE NOT GREAT
Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo is one of those performatively pious fake Christians who loves using his loudly-claimed-but-seldom-followed faith like a cudgel while ignoring every single word of the actual Bible, including “and” and “the.”
UNSEXY REXY
Secretary of State
Over the course of three decades, Rex Tillerson fucked, bribed, and murdered his way to the top of Exxon Mobil, like some sort of jowlsy Eva Peron.
BILIOUS BILL
Attorney General
William Barr actually taught me a valuable lesson. See, I didn’t look too closely at Bill when he was nominated to be Attorney General. After Jeff “Too Racist for the 80’s” Sessions and the masculine toilet guy, honestly, he looked like a nice, refreshing, safe, traditional Republican. An institutionalist who could bring a little much-needed stability.
And then he turned out to be a fascist, and one of the most dangerous enemies of democracy in American history. Whoops. My bad.
MNUCHBAG
Secretary of the Treasury
Steve Mnuchin, like his namesake, the Noise You Make When You’re Dry Heaving After Getting Food Poisoning From Eating Truck Stop Gas Station Roller Hot Pockets on a Road Trip, is deeply unpleasant, and may result in the involuntary voiding of foul-smelling bodily fluids.
THE GENERALS
Secretary of Defense
Chief of Staff
National Security Advisor
Holy shit, there are Generals all over the place these days, aren’t there?
Retired General James Mattis serves as Secretary of Defense. Retired General John Kelly ran Homeland Security for a bit, before becoming the Lead Executive Branch Babysitter, excuse me, Chief of Staff. H.R. McMaster’s the National Security Advisor, and hell, he’s still on active duty.
OL’ BEAUREGARD The President's Loyal Huntin' Dawg
Attorney General
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, third generation of his family to carry the name of a Confedarate piece of trash and also a second Confederate piece of trash, is living his dream. As Velveeta Goebbels’ Attorney General, he’s turning back the clock to a time when women and minorities knew their place, and mediocre white dudes like himself got to run everything, even if they weren’t especially bright.
ZINKE BOOTZ
Ryan Zinke is like if the crappiest robot in Westworld escaped and jumped into conservative politics. He’s such a cartoon cowboy, I bet his right boot says “Andy” on the bottom.
WIL-BUR, THE GNOME KING
Secretary of Commerce
When a witch’s curse transformed his master into a Beast and his fellow servants into household objects, Wilbur Ross became a decorative garden gnome. Unlike the rest of his compatriots, he ventured out into the world to make his fortune in the realm of shady international finance and money laundering, and when True Love’s Kiss lifted the curse, Wilbur was too far away for the enchantment to reverse, and thus he remains trapped in gnome form forever.
PLAGUEMASTER T
Secretary of Health and Human Services
If the Hippocratic Oath is binding in any sort of spiritual sense, Tom Price is royally fucked, y’all. There is some straight Dante shit awaitin’ him in the afterlife.
DOCTOR NAPTIME
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Dr. Ben Carson is only in politics because he was rude President Obama to his face. At the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast, a traditionally non-political event, Dr. Ben, having been invited as the keynote speaker, decided to use his time to shit on the President and his policies.
THE DEVOSTATOR
Secretary of Education
Betsy DeVos is what happens when bored white ladies have enough money to really fuck shit up. Turns out, if you’re born rich and marry richer, you don’t have to settle for a book club, you can buy yourself a whole cabinet department!
SCOTTY 2 HAUGHTY
Administrator of the EPA
Scott Pruitt, like a lot of boys his age, grew up watching Captain Planet cartoons. Unlike most boys his age, he decided that the various sludge-smog-and-toxic-waste-slinging villains were the role models for him.
Ok, fine. Pruitt is ten years too old to have grown up on Captain Planet, but fuck you, that’s a good opening paragraph. Make your own fucking website, you don’t like it.
PUBIS
Chief of Staff
Nobody wants to be Reince Priebus when they grow up. He’s just so immediately recognizable as a weaselly little tapeworm of a man, y’know?
Reince Priebus is the sort of person who would be played by Brad Dourif in a film.
DARTH WINO
Chief Strategist
Steve Bannon played Bob Ewell in a high school production of To Kill a Mockingbird, and liked it so much he decided to stay in the character for the rest of his life.
A self-described Leninist, and an outspoken populist*, Bannon wants to kidney-punch the administrative state, give it a wedgie, and steal its lunch money.
JAR-JAR
Senior Advisor/Son-in-Law
Jared Kushner was born on third base and thinks he invented baseball.
Jared’s dad, Charles Kushner, went to jail for tax evasion, illegal campaign donations, and, ahem, “witness tampering,” by which I mean he set his brother-in-law up with a hooker (not, I’m sad to report, of the Pissing Russian variety) and recorded their genital-smushing in order to blackmail him.
PRINCESS IVANKA
Daddy’s Little Girl
Ivanka Trump is what happens when you cross Gwyneth Paltrow with Mussolini’s dumbest, laziest aide-de-camp. Watching her try to sell her father’s fascism as some sort of pro-woman lifestyle brand, marketed in the sickliest imaginable shade of pink, has been one of the most bizarre subplots of this nightmare we can’t seem to pinch ourselves out of.
THE EMPRESS MALARIA
First Lady
So, while Melania Trump is perhaps not as shitty as many of the crooks, Nazis, and Nazi crooks who inhabit her dirtbag husband’s world, she manages to impressively shitty in her own right.
HEY, KELLYANNE!
Senior Counsel
Hey, Kellyaaaaaaaaaaaanne!
Hey, Kellyaaaaaaaaaaaanne!
When you worked for Akin, things weren’t simple
Cuz he got caught on tape
With legitimate rape
4-HEDD THE SHITTY WHITE GUY FROM BEYOND THE STARS
Senior Advisor for Policy
Why is it always the shittiest imaginable white dudes who turn out to be white supremacists?
Stephen Miller, who started balding eleven seconds after his conception, has by all accounts been a sack of monkey shit pretty much every single minute of his life.
THE MOOCH
Director of Communications
Oh wow, this new Communications Director looks like a real character, huh?
Where to begin? Ok, Anthony Scaramucci first came to –
Wait, what? Really?
KKKRIS KKKOBACH
White Supremacist Multi-Tool
Kris Kobach is like the protagonist of the white supremacist version of one of those Disney movies where a kid learns to chase his dreams, no matter how big. The kid gets tired of the monotonous grind of burning crosses on just one lawn at a time, and dreams of burning a cross big enough for the whole dang country!
Maybe he has a talking/singing Confederate flag for a sidekick. Named “Bedford.”
“DOC” GORKA
Roving Freelance Fascist
As seen in the famed documentary RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, when the Ark of the Covenant was opened on an uncharted island north of Crete, the burning light that issued thereof reduced the Nazi soldiers present to piles of ash and molten flesh. In time, the rains washed the fascist bio-goo into the island’s sewage system, where it mixed with the shit and piss and used tampons and such, and in time it congealed, took the shape of a man (albeit an unattractive one), slapped on a pair of glasses, and Sebastian Gorka was formed.
Cohen Confesses and Gaetz Gets Gelded While the Second Summit Super Sucks: A Roundup
Yeah, I’m a little late this week. Your Friendly Neighborhood Shower Cap turned 40 a couple days back, so frankly, it’s a miracle I sobered up long enough to even find my computer. Oh hell, and it’s a long one tonight. Expect typos, is what I’m telling you.
Bad news for Roger Stone’s pal Andrew Miller, as an appeals court ruled that Rugged Robert Mueller’s investigation is totally constitutional, so Andy can expect a very constitutional boot up his ass any day now. You’ll be plucking amendments out of your stool for days, fuck-o.
Princess Ivanka, whose life’s work has consisted mainly of manufacturing cheap crap that nobody wants using daddy’s money and stolen designs, has some thoughts on the dignity of work, SUCK IT, SHERROD BROWN. I didn’t watch the whole interview, but I think she said something about rewarding the servants who bear her palanquin with extra-fancy specialty pet food, if only on holidays.
In the midst of this truly hectic week, I was delighted to return to the hotel one evening to find the most delectable schadenfreude bonbon on my pillow; Jacob Wohl, that poor man’s James O’Keefe*, has been permanently banned from Twitter. Considering Jacob is famous solely for being a sycophantic dumbass on Twitter, this is pretty much the Useless MAGA Chump version of amputating Jimmy Page’s hands.
Well, Michael Cohen finally debuted his highly anticipated cabaret act, “Torch Songs and Crimes the President Told me to Commit” before the House Oversight Committee, and the Q&A session that followed was, as the kids say, lit.
Yes, the Fascist Farthuffer’s Former Fixer confirmed, under oath, what we learned months ago at his sentencing, namely that the President of the United States has committed honey bunches of crimes, and by the way here are the documents to prove it. The rest of the hearing featured the Democrats on the committee attempting to learn the full extent of those crimes while the Republicans acted like a single, hydra-headed, mob attorney, because now that they lack the power to cut rich people’s taxes any further, their only remaining purpose is to facilitate the Trump Cabal’s corruption.
But just to make my dutiful sacrifice to God of Bothsidesism, I do think Dems really missed a golden opportunity here, to like, ask Cohen to confirm some shocking detail with a quick, “Says who?” and then Mike would go, “Says me! And also this secret recording I took.”
I tell you what though, when Republicans send their Congressjags to the Oversight Committee, they’re not sending their best. Or…dear God, what if they are? What if Clay Higgins, who honestly believes he tricked Cohen into revealing the existence of a secret cache of documents he’d hidden from an FBI raid, really is the brightest mind the GOP has to offer?
They seemed particularly incensed that Cohen was pursuing a book deal, which, they say, would only feed the scourge of reading.
But even as we struggle to learn the extent of the criminal conspiracy operating out of the White House, we must not lose track of the true victim here: Mark Meadows’ feelings. Rashida Tlaib called Mark out for the racism of the Sad Tokenism Theatre he attempted in trotting out Trump’s One Black Friend to twirl for the cameras, and he quickly melted down into a puddle of quivering Well I Never self-righteous defensiveness.
Meadows would surely still be merrily shuttling from stop to stop on the Conservative Media Victimhood Circuit, clutching any and all available pearls till they were crushed to atoms, whining about the unjustness of the accusation, had not the inevitable video of his gleefully racist attack on President Obama surfaced in precisely the amount of time you figured it would, which is to say immediately.
Still, you must confess Meadows’ gambit permanently dispelled all questions of Trump’s racism. As we all know, the handbook clearly states that for every one (1) black employee, you are entitled to baselessly call for any five (5) persons of color to be executed by the state for crimes they did not commit.
Other earth-shattering news from the Cohen hearing: Don Junior is dumb! Ok, maybe it’s not news, but boy, if you’re so fucking dumb that a dude who surrounds himself with weapons-grade idiots like Ben Carson and Rick Perry thinks you’re dumb…woo. That’s I-need-Cliff-Notes-to-get-through-a-Larry-the-Cable-Guy-routine dumb.
Plus there’s all sortsa fun new plot lines to follow now. Potential insurance fraud? Fine, throw it on the investigation pile! New witnesses to subpoena and depose, including a guy with the Sopranos-by-way-of-SpongeBob monicker “Matthew Calamari?” Why the fuck not? All I really want at this point is for a weary Elijah Cummings to turn to a colleague and remark, “We’re gonna need a bigger Oversight Committee.”
Oh, and I guess one part of Cohen’s thug portfolio involved threatening Donnie Dotard’s old colleges into keeping his grades secret? What a treasure trove those college records must be…my sources tell me he once submitted a five-page essay on how the lime green crayon is the best crayon because it’s pretty even though it doesn’t really taste like limes.
Before we move on from the Cohen Cavalcade of Cooperation and Corroboration, we should note that Mike has, rather unsurprisingly, been disbarred. Luckily, he’ll soon have Florida Congresstwerp Matt Gaetz to keep him company! Gaetz seems to have been competing in some sort of “what the douchiest possible way to illegally intimidate a witness” contest, but at least he covered his tracks by posting his crime publicly on Twitter. I guess Matty figured he’d rather be a SCROTUS stooge than a lawyer. Heh. I bet that pays off for ya, kid. Donnie’s notoriously loyal, after all. Just ask Mike Cohen.
Anyway, it sure feels good to be Democrat these days, doesn’t it? Now that the rule of law is a partisan issue, you can’t help strut a bit when you think about how your party isn’t the one that’s been reduced to a pack of docile enablers for an organized crime family. But hey, if you really wanna feel some swagger, lemme ask you this: what has more than 120 million thumbs and just got the first major piece of gun control legislation in a generation through the House? THIS PARTY.
Also, Matt Whitaker, who you may recall briefly guest-starred as Acting Attorney General after Jeff Sessions left the cast over creative differences, is under investigation by the House Judiciary Committee for possibly perjuring himself regarding his dirtbag boss’ justice-obsructin’ ways. Hey kids, while you’ve got him under oath, I’ll bet those toilets weren’t unusually “masculine,” either.
I see the Influence-Peddling Feeding Frenzy known as the Trump inaugural committee earned yet another subpoena this week. That’s SDNY, and AGs from D.C. and New Jersey, if you’re keeping track. This has been today’s installment of Scandals That Are Bigger Than Anything That Happened During the Entire Obama Administration But Don’t Even Merit Front Page Coverage in This Shitshow.
Looks like McRae Dowless is joining the less-exclusive-by-the-day Republican Shitweasels in Jail Society, facing charges for various acts of fuckery in his campaign to steal the North Carolina 9th for “Pastor” Mark Harris. Don’t forget there’s a new election coming up there, campers, and we’ve got a great candidate, Dan McCready, who could really use your help. Unless you want this cartoonish dipshit to win.
Only Nixon could go to China, and only Little Donnie Two-Scoops could go to Vietnam to be utterly, thoroughly, perfectly, cucked by a ten-cent autocratic thug like Kim Jong-un. For the second consecutive time.
That Kim, who rules over a kingdom of gravel and toenail clippings, can run laps around the supposed leader of the free world has every Washington and Lincoln on every 1 or 5 dollar bill in my wallet weeping tears of blood. I don’t know what we expected, the Shart of the Deal walked in with the shittiest imaginable poker face, so desperate for a win that he walked back verification demands before even sitting down. Of course, it would all prove worth it when the summit got cut short early without one fucking thing getting accomplished.
And even though his groveling yielded nothing at all, even less than the empty promises of the last “summit,” Weehands McNodick wasn’t quite done humiliating his nation. He lavished the murderous dictator with praise, even letting him off the hook for the death of American citizen Otto Warmbier, enraging Otto’s grieving parents and causing the Statue of Liberty to resign her post in shame. Kim probably could have shown Donnie the cell where they tortured the poor kid to death, and he’d have gone on Hannity to praise the decor.
And then…THEN, and I swear I’m not making this up, Hairplug Himmler went and cancelled joint military exercises with South Korea anyway! Dude, he’s just not that into you! You’re never getting into Kim’s silos, ok?
If Fat Q*Bert was looking for some sort of snickeringly on-the-nose visual metaphor for his clogged-toilet-overflowing-with-the-turds-of-failure week, he sure got it, in the form of the demolition of the sad, lonely, prototypes for the Big Dumb Wall That Will Never Ever Ever Get Built. A fitting monument to his reign.
Alas, we need to step back from pointing and laughing at President Used Enema Water’s Spectacular Carnival of Failure to note that coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler, whose blood type is black lung disease, has been confirmed as head of the EPA. While Wheeler is unlikely to replicate the zany, theatrical, grifts n’ crimez of his predecessor, he’ll certainly make your air dirtier, and your drinking water more poisonous, and also he’ll probably break into your kitchen to replace your Folgers Crystals with a dead, oil-soaked, pelican, just to see if you notice the difference.
Oh, I guess in the background, there’s some potentially mushroom-cloud-level brinkmanship going down between India and Pakistan? You can be forgiven for not noticing, with your windshield so thoroughly crusted over with domestic batshit. Anyway, if you’re reading this on your laptop or phone in 2019, congrats, we survived! If you’re experiencing this in a museum of Earth history on one of Jupiter’s moons centuries from now, then YAY ME for writing some shit that survived the atomic holocaust! Suck it, Faulkner!
Hmmmm…maybe we should linger on the international page for a bit, since it looks like Benjamin Netanyahu has run into a spot of bother. Let’s hope Bibi’s on the cutting edge of a global trend here. All the hot, stylish, countries will be indicting corrupt chief executives this year…you wouldn’t want to be left behind, would you?
And the Clowncar Full of Rectums known as CPAC convened for their annual Yelling and Lying and Rolling Around in Piles of Each Other’s Shit party, presumably with the goal of putting to rest once and for all the myth that there are any sane Republicans left in America. I don’t hate myself nearly enough to go through every single line of hateful drivel those loons spat out, but…short version, everybody took turns screaming at dead John McCain and then they served burgers with MyPillows for buns, because that’s the only company that wingnuts aren’t boycotting now.
The really horrifying thing to contemplate is the trajectory. What will CPAC look like in a decade, when the likes of Candace Owens and Seb Gorka are the ones writing the nostalgic editorials about the bygone civility of yesteryear? Who will speak? Richard Spencer? Hitler’s Brain in a Jar? A Teddy Ruxpin doll playing tapes of old Laura Ingraham speeches, backwards, thereby summoning shit-belching demons who proceed to primary Louie Gohmert and Jim Jordan from the right?
Paul LePage weighed in on the debate about the Electoral College, praising it as a tool of institutional white supremacy. That HAPPENED, folks. If anybody ever tries to tell you racism is over, you just point them in the direction of the dude who was governor of a whole fuckin’ state, for two terms, arguing publicly and without shame that we can’t just hand non-white folks the power to choose their own leaders.
Further evidence that we’ve achieved a truly Star-Trek-esque level of cultural harmony surfaced in the very statehouse in West Virginia, where the state GOP brought a poster-sized anti-Muslim hate meme, comparing Rep. Ilhan Omar to 9/11 terrorists, to a rally. Someone was actually injured in the resulting kerfuffle, but I’m told the incident’s true victim was Mark Meadows.
It seems as though one of the fundamental truths of the universe is that Jared Kushner has no business with a high-level security clearance. Like, if a report from CERN announced that findings from the Large Hadron Collider prove that Jar-Jar shouldn’t be allowed to handle classified intelligence, you’d go “makes sense” and move on with your day. Like, aside from the nepotism and the glaring lack of qualifications for any gig that necessitates access to such intelligence, the kid’s two most prominent qualities are “super dumb” and “unusually blackmailable.”
But even after all the red flags, all the clearance form falsifications, the Marmalade Shartcannon overruled literally everyone, and decided that the national security of the United States of America had to take a back seat to his empty-headed son-in-law’s ambitions, saying, “Look, Jared’s not a bright kid, he needs all the help he can get. If he didn’t have America’s most closely-guarded secrets to sell to the Saudis, how do you expect him to get out from under all the stupid real estate deals he’s made? We’re talking about real money here, he can’t hold a bake sale. Anyway, he doesn’t know how to bake. Or even crack an egg, honestly.”
Even John Kelly fired off a memo opposing the move, as if to tell future law enforcement officials, “Look, y’all, I know I’m complicit in some shady-ass shit, and when the bill comes due, I’m totally fucked, but if you’re wondering how the contents of the CIA’s central servers wound up in Riyadh, I was on the record opposing this particular bit of treasonous idiocy.”
Gosh, President Crotchvoid sure has had a rough week, huh? Normally, for a world leader to see this much failure, they need to preside over a declining empire as it’s sacked by goths. You know what would help him unwind? If the shiny new Democratic leadership of the House Ways and Means Committee finally got the ball rolling on uncovering those tax returns he’s been guarding, so jealously and fearfully lo these many years. Hee hee. There’s no golf course in the world so large that you won’t see the walls closin’ in on you, Shart-Shart. Enjoy your weekend.
…and I’ll enjoy mine. Like, when you turn 40, you get a little kid birthday again, right? A weeklong celebration where you have cake for dinner every night, only there’s beer now too? That’s my plan, anyways…
*OUCH, right?
Happy 40th,Cap! And may there be 40 more of your epic blog. Thanks for the laughs : especially enjoyed the windshield and oil encrusted pelican lines.
palanquin? Nice! And insightful extrapolation of CPACs future. Shit-belching demons indeed. Faulkner has nothing on you. Keep up the good work. Reading your missives is a high point of my week.
Pete
One of your best! Maybe turning 40 shots you.
I couldn’t find any typos, guess I was laughing too much. I know it’s your birthday but I felt like we readers were the ones who got the gifts this week (every week, actually). You make the attempted destruction of democracy funny as you point out the clowns being exposed by their own dumbassery. Happy 40th Birthday, Cap!
Yr awesome. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! I hope u had the mature 40 something yr old sense to START TAKING ALLERGY SHOTS so u can quit the mind numbing antihistamines.
None of this birth”day” shite for me. I gotta have the whole week to get fu88ked up and be at least able to read what time it is on the clock before going to work, “is it day or night? I yell to anybody still in the house. If they say day I fall back into the void….if they say night I yell, “well goddammit bring me a bloody mary or two!”…etc. etc. coarse I work for myself so another day or two can be pulled from the countdown to “W” day.
Thanks for making it back from the “The Outer Dimension” of last week and even though I have wanted to stick my head into sand I have your missive to make me see through the growing “beam me up scotty” fear and get down to business.
Happy Fucking Fortieth, you fucking Genius! Seriously, Cap – you are a writer of rare and rarified talent. Have YOU thought about a book deal?
Thank you for writing the one blog that I never, ever miss, and look forwards to. Your observations and commentary are hilarious, erudite, and absolutely spot-on. I must say,it is somehow just very satisfying to read someone who is able, in words, to express our hourly feelings of anger, stupefaction, dismay, consternation, vexation, fury, incredulity, bafflement and utter disbelief in what is going on in this poor old country. “YES, I say, YES to that!” I mutter to myself as I read your purple prose. (Or do we need a new word – poop-full prose?)
And as someone who has gently chided you for some grammatical errors in the past (which surprised me at the time as it was such a departure from your usual level of excellence)I have to say I found NOTHING amiss in this latest blog, despite your warnings of such.
If I could I’d bake you a cake (because I bake awesome cakes)and buy you several six-packs of your favourite brew. But I can’t so here’s hoping you stay well-supplied by friends this week, because you deserve it!
Happy Birthday to you good Sir of the Sharp Witt & Potty Mouth!! I hope we celebrate your 50th in much, much better times but until then I look forward to your excellent efforts to keep us all sane.
Peace and blessings to you, plus cake and beer.
Where have I been? Not where you’ve been. I’m here now and you are a comic light in the darkness. Thank you. And Happy Birthday.
Happy birthday Cap! Thanks for the many hours of good reading. I still think you are the reincarnation of Hunter. Through the reincarnation process, you’ve been fired and hammered into the finist steel blade of sharp-tongued witt. Stay human and keep us laughing in these horrible times
Happy Birthday! Have another one on me. You make my week… every week.
Happy Birthday!!
For my 40th I ran the Paris Marathon then spent a week in Italy by myself but it was 2011 and those were kinder, gentler, saner times
Sounds like you’re celebrating the best you can in the world we’re stuck with so I wish you a happy day and many many more happy days and hoppy beers
I’m new to your blog but it’s the best writing out there and is often the highlight of my day
Stay sane/hilarious/drunk!
Happy Birthday, Cap! And many happy returns of the day. Yes indeed, YOU should be getting a book deal! Please celebrate all week, and then some. You are a National Living Treasure.
Happy Birthday you are a true Super Hero to us all. A light that leads us through these darkest of times. So hope you had a fantastic day my friend. And again Happy Belated Birthday.
Happy Birthday Cap. Looking forward to see who is going to primary Louie Gohmert from the right.
Happy Birthday Cap!
I think you’re being very unfair in describing North Korea as a land of gravel and toenail clippings, as I’m pretty sure you could not find any of the latter lying around, since it is the main ingredient (after brackish water) in the famous national dish ‘baltob keulim supeu’.
Happy birthday nevertheless.