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.
Rapist Demands Immunity, Presidency
What we need is a new word, yes, probably a German one, that would mean “laugh-out-loud embarrassing, but in a sufficiently fascist manner as to remain unnerving.” It’s that thing we’re all sick of feeling.
I could use that word right now, since it’s time to talk about the 2024 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses.
As expected, the rapist ran away with it. Republican voters sure do love their rapist. ‘Course, he’s not just any rapist, he’s the rapist who tried to end American democracy. Honestly, how could a listless pudding fondler like Ron DeSantis hope to compete?
Ron’s not quite ready to slink back to Tallahassee, so he’s going to flop around for our amusement at least through New Hampshire, which I appreciate. He might not have anyone left to talk to, cuz Nikki says from now on, she’s only gonna debate rapists she’s promised to pardon.
Ron made one last, feeble pass at the anti-vax crowd, which’ll work as well as everything else he’s tried. It’s not Long Covid you’ve got to worry about with your electorate, kid, it’s Long Horse Paste.
I guess Haley’s polling well enough in New Hampshire to merit Off-Brand Orbán’s attention, since he finally lobbed that long-expected lump of casually racist hate at her. “How dare you imply America was ever, for even a fleeting moment, a racist country!?! Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a phoneful of death threats to sift through!”
Grating wokeness disliker Vivek Ramaswamy dropped out, as did normcore non-factor Asa Hutchinson. And right now, they could team up to make the greatest political documentary/buddy comedy of all time, but they won’t, and I think that’s a shame.
Asa n’ Vivek On the Road, I would watch the shit out of that. Coupla crazy kids from opposite sides of the track, searching for the MAGA-infected Republican Party’s dark heart. Having misadventures. Running out of gas while fleeing a Three Percenter rally gone wrong. I would sign up for your streaming service to watch that.
Best part of the Iowa caucuses is the wave of “Say, I’m not sure these “evangelical” fellows are entirely on the level” columns. Yep. Bit of a death cult, really. Glad you’re catching up.
Getting back to the Republican frontrapist, he spent the week harassing and re-defaming the woman he raped. I dunno, maybe they get a different Bible in red states. Maybe Jesus is a rapist in their Bible.
Anyway, this particular rapist, who is a lot of evangelicals’ favorite rapist, demands absolute legal immunity, which I get, because he’s committed…oh my god you guys, so many crimes. Including rape. The rapist who tried everything he could think of, up to and including violent insurrection, to overturn an election he lost would rather not be prosecuted.
And again, I get that. Don’t agree, but I get it. I think we should have the rule of law, and democracy, and not “whatever this one rapist wants.” I sincerely believe it’s the stronger choice.
Although…he did pass that cognitive test. Bragging, no, strutting about the cognitive test is part of the stump speech now. There Once Was a Rapist Who Passed a Cognitive Test, So We Made Him King. That’s the creation myth. Also, Maybe He Has Syphilis Now? Evangelicals, man. Wacky people.
I’m sincerely grateful to Ted Cruz for providing comic relief during the genuinely terrifying ritual of governors and senators genuflecting to a man who thinks magnets break when they get wet. He just deserves the debasement so richly. Actually, watching Ted Cruz snarf bowl after bowl of Donald Trump’s shit is probably my favorite thing about ascendant American fascism.
Ted, Rubio, Tim Scott, “Sammy the Bull” Gravano, they all agree: when it comes to the presidency, only an authoritarian rapist will do. Cool coalition. Your moms are all proud.
Well, poor, dumb Jimmy Comer got caught doctoring closed-door testimony. Again. This dolt’s master plan, by the way, is to run this same sad con, which he has fucked up every single time, on Hunter Biden. Jimmy thinks he’s good at this, you guys.
How happy was Mike Johnson to receive orders from on high to tank the Senate border compromise? “Shoot, we know how to fuck legislation up! Gettin’ pretty good at it, if I do say so m’self. It’s passing the stuff that gets us in trouble.”
In his defense, ol’ Moses did manage to lead his people to another CR, so congrats on keepin’ the government open, I guess. Hope the lock on Chip Roy’s cage holds out!
Of course, the last thing Republicans want is to actually solve any border-related problems; they’re enjoying the brownshirty new transgressiveness of the fear-mongering around the issue far too much. I find Greg Abbott’s increasingly flamboyant cruelty particularly spine-chilling.
Meanwhile, Paul Gosar is fundraising off the batshit claim that wokeism has led to the ethnic cleansing of whites from the military, a few short days after we learned about those neo-Nazi interns he hired.
Oh, and I see Charlie Kirk decided it was time for furiously subpar white boys to reclaim Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Some Moms for Liberty types’re launching their very own charter school, which sounds like the premise of a season of American Horror Story. Can you imagine the parade of incels and mass shooters that’s gonna stumble out of a fucking MOMS FOR LIBERTY CHARTER SCHOOL?
The nerds’ll join the Federalist Society, and the jocks’ll join the Proud Boys. And let me tell you right up front, any furries in the student body will use the restroom that corresponds to both the gender and species assigned at birth.
So. Yeah. Still pretty nutty out there. ‘Swhy I drink.
This is the part where I dance you over to the digital tip jar, which I’ve styled as a “beer fridge,” as part of my adorable ”Shower Cap” persona: a lovable scamp, a drunken loudmouth who wears a bathrobe and a luchador mask and blogs for whatever reason. Now accepting Cash App, Venmo, and PayPal. Following @john_luzar on the Hellsite Formerly Known as Twitter is another thing you could do. Or not do.
And if you’re feelin’ freaky, for a limited time, you can even pre-order my WWII comic book, Marguerite vs. the Occupation. I’m real proud of how this one turned out, so if you missed the Kickstarter, well…second chances don’t roll up every day, y’know.
As always I appreciate your sarcastic wit and the fact you wade through the right-wing bullshit so I don’t have to. But don’t fall for the “Trump landslide in Iowa” crap. He got 51% of the vote. If he were the invincible god he thinks he is, he should have pulled in 80% at least. Don’t forget, his Iowa supporters were almost entirely lily white (about 98%), a majority were evangelicals as well. And yet, almost HALF of them-his meat-eating, blood-red ass kissers–told him to go fuck himself. I think there’s plenty of reason to believe we’re going to be all right. Yes, we have to work hard, but don’t fall victim to the myth that “ascendant fascism” is a foregone conclusion. Come on, Cap, you’re smarter than that. Hang in there!
‘ we’re going to be all right. Yes, we have to work hard’
Yup. Agree.
Beside all the reasons you cited, we need to remember that only something like 16% of Iowans came out to caucus that night. We don’t have a real clue how the numbers might have skewed, how the issues of most concerns might have skewed or anything else might have skewed differently. I do believe the TFG would have gotten all the counties he did, and possibly the one that Haley did, because that one was so close. But all else could have been different, we just don’t know.
Yep…51% of 16%…and rubes like Lester Holt keep calling it a landslide! Maybe a small dirt clod but no landslide!
“Hope the lock on his cage holds”…Vintage Cap! Thanks for one more tour de force.
Funny you should call Greg Abbott spine-chilling, since his spine keeps him in a wheelchair. Abbott is proof God has terrible aim – dropped a tree branch on him to correct His mistake in not telling him mom to abort him, and while he didn’t miss, he didn’t kill him. Just more proof God is a fuck-up.
Cap–
You truly are awesome. Exactly how long did it take you to teach Shed Mouse to write exactly like you do, amazing insults and all? Inquiring minds really want to know. . .
I was uncertain when, last week, you said you were turning your weekly rant over to the miniscule rodent for the foreseeable future, but if this week’s offering is any judge of his talents, y’all can put your feet up, stick a straw in the beer bottle (or keg, whichever) and relax, your blog is in good paws.
Sadly, even Ronnie Jackson, reputedly a serial fuck-up in his own right, is (probably) not stupid enough to miss syphilis in his supposedly yearly examinations of the ex-presudunky, so that’s probably not the reason for the red splotches on his hands. My favorite explanation is he was getting grabby with Melania while she was putting on makeup, and she kept poking him with her lip dye pencil. Since he smells, according to individuals who should know, like a mix of badly-used diaper, makeup and Old Spice, it’s not surprising she refused to ride in the same car with him after her mother’s funeral. So it’s not hard to envision him being slightly frustrated that she won’t pretend to let him screw her, either, getting handsy, and receiving several red pokes instead of what he really wanted to get before the funeral. . .
As for the proposed charter school by Moms for Tyranny, wow, I missed that. I’m still trying to envision that school’s library, all those hundreds of feet of empty shelves and one ancient librarian crying because she had to take both copies of the Bible off the shelves due to its sexual content, even though that had been the only book left in the library! It’s so bad in Floriduh they’re considering charging parents $100 if they propose more than five books for removal, which should get them more money for the school than all the bake sales combined.
Sadly, the reason for the book bans is that the ‘leaders’ of those states can’t stand to be reminded they’re racist assholes, and they can watch porn on their cell phones, so they don’t care when frustrated bigots take all the salacious books out of their local libraries as well as the ones documenting historical and present racism. So the racist assholes are happy, the religious fanatics are happy, and neither set of them actually wanted their children to learn history in the first place.
Which is why, I’m betting, that Oklahoma legislator actually introduced a bill banning ‘furries’ from Oklahoma schools. First, it keeps the lie going that there are ‘furries’ in our schools, that it’s a disturbing and concerning trend, and second it gives the school administration cover for failing to teach our children, well, anything. Got a rabbit’s foot on your keychain, or a purse made of animal hide? Grounds to label that child as being a ‘closet furry’ and expel them. Is that child drawing pictures of animals? Expel them too! Do they make animal sounds in the halls? Expulsion is the only choice! If that legislation passes in Oklahoma, I foresee a tidal wave of anti-furry legislation sweeping across our country as the Repugnicans desperately attempt to save American from a non-issue non-problem, the kind of legislation they love to pass. . .
Once again your blog is delightful, your mouse replacement is doing impeccable work, and you’re bringing us all the ‘news’ that’s fit to vomit over. Or the mouse is, whichever.
Thank you for going to the trouble (i.e. exposing yourself to the high insanity that is American politics) of collecting these nuggets of dung that even a beetle would refuse to roll away, and offering them to your audience wrapped in a gaudy blanket of adorable tomfoolery that disseminates the execrable truth without making us all retch over the state of our union. Or, at least, makes the insanity a little more tolerable, even if we still find ourselves occasionally worshipping the porcelain god because of what we’ve been exposed to. . .
What I’m trying to say is, please remember to download your brain frequently, as we can’t afford to lose your inimitable style and grace in pointing out the truly kooky shit America is mired in as of present. Since, as you point out, without documentation any future generations are going to shake their heads and say, “No, there’s just no way our grandparents could have been that insanely stupid.”
And you are the premier documentarian of utterly stupid shit in America. Bar none that I know of, at least.
Kick back, fondle your keg of beer, and flog the mouse if he starts to slack off. . .
With deepest regards,
Henry Rinehart
What a marvel you are, Cap. Consistently able to supply laughs amid the horror. Keep up the good work, and cheers. 🍻
Good thing I didn’t have coffee in my mouth when I read the Desantis flopping around in New Hampshire sentence. Can’t afford a new device right now.
Yeesh! Read the links about the Assholes with Cassaroles charter school. In the link a group call Gays against Groomers wants LGBTQ+ books pulled from schools.
Good lord, these people are psychotic.
Keep up the good work, Cap!
“Can you imagine the parade of incels and mass shooters that’s gonna stumble out of a fucking MOMS FOR LIBERTY CHARTER SCHOOL?”
I imagine the prom king and queen will be doing threesomes with the valeDICKtorian at the graduation party…but no incels please, we’re particular about who we fuck…
I don’t think you said rapist enough times?? Well done! Personally- I love my copy of Marguerite and am awaiting the next installment
You’re in top form, Cap. This is a great one.
Buddy movies, cognitive tests gone so wrong, new German words, all there and then some!
Thank you.
That German word you were looking for? I can’t really make it into a word but the phrase is Peinlich lustig, aber faschistisch beunruhigend. I suppose you could just run it all together as the Germans tend to do: Peinlichlustigaberfaschistischbeunruhigend. For example, the original word for a military tank in German was Gepanzertesfahrzeugdaszurzerstörungvonmaschinengewehrnesterngebautwurde. (“Armored vehicle built for the purpose of destroying machine gun nests”). Due partly to the time and energy devoted to saying this word, Germany lost the First World War and the word was shortened to “Panzer”.
I’ve not read comics since I was 8 but I ordered yrs.
And I changed my voter affiliation from D 2 R so I cld vote for Haley Suprr Tuesday for what that’s worth. Something’s gotta stop that rat-fucker.
Watching Trump is like watching a video of a dog who has grabbed the GoPro and is running with it. The dog’s owner is in hot pursuit. The only reason the dog is running is because this has become a game to them, and the person is chasing the dog solely to get the camera back. They’re not chasing the dog because the dog is smart, or handsome, or worthy of admiration. In fact, in this case the dog is a mean, loathsome, flea-ridden cowardly dog who doesn’t know how to play like a normal dog. Guard dog? This dog would help burglars trying to find the good stuff to steal if there’s half a Milk Bone in it for them. But there’s that time the dog bit someone they don’t like. That’s a good doggo. Bite someone else, now.
A new word? How about “Fraudenfreude?” It is the experience of joy that comes from another person’s pain or humiliation. The kicker with Trump is that we experience just as much enjoyment as he does when we watch him going about his life. The man’s mind (?) just boggles the imagination. It’s as if Clint Eastwood wanted to remake one of his movies that had an orangutan. This new one is called “Donnie Dumbass” and it still isn’t housebroken.
I’m unable to order your comic/graphic novel. Won’t take my MasterCard, and no paypal option. The last time I was this frustrated was when Heavy Metal went out of print. Help?