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.
Shower Cap Will Return in (Insert Bond Reference)
Hello, friends!
Hope you’re enjoying your woke beers and your heathen potato toys and watching your furry kids defecate in taxpayer-funded litter boxes at school. In short, I wish you all the bounties of our lord Dark Brandon’s satanic reign. Go ahead and sacrifice/eat that extra baby this week. You deserve it.
Anyway.
So, a couple weeks back, I told you I was taking last week off for my (yikes) 45th birthday, which was true. My birthday present to myself was a little writer’s retreat, two blogless weeks to focus on something I’ve been tinkering with for…hoo. A minute.
A comic book.
And I need a little more time.
I cannot wait to share this story with you folks, but I’ve got to finish writing the little bastard first. I am tantalizingly close to a workable draft, something I can put into production, and I just need a few weeks to drag the motherfucker over the finish line.
Confidentially, I bit off, um, quite a bit more than I could chew with this one, and I’ve been sort of spitefully gnawing the thing down into something manageable for, again…a minute.
But things’re clicking right now, and I think one good, sturdy stretch free of the nagging drone of the Boeberts and Gaetzes gets me over a threshold I’ve been aiming at for, as I may have mentioned…A MINUTE.
Gonna take at least two weeks, I figure, probably no more than a month. Probably. We’ll find out. One day, I’ll just be there, on your lawn, drunk, in nothing but the mask and bathrobe. It’ll be just like old times.
Of course, I’m only able to pursue this comics thing at all because of y’all’s kind support over the years. You made this internet loudmouth’s dream come true. I’m really very grateful that you let me put on this little show for you once a week. Thank you.
If you want to see what all this What? Cap Makes Comics? hullabaloo is about, I’m told the pre-order page at CEX for the new print run of my WWII action fable, Marguerite vs. Occupation, is finally live! If you missed the Kickstarter, folks seemed reasonably happy with the book, and I’m real proud of it.
ANYWAY.
You came here for Mitch McConnell jokes, and you got excuses, oversharing, and a little advertising. What bullshit. You should ask to see a manager.
I can try to whip something up real quick. I dunno…how many Mitch McConnells does it take to roll women’s bodily autonomy rights back a century?
Just the one, unfortunately!
See? My heart’s not in it. Like, how many Mitch McConnells does it take to screw in a lightbulb? I don’t even know. Three? No punchline in sight. My head’s elsewhere. See ya soon. STAY SAFE OUT THERE!
Write on and see you in a month, Cap.
Take the time you need, we’ll be here when you get back
Cap, my darling. You don’t need excuses if you wanna take time off. Silly boy. Just do what you need to do. We’ll all still be here when you return. Silly, silly boy.
I shall miss you more than you know or care about, but shall keep on plodding my 86-year-old bod to keep going until your return, you young rooster, YOU!
ENJOY this time with the comic book!
I’ll be here in Las Vegas awaiting your return while divesting myself of my RT funds to keep Joe and Kamala in the WH. Must go pre-order and will see/hear from you ASAP! 🙂
Go for it!
Thank you, Cap
Will be looking forward to your return here and your latest project
Best wishes on finishing your masterpiece!
Whatever you need Cap. Go for it. We’ll be waiting patiently. After all you’ve given us the least we can do is support your creative endeavors. Good for it.
Go for it Cap. After all you’ve given us over the years you deserve our support in your creative endeavors.
I think many of us are on pause at the moment. I know I am. Your reflections, whenever the come, will be appreciated by an adoring audience. Take all the time you need.
May inspiration inspire you, may the writing write itself, may the plotting of the plot line up! Wanted to wish you a happy birthday two weeks ago, but this comment function refused to accept my comment. Not enough cursing, I supposed. I tried twice. No go. But what I wanted to tell you is this: Happy birthday, Cappy. And know this: you’re as old as you’ve ever been and as young as you’re ever going to be, all at the same time, every moment of your life. I hope this year is a good one for you. See you when you return.
We love you and we’ll miss you, Cap. But we’ll be looking forward eagerly to your return and ordering your newest creation. Take the time you need and enjoy the process.
Little-known fact: Leonardo da Vinci was best most popular in his lifetime not for his art or inventions, but as a party planner for the Duke of Milan. The Vatican’s Swiss Guards, for example, wear uniforms he designed. As much as we love your sideline here, this is party planning compared with your real work. We’ll have a party when you return.
Hey Cap,
Trying to send some beer money but clicking on the PayPal link isn’t getting us anywhere.
Going direct to my PayPal page, they are asking me to supply “Name, username, email, mobile” to send you money.
What moniker do ya use for PP payment purposes?
Thanks
S.A.
Y’all take it easy, Cap–I can help with at least one of your issues. . .
Q: How many Mitch McConnells does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: NONE!!! Like all Repugnicans, Mitch LIKES leaving America in the dark. . .
Hope that helped with your existential issues, Cap. You have surely discovered by now that your committed (or probably should be) fan base has your back–and some of us even have your beer budget. Or hard pear cider budget.
Take your time, do it right, don’t worry if you’re not one hundred percent satisfied with it, as no artist ever is satisfied with their own work, and give your fans a solid story with insanely good graphics. Or just a solid story, hell, SpongeBob is still a thing!
We miss you, but not so much we’re going to come and camp out on your lawn until the next blog is completed. Well, most of us, anyway. . .
Have fun, stay safe, drink hard cider with no hops included, and be as Cap as you need to be.
Henry Rinehart
As the kids say. You do you, Cap, and we will do us, waiting for your return. All is well, and if this the worst thing today, and it probably is, then we are all good. Happy work ahead on the comic!
Joni
Take your time, Cap, take care of yourself, and we’ll see you when you’re ready.
Good advice for all of us, we need to take care of our inner beings. We are under huge stress.
Gonna take my own advice and go walk my dog in the sunshine.
Love you, Cap, and love our community!
Of course you do comics, Cap! We knew that! 😀 I myself am a proud owner of the live-pixel (vs. dead-tree) version of Marguerite vs. Occupation, and can’t wait until the next one…hmm. Will the title have something to do with MINUTES? 😉
And happy birthday, too! 😀 Just remember one of the many, many, many verses of “The Barbarian [or Mongol or Hun or _____; probably Insert Your Favorite Barbaric Group Here] Happy Birthday Song” (to the tune of “Song of the Volga Boatmen”):
Ha-ppy birth-day! (UNH!)
Ha-ppy birth-day! (UNH!)
May the candles on your cake
Burn like cities in your wake
Ha-ppy birth-day! (UNH!)
etc.; lather, rinse, repeat, with different joyful barbaric references. 😉
My pre-order went through glitch-less a month ago, I’m on tenterhooks for both its apprentice and your return.