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Rand looks rough. He also has those weird raccoon white circles around his eyes. Does he use a sunlamp for that healthy republican tan that looks so good on trump? His neighbor in Kentucky beat him up because he was leaving his lawn detritus on the property line, and I was right there with him. Gardeners can be very sensitive about jerky people who pile crap near their gardens as all that crap can be a source of disease.

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They'll have to balance the ticket with someone young and smart because Joe is O-L-D.

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Isn't just about everyone up there poor? I mean, that was one of the impressions I got. You either had scads of moola or you were on food assistance in winter.

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Once again, Poodlehead is determined to make everyone sympathize with his neighbor.

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Apparently, Chuckles thinks the term “average American” only applies to supporters of a White House occupant with a 40% approval rating.

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Isn't that something? Normally if I hear "man gets attacked by neighbor after lawn dispute, is hospitalized" I'd be sympathetic. The moment I know it's Rand Paul, I automatically assume he acted like a dick and probably deserved it.

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I'd be genuinely shocked if we had two white men on our ticket. If Joe is the nominee, the VP would be non-white or female. Which means if Joe wins, our next president almost certainly would be that VP.

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Ok but admit it if he rubs and sniffs Trump at the debate, and genuinely weirds out the weirdo, it would be the one thing that would make the entire race worth it.

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Is it a joke? Not that irony and satire are alien concepts to Russians, but Russian humor tends toward narratives with a punchline and to wordplay. This seems more like attempting to make the obvious less so by openly speaking of it in a dismissive way.

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😂😂😂😂

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YAASSSSS! Clancy Brown (totally unrecognizable as "Borg") has been my husband since "Blue Steel," and we got remarried during "Sleepy Hollow," or would have, had he known that we were married to begin with and also the restraining order thing. He is also Mr. Krabs, in case there was any doubt as to his awesomeness.

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"Foetid"

/Old World pedant

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I think it's also because if you ask normal people if trump should be impeached they answer "of course, he's a crook, he did it, end of story" I keep on watching these cletus safaris because even now after 3 years of this bullshit I still am amazed that these people can rationalize the horrible things trump has done with a straight face

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"Not that irony and satire are alien concepts" to the culture of Gogol, Pushkin, Lermontov, Platanov, Nabokov, Bulgakov, Akunin, the brothers Strugatsky and Mandelstam. Yeah, they have a glancing familiarity with it.

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I say, could we ask Donald Trump to call up the president of Azerbaijan, ask him to investigate Trump Tower Baku? You know, as part of this global campaign against corruption.

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Instead of going through all the trouble of writing up the traditional year-end news in review, just post this graphic and go out drinking:

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