By Baxter
Between Gavin Newsom's social media posts and the DC Sandwich Guy, this week has given us something precious: the License to Laugh.
Yes, America, you can work to save democracy and have a good time at the same time. (But mocking Nazis and other autocrats didn't start with Team Newsom. There was Charlie Chaplin in 1940's The Great Dictator, and "Springtime for Hitler" in The Producers in 1968. And probably others that we're not thinking of right now.)
And, of course, the sandwich puns just write themselves.
Here are some of our favorite things about the week. Feel free to add your own:
The name "Election Rigging Response Act" is perfect. We're not gerrymandering — they're cheating.
If you look at the responses to Newsom's tweets, you'll see many, many unhappy Trumpsters. Just for fun, scroll through a few. You'll find lots of freaking out about the use of all-caps and sentence fragments, all with zero self-awareness. Consider the nerve struck.
"Karo'LYIN' Leavitt" is truly Webby-worthy.
Other excellent parodies of the sick and cultish MAGA hero-worship are proliferating.
As one of the nation's most trenchant political observers has speculated, it's possible that IRL Gavin Newsom may be an asshole. "Meaning of course he's perfect for this mission."
Finally, Hunter Biden has managed to dupe Moose & Squirrel into keeping L'Affaire Epstein in the headlines for weeks. Nothing to do with Gavin, but nicely done! We cats PURR.
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