This past week, Donald McDonald shared a social media post that said:

There is no Joe Biden – executed in 2020. Biden clones, doubles and robotic engineered soulless, mindless entities are what you see. Democrats don’t know the difference .

(Wait, time out. I thought “Biden” was supposed to be too decrepit and incompetent to perform. So that means… they replaced the real Biden with a model that was even worse? Boy, those Democrats are sure playing 7-D Chess. I bet having Harris lose was all part of the plan too.) To be sure, this was hardly the first time he’d promoted nutso conspiracy theories and rumors — indeed, it’s rather routine. But this one is REALLY next level, even by his usual standards. (Will Republicans know the difference?) For once, most of the media reporting this episode called out his batshittery, branding the post as “false”, “bizarre”, “unfounded”, “outlandish”, “baseless”, or at the very least, a “conspiracy theory”. But one notable exception was (surprise!) Fox “News”, which didn’t even call it a conspiracy theory, but simply a “post”. And rather than saying anything about how unhinged and deranged Dear Leader’s parroted memes are, they quickly pivoted to Biden’s cancer, and this:

The nature of the diagnosis has led to speculation that members of the previous administration were aware of the cancer but withheld information about it from the public…

They just can’t help themselves.

You knew that RFK Jr. would make the cut once more, didn’t you? Under his watch, the Department of Health and Human Services published a 73-page report called Make America Healthy Again, purportedly tracing the cause of a number of childhood afflictions, documented by several studies. Except it turns out that many of those studies… don’t even exist. An HHS spokesbot credited the fraudulence in part to “formatting errors”. They really know how to dig the holes deeper.

And speaking of stupid government officials making their stupid words and actions sound even stupider, Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) was addressing a town hall about the MAGA massacre of Medicare and SNAP, when someone in the audience pointed out to her the simple fact that people are going to die as a result. To which the Good Senator exhibited her MAGA empathy and compassion by replying, “Well, we all are going to die.” After the outrage that followed, she decided to issue a sarcastic “apology” (filmed in a cemetery!), the standard right-wing type of “apology” along the lines of “I’m sorry if you’re dumb enough to take my words the wrong way”, by saying:

I made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium understood that yes, we are all going to perish from this Earth… I’m really, really glad that I did not have to bring up the subject of the tooth fairy as well. ..But for those that would like to see eternal and everlasting life, I encourage you to embrace my lord and savior, Jesus Christ.

After all, if her particular brand of religious ideology results in this kind of behavior, everybody will be most eager to sign up, ne c’est pas?

Speaking of Medicaid, Sean Hannity offers an excuse for wanting to slash it to the bone: “It’s like a cancer that has metastasized.” I think he must be confusing it with the MAGA Cult. Or Fox “News”.

Another Russian puppet and “former Democrat” who finally showed her true colors by pitching in with the MAGA Cult is Tulsi Gabbard — who naturally was made Director of National Intelligence. This week, NBC reported that, per four sources with direct knowledge of the process, Gabbard is looking for ways to make Dear Leader’s briefings more palatable to him, since, as she notes, he “doesn’t read”. (No shit, Sherlock.) If the president won’t go to the stupid, bring the stupid to the president. Among the ideas being seriously considered is packaging the briefings like a Fox-style program — and even bringing in Fox personnel to work on it. They’d feel right at home among all their former colleagues. (Am I the only one old enough to remember when literacy was presumed to be a minimum qualification for the highest office in the land?)

Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) introduced legislation called the Make Autorail Great Again Act (the MAGA Act, get it?), which would withhold federal funding for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority unless it gets rebranded as the Washington Metropolitan Authority for Greater Access (get it, get it?) Oh, and The Metrorail itself would have to be rechristened the T—p Train, natch.