The big news of the past week was the sweeping sweep of the off-year elections by Democrats, Democrats and more Democrats. Which made the GOPers realize that maybe their strategy of starving kids wasn’t such a winning gambit. Nah, just kidding. They pointed the finger and gave the finger to everyone and everything except the mirror. Notably, they trotted out the predictable specter of election “fraud” and “irregularities”. (Both of which are mere synonyms for “we lost”.) When Karoline Leavitt proclaimed that Democrats always commit election fraud, she was asked if there was any evidence for such a claim, whereupon she set the record straight by replying, “It’s just a fact”. So there, case closed.

Most of the fingers got pointed at women, since they were the ones who most consistently voted correctly. On Fox “News”, talking headless Brian Kilmeade suggested that we should “encourage marriage early” so as to “get more conservative young women.” And according to Joel Webbon, “You can save your country or you can allow women to vote. But you cannot do both.”

Doug Wilson, meanwhile, doesn’t outright decree that it’s evil for female type persons to vote, but he does have reservations about them holding office, saying “it is no sin for a woman to hold political office, provided it is as rare as a blue comet…The lesson to be drawn is obviously that women in positions of civic leadership is not prohibited, provided that you maintain males in those positions at 90% or higher. That would be the level at which a society could safely be considered a patriarchal one.” Yes, safely.

The biggest pants-pissing orgy in the MAGAsphere was reserved for New York City’s election of its first Muslim mayor, which according to the memes and soundbites is the end of the city if not the end of the world as we know it (without feeling fine). There were endless variations of the AI-generated tombstone for the Big Apple (which one right-wing rag cleverly pegged as The Red Apple) but the one that really takes the (fruit)cake is the one above courtesy of Ryan Fournier. “Concrete Dream”?? That’s what NYC is?

Texas’s right-wing governor Greg Abbott vowed “I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC” as retaliation for New Yorkers’ audacity in voting for someone that does not meet his approval. Nothing like demonstrating your bigotry, your authoritarianism, your ignorance of the Constitution, and your ignorance of what tariffs are and who imposes them, all in one little sentence. As damage control, other wingers have suggested that he was just joking. But nobody, not even fellow wingers, took it in jest at the time.

[New York will be] “torn down by immigrants with an immigrant at the vanguard.” — Doug Wilson. Yeah, Doug, immigrants have always torn down the U.S., haven’t they?

“Every time a Black woman is in any kind of professional position, we have to — like, how did she get that job?” — Matt Walsh, very nicely filling the shoes vacated by Charlie Kirk

Immediately after math teachers in Vail, Colorado posted a Halloween photo of themselves in bloody T-shirts with the words “problem solved”, the right-wing shit hit the fan. How dare they “celebrate Charlie Kirk’s murder”? The school received thousands of hateful messages, including dozens of death threats. Never mind that the same shirt had been worn the previous Halloween and clearly had nothing to do with St. Charlie. (You’d think that the wearers being MATH teachers might give someone a clue. MATH. PROBLEM. Get it?) But to MAGAs, everything is ALWAYS all about them.

And a special Stupid Award to the 8 Senate Democrats who repaid the recent confidence voters showed in the Democratic Party by… caving in to Republicans on the government shutdown.