"What were you thinking, Liz? You quit being prime minister of the UK
just because you were a colossal failure? Where’s the logic in that?
"In a REAL Democracy, like the one we have here in the United States, right-wing leaders NEVER resign under any circumstances, even if they’ve been caught failing, cheating, or treasoning. In fact, especially when they’re caught treasoning.
"Seriously, though, we here at the GOP have had politicians who have paid sex traffickers, enabled and covered up sexual abuse, abused girlfriends and wives, lied about election results, incited insurrection, confirmed an accused rapist to the Supreme Court, elected and defended a self-proclaimed sexual abuser and accused rapist to the Presidency, defrauded Medicare, trafficked human beings to Martha’s Vineyard, fled to Cancun during a time of crisis, and blamed wildfires on Jewish space Lasers.
"And honestly, that’s just a very partial list." -- satirist Devorah Blachor, writing in McSweeney's. As with our QOTD yesterday from Alexandra Petri, Blachor nails the reality of today's Christofascist Republican Party, its rotted out "leaders," and its credulous base/ low-information voters. Another great piece of satirical writing worth a read in its entirety.
