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We went out for supper tonight (hooray!) so I didn’t get a lot of reading done, but I do just have to share these hilarious stories:
Clown Shoes as metaphor
I love that Trump’s toadies are wearing comically large shoes because the boss bought them and they’re too chickenshit to mention that he guessed the wrong size.
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— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) March 11, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Jeff Tiedrich writes billions wasted on an illegal war, but at least Marco Rubio’s shoes don’t fit. so there’s that. the clownfuckery is off the charts
…this is the kind of literal clownshoes dumbfuckery that happens when your country’s chief executive is a compulsive micromanager who isn’t happy unless he’s up in everybody’s shit. he’s literally the boss from hell.
apparently Donny was in the middle of an Oval Bordello meeting, listening to his flunkies drone on about who even cares, Donny has the attention span of a coked-up squirrel. blah blah blah blah blah blah. so of course he gets bored, stops paying attention, and starts staring at everyone’s feet“The president kind of holds up his hand and says, ‘No, no, no, hold on a second. There’s something much more important. Shoes,’” recalled Vance. “He peers over the Resolute Desk and he says, ‘Marco, JD, you guys have shitty shoes. We gotta get you better shoes.’
and so Donny did just that: he went out and got everyone some cheap Florsheim shoes, the kind he wears. you know, because Dear Leader is such a fashion plate. it’s only natural he should want everyone to be as nattily attired as he is.
the thing is, nobody’s happy about it.One cabinet member was said to have complained that he had to ditch his Louis Vuittons for the inexpensive US brand.
but everyone’s too petrified of having a ketchup bottle whipped at their head to not go along.
“All the boys have them,” a female White House official said. “It’s hysterical because everybody’s afraid not to wear them,” another joked.
and because Donny is a supreme fuck-up who can’t ever do anything right, he evidently paid no attention to making sure everyone got the right size shoe.
if you see any of Donny’s toadies with tears in their eyes, it’s not because they’re big and strong and grateful — it’s because their shoes don’t fit, and they’re in pain.
…this is a dangerously slippery slope, my friends. oh sure, it may start harmlessly enough, with everyone badgered into wearing identical footwear. but you know it’s only a matter of time before Increasingly-Demented Donny orders all his flunkies to wear their underwear on their heads. and they’re all going to be too terrified to say no.
frankly, I can’t wait.
Subservience markers. apparently he’s got this thing for these shoes and he guesses people’s size and orders them and none of them have the balls to say, Oh sorry these don’t fit me!
— ⓘ Kaiwhiu ⓘ (@aotearoa-nz.bsky.social) March 11, 2026 at 3:07 AM
It gets better. Here’s Vance and Rubio in the Oval Office…
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— Drew(bacca) (@cybogoblin.bsky.social) March 11, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Someone line up 175 pairs of children’s shoes outside the WH please.
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— Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 11:21 AM
By the way, today it was established beyond a shadow of a doubt that the US bombed that Iran school and killed 175 school girls because they were using outdated maps. “Minab” will be the tragedy that Iran will never forget or forgive.
Trump Prayer as parody
Remember that idiotic photo from a couple of weeks ago, with America’s so-called “faith leaders” doing a Laying On Of Hands for Trump? Oh, yeah, he’s just such a religious inspiration, isn’t he.
“We are freeing Iran from religious fanatics”.
A prayer for Trump in the White House.
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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) March 5, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Well, now a parody meme is spreading around the world:
And a little more stupid stuff from Trump supporters:
Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.
— Matt Ford (@mford.bsky.social) March 11, 2026 at 7:09 AM
Poilievre as ridiculous
Fun times in the House of Commons today:
PoiLIEvre: Will the PM flip-flop again, adopt my policy that we should have a strategic oil and mineral reserve
PM Carney: There are many policies of the member opposite I will not adopt. One of them is flip-flopping, jumping around, searching for ridings every election.
😂😅🤣
🎥 Credit CPAC Live
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— 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) March 11, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Who did this? 😂
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— 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) March 11, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Paralympics Catch-up
BRONZE – Brittany Hudak, Para cross-country skiing, women’s standing 10km
From Prince Albert SK, Brittany Hudak describes her win:
“It feels great. I knew the fitness was there. I knew I was skiing well. It was just managing to put everything together on the same day,” said Hudak.
“Today I saw the conditions and knew it was going to be a grind. I know I sometimes thrive in that. It’s the same conditions for everybody but I did think the slush added an extra element for those of us skiing with one pole.
“I honestly tried to ski as hard as I could right from the start which isn’t always what I do. Sometimes I’m a little bit of a diesel and start too slow. I’m really happy to put together a solid race.”
BRONZE – Mark Arendz, Para cross-country skiing, men’s standing 10km
Mark Arendz won his second medal of the Games, adding a bronze to his earlier Para biathlon silver.
🇨🇦 Canada’s Mark Arendz collected his 14th career Paralympic medal while teammate Brittany Hudak earned her fourth in Wednesday’s cross-country skiing races at Milano Cortina.
#Paralympics
#TeamCanadawww.cbc.ca/sports/paral…
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— Visible Cricket 🇨🇦🇮🇪🎒🛶 (@visiblecricket.bsky.social) March 11, 2026 at 5:54 AM
Prime Minister Carney speaks with triple-medalist Natalie Wilkie:
Here’s a great video about Canadians just having fun at the Paralympics:
Finally, I wanted to share some references for updates on the US/Israel/Iran War:
– War historian Phillips O’Brien is now issuing weekly Mid-Week Updates. Here is the first one:
Midweek Update #1: What Are The US And Israel Trying To Accomplish?(It May Be Different). US Public Opinion And War, A Decisive Result; How Long Will This Go On? One Issue Matters Most
– A writer who lives in Paris, Rudy Martinez, now produces a twice-daily The Rest of the World Report which summarizes international and independent press stories and reporting about the war. Here is his The Rest of the World Report | Day 12 Update — Evening Edition March 11, 2026
– And historian Heather Cox Richardson writes daily Letters from an American which always cover the most significant events from the American perspective.
