Trading Down

Them edumakated types be dangerouss!

Below is your Sunday morning Cartoon du Jour. (Yes, I know it isn’t morning but my stupid editor, whose name I won’t mention (Steve) insisted wasting his time by going to church and then forgot to turn his phone back on. Needless to say, he won’t be getting paid!)

The new Director of Homeland Insecurity may make Krusty Gnome look brilliant.
This Chucklehead and Kuntry-fried goober, who tried to start an actual fistfight with a union leader during a committee meeting, has apparently been plucked from an abandoned construction site, as he appears to be a brick. Though most bricks I have spoken with say he is dumb even for a brick.

He wasn’t chosen for his breadth of experience but the lack of it. He’s a MAGAT favorite who shakes his fist and yells, “The election was rigged. Trump won it.” He is superiorly stupid. He’s a fucking plumber. Does anyone remember how fuckityfuck stupid “Joe the Plumber” was? Jezzzuz, we’re doing that again!? The bald puddle of cat vomit, Joe the Plumber, whose real name was Samuel Wurzelbacher (just how do you get “Joe” from “Sam”?), showed the world how not being educated in the field you are speaking to is not a great idea.

Joe rolled out his brand of stupid for a while and then went broke and returned to plumbing. But Joe and MarkyMarkWayne Mullet seem to have a lot in common, mainly having no experience whatsoever and both having the IQ of a wheelbarrow.

Now there is nothing wrong with being a plumber. It is a much-needed profession, as there is no shortage of shit these days. And you could make the argument that being very familiar with shit, a plumber might be just the thing to unclog the toilet bowl of politics. Alas, this is not the case. MarkyMarkWayne Mullet is simply adding more shit to the steaming heap of dung that Krusty Gnome left us.

I’m against plumbers becoming senators the same way I’m against political cartoonists becoming senators. Neither of us should be in charge of anything more advanced than a toilet or a piece of paper. We should stick to our skill set. One of us handles shit, and the other one draws it.

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