This week was interesting for the number of posts that featured sarcastic pictures. Two of the very best were contributed by
in his post The West Doesn't Really View the Kremlin as the Enemy. Commenting on Putin’s recent summit with African leaders, Rolo makes the farcical nature of this gathering of loser-visitors to Russia, crystal clear with just two pictures (the captions are mine - sorry Rolo):The post is not really about the African summit so much as it is to do with continued rumours that secret negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, are ongoing. I gather (correct me if I misunderstand) that Rolo does not approve.
Moving on to
in a post that is not about Russia for a change and for very good reason - needs to have some fun.Apparently Edward is/was enjoying some R&R of the more lethal kind in South Moravia, Czechia. His hangover report includes:
And then visions appear: A fierce Choctaw warrior sprinting to the porta-potty; a leggy squaw straddling a horse with her bewitching Injun thighs; a U.S. Marshal playing Angry Birds while maintaining public order; cowboys beating each other senseless with wood planks; darling Czech children shrieking with glee as they point excitedly at a giant pile of steaming horse manure…
OK, that might be funny, but where’s the snark?
Our hero is bored in the village of Němčice and is challenged to find excitement in (relatively) nearby Western Town - a mere10 km hike. He reports:
The moment you enter Western Town you are transported to a simpler, happier time.
I am of course referring to the 2008 financial crisis, when Wells Fargo received a $25 billion bailout and defrauded the U.S. government in the process. Water under the bridge—and who could hold a grudge against a bank with such a charming office in the South Moravia Region?
The whole thing is hilarious - just read it willya?
Over On Quora, My Favourite Brutalsky,
Misha Firer replies to the question What are the consequences of Russia destroying its own economy? with his thoughts on Putinbo’s African summit:
On July 27th, “Russia is Africa” summit kickstarted in St. Petersburg finally resolving the long-time dilemma whether Russia is in Asia or Europe.
It seems that one of the more important purposes of sucking up to Africa is:
The Russian Academy of Sciences asked Putin to bring in more migrants from Africa because of the record low birth rate in the country.
and
State Doom’a deputies who passed the legislation to increase conscription age to 30 years, supported the idea. “The more African men we bring in to Russia, the more ethnic Russian men between ages 18 and 30 we can kill in Ukraine.”
Misha is also fearless as he interprets Shoigu’s conversation with Fatboi Kim during that visit to North Korea.
On The Entirely Un-Serious topic of Racial Equity
brings us up to date with a report on how racial equity has been achieved in Germantown, Tennessee. His ending explains it succinctly:Those whites were so irredeemably racist, that they waited a full decade after integration to begin to leave the city over such bourgeoise concerns as “urban decay” and “rising crime.” And their racism was so infectious, it spread even to black people, who also started leaving the city for the same silly reasons as the racist whites. And all that racism in the 1980s caused critical infrastructure to fail in the 2020s. It’s simple cause-and-effect, bigot!
has a piece on the most snarkworthy topic of our dystopian era, Hunter Biden’s Art. Donning his art-critic persona, Gordon requests that we:
Allow me to remove my internet shit-posting cloak, retrieve my monocle and cigarette holder, and work on developing my severe underbite to judge Hunter’s artwork fairly.
His critique is visual with captions:
The Exhale
Shaved head and toothless. I supposed adding the crackpipe would have been a little too on the nose.
It’s hard to beat that for economical assassination. More at the link.
Gordon’s on a roll at Sub/Verses. Among many great reads, he also explains how Jill Biden, AKA Dr Jill, earned (I use the word loosely) her doctorate in Dr. Jill Biden's Doctoral Thesis is Everything You'd Expect. This is a masterfully comprehensive and richly deserved hatchet job - samples:
Dr Biden teaches us critical thinking
In the second freaking sentence of her thesis, she claims that “the needs of the student population are often undeserved, resulting in a student drop-out rate of almost one-third.”
followed by
I won’t comment on the quality of her research (she handed out surveys to some people), but someone should have sent Dr. Biden that website before she started working on this. In HER OWN FUCKING STUDENT SURVEY, when asked, “Has Delaware Tech provided the support you need to be successful in your classwork.” 96% of students answered “yes.” WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!?! Doesn’t this one answer invalidate the entire goddamn paper?
next up is
Our fearless doctor provides a demographic breakdown of the typical Delaware Tech classroom in the paper. Let us review the racial breakdown provided:
Three quarters of the class will be Caucasian; one quarter of the class will be African American; one seat will hold a Latino; and the remaining seats will be filled with students of Asian descent or non-resident aliens
Now, I’m not 100% sure that Dr. Biden is using a base-10 number system here, but I’ll assume she is and apologize if proven wrong. Far be it for [sic] me to criticize anyone’s math ability, but a beautiful mind we are not working with here. If my abacus still has the correct number of beads, then my calculations say Dr. Biden has already filled this classroom to a minimum of 150% capacity, and maybe more…counting Asians can be challenging, after all.
So it goes through Dr Biden teaches us citations, Dr. Biden teaches us grammar and syntax, Dr. Biden teaches us English, etc.
Thanks for the mention, and congratulations to Gordon Comstock for winning SnarkLord of the week amidst some strong competitors like Rolo Slavskiy and Edward Slavsquat (any story that involves Mr Slavsquat getting a hangover is going to be incredibly fun to read)!