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Andy Borowitz's avatar

He had to beat out a pretty tough field.

Pradnya Sikand's avatar

Andy , Your satirical eye is priceless!😂The competition for dumbest and most obnoxious among Republican Senators is very stiff indeed ! There’s an embarrassment of riches ! 😂Thanks for the Monday morning laughs! 💕

John Townsend's avatar

--or just an embarrassment?

Pradnya Sikand's avatar

It should be a collective noun in the future “an embarrassment of Republicans “ 😉

SUZANNE Marie McAdam's avatar

Good one, Pradnya. How about a curse of cabinets?

Pradnya Sikand's avatar

That’s excellent! ☺️

Don Allen's avatar

But he's not in Markwayne's league. Oklahoma has an extraordinary capability for sending morons to the Senate, e.g., James Inhofe aka Captain Snowball.

M.E. Lawrence's avatar

As Will Rogers and Woody Guthrie whirl in their respective graves.

Eileen's avatar

Didn't Will Rogers say, "I never met a man I didn't like"? He might make an exception for MarkWayne - and a few other Republicans

Al Keim's avatar

And they have a panhandle too.

Sharon Herrick's avatar

For another view from Oklahoma, check out the "I've Had It" podcast on substack---two women from Oklahoma who take no prisoners---they called Markwayne a "dipshit" and Booster Box Mullin, among other things. You'll like it.

John Townsend's avatar

"Try it, you'll like it!" was Alka-Seltzer's motto.

If only taking a political Alka-Seltzer could soothe the nation's churning stomach!

Sharon Herrick's avatar

Ah. Advertising. It could be that advertising and the entertainment industry is what got us into this mess. HCR had a take on "cowboy individualism" today that fits right in here. My stomach is churning beyond repair.

Al Keim's avatar

Just hang a stove door round your neck and hide it under a poncho. Call me after you shoot someone in the morning.

Al Keim's avatar

What about Mikeywayne likes it?

Gabriele C Overweg's avatar

Yes, I have to agree. Listen to "I've Had It" is very refreshing and funny and not to forget intelligent.

Sharon Herrick's avatar

Absolutely intelligent.

ABuckley's avatar

Thanks, I will check this out.

Sharon Herrick's avatar

Believe me, you won't regret it.

Wis's avatar

I think they both deserve honors for their names. Tommy Tuberville sounds like the title character in a warped children’s book, like “Tommy Tuberville Wanders Into Traffic”; and Markwayne Mullin sounds like he belongs on the FBI’s most wanted list.

Annette's avatar

OMG, Wis . . . brilliant post. Especially the children's book title.

Edith Griffin's avatar

I'm trying to picture the illustrations of a quaint garden city called Tuberville in a children's storybook. Not to mention the occupants. My normally fertile imagination is bogging down.

Rebe's avatar

John Wayne Gacy, Elmer Wayne Hensley Jr (serial killer), Wayne Williams (Atlanta child murderer), Wayne Boden (Vampire Rapist), Wayne Boden (Missoula Mauler), Wayne Nance. All notorious murderers. Now we can start the Pantheon of the Deplorables to include dumb politicians and cabinet members.

Wis's avatar

Wowee… remind me to never name a puppy “Wayne” - he could grow up to be Cujo…

Kimball C Pier, Ph.D's avatar

I would never trust anyone named Markwayne with anything other than ringing me up at a gas station convenience store. And that’s even questionable

Deb Demonbreun's avatar

You make us proud, Wis! Milwaukee agrees with you.

Kimball C Pier, Ph.D's avatar

I love this post! You said exactly what I was thinking!

Lisa Botwinick's avatar

A very touch choice! Plenty to choose from in the GOP!

Autumn Mich's avatar

If there was a standard for obsequiosness, Lindsay Graham would win, hands down.

Annette's avatar

oh my goodness, yes . . . Miss Lindsey has been clutching his pearls a lot lately.

John Townsend's avatar

Now for a Democrat who'll beat him in the field!

Annette's avatar

John, I think you could easily find a 10 year old that could beat him.

Stuart Baron's avatar

If there were a written test…

Harvey Perry's avatar

Unfortunately a Republican toadstool would beat a Democrat in that State. They get what they deserve.

Katharine Hill's avatar

How you manage to turn this nightmare into a chuckle is priceless! Thank you, Andy.

joanna windham's avatar

I agree. What happened to our politicians. The republicans are worthless. What are they trying to accomplish. Dense idiots

Annette's avatar

that's just it, joanna, they aren't trying to accomplish anything! They figure DOGE took care of everything months ago.

Harvey Perry's avatar

Trump, I mean god, will solve all problems.

Annette's avatar

well, he creates all of them, but tends to move onto another bright shiny object, rather than fix anything

joanna windham's avatar

How silly of me. You’re absolutely correct

Al Gorythm's avatar

Not only is he the dumbest person in the senate, he’s about to be disqualified over residency requirements for his run for governor in Alabama.

Stick to football, Tommy.

L B Rose's avatar

Everyone in the mafia regime must have a lower IQ than Agent Orange. I wonder what the average IQ is now. Room temperature level is probably as high as it goes.

J Cheng's avatar

I googled it: Moderate/Severe Impairment (<54): IQs below 55 generally indicate a need for significant supervision, support, or specialized care for daily living.

This sounds like the whole lot of them

Mary Roeser's avatar

Room temperature, my foot!! Their combined IQ is closer to Kelvin zero.

P.S.: For those who don't know what Kelvin zero is, it's -457.69 Fahrenheit.

Susan Stone's avatar

Absolutely priceless. And true. Thank you for a good laugh.

Stan Crock's avatar

With the AC on ultra high.

John Townsend's avatar

--while the White House occupants are high on God knows what!

BTAM Master's avatar

We are talking Celsius, right?

John Townsend's avatar

--and that particular room temperature is freezing cold!

Paul Ehrenzeller's avatar

In Centigrade, not Fahrenheit!

joanna windham's avatar

He played to long without his helmet. I know he was coach. If only they will pay attention to our laws

Lorenzo's avatar

Kudos to Tommy Tubberdumb - Alabama proud.

Al Gorythm's avatar

Bless his heart.

Swing low, Alabama.

Annette's avatar

<snort laugh>

Wendy Tucker's avatar

Tommy Tubberdumb---WONDERFUL!

John Townsend's avatar

Stick a football to your head, Tommy! It's smarter than you! You might absorb some wisdom?

Lani Gill Flesch's avatar

Do NOT forget the DUMP aka dTRUM also wanted Hershel Walker to win a against Warnock for the Senate position from Georgia!

Annette's avatar

I believe Hershey is the ambassador to the Bahamas. Just like Krusti will be Special Envoy for the Avengers.

Wendy Tucker's avatar

I'm pretty sure you are right about Hershey. Krusti is on some kind of just-invented agency and so far, no one has explained it. I wonder if she knows stuff (Epstein related or similar-to) which caused Trumpety-Dumpety to come up with a consolation prize asap????

Annette's avatar

you know, Wendy, I think you're onto something . . . I wonder how many of tRump's admin have access to unredacted Epstein files, through Blondie, and are holding that over his head . . . or it could simply be, tRump doesn't want to look bad by having to fire someone he hired, so he just moves them around.

Annette's avatar

if anything, it would be fun to punt it!

nacreplus2's avatar

Perhaps too many hits to the noggin in football is the cause...?

Steve Lang's avatar

every time i see tommy’s last name, i transliterate it to “tatertown.”

It's Come To This's avatar

I just think “dumbass.”

John Townsend's avatar

Succinct and accurate. Yes!

Veejer's avatar

I think "Toonerville Trolley. Whatever that is!

SUZANNE Marie McAdam's avatar

Hah! Been a long while since I've heard that one!

Sure describes this trainload, though.

Wendy Tucker's avatar

I think of Tubby the Tuba. Kids song: 'Tubby the tuba can do anything.

da da da aaaah

Swing on a swing.

ooooohTubby the tuba can do anything.

da da aaaah dah da!

John Townsend's avatar

--or "Tooberbooberville"? Or "Pancho Tooberboobervilla"?

Mary's avatar

I think Hooterville. There’s Uncle Joe, he’s a movin kinda slow…

nacreplus2's avatar

perhaps "Tatertot"?

Kerry Truchero's avatar

Beating out Ron Johnson was definitely a Hail Mary play at the whistle.

Lani Gill Flesch's avatar

And remember, Wisconsin voted ron johnson IN over Russ Feingold.

Kerry Truchero's avatar

Not once, but twice! That factoid is the most damning indictment of the American electorate. Feingold was truly one of Wisconsin’s great public servants. And this happened in the upper Midwest, not the Confederacy. When I speak of the idiocy of the electorate, this is example #1.

Deb Demonbreun's avatar

Ouch! I love Russ Feingold! I tried my best, but it was tea party time & the stupids ran over us. I can't explain the 2nd time, but, then again, who is president? People don't get smarter with 2nd chances. I agree with restricting voting -- no R's allowed, I's are suspicious and need examination. D's only need apply.

Robert G Hansen's avatar

You beat me t the punch. Well played.

Sean M Carlin's avatar

Whether it’s Christy Noem or Tommy Tuberville juxtaposed with Mark John Wayne Mullin the same title applies, Dumb and Dumber!

Judy Sherwood's avatar

Markwayne is another ICE Barbie - with a BEARD.

Annette's avatar

I would bet my last gallon of gas he has his own cowboy hat!

Harvey Perry's avatar

Send me the gallon soon or it will cost you $100!

Harvey Perry's avatar

I have seen him in a Congressional hearing wearing one!

John Townsend's avatar

Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest!

Mean, Meaner, Meanest!

Kathy's avatar
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slowly but surely, republicans are moved closer into trump’s gestapo regime; we KNOW Kristi Gnome will be tried in courts, and now Mullen has moved into a position that will get him indicted - how soon that happens, who knows. To that end, Trump is crashing everything faster than ever, warp speed if you will, to fulfill the worst fears that intelligent Americans could see way back in 2015 when a goofball rode down an escalator with his third wife. we knew he’d blow everything up, which is what Steve Bannon had wanted then and is either going to get his wish, or as he recently predicted, they’ll all go to jail.

John Townsend's avatar

The cliff, right this way......

Linda Hitchman's avatar

I would dispute that "honor". As a Wisconsinite I am sure Ron Johnson deserves the accolade.

Jim Dygert's avatar

As my grandmother used to say..”If brains were dynamite he couldn’t blow his nose “..

John Townsend's avatar

LOL!!!!

Your grandmother must have been a "hoot and a scoot"!

Lawrence Weschler's avatar

I am reminded of the days, back around 1970, when California's egregious Superintendent of Public Instruction Max Rafferty left that post in a huff to take up a similar one in Alabama, thereby, as it was said at the time, instantaneously increasing the average IQ's of both states.

Marlene R's avatar

It's a deep bench.

pgoodemote's avatar

I’d like to nominate Fetterman please, should Tuberville be unable to fulfill his duties.

Karen OConnor's avatar

Fetterman is not really a Democrat so it certainly fits that he can play with the dumbest of the dumb in the Senate. Trump must have promised him a cabinet position when the first round gerts booted off the island.

Wis's avatar

I can’t believe I used to like Fetterman, back when he resisted trump’s election lie.

Annette's avatar

yup - perhaps he's playing the part of Joe Manchin

Harvey Perry's avatar

He wants Manchin's money from the fossil fuel industry.

Lynn Hammonds's avatar

We knew something was up when Fetterman put on a suit for Donnie.

joanna windham's avatar

Oh you are sooo correct

Wendy Tucker's avatar

Fetterman is like a big stupid dog who follows whoever has the kibble--except dogs -- ALL BREEDS--are much smarter.

William Wakley's avatar

Tommy Tubesock should get a medal he can give to the IQ45 dumbest senator to the dumbest president.

Louis Judson's avatar

"Tommy" is a little boy's name. I can't associate it with an adult! I once met a singer named "Mikey" and he did not understand when I asked him if he liked it!

Donny is nearly as incapable of adulting as them.

Lynn Hammonds's avatar

It's a Southern thing, or as I play about 'southerin', the good ol' boys bein' boys as long as folks hold onto their nostalgia (ah grew up in the south, dad was air force, like some of the things about it, the purty land and the ocean, but hated the overt and covert racism even as a tot, got out as fast as ah could afta hi skewl.)

Louis Judson's avatar

My Mamma was from Mississippi, and spending long Summer vacations there in Crosby was an education. Y'all talks truth!

Denise Bleak's avatar

Like Junior, Bubba, & even the pejoratives used by black white & in between- when recently attending the Mona Lisa’s and Moon Pies parade to honor the Slidell PD and provide yet another public drinking excuse of an evening

Ah heard ee -yet all

Erik Staub's avatar

Mullin wanted the title as the dumbest Senator and then challenged Tuberville to a cage match on the Senate floor. Kristi Noem and Lauren Bobert volunteered to walk around the cage with the round numbers. The orange Cheeto not to be ignored in this made for TV debacle is going to Ref it.

Jan Fabiyi's avatar

Maybe this is the MMA (Mixed-up Moron Arts) event Trump wants to celebrate our 250th anniversary on June 14th. He won’t have to pay the contestants; their already salaried.

Deb Smith's avatar

That's only because Mike Johnson is in the House. The competition there is even fiercer!