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Andy Borowitz's avatar

Hope a lot of you will join me for book club on Sunday! E. Jean’s book is already a huge bestseller and it’s wonderful.

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Pam Birkenfeld's avatar

I started reading it yesterday even though I’m in the middle of another book, and it’s very entertaining, written in a very lively way. Highly recommend it.

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David's avatar

Looking forward to it, Andy.

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Al Keim's avatar

This should be fun:-)

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Linda Byberg's avatar

I’ve been looking for a new book club. Can’t wait.

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Italien's avatar

Be there or be square!! I am showing my age again….😂

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Mary K's avatar

Can't wait. I got the audiobook which she narrates herself, and she's hilarious. Thanks for this!

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Linda Hewitt's avatar

I love this idea!! And I’m ready for some E. Jean speaking truth to power and intelligence to stupidity!

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Bob's avatar

He'll be leaving soon. There's not much there to support him. Next stop, MTG.

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Alan's avatar
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Bob -- here's related BREAKING NEWS!!!

RFK, Jr. announced this morning that a new central feature of his MAHA initiative is to add worm eggs to the drinking water so EVERYONE can have their own brain worm.

The brain worms will be genetically altered so all Americans will totally support the Administration's policies and be able to comprehend its leaders' speeches and social media posts.

And with a brain worm in every noggin, vaccines will become obsolete!

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Holly Starbright's avatar

Palantir Worm Farms, Inc.

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Susan Stone's avatar

Priceless and perfect! I just finished reading Robert Reich telling us all about Palantir.

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Gail T's avatar

First time I'd heard details of that AI crap.

What an unbelievably horrific situation.

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D ODonnell's avatar

Scary stuff & not healthy for Democracy.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Holly, don’t give Thiel any more ideas!

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Gail T's avatar

Can't believe all the weirdness we're being forced to deal with. Is is possible we all in some kind of frightening nightmare and when we finally wake up we'll just be back to the usual problems? Oh, if only!!!

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bitchybitchybitchy's avatar

One worm to rule them all! We can all become Wormwraiths-with apologies to J.R.R. Tolkien.

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tecolote42's avatar

Hahahahah

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Gordon Shumway's avatar

and to think the MAGA folks were worried about Bill Gates placing chips in them with the COVID vaccine!

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Mike Sabes's avatar

Musk has the Brain chips ready to go......

Scary man to say the least.

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Lynn Tuohy's avatar

Okay, please help me. Is the worm in brain based on fact or TBR reporting? I swear I’m losing track of reality! Got to admit that it’s fun, though!

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nacreplus2's avatar

Reality.

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Lynn Tuohy's avatar

Thanks, nacreplus2 . That is exactly what I needed to know.

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Alan's avatar
1dEdited

Reality for RFK, Jr. Extended reality by Andy and his TBR community when discussing the worm's migration 😉

My thought (based on a famous song from "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"): Everybody Ought to Have a Worm!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J9IuUMsMnzk

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Frau Katze's avatar

Understandable.

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Michael Luginbill's avatar

I hope that Sir's people don't see this post. This could help with the latest Project 2025 effort..the Strategic Brain Reserve..

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LHS's avatar

Will Pete Hegseth invite the worm to the next Signal Chat?

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Mike Sabes's avatar

Follow Pete's Signal Chat and we will know if Trump is goining into Iran...

Pete the drinker leaker..

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M Seits's avatar

I think that a cloned worm is already in Hegseth’s pea sized brain!!

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Sue Logan's avatar

From the tequila ??

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Chris Williams's avatar

… and here I thought that alcohol was deadly for parasites!

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John Townsend's avatar

Of course! It won't be able to reply, though!

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Anita J. Gordon's avatar

It was already there when he walked into the room!

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Pat Ebervein's avatar

My biggest question - arrival at destination via what pathway? And why would our worm choose such a "nasty woman"?

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Bob's avatar

Worms thrive in garbage.

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Kandy Brown's avatar

That's a fact!

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M Seits's avatar

Silly you! The worms get transferred by Jewish Space Lasers!!

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Octavia Redwood's avatar

how could I have forgotten?

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marlyg's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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Mike Sabes's avatar

Must be everyone in MTG's district has brain worms for they voted again for her...cannot fix stupid!

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Al Keim's avatar

There's lots of room.

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Phil M.'s avatar
2dEdited

LOL! Good point. Robert Freakin Kennedy's brain was full of crap. While Krispi Noem's is empty.

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Ellen Harris's avatar

airborne spores... worm likely to choose an acid environment destination without too much activity

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D ODonnell's avatar

He’s a guy worm and attracted to her huge lips.

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Annette's avatar

I think Tulsi Gabbard will be out before RFK, Jr. The worm was given a choice and hands (?) down, it selected Gnome.

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Gordon Shumway's avatar

don't you think she's been infected for awhile already?

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L. R. Abramson's avatar

Yes, Bob, a worm cannot live, never mind thrive, on saturated fat alone.

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D ODonnell's avatar

Funny!

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Barry Blue's avatar

I’m really surprised. I didn’t think she had a brain.

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John Townsend's avatar

Maybe it will be killed by all the Botox?

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Joan Schiavi's avatar

Seriously, if it doesn’t starve to death in gnome’s head it will surely die in mtg’s.

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Michael L Flynn's avatar

Maybe they only eat dead, decaying brains.

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ROSEMARY SCHLICK's avatar

Maybe Kristibitch will deide to shoot the worm. What an idea. Imagine her with a gun held to her head. I can dream.

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Irna Gadd's avatar

I love the idea!!

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Kandy Brown's avatar

Why waste a bullet on something so small. Oh, wait. She'd have to shoot herself in the head, wouldn't she. Maybe that is best, as she could now be with her dog!

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Michael L Flynn's avatar

I doubt that the puppy went to hell.

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Kandy Brown's avatar

You are right! All dogs go to heaven!!!

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John Townsend's avatar

--but the dog will be in heaven. Kristi? Doubtful!

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nacreplus2's avatar

That would be SO unfair to that poor abused pup!

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Jim Carmichael's avatar

You are so well loved, Andy. The worms will give interviews to no one else.

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Kate Decker's avatar

:-) !!

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Elisabeth Birker's avatar

😂😂😂

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Fintan Steele's avatar

poor hungry little worm.

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Bradford W.'s avatar

Will likely starve to death.

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SyBen's avatar

No, it won't go hungry, there are many choices in this administration. It's leaving the orange gray matter for dessert.

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Chris Williams's avatar

“Pumpkin Jello - Yay!” said the worm.

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Frank D Repp's avatar

The worms crawl in,the worms crawl out,the worms play pinnocle on your snout

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jb from Weston's avatar

stop with the ear worms, Frank!

That's very Al Keim of you...

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Annette's avatar

<standing ovation>

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SUZANNE Marie McAdam's avatar

Today's winner, for sure

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L. R. Abramson's avatar

jb, point perfect! Kinda sorta lika several generations removed from alchemy.

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D ODonnell's avatar

Ear worm of the day; best sung by a chorus of the 80-year-olds on here:

“I wish I was a Oscar Meyer weiner

That is what I really want to be

And if I was an Oscar Meyer weiner…”

Can anyone fill in the blanks?

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Bonnie Warwick's avatar

Jim Ryan, I know you’re of a certain age when you know that little ditty!

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Frank D Repp's avatar

82 and counting!

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Mary Gilbert's avatar

Keep going lambchop-we need your vote 😘

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D ODonnell's avatar

Btw, it’s “pinochle,” Frank.

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Frank D Repp's avatar

So I'm imperfect

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Bonnie Warwick's avatar

OMG, I’m losing it. I meant Frank D Repp😩

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Bonnie Warwick's avatar

84 today!

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L. R. Abramson's avatar

Wishing you much fun, Bonnie. You're losing nothing at all. You have everything to gain.

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Lee Burns's avatar

You are my people--I;m 85

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Lee Burns's avatar

Happy Birthday

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SUZANNE Marie McAdam's avatar

Happy birthday! I'll be 85 next month

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Bonnie Warwick's avatar

That’s a big one!

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Susan Stone's avatar

Only just 80, but I remember that well. Too well

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Frank D Repp's avatar

Still wet behind the ears!

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LYNN COOK's avatar

Happy Birthday, Bonnie.!👏👏

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Frank D Repp's avatar

Many happy returns!

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Lynn Tuohy's avatar

“Did you ever think when the hearse went by, that some nice day it’d be you or I?” Songs my father sang to me.

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Italien's avatar

Now that is an ear worm!! Old summer camp stupid sticks in your head!!!😂😏

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L. R. Abramson's avatar

Frank, I thought it was "...in your snout."

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Judith Green's avatar

Lol

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Patti's avatar

Big black bugs with great big (blue eyes - wait am I confusing this with New Order?) … So delighted Bob K figures in today’s discussion.

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Jerome Vanderberg's avatar

As a retired medical school professor who specialized in studying parasitic infections, I need to correct one of your comments. Your mistakenly call this worm a "parasitic nematode". Nematodes are known as "roundworms", some examples of which are hookworms, pinworms, Ascaris, Trichinella and many other species. The worm that got lost in Kennedy's brain is a Cestode (a tapeworm) and almost certainly the larval stage of the pork tapeworm, "Taenia solium". Parasitic worms have feelings and intensely dislike being called something they are not. Please do not try to worm your way out of this misidentification.

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Jan's avatar

Thank you Doctor Vanderberg. In these days of so much misinformation, it’s important to get the facts straight. Too bad the worm’s hosts are not as diligent.

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Amy 0415's avatar

Wow, that’s great to know. I’m a huge fan of the Worm but have never fully understood how to refer to him. Should he be properly addressed as Sir Cestode, or is “Worm” alone sufficient? Thanks

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Italien's avatar

Thanks Jerome! (I mean that!) Too many worms, too little brain….😏

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SUZANNE Marie McAdam's avatar

LOL

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William R MEYER's avatar

This is why you should always cook roadkill thoroughly. On another note. Parasitic infection is an apt metaphor for this entire administration.

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D ODonnell's avatar

Great one.

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Jim Ryan's avatar

Good thing I wasn't drinking anything when I read this as I would have spit it out. Classic!!

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Susan Barnes's avatar

I have learned not to drink and read TBR at the same time.

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LYNN COOK's avatar

Many of us had to learn the hard way, Susan!

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Susan E Keezer's avatar

Nuts. Now every MAGA will want a brain worm. Not just for their alleged brains but as status symbols. Soon the market will be flooded with them in your choice of titanium, platinum, gold silver or virgin vinyl.

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Bobbie75's avatar

Trump enterprises will of course sell gold colored ones for a high price.

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Susan E Keezer's avatar

No doubt with his signature etched on them.

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LYNN COOK's avatar

...with bold bold Sharpi !

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Michael Stayton's avatar

Musk could use it as an alternative method to insert his brain chip.

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D ODonnell's avatar

Who?

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LYNN COOK's avatar

How quickly we forget....

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Michael Stayton's avatar

Sorry. The man with a mind-reading chip in his brain - thanks to Elon Musk

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewk49j7j1po

I think most are concerned when it becomes a mind-writing chip in our heads.

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Patty Hardee's avatar

Oh, no! Stock up now before the brain worm shortage. The grocery store shelves will be empty.

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Annette's avatar

I'm assuming the worms are grown in the U.S.A. and not imported . . . otherwise, you know, tariffs . . .

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LYNN COOK's avatar

👏👏

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John Townsend's avatar

Nothing virgin about MAGA or Trump, Trumpsters!

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JerryBier's avatar

And Trump will have Medicare pay for all of them, except the top line drug.

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SUZANNE Marie McAdam's avatar

or Mexico

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Mike Sabes's avatar

Another way for the Trump family to make money of MAGA's, selling them Brain Worms!

Buy a Trump Bible and get two free Brain Worms!

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Susan E Keezer's avatar

I thought the Bibles were sold out? What about the sneakers?

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Hahaha hahahaha hahaha hahahaha hahaha hahahaha hahaha hahahaha teehee

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Jane Burns's avatar

Andy, I wish I had your brain LOL LOL LOL Just spit my covfefe out!!

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Elisabeth Birker's avatar

😂😂

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Italien's avatar

😂😂😂

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Linda MacDonald's avatar

😅😅😅I don't think Mr. Worm could ignore those duck lips.A real come on for sure.

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Gail Coufal's avatar

I keep wondering what’s in those lips…. Pig fat?

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Linda MacDonald's avatar

I wonder if it's a fashion statement, along with long strands of hair falling over the shoulders and puffy lips. Better check Vogue or Elle for the latest fascist statement! Darn that spellchecker😅😅😅

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GrigorSamsa's avatar

Obviously satire: we all know Kristi Gnome HAS no brain

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Betsy Groth's avatar

No brain, no heart, no soul. But makeup, Botox, hair extensions and fake eyelashes galore.

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Elizabeth Greenlee's avatar

The worms are mutating so they can live on fillers, implants, botox, anything plastic or synthetic. Then they can take up residence in all Agent Orange's female minions.

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D ODonnell's avatar

Perfect

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Gail Coufal's avatar

She works so hard to compensate for having no brain.

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Mike Sabes's avatar

Dresses like she is in a war zone, must dream she is always ready for a photo op?

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Betsy Groth's avatar

Except the skin tight Jeans

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Chris Williams's avatar

ICE Barbie

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Ginger's avatar

Andy you bring the best out of us... the comments are priceless

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D ODonnell's avatar

💯

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Ginger's avatar
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Absolutely perfect...Friday news appears to be getting worse this helped balance the scales..wait worms don't have scales... sigh thank you

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D ODonnell's avatar

Just turn it off, Ginger. Listen to some Vivaldi instead or watch something on BritBox. Works every time.

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Ginger's avatar

Tosca works for me.. and always BritBox

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