Donald, this joke would break the internet
C’mon, Donald, if you’ve got any sense of humor, this is your Halloween costume this year. It’s your opportunity to totally troll the DOJ, own the libs, send the media into a spin, and melt the internet.
Waiting in the Pumpkin Patch
Each year around Halloween, true believers sit and wait in the most sincere pumpkin patch around, dreaming of encounters and gifts from imaginary, mythical beings.
And they’re not just waiting on The Great Pumpkin.
Free Drugs for Halloween?
If they keep saying it on Fox News, it must be true, right?
Scary Krusty Fan Art
Here’s another alternate creepy Krusty the Clown I did for the Simpsons Fan Art Challenge - scary or creepy Krusty the Clown art to be featured during the end credits of The Simpsons episode airing Sunday.
It’s a play on the network executives who like to give notes to tv shows, often contrary to the intent and desire of the creatives.
Given that the rules stated no images with hate or harm aimed at a specific group, I figured this wasn’t the one to enter.
But it might be popular with the writers room.
Watch The Simpsons on Sunday, October 23rd and we’ll see which images were picked as winners!
Zombie Prime Minister
With the resignation of Liz Truss as UK Prime Minister, the political jockeying begins to select the new PM.
And Boris Johnson - Truss’s predecessor as PM who left amidst a series of scandals and disgraces - sees this as his opportunity to bring his political career back from the dead.
It’s hopefully a long shot. But politics is pretty crazy these days. So who knows. We might have an undead PM just in time for Halloween.
Fear Mongering
Everything old is new again. Whether it’s remakes of old horror movies like Friday the 13th and Scream, or rehashing old irrational panics.
According to polls by the non partisan Public Religion Research Institute, ~1/4 of Republicans believe Satan-worshipping pedophiles running a global sex-trafficking operation control the U.S. government, media and financial institutions. It’s not just a replay of the old 1980s “Satanic Panic,” it’s a core tenet of the QAnon conspiracy theory.
But not just that- we’re also getting an encore of the 80s fear mongering that some stranger will slip drugs into your kid’s Halloween candy! This time it’s fentanyl in brightly colored pills, called “rainbow pills” or skittles. While the rainbow fentanyl pills are real, we’ve yet to see drug dealers or users eager to give it all away at the front door. But that didn’t stop RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel from stoking those fears.
The Satanic Panic and Drugs in the Halloween Candy fears have come before and they weren’t true. But a lot of people were tricked into believing they were true.
There are things to watch out for in the world. But all told, the vast majority of people are good and America is a much safer place than it was 30 years ago (crime statistics support the trends).
Don’t give in to these fears. They’re no more threat to you than Jason or Ghostface. They’re all equally fictional.
