Laughingstock of the world.

I'll bet that most of you knew who I was talking about in that headline without even having to look at the actual post.

THAT is because we all realize the guy in the White House is universally seen as a clown and that every day he spends in office is damaging our credibility as a country.

"We are pretty close to a laughingstock" says outgoing ethics watchdog.

Courtesy of the New York Times:  

Actions by President Trump and his administration have created a historic ethics crisis, the departing head of the Office of Government Ethics said. He called for major changes in federal law to expand the power and reach of the oversight office and combat the threat. 

Walter M. Shaub Jr., who is resigning as the federal government’s top ethics watchdog on Tuesday, said the Trump administration had flouted or directly challenged long-accepted norms in a way that threatened to undermine the United States’ ethical standards, which have been admired around the world. 

“It’s hard for the United States to pursue international anticorruption and ethics initiatives when we’re not even keeping our own side of the street clean. It affects our credibility,” Mr. Shaub said in a two-hour interview this past weekend — a weekend Mr. Trump let the world know he was spending at a family-owned golf club that was being paid to host the U.S. Women’s Open tournament. “I think we are pretty close to a laughingstock at this point.”

The only dispute I have with that is that I don't think we are CLOSE to a laughingstock.

I think we ARE a laughingstock.  

In fact everything that we could be proud of as Americans seems to have been turned on its head, whether it is welcoming immigrants, our dedication to election integrity, or our treatment of minorities.

You would not think that it would only take six months to erase the prestige of America, but I guess that was not entering Donald Trump into the equation.

New Zealand warmly welcomes Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Well sort of.

US media travelling with Sec of State Rex Tillerson surprised by the number of people flipping the bird at his motorcade in Wellington.

— Tracy Watkins (@tracy_watkins) June 6, 2017

Courtesy of The Guardian:  

The US Secretary of State has been met with a frosty reception and a backhanded compliment from the prime minister while on a flying visit to New Zealand. 

Rex Tillerson arrived in wet and windy Wellington for an eight-hour visit on Tuesday, with his motorcade greeted by middle fingers and thumbs-downs. 

Fairfax Media reported that the US media contingent were surprised by the hostile reception from members of the public.

“I’ve never seen so many people flip the bird at an American motorcade as I saw today,” the New York Times’ Washington correspondent, Gardiner Harris, told Stuff.co.nz. 

The whole Trump Administration is now the laughingstock of the world. 

I swear this is even worse than the ill will created by George W. Bush and his cadre of criminal accomplices.

I swear Donald Trump has an ironic tweet for every occasion.

We need a President who isn't a laughing stock to the entire World. We need a truly great leader, a genius at strategy and winning. Respect!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 9, 2014

If I were writing a comedy about a bungling president whose past remarks kept coming back to describe exactly how he was functioning in his job, I could not have come up with such devastatingly accurate material.

I keep waiting for Ashton Kutcher to jump out and tell the whole country it just got Punk'd.

Donald Trump claims that Putin will not go into the Ukraine when in fact he already has, then decides to go on Twitter and make it even worse.

This is what I know about international affairs. 

Courtesy of CNN:

Donald Trump said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin won't make a military move into Ukraine -- even though Putin already has done just that, seizing the country's Crimean Peninsula. 

"He's not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand. He's not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want," Trump said in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week." 

"Well, he's already there, isn't he?" Stephanopoulos responded, in a reference to Crimea, which Putin took from Ukraine in early 2014. 

Trump said: "OK -- well, he's there in a certain way. But I'm not there. You have Obama there. And frankly, that whole part of the world is a mess under Obama with all the strength that you're talking about and all of the power of NATO and all of this. In the meantime, he's going away. He takes Crimea."

I have no idea what he was even trying to say there.

After several news outlets reported on his ignorance, and he was mocked mercilessly on the internet, Trump turned to Twitter.

When I said in an interview that Putin is "not going into Ukraine, you can mark it down," I am saying if I am President. Already in Crimea!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2016

So with all of the Obama tough talk on Russia and the Ukraine, they have already taken Crimea and continue to push. That's what I said!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2016

Actually no that is not even close to what he said.

What he said was "He's not going into the Ukraine, OK just so you understand. He's not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down."

ABC did not even have to "mark it down" because Stephanopoulis already knew just like every informed individual, that Russia has already invaded the Ukraine.

Trump is a laughingstock not, just in America, but all over the world.

David French was so worried that his wife Nancy would cheat on him that he forbade her to drink alcohol or use Facebook while he was in Iraq.

So when David French was in Iraq, he wouldn't let his wife e-mail men or use Facebook. https://t.co/F1tEOwE4sc pic.twitter.com/ZOOV52QXUN

— Kevin Robillard (@PoliticoKevin) May 31, 2016

Hey look I get it, if I looked like David French I would just assume that my woman would be looking for something better every chance she got.

I mean seriously.

Perhaps THAT is why Nancy did not mind pretending to be Bristol Palin for all of those years.

She was living vicariously through the Palin party girl, and while her business was closed down and locked up tight, Bristol was hosting an all you can bang buffet virtually every night.

Just imagine the girl talk back and forth.

"So Bristol what's it like to have an orgasm? What, you mean you don't have to do it through a hole in a sheet? They come in different sizes?"

As for the news that David French is Bill Kristol's potential "Trump Killer," well that has not been received in quite the way I think Kristol imagined.

BREAKING: Bill Kristol anti-Trump presidential nominee David French to get own Wikipedia listing. Soonish. pic.twitter.com/6bBeBRynYb

— The Fucking News (@TheFingNews) May 31, 2016

.@BillKristol's 3rd party messiah is
.@NRO writer David French?! ROTFLMAO! https://t.co/rN4Q3z2iOf #tcot #TrumpTrain
.@KLSouth
.@Mr_Pinko

— C. Steven Tucker (@CSteven) May 31, 2016

With a name like David French you'd think he surrender before he began

— T. A. Whitney III (@T_A_Whitney) May 31, 2016

Bill Kristol actually thinks an independent candidate can win pic.twitter.com/i9rDIEQHpO

— Jim Minardi (@AMillennialMind) May 31, 2016

And those were the nice ones.

Okay I have to go shopping now, there is just NO way to keep enough popcorn in the house these days.

(H/T to Raw Story.)

Courtesy of Facebook.

Wow! That's mean.

But also pretty funny.

Bristol is simply NEVER going to be taken seriously by anyone again.

Few remaining Palin-bots are excited by easily manipulated poll results which indicate that Sarah Palin is becoming popular again.

I told you I'd be back bitches!

Okay so there's this website which I am sure some of you know about that simply ADORES Sarah Palin, and continues to believe that she is someday going to fulfill her destiny and lead this country into ruin. (They seem blissfully unaware that Palin has already fulfilled her destiny to become a failed reality start and late night comedian punchline.)

Anyhow recently they stumbled across this polling website, ironically named "Elections Meter," and are now promoting it because it claims that Sarah Palin's poll numbers are currently at 55.6%.

According to the Palin-bot website: 

The new 6250+ aggregate vote EM Poll gives Palin a 55.62% approval rating. This is her fifth rating above 45% by one point or more increases in this poll since 2010, and shows the long struggle against media distortion she has had to undertake. Still, the slow and steady rise continues-as Palin's polling over the last six months indicates clearly. 

Undertake the long struggle she has done indeed, and her tenacity seems to finally be paying, off as voters now are seeing her in a substantially positive light again.The following factors may also have been significant contributors to her continuous rise.

Her strong statements on President Obama's handling of the economy during and after the 2012 election have clearly elicited a positive response. Voters look for strength of character and unwavering conviction which, whether one agrees with her views or not, Palin has in abundance.

Hang on a minute I'm fighting a losing battle against a case of the giggles. 

Okay so if you take the time to click the link to the polling website up top you will see in it's top right hand corner a blurb that states "Did you know that you can vote repeatedly?"

Now I don't want to accuse anybody who supports Sarah Palin of being unethical in any way, after all we don't have any "cough cough DWTS voting" evidence to support that, however it does suggest, and let me choose the kindest words possible for this, that the remaining Sarah Palin supporters are a bunch of desperately ignorant idolaters who will do ANYTHING to convince themselves that they have not wasted these past seven years supporting a woman who will NEVER do anything to earn even a scintilla of respect from the American voters.

See I can be diplomatic.

Fortunately for those of us who see Palin for what she is, there are still multiple occasions to see her name used as the butt of jokes. Like here on a new show on ABC called "Blackish" for instance. 

Yep, now these are people who recognize Sarah Palin's actual contribution to the world.

Israel has their own version of Sarah Palin. And no that is not a term of endearment.

Courtesy of the Daily Beast:

The most powerful woman in Israel’s ruling Likud party has just moved into a trailer. Knesset member Miri Regev, the party’s attack dog and the closest thing Israel has to Sarah Palin, boarded the mobile home—attached to an Audi SUV—last week ready to crisscross the country campaigning for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a man who never wanted her to be the face of the party to so many Israelis. 

She admits that the trailer, decorated with the Likud’s blue colors and emblazoned with her face, is a gimmick, but it’s one that fits her well. She is, after all, the queen of media stunts—and a frequent object of mockery by Israeli journalists and satirists.

Well I think comparing her to Sarah Palin is a bit much, I mean does she really have that much in common with Klondike Kardashian?  

Regev is one of the only Israeli politicians who could pull off such a stunt. The soon-to-be-50-year-old mother of three, fifth on the Likud list, is an outspoken politician who embodies a flag-waving, gung-ho brand of Zionism, and a folksy, sneering attitude towards the Israeli Left and the country’s media elites.

Well okay, that sounds about right then. 

I love this kind of thing.

Once Palin was seriously whispered about as a serious potential presidential candidate in 2012.

But these days she is almost exclusively used as the punchline to a joke or as the barometer for measuring bad politicians.

University of Pennsylvania students decide to promote sex on campus by mocking Bristol Palin. Sounds reasonable.

I know I didn't just see this. No. @penn Connaissance is legit bringing BRISTOL PALIN AS A SPEAKER?! pic.twitter.com/lkunsC5QA2
— Andre Nicholas (@omg_its_anf) October 20, 2013

Courtesy of Town Hall:

Fliers scattered around the University of Pennsylvania campus read that Bristol Palin was going to be this year’s fall speaker. Penn’s Special Events and Planning Committee had apparently made its highly anticipated announcement and decided to host the advertised Teen Pregnancy Prevention Spokesperson, leaving some students dazed and confused. 

Those posters turned out to be a hoax. Under the Button, UPenn’s “24/7 source for all things Penn,” apparently took the time to create the fake advertisements just to write this charming description on their web page, 

"A proud teen mama, (and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Ambassador…huh,) Bristol Palin has travelled the U.S. advocating for abstinence, earning her the name “The Worst Person In The World”. Now, thanks to some questionably-legit fliers, she’s coming to Penn! No offense B, but Penn kids are active, and the university dishes out more free condoms than acceptance letters. But hey, make yourself at home, just don’t be shocked when we choose bad sex over no sex." 

I hope the ink and paper these students wasted was worth it. The “active” link the author includes in the post takes you to a New York Times article called, “Sex on Campus – She Can Play That Game, Too,” which seems to approve of young women at UPenn choosing one-night stands over serious relationships.

Now this Town Hall is a Right Wing publication so they took some offense on behalf of the "Queen of Abstinence for you, but never for me."

These students’ hoax may have been “all in good fun,” but it wasn't all in good taste. After the negative media attention Palin received for her unplanned pregnancy during her mom’s vice presidential campaign, she has been an ambassador for pro-life and pro-family causes. By doing so, this 23-year-old has managed to change a negative into a positive. She even shared her joyful life with her son in a Lifetime documentary called, “Life’s a Tripp,” proving that from an unplanned pregnancy can come a blessing, not just a regret. 

That’s a message any college student should hear.

"Her joyful life?" Yeah nice try, however I think that these young people can probably identify a scam when they see one. After all they undoubtedly learned all about Bristol in "Hypocrisy 101."

Let's face it Sarah Palin not only turned herself into a laughingstock, she helped to turn her entire family into one giant joke as well. Quite an achievement if you think about it.

And do you know the sad part is that this is probably as close to an actual speaking gig that Bristol will get for quite some time. If ever.

Australia went and got them their own Sarah Palin. Always have to copy us don't you Aussies?

Courtesy of Raw Story:

 Banister, who is currently facing criminal charges for engaging in anti-Muslim hate-based acts of vandalism, is running to represent her native Queensland in the Australian Parliament. She is representing the far-right One Nation party and hopes to make Australia an overtly hostile environment to Muslims. 

The 27-year-old mother of two told Australia’s Channel Seven, “I don’t oppose Islam as a country, but I do feel that their laws should not be welcome here in Australia.” 

She also said that she would outlaw the Quran.

My favorite part of this story is that virtually EVERYBODY who covered it immediately compared this lunatic to Sarah Palin. This was also included in Raw Story's coverage:  

The woman who some are calling “Australia’s Sarah Palin” went on to say that she supports “the Jews” because “they follow Jesus Christ” (they don’t) and that while she would outlaw halal food — which she repeatedly referred to as “haram food” — she would allow kosher food to remain in stores because it doesn’t carry a tax like “haram food.” (It does.)

This is how HuffPo introduced the story:  

Could this be Australia's Sarah Palin?

And the Daily Mail posted this picture.

 With this caption:

Some have compared Ms Banister to former U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Remember way back when we predicted that someday Sarah Palin would be a national laughingstock who would be used as the barometer for judging the stupidity or insanity of a given politician?

Yeah? Well "someday" has arrived.

Even ALL the way over in Australia.

Politico knows NOTHING about Sarah Palin!

"Hey, I hear voices in my head! And not the usual ones telling me to kill Todd either."

This was written about Sarah Palin since leaving Fox News by reporter Mackenzie Weinger, over at Politico: 

Sarah Palin With a passionate fan base and a powerful social media presence that can launch hundreds of thousands of clicks, Palin’s life after Fox has been just as influential - and divisive - as during her tenure on the network, observers say. 

She joined Fox News as a paid contributor in 2009, after she had resigned as Alaska governor. This January, Fox News confirmed the three-year run with the former Republican vice presidential nominee was over. 

Even without a formal arrangement, Palin still gets her name out there often on Fox News, with 135 mentions in the last 90 days on the network, according to TVEyes. And Fox News has hardly blacklisted her as a news subject - Palin’s comments on social media and her speeches at CPAC and the recent NRA convention in Texas have been clipped and discussed on the network. 

And even without her gig as a regular on Fox News, Palin still garnered much of the same coverage in the first four months of this year as she did in 2012, according to the Nexis database. From January 2012 to May 2012, Palin received 223 mentions in newspapers; 69 in Web-based publications, such as CNN.com, Washingtonpost.com, POLITICO and USNews.com; 563 in blogs; and her name appeared in 46 news transcripts, for a total of 901 mentions. During the same period this year, in her post-Fox News life, Palin’s still very much in the conversation, with 118 mentions in newspapers, 55 in Web-based publications, 726 in blogs and 12 in news transcripts, for a total of 911 mentions, and she also wrote an op-ed for the conservative website Breitbart. 

Okay somebody needs to explain to this ninny that generating clicks or having her name mentioned in articles is NOT the same thing as having a "powerful media presence" ESPECIALLY since much of those articles are making fun of her and the majority of the clicks are driven by a macabre desire to see just how far she will fall, whilst handfuls of popcorn are devoured during the spectacle.

Palin has the same positive impact on the news as a fleeing bank robbers does during an episode of COPS. Sure we all enjoy the chase, but in the end most viewers are hoping the getaway car will flip in the air and the fugitives will burn up in a fiery crash.

This part is a little more realistic.

Fox News was never “the foundation of her public personality at all,” Mair said. “If somebody took Facebook or Twitter away from Sarah Palin, then that would have a significant impact on her media profile.” 

Actually that would be the end of her "media profile," as without Facebook and twitter for all intents and purposes Sarah Palin would cease to exist altogether. Only showing up occasionally for the opening of a carpet store, spotted once in awhile stumbling around race tracks or car shoes, and having her name pop up as a $200 question on Jeopardy about has beens and losers.

 But perhaps the most telling part of the article is this:

Palin did not respond to POLITICO’s requests for comment. 

Yes because Palin is SO incredibly paranoid about being asked a question that she cannot answer she will ONLY respond to media that she KNOWS will treat her with kid gloves, like Breitbart and the occasional local news outlet in some back water town that is just excited that somebody they once saw on TV is right there in that ashen flesh and barely circulating blood.

No Palin has no actual "media presence," any more than Hitler has a "media presence," or flesh eating diseases have a "media presence." Sure we will click on links that mention them, but NOT because we are impressed by them or fascinated with their story, but rather because they disgust us and we want to make sure they are not making a comeback.

Nailed it! Update with pictures.

*Insert something inflammatory here* <Link to Obama here> (ask for money to fund lifestyle here) GUNS!!! #TweetLikePalin #griftertemplate
— @boopumpkins (@boopumpkins) May 24, 2013

The above tweet was posted in the #TweetLikePalin thread last night.

I think it is pretty clear that the majority of people in this country have her completely figured out. Don't you?

And the ONLY people who are still pretending that Palin has any future in politics or punditry, are those in her family, and those who stand to benefit when people write or talk about her.

Update: By the way I have received a number of photos of Palin from her appearance  yesterday at the Indianapolis Speedway. This seems to be the appropriate place to share them.

Looks like she is getting to the point where not even wigs and high definition makeup can cover the ugliness within.

Comedy Central presents Sarah Palin's Worst Moments of 2012

"Well that's not funny. That's not funny at all."

Courtesy of Comedy Central:

 8. Palin calls Time magazine irrelevant for naming President Obama its Person of the Year, when really it's irrelevant for still trying to be in the print media. 

7. In response to the mass shooting in Newtown, Palin sums up this horrific tragedy with a Cee Lo song and a crappy joke about the president.

6. Palin's son Trog (or something) gets a divorce after 18 months of marriage, and his family-values-having mom has no comment, because… family values. 

5. Palin apologizes after telling Republicans to stop being "wusses" during fiscal cliff discussions. Yet she still hasn't apologized for her crimes against grammar and logic. 

4. This terrible pun: Sarah Palin on Monday said Democrats who "still have that addiction to the hope-ium" President Barack Obama peddled four years ago need to "open their eyes" and vote for Mitt Romney this November.

3. Palin mocks President Obama's Christmas card for featuring Bo, instead of baby Jesus coming down from heaven to give the Constitution to Paul Revere or whatever. 

2. As the battle for Chick-Fil-A/America's greasy soul rages, Palin jumps into the fray to prove that a) she has no idea how the First Amendment works and b) she still hates the gays. 

1. Despite raising hundreds of thousands of dollars through her Super PAC, Palin gives Mitt Romney nothing except a half-hearted endorsement wrapped in a long screed about Barack Obama. 

So there you have it, the worst Sarah Palin moments of 2012. And to those of you wondering who cares about Sarah Palin any more, the answer is: not even Sarah Palin.

Awesome! 

And let me just say that the PERFECT people to be covering Sarah Palin are the folks over at Comedy Central.

After all IS there a bigger joke? (Well to be fair Mitt Romney certainly came in a strong second.)