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Weird Week in (Internet) Politics: Trump Huts, SCOTUSblog’s Tradition Suppressed, Bush on Kanye’s Video

By Shoshana Weissmann

This week, we learn Trump Huts are a thing, Twitter ruins SCOTUSblog’s annual tradition, and President George W. Bush gives the best reply to Kanye’s video.

It’s crazy that the EU would want to Brexit, it seems like everything was going so well.

Moreover, Britain will be free from some of the more absurd Brussels edicts in a range of areas. Per EU mandate, eggs can’t be sold by the dozen, but only by the kilo; diabetics are banned from driving (turns out EU experts decided they were a danger); prunes and prune juice cannot be marketed as laxatives, nor can bottled water be pitched as a solution to dehydration. Moreover, bananas “must be free of abnormal curvature,” and it is illegal to sell strawberries with “misshapen calyxes.”

Justice Willett takes a moment to remember a tragic day in our nation’s history.


You can also read up on Willett’s phone here.

Problem solved.


Add “handshakes” to the list of things government can’t do right.


President George W. Bush, among other celebrities, was edited into a new Kanye West music video, “Famous,” that featured wax figures of celebrities lying naked together in bed. A Bush spokesperson set the record straight in a statement:

“In case there was any doubt . . . that is not President Bush. He is in much better shape.”


When being #relatable goes wrong…


Trump gave a speech in front of a wall of garbage because literally nothing matters and The Onion is life.


Twitter DESTROYED SCOTUSblog’s annual tradition of replying to people who think @SCOTUSblog is the official account of the Supreme Court.

Today we had our annual running of the trolls — wherein we respond to people who direct mostly hateful and sometimes cute things to our @SCOTUSblog account, thinking it is the official Twitter account of the Supreme Court. We’ve done this for several Terms without incident. But this Term, Twitter — probably through some automated system — decided that our account had been hacked. So it kicked us out of our account — thinking we were the hackers — and then blocked all the tweets, so they have disappeared.

Twitter later resolved its error.


Finally, Sweet Meteor of Death (SMOD) is gaining in the polls.

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