What a week. The news came in heavy and fast, the kind of stretch that leaves you reaching for the remote and then thinking better of it.
So David Shuster did what he does every week: he went and found the five sharpest pieces of political satire on the internet, lined ‘em up, and counted down. These aren’t not lazy memes knocked out in five minutes. They’re crafted, gleeful, occasionally jaw-dropping little gut punches—the work of people who watched the same exhausting week you did and decided to make something good out of it. You’ll laugh out loud at least twice. You’ll also catch yourself thinking, somewhere in the middle of laughing, that the joke just told you the truth nobody on cable would say out loud.
That’s the whole appeal of this countdown, and it is why it’s become the best six minutes of the weekend around here. The clips climb from clever to unhinged to genuinely, this-is-going-to-be-stuck-in-your-head good—and the number one spot earns every second of the wait. We’re not going to spoil a single one for you.
Just hit play, count along with Shuster, and see whether your number one matches his. Then tell us in the comments which one you would have crowned, because half the fun is the argument afterward.
Cliff’s Note: You know Trump, Stephen Miller, their gilded crew running us into the ground? They can survive almost anything…but being laughed at. Mockery’s a weapon. It gets under their skin by saying what the they can’t stand to hear—they’re ridiculous. That’s what Shuster and these artists do each week. It’s part of something bigger we’re building here.
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