Between Rick from Rick and Morty showing up in a Studio Killers video, the Powerpuff Girls officially becoming part of the Gorillaz universe and now this, it’s been a weird time for music this year
Trump is notorious for his “filing system”: when he is finished with a
piece of paper, he tears it into tiny pieces and throws it away, which
is fine if you’re a CEO (maybe), but is radioactively illegal under the
Presidential Records Act, because the President works for the public,
and is required by law to archive their official papers and save them
for public scrutiny.
White House staffers gave up on trying to explain this to Trump, who
just kept on tearing up everything, from official letters from Senators
to letters from constituents to notes and other paperwork.
The staffers – paid nearly $70,000 year – ended up with full-time jobs
retrieving scraps of paper from Trump’s trash-can and piecing them back
together with clear tape so they can be filed in the National Archives.
Some of these staffers were eventually fired; they’ve spoken to
Politico about their year in the Trump administration as paper-tapers.
A Republican State Representative from Arizona may have set an internet record; going from total obliviousness to full blown furry in under 24 hours. Kelly Townsend, a Representative for Arizona’s 16th District since 2013 became entangled in a twitter debate regarding socialism and public education (Arizona public school teachers have been striking recently), when a twitter user named @andreuswolf called her out for getting “logically destroyed by a furry”.
In what may go down as the defining moment of her political career, Townsend decided to ask
“please educate me as to what a furry is.”.
This request was immediately answered with a deluge of furry pornography, photos of fursuits, links to furry websites, and pictures of dildos, being tweeted to the elected official.
Her lack of understanding was only worsened by a followup tweet, in which she interpreted the response as a threat of some kind.
Dictionary.com attempted to join the fray by providing a real answer.
Eventually, after several hours of non-stop fur-posts, she seemed to understand the fetish world that she had just provoked, and instead of recoiling in terror (as one would expect an elected official to do), she seemed to embrace it (or, got a hip young social media person to take the reins). She asked for her own fursona (after making a shrekpost).
She stipulated that it must be a lioness.
She seemed to be enjoying herself.
Which, here is where the pony-world gets involved (the only reason we would post this on the Horse News site). A horsefan delivered in glorious full-color.
The story doesn’t end there, as shortly after receiving her new furry artwork, it became the profile picture for her election campaign page on Facebook.