{"id":4241,"date":"2026-02-13T22:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4241"},"modified":"2026-02-13T22:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:46:17","slug":"victories-pour-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4241","title":{"rendered":"Victories Pour In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/victoriespourin\/victoriespourin150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/victoriespourin\/victoriespourin650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"1055\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">(That Melania doc sure was a massive W if ever there was one. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/victoriespourin\/victoriespourin150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image,<\/a> 1.2mb)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Does having to close the Kennedy Center after shitting all over it count as a victory?<\/strong> How about making a laughingstock of yourselves by shitting your pants over a Super Bowl halftime show? Or, how about alienating most of America \u2013 and the Earth \u2013 by shitting on the remaining credibility of every major American institution? Honestly, I thought it was a parody when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/victoriespourin\/whitehouseofficial_dontpanic_msg.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this stinkburger<\/a> of a statement first hit Bluesky earlier this week, until I <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Fritschner\/status\/2020963409769205823?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">traced it down to &#8220;X&#8221;<\/a> and started <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dagens.com\/news\/trump-says-dont-be-a-panican-were-winning-and-were-not-slowing-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spotting it<\/a> all over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/2168959\/trump-begs-americans-support-polling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the papers<\/a> about the same time. Dear god, does his staff just let the sonofabitch write his own goddamn press releases, just blurt out whatever he feels like on his tr00th.social accounts without taking him aside and giving him pointers on how not to write like a goddamn 1950s B-movie dictator? &#8220;Victories pour in&#8221;&#8230;? oh, man, you can almost imagine him mush-mouthing it out in that smarmy, 19th-hole happy-hour, three-martinis-into-it NYC real-estate hustler voice.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;Distract, depress, and divide&#8221;? Oh, christ, are they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ee4IWHChgAE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">channeling Spiro Agnew now,<\/a> too? And that &#8220;Don&#8217;t Be A Panican&#8221; headline \u2013 where the hell are they getting <em>that<\/em> shit? What&#8217;s the next communiqu\u00e9 going to open with \u2013 &#8220;Turn That Frown Upside Down&#8221;?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Sadly, the recent flurry of media rumors of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/news\/truth-behind-bizarre-rumor-trump-pooed-himself-926866-20260206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Presidente crapping his pants<\/a> at a recent White House press event turned out to be false, as somehow pants-crapping seemed a perfect metaphor for the current state of American politics and society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">11 x 17 inch medium-res <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/victoriespourin\/victoriespourin150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 1.2mb<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(That Melania doc sure was a massive W if ever there was one. 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.2mb) Does having to close the Kennedy Center after shitting all over it count as a victory? How about making a laughingstock of yourselves by shitting your pants over a Super Bowl halftime show? 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