Ben McClellan 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇦🇺 🇳🇿

CPhT/essential employee, observational humorist, writer. Liberal. Detroit born, Chicago raised, Indiana resident. Now on Bluesky.
#resist #bluewave

[Ben McClellan 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 @benmcclellan]

You know, sometimes, I'll post something here or on Facebook that might be a little TOO obscure, uninteresting or what have you just because it amuses me at the moment...and it's still genuinely thrilling when even just one person reacts to it.

[Chicago History ™️ @Chicago_History]

Do you remember Red Barn?

They are allegedly planning a comeback for Chicago.

Would you eat here in 2026-2027?

#ChicagoHistory ☑️

[Ben McClellan 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 @benmcclellan]

Fuck you, asshole.

[Rep. Jim Jordan @Jim_Jordan]

Fauci lied.

He knew lockdowns, masks and social distancing didn't work.

Now he's taking the fifth.

[Ben McClellan 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 @benmcclellan]

You know, someone at the hearings should really bring that up.

[Andy Beshear @AndyBeshearKY]

Today Rand Paul wants to force an 85-year-old Dr. Anthony Fauci to address the American people but refuses to ask the same of 84-year-old Mitch McConnell.

[Ben McClellan 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 @benmcclellan]

@JustAMomNamedMM ...same to you, fella! 🤣

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

They think we’re all fucking stupid, don’t they?

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I watched Trump’s speech at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night.
It’s hard to articulate how sad it made me.

Sad and embarrassed and exhausted.

Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can’t tell one.

People think humor is a talent. It isn’t. It’s a capacity. To make someone laugh you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at yourself you have to step outside of yourself and see what everyone else sees. For one second you have to be just another person in the room.

Most people can do this by the time they are nine years old.

He has never once managed it. Not in fifty years of cameras. Not for a second.

That is not a quirk. It is a symptom. The muscle that lets you tell a joke is the same one that lets you feel what another person feels. A man who cannot survive being laughed at cannot imagine being anyone but himself. He will only ever be generous when it is photographed. He will only ever be kind when it is filmed.

There is a name for it.

So he stood up there and did what he always does. He hit down. He made jokes about people’s weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesn’t like, and mocked them. Always mocking. And when no one laughed he blamed his speech writers.

The cruelty dressed as humor has worn so thin.

And for the 30% of you still in the cult who will inevitably call me a crackhead and blame it all on my Dad, all I can say is please, for the love of God, open your eyes. Wake the fuck up. Have some dignity. Have some pride.

Joe Biden wasn’t standing at that podium last night. Donald Trump was.

And at the end of it he put on a red hat that said Trump 2028 and told the room he was running again. No one laughed because everyone knows he has no intention of leaving.

Just another joke at our expense.

[Flea @flea333]

She was an awesome woman Harry. Thanks for mentioning her. I gave her her first bass lesson when she was a teenager; she was funny, smart and vibrant, a soulful girl.

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Breaking: L7 bassist Jennifer Finch is dead at 59 after a battle with brain cancer.
https://t.co/UStvQPOuJ2

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Friendly reminder: Donald Trump lost Minnesota three times 🎩 🏒

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I don’t even know what to say anymore. Couches and now this.

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

Fair Question -

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

.@AndyBeshearKY is showing Democrats how it’s DONE.

Kentucky Republicans passed a blatantly political, constitutionally questionable law to strip the governor of his power to fill a Senate vacancy.

And Andy appears ready to tell them: TOO BAD.

If McConnell’s seat opens, Beshear looks prepared to appoint who HE chooses and let Republicans cry about it.

This is how you fight power grabs. You don’t whine. You don’t surrender. You FIGHT BACK.

[Tony Posnanski @tonyposnanski]

There is the newspaper he is reading.

[Ben McClellan 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 @benmcclellan]

@JoJoFromJerz Not until a plethora of Republicans have twenty minute conversations with him.

[Andy Beshear @AndyBeshearKY]

I publicly and privately urged the last administration to address the public’s concerns with the former president’s health. I’m calling on Sen. McConnell to do the same and provide voters an update on his own health. Let’s end the crazy speculation. Just tell us what’s going on.

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

Doctor: "Are you sexually active?"
Guy: "Well, I'm an alpha male and have a podcast about masculinity."
Doctor: "A simple "no" would've worked."

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

We do not live in the greatest country on earth. That is the lie they tell us to conceal that we live in the greediest country on earth.

[Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper]

On this day in 1977, Roger Waters spat at a disruptive fan during Pink Floyd's Montreal show. The moment sparked the ideas that became 'The Wall,' his rock opera about alienation, isolation and emotional barriers.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

If Mitch McConnell were a Democrat, Republicans would be breaking down his fucking door and demanding proof of life.

[mariana Z @mariana057]

Well it's July and almost 100 degrees.

Walmart should be putting the Christmas stuff out any day now.