MAGA has come to a fork in the road...

[surfered]

[LearnedHand]

1. Nah they took the "support" fork a long time ago

This is not a future tense situation.

[EarlG]

3. More like...

[Just Jerome]

10. Yeah, there's a reason it's called a no- brainer.

[markodochartaigh]

2. Well,

Roy "Mall Cruiser" Moore was defeated (barely), and some people do leave churches when their faith leaders are found to be pedophiles.

I think that the most that we could hope for from maga Republicans is a few percentage points knocked off Republicans' totals by voters who stayed home.

But every bit helps. And the Republicans shaving their margins thinner to gerrymander more might make it possible to flip a few districts.

[biophile]

4. So much more could be on the right side- fascist, racist, sexual predator,

Narcissist, sociopath, adulterer, tax and business cheat, pathological liar, misogynist, and HE DOESN’T LIKE ANIMALS!
(Not liking animals or having a pet would have been all I ever needed to know!)

[House of Roberts]

5. Well, I read the title and this instantly came to mind:

[Dem2theMax]

8. You have to be of a certain age,

and know what the 'Slauson cut-off' really is.



I sure do miss him!

[ShazzieB]

15. Just being a certain age isn't enough.

I'm plenty old, but I had no idea what the Slauson Cutoff was and had to google to find out. From what I've gleaned, I would have to have either lived in the Los Angeles area and/or been a regular viewer of Johnny Carson during a certain time frame. I was neither, so that phrase meant nothing to me, and I'm still not sure what time frame was involved.

[Dem2theMax]

25. Everything you wrote is true.

He did that skit for about 20 years.

It definitely helped if you lived in the Los Angeles area, or were at least in LA County.

At about 2:40 in, Slauson cutoff.

[flamingdem]

36. So the Slauson cut off might have been the inspiration for

"The Californians" on snl? Thanks, this is hilarious!

[Permanut]

19. So what do we do when we get to the Slauson Cutoff?

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One of the funniest lines ever!

[Dem2theMax]

23. Why, we cut off our slausons, of course!

[calimary]

27. That STILL makes me laugh, dammit!

Every time I’d pass the Slauson Avenue offramp on the 405 Freeway, I’d start chuckling again.

[Dem2theMax]

28. You can't NOT laugh!

SO many Carson memories floating around in my head.
All but one made me laugh till I cried.
The only one that really made me cry was his last night.

[calimary]

29. I think I remember him getting a wee bit misty-eyed.

What a run Johnny Carson had! A job that kept him at the top for roughly 30 years. And for many of those years he went for 90 minutes a night. 11:30pm to 1am, five nights a week. He kept many of America’s insomniacs good and friendly company for all that time. Steady and lots of laughs, and didn’t mind at all when the laughs were on him. I worked at NBC back then and there were many who spoke of him in hushed tones. I heard at one point back then that his “Tonight show” was generating one quarter of the network’s entire revenue every year.

Sorry. I’m spoiled. When Rachel Maddow bailed after 10 years, I felt jilted. I’m still trying to be sympathetic but I’m not getting very far in that effort.

[Dem2theMax]

30. I was one of those insomniacs who stayed up late to watch him.

And then I'd watch Tom Snyder after Johnny!

Somehow, Johnny was even more funny when he would bomb. I love that he was never afraid to laugh at himself.
Here's a perfect example, only 3 minutes long.

How lucky you were to work at NBC when he was there!
I don't know why I never thought to get tickets to go see him in person. For those of us who devotedly watched him, he really was a part of our lives. I have missed him ever since he left the show. Although I wouldn't exactly call what happened to him as leaving the show. It was more that he was shown the door. He sure didn't deserve that.

I'll bet you know this. After he left The Tonight Show, he would often write jokes and send them to David Letterman. And Letterman would use the jokes on HIS show. I don't think he told that story until after Johnny had passed away.

[3catwoman3]

43. For me, the funniest skit was the one with actor Ed Ames throwing the axe...

...and having it land in the crotch of the painted figure on the turning wooden wheel. Carson's deadpan face was perfect.I crack up every time I watch it, even if it is 5 times in a row.

Another one I remember was him pretending to eat one of the potato chips collected by a little old lady who kept those that she thought were shaped like real-world items. The look of horror on her face was so real. You'd have thought he's just taken a bite out of her dog or something.

[Dem2theMax]

44. Oh, the potato chip lady!

It looked like she was about ready to have a heart attack!

A couple of my favorites were;
when the marmoset peed on his head,
and when Don Rickles broke the wooden box on Johnny's desk, when Rickles was guest hosting. Johnny discovered it when he got back, and he took the cameras over to the next studio, where Rickles was actually filming a show he was on. Never laughed so hard.

The Ed Ames bit is classic!

[House of Roberts]

21. Personally I miss the Matinee Lady

played by Carol Wayne.

[brakester]

33. Thanks for the

shortcut to an intriguing bit of trivia!

[dem4decades]

6. They'll always love Trump. They're broken people.

[Demobrat]

7. That particular fork has many more tines.

There’s the denial tine, the most popular right now. Most are sure he was never on the island, never touched a minor, and anyone who says differently is a liar.

And then there’s the “good for him, I wish I could do it too” tine.

And the “there’s nothing wrong with it, sex with children is natural and beautiful and should be legal “ tine.

Lots for the cult members to choose from.

[PatSeg]

9. Oops!

If we're lucky, they'll just swear off politics for good and go back to watching reruns of Duck Dynasty and American Pickers.

[Keepthesoulalive]

11. What about The Dukes of Hazzard

And those people who kept pumping out babies and their pedophile son.

[llmart]

12. The Duggars?

Then there's Honey Boo Boo.

[Keepthesoulalive]

16. I think I'm going to be ill

[PatSeg]

32. Oh yes, Honey Boo Boo

These are the sort of people who consumed large quantities of reality TV to the point where they didn't know what actual "reality" was anymore. I figure they eventually got bored with such programming and decided to create their own reality TV world with a reality TV president. Really scary.

[usonian]

13. Likely, they'll turn off the TV and radio and head for the range.

TO SHOOT THE SHIT.



Better that than the coffee shop.

[Trueblue Texan]

17. You might be surprised how much MAGA shit is shoveled at coffee shops and local Dairy Queens. Nt

[usonian]

18. Well, they carry the stink everywhere.

My intent was literally shooting shit there.

I imagine that even the most lenient gun laws don't abide shooting up the porcelain.

Understand your point totally.

[mountain grammy]

14. Excellent!

But I’m sure there will be justification after all.. remember that hymn… ‘Jesus loves the little children’

[Permanut]

20. Yogi Berra said..

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

[AllaN01Bear]

22. duh , which way do we go george, which way do we go? duh

[malaise]

24. Fork the molester supporters

That is all

[RealityChik]

26. A few might show regret, but on the whole...

their only source of self worth and superiority is built on one thing only: owning the libs. Everything Trump has ever done, or even done to them, will get a pass, a shoulder shrug maybe, as long as it hurts others worse, and pisses off the libs, it's worthy of forgiveness by MAGAs.

We are all hoping there is something so revolting and repulsive in the Epstein files that MAGA will turn against him. Most of all things possible are already out there if you know where to look. That Trump was raping underaged girls? that Trump and Epstein were in the sex trafficking/blackmail operation together? They might forgive him for all that too. But what is that something that Trump is so terrified about that could be revealed to be so revolting it would ruin him in the eyes of MAGA? I have my suspicions, and something tells me it involves Ivanka…

[Javaman]

31. they will never take the "road less traveled". they are predictable. nt

[justaprogressive]

34. They'll just keep going

the way they're going. To the bar.

[Upjumpdadebil]

35. Two paths...

...and M.A.G.A.'s chose the psycho-path : o

[JustAnotherGen]

37. The magapubs

Are all in for the pedophile.

[Paladin]

38. Well, they better pick which fork to take...

...immediately after they all fuck themselves, of course...

[patphil]

39. Maga's might take a step back from Trump and his minions...

but they'd rather have a sharp stick in the eye than admit we liberals are right.
They probably weren't using that eye much anyway.
None are so blind as those who refuse to see.

[liberalla]

40. Boy! Ain't that the truth!

"None are so blind as those who refuse to see."

[FakeNoose]

41. "Admit the liberals were right" is really sidestepping the main issue

... which is admitting they are racists and sexists, first and foremost. That's the reason they identify with Chump.
That's why this either / or cartoon doesn't really work.

[spanone]

42. Given their history, I'm going with the molester