THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE SPACE – BY TOM CURLEY

Every week since our Fucking-Idiot-In-Chief got into the Oval Office, every news report starts with a version of “This is the worst week yet for the President.” And there’s a reason they say that. It’s true. What’s amazing is how he manages to make this week worse than the last.

There’s no floor. You can’t say, “he can’t get any worst than this” because he will just say, “Oh yeah? Hold my near-beer.” (El Presidente doesn’t drink so I had to modify the meme).

Near-beer!

But for a while, he was at least funny. He says stuff so stupid you just have to laugh. He writes all the late-night show’s monologues by himself (with a big assist by Fox News). But last week he stooped to depths of depravity so low, so disgusting that all the humor got pushed aside.  Ripping children from their parents and putting them in baby/toddler jails.

In the midst of this unspeakable evil, he was still trying to give us some comic relief. We were just too appalled, disgusted and enraged to notice it.


Our Chuckle-Head-In-Chief announced that he was ordering the Pentagon to create SPACE FORCE!


A “separate but equal branch” of the military. Separate but equal? What the hell does that mean? The Air Force and the Space Force have separate drinking fountains? And then he actually said, “There’s no place like space, there’s no place like space.”

That night, all the late show comedy writers went “well, we can take an early lunch.”

But here’s the thing. There already is a Space Force! Really! It’s been around since 1958. It was a syndicated comic strip called “Sky Masters of the Space Force!” created by Wally Wood and the great comic book artist Jack Kirby.

Can they sue? Well probably not, I’m pretty sure they’re both dead.

He said we need the Space Force because we not only need to be in space but we need to DOMINATE SPACE!

Now the question becomes, who do we draft into the Space Force? We can’t use all of our current astronauts. They’re all scientists and engineers who work at an international space station where people from different countries all get along and work together. We can’t dominate space with these wimps!

We need real Americans. Americans who want to make the galaxy great again! The only problem is, Trump only picks people for his administration who are on TV. But don’t despair! We have those heroes. Heroes like the Sky Masters of Space Force!

Oh wait, that was just a comic strip, not TV. OK, what about Tom Corbett, Space Cadet! He’s an American hero! He was on TV.

But, wait, he’s dead.

OK, what about Colonel Ed McCauley, head of the American Space Program in the 1959 TV show “Men into Space!” He was only on the air for a year, but he was still the head of the American Space Program!

The only problem is, he’s also dead.

OK, how about Ed Norton from the Honeymooners? He was an official ranger of Captain Video and his Video Rangers.

And what about Captain Video himself?

Shit, both dead.

Captain Kirk and Captain Jean Luc Picard are both still alive, but they don’t strike me as Trump’s kind of guys.

And hell, Kirk kissed a black girl.

Wait! Darth Vader! He’s totally a Trump kind of guy.

And, crap, he’s dead too.

This could be a problem. Because let’s face it, we know that aliens have already visited Earth. And what do they do? One word. Anal probes.

They’re sending rapists! We need to stop the infestation of real, actual illegal aliens! What can we do? Build a wall. A wall in space! And we’ll make the aliens pay for it!

OK, we’ll make Mars pay for it!

We need real Americans to step up. How about the real American’s at Fox News? Hannity, Coulter, Ingram, Carlson and those three stooges who do Fox and Friends.

Draft them.

Send them into space to defend America! Defend Earth! Whatever. Just send them into space. And make sure they stay there.

We can make them honorary Junior Birdmen.

To Infinity and beyond!


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38 replies

  1. And “The Emperor’s New Clothes” is getting realer and realer

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  2. The old short story “The Marching Morons” is becoming more and more real.

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    • P, “The Marching Morons”? I like it. Send it upstairs for a greenlight.

      I’ll call some people. We could get Gary Busey, Tommy Lee Jones, David Caruso and Fred Willard for the leads.
      Kellyanne Conway could cameo as “The Swamp Slut”.

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  3. OMG this was brilliant!!!!!! I’m glad you were able to provide some humour in this state of affairs. Delightful read through and through. Point well made!

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    • The author of this piece has been a long time observer of the absurd — he’s captured the essence and precious bodily fluids of Space Force Commander Cheeto Head. Hopefully, Commander Cheeto Head will soon be blasting off for the Black Hole on the other side of our universe. Paul Manafort is likely to be Cheeto Head’s Executive Officer. He’s explored the dark side of outer space.

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    • Thanks. But it’s getting harder and harder.

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  4. I am saving my box tops and one thin dime. I want to dominate the galaxy! And I want one of those dresses with a tiny short skirt, too. But not red.

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  5. If they could find a way to recruit Kellyann and Sarah Palin, the world would rejoice.

    It does get a bit Looney Tunes, doesn’t it… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fusxravUlhE

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  6. When I read this comment of his the other day I actually thought it was “fake news” a parody. I can’t believe he really said that, wait, yes I can. Guys like him give earthlings a bad name. We need the Doctor, now!

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