I try not to make a habit of peeking at the trending-posts tab of my Mastodon server, but when I do it anyway, I often find myself thinking of the preceding 2005 installment of “Anthropomorphic Republican Talking Duck”, a “Mallard Fillmore” parody by Adam Jameson.

There are over 300 million Americans so I’m sure that some must self-identify as “liberal”, but I’m not certain I’ve ever met any. It’s a little funny to me how this right-wing bogeyman has been wholly co-opted by the left wing as well, or at least that part of it which is angriest and loudest in my nearest shards of current American culture.