It’s only fitting to begin with the MAGA overlord who refused to get off the stage at the World Cup award presentation:

The dunks began right away, courtesy of The Guardian’s caption for this photo:

Then the memes began. Here’s one:

I have a stupid MAGA House rep. He’s trying to be cool and edgy as he slithers into becoming a full-on white supremacist. Unfortunately, MAGAts are pretty illiterate:

I guess technically he’s not a MAGAt, but I think he’s close enough:

And the congregation said:

They think you need a picture ID to eat in a chain restaurant:

His vote is being disenfranchised. He lives in Connecticut:

This guy has a weird vibe. He also has an Indian-American wife and he won’t put her in any of his campaign materials:

But the thing that has MAGAland on tilt is the Odyssey movie. First they were outraged that the cast included a Black woman and a trans man. This attack on “Western values” was not going to be tolerated. They took offense at everything, including a still from the movie for a scene where Odysseus is washed up on the shore a storm—because the water wasn’t blue.

Now that the film is out, some have decided that they love it. Others can’t find a good thing to say about it:

Yes, MAGA has a problem with the difference between history and fiction, which to be honest shouldn’t be a surprise:

They are also sure that The Odyssey is a Christian movie, but then again they also thought Project Hail Mary was a Christian movie, where Ryan Gosling’s character was standing in for Jesus. If you’ve seen that movie you might be surprised to learn that given the central teachings of Christianity.

I love the confident stupidity of this:

In case this part gets cut off:

The entire movie is rooted in what Nolan terms “Zeus’ law.” That law is: “Treat others as you would want to be treated, because anyone might be a god.” Now, clearly, there’s nothing like that in Greek mythology. It’s not implicit in Homer. It’s a direct rip from Biblical morality, substituting “because anyone might be a god” for “because man was made in the image of God.”

Nolan is not religious and he did not import Christianity into his film because as anyone who has ever gone through a Greek mythology phase as a kid knows, the Greek gods were fond of showing up in disguise to test human kindness. Nolan’s use of “xenia” as the overarching theme of the film is not something he made up. There are stories in the myths about this happening, like Baucis and Philemon.

But MAGAts are impermeable to facts like that. Since they have never read one Greek myth, they just make up stuff that fits their worldview. It’s so amazingly weird. There is a famous passage from the New Testament where the writer says “Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.” And this almost certainly comes from living among the Greeks, and ties their mythology to the Old Testament stories of angels visiting people on earth (most obviously the story of Lot). (This is a good start if you are interested in these cultural crossings.)

I’ll leave you with this: