Today in leaning into super-villiany:

I'm sorry, does promising revenge against
political enemies not violate the user agreement?

I'm not telling anyone how to vote, but if someone you voted for starts saying things like "their days are numbered" and vowing revenge on their enemies, it might be time to start re-evaluating your party affiliation. I mention this because soon-to-be-former North Carolina Representative Madison Cawthorn did some classic super-villain vengeance-swearing on Instagram the other day in response to his primary defeat. Here, take a look at what has replaced "gracious in defeat" in American politics:

Just so I'm clear, does making up nonsense
about the edition being stolen and then storming the
Capitol fall under the category of genteel politics?

"The time for genteel politics has come to an end. It's time for the rise of the new right, it's time for Dark MAGA to truly take command. We have an enemy to defeat, but we will never be able to defeat them until we defeat the cowardly and weak members of our own party. Their days are numbered. We are coming."

-Madison Cawthorn, presumably while

 shaking a fist skyward in impotent rage

Cawthorn continued his Instascreed saying:

"On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood!
What was will be! What is will be no more! Now is the season of evil!

-Madison Cawthorn's actual concession speech*

Yikes...I don't want to tell them how to
crazy, but where do you go after full Nazi?

So, a couple of things: now is the time for the rise of the new right? Is he suggesting there's an even shittier, more racist and misogynistic version of the political right out there? The right just used to just be the ones who were stingy with government spending and who called everyone they didn't agree with communists. Now they're tiki-torch carrying fascists trying to overthrow democracy. What exactly would be the new right? Also is Dark MAGA a thing? Who even calls themselves Dark Anything? Other than maybe Palpatine, I mean.

I'm not sure what bothers me more, Republicans who spew all the now standard hatred and horribleness of the right but lack the empathy to understand the harm they do, or the ones who do all the spewing but straight up refer to themselves as Dark MAGA and are just comfortable with it.

Pictured: Representative Cawthorn singing a song about how his
 enemies better watch out, while some hyenas goose-step past in formation.

*Ok fine, that's Vigo the Carpathian but the sentiment is the same...