The Daily Fib

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  The Slogan Is The Shortest Form Of Political Comedy

  ORANGE LIAR @ Jul 30, 2026

  Political comedy comes in many lengths. An hour of stand-up. A newspaper column. A single panel cartoon.
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  How To Disagree With Somebody Without Ruining Dinner

  ORANGE LIAR @ Jul 30, 2026

  Somebody at the table says the thing. Everybody else goes slightly still. There is a fork suspended in the air somewhere.
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  What Satire Cannot Do, And Why It Matters

  ORANGE LIAR @ Jul 30, 2026

  A defence of political comedy has to be honest about its limits, or it is just advertising.
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  The Comic Value Of A Very Serious Man

  ORANGE LIAR @ Jul 30, 2026

  Comedy has understood something for a very long time that keeps being rediscovered. The funniest possible character is not the clown.
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  Every Political Scandal Follows The Same Five Steps

  ORANGE LIAR @ Jul 30, 2026

  Watch enough public controversies and you stop being surprised by any of them, because they run on rails.
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  The Complete Guide To The Non Apology

  ORANGE LIAR @ Jul 30, 2026

  The genuine apology is a simple thing. Somebody says what they did, says it was wrong, and says what happens now. Three parts, under twenty words, extremely rare in public life.
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  Trust Nothing Orange And Other Useful Rules

  ORANGE LIAR @ Jul 30, 2026

  Everybody needs a small set of rules for deciding what to believe, because checking everything properly is not available to anybody with a job.
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  The Political Speech Contains No Sentences

  ORANGE LIAR @ Jul 30, 2026

  Try an experiment during the next political speech you happen across. Listen for a sentence that makes a specific, checkable claim about something that will happen.
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  Why Deadpan Is Funnier Than Shouting

  ORANGE LIAR @ Jul 30, 2026

  Two people can deliver the same observation about politics. One shouts it with obvious outrage. One states it flatly, as though reading a weather report.
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  Satire Has Always Been The Oldest Job In Politics

  ORANGE LIAR @ Jul 30, 2026

  For as long as anybody has held power, somebody standing nearby has been making fun of them. This is not a modern decline in standards. It is possibly the most consistent tradition in public life.