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Yessss! Perfect choice.

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Excellent choice! Has been awardee of the year!

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Your Dingus column this week is award-worthy. With just the right twist of a razor-sharp three inch snark blade you eviscerate billions of dollars worth of bullshit media propaganda, sane-washing, rationalizing and self-deception. You are a treasure. I want my kids to name their next daughter after you. If I see you someday standing on an aging billionaire’s shoulder (you would have zero trouble pulling that off), I’ll know it was because you and your kids had to eat. So I’m going to send out more notes telling folks to SUB and keep the Way of the Dingus alive!

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Perhaps the only good thing about emboldening MAGAs is that it's easier to spot them now. I don't follow entertainment news closely, so I still thought of Carrie Underwood as the seemingly innocent young woman who won American Idol eons ago. Any like of any Matt Walsh anything is enough to put anyone on my "no thank you" list, but I didn't know she had done that. Her acceptance of the inauguration invitation is much more visible. Now I know.

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Great column. Carrie Underwood just lost me for good (not that I was ever a huge fan to begin with).

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Underwood is offering a heaping helping of stabbing her fellow women, and their bodily rights, right in the back. With those short quick repeated prison-retributional stabs and stunted former-plastic-fork knife. And, holy shit, I just cannot believe the rumor that Snoop is participating in the Stinking Orange Diaper Load's party in ANY WAY! He's been pretty outspoken about his disdain for Orange Vulva Neck.

Anyways, Inauguration Day is going to be as cold and miserable as Melania on a Zamboni in Oslo, 4° predicted as the low that night. So we can chuckle about THAT.

SISTERS RESISTERS!!!

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Vulvas are beautiful. Please rework your orange joke and not diss those of us with actual vulvas. Thank you. 😘

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There is no national unity without reconciliation and repair. I am 99% confident that conservatives will never reach this conclusion.

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There is no doubt that Underwood's choice to sing at the Inauguration is tied to her introduction as the next female sandwich-filler judge on American Idol, replacing fireworks spokesperson, Katie Perry. Gotta get all those MAGA folks to cheer on the next generation of mediocre pop talent that can shill for billionaires and call it art. (And I say this as someone who enjoys Idol, though they always eliminate the folks I love fairly early.)

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Carrie Underwood is the 3 Doors Down of 2025.

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Oh, snap

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"You are permitted to sing Before He Cheats, but you may not make eye contact with Mr. Trump, Mr. Musk, or Mr. Bezos during the performance...."

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Three Doors Down- didn’t know. Thanks! Not that I stream them but just in case

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Thanks to Carrie Underwood, I learned about Spotify's "Don't Play This Artist" feature. So there's that.

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Ooh, I didn't know about that! Thank you.

I would imagine they track that....would be interesting to see how many people clicked that to eliminate her from their stream.

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I am tech illiterate. Looked but no success. Where can I find this feature?

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In Spotify search, type in Carrie Underwood and click SEARCH. Then click on 'Carrie Underwood.. artist'. Underneath the words "11.5M monthly listeners" are three dots (ellipses). Click on the three dots and a drop-down list will appear with options. The second option is 'Don't play this artist'.

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Empowering! Thank you!

Ps. I hate how some people will label this as Cancel Culture. Yet they often are same people who say they fight for freedom. Isn’t deciding how I want my money/influence spent an ultimate freedom?

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Pete Hegseth is a horrible person, but he’ll argue he found god/the right woman/AA.

What he can’t overcome is his résumé which shows his utter lack of qualifications for this job. Any woman would have to actually show ability. This haircut gets to lean on his sartorial flair and his penis. I guess it’s gotten him this far

As they say somewhere “all hat, no cattle”.

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I didn't know my cancelled subscription to WaPo was worth millions. Yay me I guess?

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WaPo sent me a kindly email this week to inform me that i would no longer be receiving jennifer rubin's columns in my inbox because she is 'no longer writing for the washington post.' hmm. learning that she had resigned in protest was the last straw. my subscription is cancelled. you can now find jennifer and a host of others on 'the contrarian' where they are hanging out and doing a fine job! we are also cancelling our amazon prime subscription. it's a drop in the bucket but, eventually, all those drops fill the damn thing.

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The Substack nominations thread yesterday was full of worthy dinguses and I am so glad that Carrie Underwood took the crown this week because the jokes pushed away the existential dread for a moment. But one of the nominations in the thread was Lindsey Graham and I don't even know what for specifically this week but I looked to see if he had ever been the Dingus of the Week and he has been (November 21, 2020 - https://lyz.substack.com/p/dingus-of-the-week-lindsey-graham )!

Reading old Dingus newsletters is a bit like opening a time capsule and the treasure in this one is a link to a recipe for FRITO PIE! I am absolutely making it this weekend. I don't want to gatekeep this goodness so here's the recipe link Lyz originally shared ( https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/frito-pie/ )

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Omg FRITO PIE!!!! also looking at old dinguses is a reminder that I’ve gotten better at this

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When Carrie Underwood was on American Idol, and Bo Bice was another contest, my 4 (then) four year old daughter really liked Bo Bice and was angry that he lost to "Carrie Underwear." I have referred to Carrie by this childish nickname ever since.

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thats it. she is now carrie underwear and i am not going back

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I love that, and I liked Carrie Underhood too.

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I saw her on a NYE thing and wondered, "What's SHE doing here? Ugh. No." and skipped over her. Why does Ryan Seacrest have to ruin everything?

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I already posted a comment, but I'm back to note that this is the last Dingus of the Week of the Biden era! The first DOTW* was crowned on 11/8/2020 after the 2020 election was called for Biden/Harris (though it was likely written before the call).

Kudos to Lyz for commitment to the bit, because I think it's going to get harder to find Dinguses to crack jokes about going forward. So many past Dinguses of the Week are soon moving on to bigger and worse things at the highest levels of government, and at a certain point the things they do will elevate them from contemptible dingus to not-at-all-funny evil. As such, this newsletter will be an even more essential bright spot each week.

Thank you Lyz and thank you fellow readers and commenters for always being a highlight of my Fridays. <3

*It was Iowa.

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I salute your service as the official Dingus statistician. Thank you, Beau!

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I must be way out of the loop. Never heard of Underwood until this came about. Guess I am not missing anything important.

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