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The Top 10 Hottest (Political) Gifts for 2018

From Grow Your Own Putin to the speak-to-me Millennial doll, there is something to fill every need in this polarized, cracked-up year.
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Still shopping for the right last minute gift? Received $300 in $10 Amazon gift cards from the Secret Santas at all your part-time jobs and want to treat yourself? Here are some great suggestions from the elves at The American Conservative!

Middle East Lego Play Set

The set retails for $3 trillion. Included are enough Legos to build replicas of Mosul and Fallujah, allowing a child to refight those battles over and over. Figures, all with removable heads, include Sunni militias, Islamic State fighters, Shia militias, one figure representing the actual Iraqi Army, Americans, Iranians, Yemenis, Kurds, Russians, Syrians (moderate and radical, though they look alike), Israelis, Saudi financiers, Hezbollah fighters, and a starter pack of refugees. Don’t forget even more adventures can be played with the Turkish Expansion Pack. Parents, please note, even with the best of intentions, the play set tends to simply fall apart after awhile and everyone gets bored with it. Not included: any weapons of mass destruction.

DVD Set: Ken Burns’ America’s Afghan War, 2001 – Who Knows

America’s master of the documentary returns with this insightful history of America’s longest war. Weighing in at over 12,345,000 hours of DVD footage delivered in three container trucks, the documentary largely consists of one scene played over and over of Marines capturing and then giving up then recapturing the same hill outside Kabul while narrator Morgan Freeman reads letters from other troops detailing how their PTSD ruined their marriages and they’ve missed nine birthdays for their youngest sons.

On the Blu-Ray version, Burns offers an interview montage of a Taliban leader in 2001 saying he will outlast the Americans, followed by his son saying the same thing in 2006, followed by his grandson repeating it in 2010, followed by twin great grandchildren making the same promise in 2018, while various American presidents mime “nyah nyah” behind them. The Deluxe Edition comes with $20 billion in American dollars, along with a match so you can set it on fire.

Trump: The Foreign Policy Game

Game night will never be the same! This basically is just a regular game of Jenga. The new rules, however, allow a player to suddenly yell “Make America Great Again” and knock over the tower.

The Amazon Alexa Ocasio-Cortez Plug-In Adapter

In addition to changing Alexa’s voice to that of Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, this software update occasionally sets your device to simply scream at the top of its lungs for no discernible reason until you wish it would just go away. When you order something for yourself, the device refuses to process the request and says “That’s just so wrong!” Several times a month it does use your credit card to purchase artisanal honey-based shampoos made in Brooklyn to ship to refugee centers because they need comforts too, and to pay off student loans held by members of Congress. After six months, the software self-destructs and you never hear from it again. Includes a coupon good next Christmas for the Ilhan Omar and Beto versions.

Please Speak to Me Millennial Doll

Has your Millennial son or daughter stopped talking with you since the 2016 election? The Please Speak to Me Millennial Doll is the answer! Pulling the string causes the doll to nasally utter such phrases as “That’s racist hate speech,” “You’re a fascist,” “Seriously, you’re going to eat that ‘food’?” and “I wish I wasn’t white.” No matter where you put it down, the doll automatically returns to sleep on the couch in your basement.

CLUE – the 2020 Democratic Presidential Edition

A crime has been committed and the game is afoot! Who has been nominated for president and vice president by the Democratic party? It’s your job to follow the clues and figure out who the culprits are! Is it Biden and Some Black Person in the men’s room? Warren and Bernie in the Assisted Living Wing? Gillibrand alone locked outside? Or Hillary running through the house killing off the others with a candlestick shouting, “It’s still my turn!” Comes with a free tax increase, a new war in the Middle East, and an Obamacare “Tarnished Tin” level starter-pack. Libertarian candidate cards not available in the U.S.

Grow Your Own Putin

Available exclusively at PetSmart, you get a glass tank and a small ceramic Trump Tower that doubles as an air filter. Simply fill the tank with water (or blood) and pour in the pre-measured freeze-dried Putin flakes. Watch as he grows! Initially your Putin may only occupy a small corner of its tank. But the more you pay attention to him, the bigger he will get! With proper media exposure, your little Putin will soon dominate your entire household. He’s just the thing to blame when someone forgets to buy milk, when the dishes are not done, and when the spark seems to have gone out of your marriage. Warming lamp, food pellets, and 24/7 access to social media sold separately.

Mueller Supercut, Hero Edition

For the antifa niece or nephew on your list, this is a supercut of all classic tough guy movies (Clint Eastwood, Arnold, Bruce Willis) only with Robert Mueller’s face substituted in. Hear your favorite Man o’ the Resistance utter lines like “Make my day, punk,” “Yippie Ky-ee, MoFo,” and, of course, “Get off my lawn.”

Also included is the really romantic stuff from Love, Actually where Mueller is shown doing all the nice things you wish your damn boyfriend would do for you just once this Christmas how the hell hard can it be to make up some cards and ring the doorbell, and Magic Mike, where each shirtless image of Channing Tatum is redone with Mueller’s face. Comes with a temporary Mueller tattoo, because we know you’ll come to regret this even if you don’t yet. 

(Note: this gift idea replaces an earlier supercut in which Ruth Bader Ginsburg was CGI-ed as several Avengers characters.)

CNN or Fox News Pundit Gift Certificate

Don’t watch the news, create the news! This attractive gift certificate, available for your favorite not fake news channel, allows you to appear as one of a panel of 25 experts to comment on the most important story of the day. Your image on screen will be approximately the size of an Apple watch, and your remarks must be limited to shouting “But wait just a minute,” “The walls are closing in,” “What about the emails?” or “Oh right, the Russians,” delivered either with righteous anger or drippy sarcasm depending on which channel you choose. Buy two or more certificates and you will be quoted as “an unnamed source close to the White House” and given a book deal. The buyer is responsible for travel to CNN headquarters in New York and the trailer park where Fox News is thought to originate.

Your Own GoFundMe

With GoFundMe now America’s largest health insurer, give the gift of an account to a loved one!

Merry Christmas!

Peter Van Buren, a 24-year State Department veteran, is the author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People and Hooper’s War: A Novel of WWII Japan. He is permanently banned from federal employment and Twitter.

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