10. This New Yorker Cover:

Suddenly, now that this thing is over, this feels a lot less controversial and a lot more satirical.

9. “Joe” the “Plumber“

8. Every interview Sarah Palin has ever done.

These were funny before, but funny in a sick way because it was so horrifying she could win. Now it’s easier to laugh wholeheartedly at her because she almost single handedly tanked McCain’s chances.

It’s also important that we don’t overlook that in her very first interview–before she couldn’t name any newspapers or Supreme Court decisions, or didn’t know what the Bush Doctrine was, or thought the Vice President ran the Senate, or didn’t understand the First Amendment–she said the United States would INVADE RUSSIA. We should have known she never had a chance right then.

7. Michelle Bachmann’s call for an investigation into Anti-Americanism in Congress:

Even though she somehow won re-election, something tells me she won’t be pushing that again anytime soon.

6. This caricature of Rev. Wright:

The statement itself might be deplorable, but his unintentional comedic delivery really takes the edge off.

5. Joe Biden saying something stupid every time he’s in front of a big crowd.

You put this guy in a serious situation to talk about policy and he wows you with his extremely responsible, nuanced intellect. But if you put him in front of a cheering mass of people, he blacks out and blurts literally any idiotic thought that crosses his mind, no matter the consequences.

4. Sean Hannity.

3. Every news story that had those crazy quotes from nutty racists in Ohio or elsewhere, terrifying everyone that those people actually have a vote:

“He’s going to tear up the rose bushes and plant a watermelon patch,” said James Halsey, chuckling, while standing in the Wal-Mart parking lot with fellow workers in the environmental cleanup business. “I just don’t think we’ll ever have a black president.”

“I’ve always been against the blacks,” said Mr. Rowell, who is in his 70s, recalling how he was arrested for throwing firecrackers in the black section of town. But now that he has three biracial grandchildren — “it was really rough on me” — he said he had “found out they were human beings, too.”

Turns out they didn’t matter, so now instead of being frightened by their ignorance, we can just laugh at them.

2. 2008 John McCain calling Barack Obama a “socialist” for supporting 2002 John McCain’s tax policy:

1. George Bush.

For more reasons than I can count.

Trevor Timm is a Blast Magazine staff writer