One of the timeless tropes in comedy is the notion of the incompetent jerk. Everyone with any experience in life has encountered the arrogant asshole who thinks he or she knows it all and is above any kind of criticism.
The funny part arrives when this type of individual is humbled and exposed to the world in all their incompetent glory. Everyone is in on the joke, except the fool who is the joke.
Then again, some incompetent jerks never get it. They just don’t.
Please don’t tell Pete Hegseth it is not a good idea to scream into a camera, eyes full of rage, while declaring a well-respected journalist is actually a peddler of hoaxes when your own administration has already copped to the reality of a grievous mistake concerning, alleged war plans discussed openly during an ill-advised signal chat that included, the same journalist making the accusation.
Facepalm.
Well, you don’t have to be a newly-minted Secretary of Defense to be an incompetent jerk, or an alcoholic, either. The position is open to anyone who wants it. But, what is the country to do when the entire White House is full of frauds, bunglers, posers, liars and other unfit people who don’t know, the hell what they are doing.
No really!
An unelected co-president, who never wears a suit, same as Volodymyr Zelenskyy, by the way, and happens to be the world’s richest man brazenly calls current US senator, Mark Kelly, a former astronaut and Iraq war veteran, a traitor, just because their political viewpoints on the Ukraine War do not align.
See the arrogance?
Well, what’s the point of being the world’s richest man if you can’t say any damn thing, about anybody, no matter how incomprehensibly stupid, inappropriate and off base.
The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt describes a federal court judge who is merely doing his job trying to hold an out-of-control administration to account, as a democrat activist.
Errr, someone should tell her Judge James E. Boasberg was appointed by a republican president.
So which is it? Surely good ole’ boy, George W. Bush – a republican – didn’t appoint a radical, leftist, socialist person to any elevated position on his watch.
How could this possibly be? A republican did that? The horror of it all.
This act is old. Anyone on the wrong side of Trump and today’s sorry-ass excuse of a republican party, is eventually smeared as a democrat, a socialist, or a radical leftist. Yadda. Yadda. Yadda.
Okay, give the guy a break. That was mostly Trump 1.0. The baseless character assassination. But it is not like this current White House has any standards of credibility and truthfulness to uphold.
Trump doesn’t have any standards.
The current Education Secretary Linda McMahon is fine with the so-called final mission of the agency, which is euphemistic for the eventual shuttering of the department she was appointed to lead.
She spoke the words out loud.
What kind of a human being wants to be appointed to lead an important government agency, in order to oversee the eventual closing of the agency and the termination of the department’s actual mission.
What kind of insanity is this?
Meanwhile, tear it down Don, just tear it all down, piece by piece.
Kash Patel, the newly-appointed FBI director, has a long of harsh criticism of the agency he now allegedly commands. He threatened to use the FBI to target the enemies of Trump. Get that. Donald Trump. It is exactly as crazy as it sounds.
So of course, Patel was quickly confirmed by the republican led senate.
Done deal.
The dour, vengeful Kash Patel is not alone, in being confirmed to an agency he despises. RFK jr. a well recognized anti-vaccine renegade, and spreader of ridiculous conspiracy theories of every description, was grabbed up by Trump.
His last name may certainly be connected to the imaginary Camelot of the late JFK’s storybook with a tragic ending presidency, but this restless Kennedy clan member lives wide of the mark of sensible respectability set by both his uncle and his father.
Junior is now the new head of HHS. If the universe really doesn’t hate America any more than a previous tall, black, first lady, allegedly did. There hopefully won’t be any new pandemics arriving on America’s shores, caused by leaky labs in Wuhan, China.
The Department of Health and Human Services under the control of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. under such a scenario isn’t anything this nation needs to experience. Let’s hold off on any new global pandemics while Mr. Vaccines Kill, Viruses Don’t, serves his term.
There is so much to choose from in-and-around this current version of a Trump White House, to laugh out loud about, but none of this is really all that funny. Orange blob POTUS is like a bully on the school yard.
He’s all bravado picking fights with everyone and causing chaos all around.
Except he doesn’t really want a fight. Does he? Cowards never do. They don’t have the heart.
It’s all for show. President bones spurs is not up to it.
The systemic dismantling of our American democracy is underway. It isn’t necessary to cut into an onion to know that it will stink. Peel away the skin, layer by isolated layer, and you will know there is more than just stink to worry about.
Project 2025 is that smelly onion in American’s kitchen. And guess who’s following the recipe to the letter.
The going’s on at Trump’s White House are bizarre, unsettling and unconventional. The laugh out loud parts are an inseparable part of all that.
The going’s on at Trump’s White House are bizarre, unsettling and unconventional. The laugh out loud parts are an inseparable part of all that.
Trump 2.0 has already become a clown show of epic proportions. This is no less than what could be expected when people with no experience and a decided lack of qualifications are given important jobs to do.
But just because they are a bunch of clowns, running around stumbling into walls and breaking things, doesn’t mean the threat to America’s democratic future isn’t rock solid real.
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