The self-anointed chairman of the Kennedy Center fancies himself a producer Read on Substack
One of his favorite musicals is Fiddler on the Roof and “when he was a young man Mr. Trump had dreams of one day becoming a Broadway producer himself. Now, he said, the Kennedy Center’s focus would be on producing ‘Broadway hits.’”
USA is ruled now by a government of the rapists, by the rapists and for the rapists. 😭😡🤬‘Sinister’, says Irish rape crisis center.The White House visit could help rebuild rapist’s reputationwww.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m…
The Commerce Secretary is promoting a company’s stock on live TV, and not just any company’s – the company owned by a ‘special government employee’ and the president’s biggest donor.The corruption is the point.
"It is truly chilling…we are in a very dark place because if you accept the [Trump] argument that there is no due process for people then what is to stop them from going after citizens & political enemies?"I spoke to @therickwilson.bsky.social & @stuartpstevens.bsky.social about this dark moment.
The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
So this is how Canadians show a 🖕Buy Australian and help a fellow commonwealth nation push their GDP up by a few billion. http://www.thestar.com/politics/fed…
Badar Khan Suri, a Georgetown post doctoral fellow who is a legal immigrant, was detained solely for sharing pro Palestinian views on social media. He was detained under the same provision as Mahmoud Khalil.He's already been moved to Louisiana.www.politico.com/news/2025/03…
While Elon Musk is playing the victim keep this in mind: he will have deprived millions of the poorest people around the world AIDS medication and pre-digested food this year alone. Millions will die because of him. He's one of histories greatest monsters.
So there is still no peace deal and Trump is left arguing whether Putin treated his envoy abysmally before rejecting it or just sent him packing after he was forced to listen to another 3-hour Putin lecture on his alternate version of European history.
this guy’s distinguishing quality is his boundless contempt for anyone who voices the slightest disagreement with him. you can see in his voice and mannerisms that he thinks he’s better than everyone around him. (which to my mind is just compensation for his palpable self-loathing)
NEW: Here are the 10 “democratic” senators that voted to sell out veterans, the American people, and their colleagues in the House. Cortez MastoDurbinFettermanGillibrandHassanKingPetersSchatzSchumerShaheen
As someone who has criticized Mark Kelly in the past, all I can say is that this video is fantastic, this message is fantastic, and can we have more of this from the Dems please.👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Made a mistake on the interest payment numbers. I took short term debt that needs to be refinanced and incorrectly extrapolated. So the interest savings won't be as significant as I stated.
1. Texas AG Ken Paxton is usurping the authority of Texas Courts in a brazen act of autocratic power.He's ordering court ordered gender changes void.He's demanding licenses and birth certificates revoked, with reverted replacements for trans people.Subscribe to support my journalism.
This was the DOGE staffer who was previously fired for racist and nazi tweets but was brought back after JD Vance and Elon supported him. http://www.yahoo.com/news/doge-st…
I’m not leaving the Dem party. I’ve been here for 33 years. If guys like Schumer wanna vote with republicans, THEY can leave the Dem party and join the GOP.
Why did Trump repeat Russian propaganda and lie about this? Why would he claim that a Ukrainian army in Kursk could only be saved from annihilation if Putin benevolently agreed to Trump’s request not to do so? Why is the US President deceiving Americans with Russian lies?
The corruption is automatic. Conservative businessmen see grifting and dishonesty as tools of their trade.
These two have absolutely no shame.
Wow! Nothing quite like the VA Secretary intentionally hurting the people he’s supposed to be helping.
Love the NewsMax graphics: ‘Dems panicked’ is the appropriate response. Sadly, MAGA are perfectly alright with veterans losing their jobs.
This is serious.
First Felon using tariffs is a tax. First Felon is creating the largest tax increases while having no idea how tariffs work.
Destroying the economic lives of the West and all the allying democracies is a gift to Putin.
Toure has a partial list of banned words.
You can not use these words in Federal agencies because ‘free speech’ MAGA are frightened.
If you can not handle these words in a report, you do not deserve to govern/work at any agency in our country.
Banning words is weakness. It’s pathetic.
Imagine telling your cult who were groomed to hate EV vehicles, Green New Deal, green energy, and regurgitate ‘government should not be picking winners and losers’, that they should buy a $120,000 Tesla so the world’s most selfish man does not get his ego hurt.
Republicans are regressive and reactionary.
They only know cuts. They can only take away.
Empathy is not a weakness. Empathy is a sign of human evolution. Empathy is intelligence.
How smart can you be if you do not understand other people can have different feelings?
First Felon doing promos for Tesla with Musk at the White House is CORRUPTION.
It is indefensible.
The entire administration is a scam.
The cult has no comment. They just abide.
First Felon has one objective: establish authority.
Dismantle all oversight. Destroy universities. Install loyalists.
Worst yet, removing social security and medicare/medicaid stability from our society will kill millions, increase suffering, and destabilize multiple generations of families.
First Felon is giving away every sacrifice made to advance our country for his own personal gain.
Divide and conquer.
MAGA is one big distraction for the worst people to grift and pillage.
Conservative constructs protect the abusers, punish the prosecutors.
BREAKING: Senate Democrats have the votes to block the Republican Continuing Resolution, which was loaded with poison pills. Sen. Schumer says the Democratic caucus is unified on a clean short term resolution that would keep current funding through April 11.
You know what the real scam of Social Security is?If you make above $168,800/year, the government STOPS taxing you on every dollar above that.Billionaires like Musk and Trump NEVER pay their fair share — and now they want to take OUR money away!!?!
Ouch. Republican Representative Tom Barrett held a tele-town hall with his constituents in his swing district in Michigan on Monday and ran a survey asking if they support DOGE.70% of the participants said they do not.
It does not matter at all what Mahmoud Khalil has said. The government does not get to black bag a legal permanent resident for their speech. We have a 1st Amendment right to free speech that forbids the government from punishing people for it. That's a solid red line that should never be crossed.
California's Highway Patrol’s investigation into a November Cybertruck crash in Piedmont where three college kids died is finding two very Tesla problems: the vehicle immediately caught fire, and its doors would not open.
BREAKING — Elon Musk is donating another $100 MILLION to TrumpTHAT is why Trump did the Tesla publicity stunt for MuskThe whole thing is a CORRUPT quid pro quoTrump is 100% for sale to the highest bidder — and right now that bidder is Musk
Donold is now classifying protests at Tesla dealerships as ‘domestic terrorism.’Protest at a Tesla dealership and you get arrested as a terrorist.But attack the Capitol and you get a pardon.
Social Security wants to end our phone services program & close our SS FIELD offices + letting go 7k SSI 40% of the claims are maid via phones by elderly & disabled citizens THEY WANT TO BREAK THE SYSTEM TO JUSTIFY PRIVATIZING IT FOR THEIR OWN PONZEE SCHEME INSURANCE PLANS!
We are facing a government shutdown in two days and Republicans sent House members home AGAIN after working just TWO DAYS this week. Why are they at home tweeting instead of working?
Democrats won a key special election yesterday and massively over performed in another, potentially indicating a shift in voter sentiment amid the chaos of the Trump administration.
"… If your status in the community was based on character and reputation, then a farmer could earn dignity as readily as a banker. This ethos came down hard on self-centeredness and narcissistic display. It offered practical guidance on how to be a good neighbor, a good friend.”
"I think his way has to be the model for us: not to eliminate universities, but to give them a choice between survival or taking a much less biased approach to teaching. [The government should be] aggressively reforming institutions … in a way to where they’re much more open to conservative ideas.”
@organizermemes.bsky.social can you amplify this town hall happening tomorrow. MA08 Dem Rep Lynch threw a tantrum and yelled at constituents Friday who asked him to stop voting with the GOP. ushr.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi…Video of him yelling belowFull video on mass live#bospoli #masspoli
A second SpaceX rocket has blown up this year. And remember, the year is less than three months old. Debris from the explosion shut down air traffic in the state of Florida, or it was because they found a trans flight attendant in Orlando.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow had some snark about the explosion, using a metaphor for Elon Musk’s and DOGE’s dismantling of federal government agencies, Maddow said, “Rapid unscheduled disassembly is kind of Elon Musk’s specialty these days, especially in a way that really messes with other people through no fault of their own.”
Just think of all those inconvenienced by Elon’s rocket explosion delaying flights. Florida alligators are waiting to eat those people, Elon!
MSNBC’s Michael Steele said, “For Elon, his response to all of this was, ‘Rockets are hard.’ And Mr. Musk, if they’re so hard, why don’t you go back to your day job and work that out and leave those of us who do government to do government because you can’t do both. Clearly, you’re failing right now at both. Your rockets are blowing up, and the government is blowing up.”
Poor Kayleigh Menaney flipped her blonde wig over at Fox News, saying to the liberal media, “Don’t you dare root against SpaceX.” You would think they had put a shit-covered flag into a blender to serve as smoothies to World War II veterans, but then again…Elon’s making cuts at the Veteran’s Administration. It’s getting harder and harder to use analogies with these bastards.
There was a lot of wig flipping over on Trump TV. (snip-MORE)
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Where are the brains in the Trump/Elon Administration? Read on Substack
During Trump’s address to Congress last week, he repeated Elon Musk’s lie that 150-year-olds are collecting Social Security. The lie is even more malicious than originally thought because Trump repeated and enhanced it after it’s been debunked.
It’s a lie.
Elon previously posted on X in February, when it was working, that DOGE found beneficiaries in their 100s, 200s, and even 300s who were still receiving Social Security payments.
Nobody’s actually against the government rooting out waste and fraud. What we’re against is the lack of transparency by a Trump-appointed, corrupt, lying unelected bureaucrat with huge conflicts of interest and a lack of any qualifications to make decisions on government spending without any input from the three branches of government. Why is this so hard to understand?
We know there’s waste and fraud in government, but you don’t elect lying swamp creatures to drain the swamp.
In his address, Trump said, “We are also identifying shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud in the Social Security program for our seniors and that our seniors and people that we love rely on. He then went on to list the number of people who are past the age of 100. “Money is being paid to many of them, and we are searching right now,” King Grifter said.
At one point during the speech, he criticized “unelected bureaucrats,” which made the Democrats laugh. (snip-MORE)
The Pentagon is conducting a DEI (diversity, equity, inclusiveness) purge, and one of the victims is the plane, Enola Gay. Trust me, there’s nothing further from Woke than dropping an atomic bomb on a city full of non-white foreigners.
The Trump administration (sic) is making me suffer from an overload of stupidity.
The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, sent a directive last week for the Pentagon to “remove all DoD news and feature articles, photos, and videos that promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” citing one of Trump’s idiotic executive orders.
This doesn’t just include the Enola Gay, but over 26,000 images in the military database across each branch. One anonymous source said the purge could delete as many as 100,000 images and posts in total.
Some of these include the first Black military pilots and mentions of commemorative months, including Women’s History Month and others associated with Hispanics and Pacific Islanders. Anyone with the last name “Gay” is being deleted, along with a Corps of Engineers project on fish because it mentioned gender. But then again, maybe these are gay fish. We already found out how the Trump administration (sic) feels about fish.
These are mistakes, though, right? RIGHT?
Pentagon spokesperson John Ullyot told the Associated Press (despite the fact the outlet won’t use the name “Gulf of America) that the department is “pleased by the rapid compliance across the Department with the directive removing DEI content,” clarifying if “content is removed that is out of the clearly outlined scope of the directive, we instruct components accordingly.” Clearly? Are you sure, Mr. Ullyot?
That means they’ll fix it, right? RIGHT? It’s not clear. (snip-MORE, and it’s choice!)
When I sent this to one of my proofers, she didn’t know there is an IRS office in Fredericksburg, at least for now.
You may think, “Good. Fuck the IRS and delete all those offices.” But when you’re having tax issues, it’s much better to deal with them in person. I used the local office once about two decades ago, and my issue was worked out.
Think of it like a city bus. If you drive, you don’t plan to ever take the bus, but you’re glad your town has buses just in case. This isn’t a good analogy for me because I use the local bus all the time.
But yeah, a lot of IRS offices are on Elon’s list, and Fredericksburg’s is one of them. According to the DOGE website, the lease for the 6,162-square foot office space will be terminated as part of a “mass modification” of government contracts.
The website states that the lease costs $153,000 per year and that terminating it will save $395,504, but the website does not provide a source for that information. I also wonder how much of that lease has already been paid. Elon has boasted about saving money by cutting government contracts that have already been paid. He’s an idiot.
I don’t know how long the office will be there, but in case you need it now, it’s located on the fourth floor of 1320 Central Park Boulevard. I hope something else comes up and it’s saved, like a court order.
Neither Elon nor DOGE has legal authority to make cuts. This is something MAGAts and a LOT of Republicans keep ignoring. DOGE operates outside of the three branches of government and ignores the other three.
DOGE is making cuts without transparency or oversight from the three branches. Many of these cuts are being made from the recent Nazi college grads Elon has hired without any oversight, even from Elon.
As Harry would say in Resident Alien, this is some bullshit.
According to the Advance, other Virginia leases targeted for termination are the Office of U.S. Attorneys, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection office, and the Geological Survey office in Richmond; the General Services Administration in Charlottesville; the General Services Administration, the Office of the Undersecretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Mine Safety Health Administration in Arlington; the General Services Administration in Lorton; the Bureau of Industry and Security in Herndon; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Hampton; and the Government Accountability Office in Virginia Beach.
Creative note: When I saw this story, my first thought was I shouldn’t do a cartoon about it this week because I’ve drawn on Elon and DOGE for the Advance the past two weeks, and this would make it three weeks in a row. Check out here and here. But these issues are important, so I drew it anyway, and then I sent it to my editor.
I wasn’t going to fight for this cartoon because we’ve done Elon the past two weeks, so I sent a rough on a different subject along with this one. I was also prepared to draw more roughs because Martin, my editor, had sent about five subjects for me to choose from.
Martin picked this one while acknowledging we’ve done a lot on Elon and DOGE. So, we probably won’t do another Elon cartoon next week…unless he does something else extremely stupid that hurts our community. What are the odds of that happening again? (snip)
