How Bad Is It?
... It's THIS bad.
Here is how bad it is. The President of the United States has given the keys to the federal Treasury to the richest man in the world, a Nazi sympathizer who is so dreadfully reckless and radical and dangerous that Vivek Ramaswamy resigned rather than work with him.
Yes, the man who bolted from partnership with Elon Musk is so reckless and radical and dangerous himself that as a candidate for president he vowed to shut down the FBI, the IRS, the Department of Investigation, the Centers for Disease Control, The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and lay off over seventy five percent of federal employees by the end of his first term. That guy was afraid of what Musk will do.
That’s how bad it is.
It is so bad that in order to give Musk and his team of brown-shirt plutocrats the keys to the Treasury — a six-trillion dollar prize, which they will loot — Trump’s administration strong-armed and big-footed the highest nonpolitical civil servant in the Treasury Department, a good man who resigned in protest.
It is so bad that Trump has cut off funding to USAID, the Agency for International Development, an American global organization whose purpose is to distribute money and medical and financial assistance to civilians in struggling countries, an agency of mercy spreading American goodwill, an agency that Musk just called “a criminal organization” that should “die.” He wrote this on his plaything, the platform formerly known as Twitter, which he has turned into a totalitarian propaganda dispensary.
It’s so bad that Trump wasted millions of gallons of water he intended to divert to Los Angeles but instead, idiotically, sent to fat-cat mega-farmers in the central part of the state. He did it as a publicity ploy to show how smart he was.
It is all so bad that it is that bad.
Today’s Gene Pool Gene Poll:
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That’s my Monday post. Sorry. It’s that bad.
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I will try to lighten things up tomorrow, if Trump lets me.
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Comments and Observations here:
And a pittance for us, and USAID, and against Trump and Musk, here:
It occurs to me "Trump and Musk" should read "Mump and Trusk."
I'm 73 years old. I've lived through political assassinations, Watergate, 9/11, the Great Recession, Trump's first term, and many other events that alarmed me. In each case, I thought, We'll come out of this OK. This is the first time I've thought, I'm not sure we will. Yes, it is that bad.