billions wasted on an illegal war, but at least Marco Rubio’s shoes don’t fit. so there’s that.

the clownfuckery is off the charts

everything totally fucking sucks right now.

the president is a demented fascist. he’s wasting billions of dollars on an illegal war. masked and armed government thugs have invaded the streets of our cities. gas is unaffordable. food is unaffordable. Congress is useless. the press is useless. Republicans are trying to fuck with our system of free and fair elections.

ugh.

but at least we can take schadenfreudian pleasure in the fact that Marco Rubio’s feet are killing him.

why is Liddle Marco hobbling around in pain? because Dear Leader is making him wear shoes that don’t fit, and he’s too chickenshit to take them off.

I wish I were making this up.

this is the kind of literal clownshoes dumbfuckery that happens when your country’s chief executive is a compulsive micromanager who isn’t happy unless he’s up in everybody’s shit. he’s literally the boss from hell.

apparently Donny was in the middle of an Oval Bordello meeting, listening to his flunkies drone on about who even cares, Donny has the attention span of a coked-up squirrel. blah blah blah blah blah blah. so of course he gets bored, stops paying attention, and starts staring at everyone’s feet.

“The president kind of holds up his hand and says, ‘No, no, no, hold on a second. There’s something much more important. Shoes,’” recalled Vance. “He peers over the Resolute Desk and he says, ‘Marco, JD, you guys have shitty shoes. We gotta get you better shoes.’

and so Donny did just that: he went out and got everyone some cheap Florsheim shoes, the kind he wears. you know, because Dear Leader is such a fashion plate. it’s only natural he should want everyone to be as nattily attired as he is.

the thing is, nobody’s happy about it.

One cabinet member was said to have complained that he had to ditch his Louis Vuittons for the inexpensive US brand.

but everyone’s too petrified of having a ketchup bottle whipped at their head to not go along.

“All the boys have them,” a female White House official said. “It’s hysterical because everybody’s afraid not to wear them,” another joked.

and because Donny is a supreme fuck-up who can’t ever do anything right, he evidently paid no attention to making sure everyone got the right size shoe.

if you see any of Donny’s toadies with tears in their eyes, it’s not because they’re big and strong and grateful — it’s because their shoes don’t fit, and they’re in pain.

let’s take another look at Liddle Marco’s feet.

oh my god. that is fucking hilarious. there must be at least a half an inch of extra space around his ankles.

here’s what I want to know: why is Marco Rubio putting up with this painful humiliation? if he doesn’t want to anger Donny, he could at least go to Florsheim.com and order himself some properly-fitting shoes. that way he can mollify Dear Leader and be comfortable at the same time.

come on, Marco — why do I have to be the one who comes up with these ideas? show some initiative, bro.

this is a dangerously slippery slope, my friends. oh sure, it may start harmlessly enough, with everyone badgered into wearing identical footwear. but you know it’s only a matter of time before Increasingly-Demented Donny orders all his flunkies to wear their underwear on their heads. and they’re all going to be too terrified to say no.

frankly, I can’t wait.

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while that dumb-assery was going on in the White House, we got news of some world-class money-wasting at Piss-Drunk Pete’s personal playground.

remember when Pete dropped a few thou on a make-up studio at the Pentagon and we all thougt that was ginormous waste of taxpayer funds? it turns out he was just getting started.

According to government watchdog Open The Books, the Department of Defense's spending in September reached levels not seen since at least 2008 — a total of $93 billion.

The Pentagon purchased $2 million worth of Alaskan king crab in September — a feat the department has accomplished five times during Trump’s tenure.

Musical instruments joined the shopping list. A $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano, a $26,000 violin, and a $21,750 handmade Japanese flute were among $1.8 million spent on instruments.

wait, isn’t Plastered Pete always going on about how our military has to be made up of the warfighteringest warfighters who warfighted a war? explain to me how a twenty-one-grand Japanese flute factors into that. is that what Pete’s listening to while he does his laughably weak-ass pull-ups?

jesus, they’re spending money like drunken sailors.

wait, did somebody say ‘drunk’?

with that kind of unlimited moolah to play with, you would think that Piss-Drunk Pete could at least hire someone to give him skateboard lessons.

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of course, when it comes to wasting shitloads of money on useless bullshit, few do it as well as ICE Barbie.

two hundred million for a flying love-nest for her and her don’t-call-him-a-boyfriend Corey Lewandowski.

two hundred and twenty grand on pointless vanity commercials showing her on horseback in front of Mount Rushmore.

six trilliondyskillion dollars on hair extensions and cheek implants.

and now there’s this.

oh look, one of Kristi’s flunkies done gone and dropped millions of dollars on twenty-five hundred shiny new SUVs with the ICE logo plastered all over their sides.

ICE’s former deputy director, Madison Sheahan, wasted millions of taxpayer dollars on 2,500 vehicles custom-wrapped to say “ICE” on the side, three sources told the Washington Examiner. The gaudy cars feature massive ICE logos, red stripes, and a golden decal of President Donald Trump’s name on the back window.

the thing is, the masked and armed goons who were expected to use them don’t want any part of that shit. how are they going to roll up into Home Depot parking lot and ambush hapless day laborers if everyone can see them coming a mile away?

“It’s ridiculous because you don’t want to advertise what you’re doing,” one person told the Examiner. “We’re just hiding them in a parking garage somewhere because we don’t want to drive them. Who wants to drive the marked vehicles?”

the thing is, having properly-marked vehicles is how you do responsible law enforcement. that’s why police cars say ‘police’ on the side of them, in big huge letters. duh. but ICE Barbie’s personal Gestapo is the exact opposite of ‘responsible law enforcement.’

how fucked up is that?

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and then, of course, we have the greatest money-waster of all: Mad King Donny’s illegal war on Iran. that ‘little excursion,’ as Donny likes to call it, is costing us a billion bucks a day — which, as Robert Reich points out, is

$41,666,667 per hour, $11,574 per second.

but don’t expect Congress to step in and put an end to that shit. they’re perfectly down with Donny’s reckless warcriming.

Maria Bartiromo: “a billion dollars a day. oil prices up 27% in a week. you’ve got the president wanting a one and a half trillion dollar defense budget in 2027. the idea that the Pentagon is about to come to you for fifty billion dollars on these strikes to Iran. how are you gonna answer?”

Lindsey Graham: “best money ever spent. what’s it worth to America to take down a religious Nazi regime?”

‘the best money ever spent.’ Jesus Fucking Christ. this blood-spattered fuck actually believes that flushing billions down the toilet in order to wage an unprovoked, unnecessary and illegal war on Iran is ‘the best money ever spent.’

imagine what we could do with the money being wasted by these warmongering shitstains. we could fund healthcare. affordable housing. child care. elder care. we could improve schools and infrastructure.

we could lift the poor up out of poverty.

oh no, wait — we can’t give money to the poor, because they’re too fucking stupid. at least that’s what Ohio Senator Jon Husted thinks.

“the people living in poverty are just not very, um, experienced at navigating the real world, right? I remember talking to one young lady who said, ‘well, I don't really know how money works at a grocery store,’ because she grew up and has lived all of her adult life using SNAP cards to buy groceries. you literally have to teach people how to budget. the buzzword today, let’s face it, it’s ‘affordability,’ right?”

let’s just let our minds marinate in the fact that a sitting United State senator has this much contempt for his own constituents. this is where we are as a nation in This Year of Our Lord 2026 — an elected official can vomit this heartlessly evil shit out loud and keep getting reelected.

but seriously, why don’t The Poors™ show some initiative?

if they’re dissatisfied with their lot in life, they should just do what Senator Husted did: get themselves elected to the office, accept six-figure bribes — oops, I mean campaign contributions — from Jeffrey Epstein’s cronies, and then vote to block the release of the Dead Pedo Bestie Files.

“NEW: Campaign records show Ohio Sen. Jon Husted took over $100,000 from Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirator Les Wexner, including months before voting to block release of Epstein-related documents.”

so there you have it. Jon Husted gets his don’t-call-it-a-bribe, Donny’s flunkies get shitty shoes, Piss-Drunk Pete gets Alaskan king crab, ICE Barbie gets useless vehicles, and Lindsey Graham gets a shiny, new clusterfuck in the Middle East.

and We the People are, as always, cordially invited to go fuck ourselves. we can’t even be trusted with two dolls and five pencils — because we’re too stupid to understand money.

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this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:

practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.

to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.

we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.