elect a clown, get a circus

history repeats the shit out of itself with Donny’s new cabinet

yesterday was Day Two of the unwrapping of Donny Convict’s nominees for various Cabinet and White House offices.

for the second day in a row, America was introduced to a whole new cast of toadies, lackies, dipshits, ass-kissers, incompetents, ideologues, and low-wattage empty suits whose current jobs are to look good on Fox News.

basically, America’s getting a clown show — and not a funny ha ha! clown show. nope, we’re getting sewer clowns.

cast your mind back to how Donny picked his first cabinet — he’d be sitting in front of a TV tuned to Fox, jamming one cheeseburger after another into his rancid anus-mouth, and on the screen would be some square-jawed jamoke, blowing smoke about how super fucking amazing Donny was.

that guy, Donny would shout, pointing to the TV, that guy! he’s my new Secretary of State! he’s straight out of central casting!

well, history is repeating the shit out of itself — because here’s the dude who Donny wants to be his Secretary of Defense.

say hello to Pete Hegseth, who Donny literally saw on Fox News — because that’s his current gig: he’s an early-morning couch-sitter on Fox & Friends, a.k.a. Romper Room for Racists. but just look at that square jaw! look at those muscles! central casting, baby! fuck yeah, this bro’s gonna punch the living daylights out of America’s adversaries.

we’ve been down this road before. recall that during Donny’s first reign of error, he chose Jim Mattis as his SecDef solely on his nickname: Mad Dog. fuck yeah, we’re gonna have some snarling hound scaring the shit out of the world.

Donny is not a deep thinker.

apparently, neither is Pete.

“I don’t think I’ve washed my hands for ten years … germs are not a real thing. I can’t see them, therefore they’re not real.”

ohhhkay.

note to the Joint Chiefs: don’t shake hands with this guy.

Pete, by the way, seems nice.

Hegseth is in the process of divorcing his second wife after having an extramarital affair and a child with a producer at Fox News. Hegseth’s second wife filed for divorce roughly a month after the girl was born. His divorce filings show the couple is working to keep details of his contract with Fox News private.

that was from 2018, when Donny wanted Pete to be his Secretary for Veteran’s Affairs. Pete’s checkered past was enough to derail him from that job — but that was then, and this is now.

here’s some more fun stuff from Hegseth’s resume.

Hegseth’s choice could bring sweeping changes to the military. He has made it clear on his show and in interviews that, like Trump, he is opposed to “woke” programs that promote equity and inclusion. He also has questioned the role of women in combat and advocated pardoning service members charged with war crimes.

out with the woke, in with the war crimes. Pete’s a nasty piece of work, indeed — but look at those fucking muscles.

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the Space Nazi is a stupid person’s idea of what a smart person sounds like — and Sundowning Grandpa Befuddlepants is a very stupid person. ergo …

that’s right, the guy who makes cars and rockets that randomly crash and burst into flames is now in charge of making America’s government randomly crash and burst into flames.

here’s what you need to know about all this breathless reporting on Donny’s new “Department of Government Efficiency” — it’s wrong. there is no Department of Government Efficiency and Donny can’t magically create one out of thin air.

Just to clarify, a President cannot set up a real Department. This requires an Act of Congress. He can set up an office, or commission, but this will not be a real Department, and should not reported as such.

so, worthless scribblers of the corporate-controlled media, can we at least get this one thing right? yes, the Space Nazi is going to do a lot of damage by making all kinds of idiotic suggestions about which entire government departments can be fired — and Donny’s going to eat that shit right up and do whatever dumb-ass thing the Space Nazi tells him to — but he’s not heading a department. he can’t walk up to someone and mumble you’re fired. he’s just a dipshit advisor with a fancy title.

here’s why they called it Department of Government Efficiency: because its acronym is DOGE and doge just happens to be the name of the Space Nazi’s favorite crypto currency.

I shit you not.

for fuck’s sake, Elon’s already salivating over the tee shirt sales.

because the grift never ends with these people.

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hey, let’s install a christofascist zealot as Ambassador to Israel — it’ll be fun, and what could go wrong?

this — this is exactly what the fuck could go wrong:

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday was his pick to serve as US ambassador to Israel, previously argued that there was “no such thing as a Palestinian.”

Huckabee, who has been a strong defender of Israel throughout his career, made the statement during his 2008 presidential campaign, asserting that Palestinian identity was “a political tool to try and force land away from Israel.”

now, if that weren’t alarming enough, consider this:

now, why would Donny send a real estate investor to stir up shit in the Middle East? well, maybe this is why:

now, that’s some outside-the-box thinking, right there. where some people see a thousand-year-old conflict with no easy solution in sight, true visionaries see beachfront condos.

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ok, after that last bit, we definitely need a palate cleanser.

you’ll never guess where Donny found his next press secretary: in a parking garage.

at last, Alina’s found a job she can’t get disbarred from.

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now let’s close this thing with some good news.

yesterday the House voted on H.R. 9495, a bill to give Donny the authority to unilaterally decide that an NGO was “giving support” to terrorist group, and to strip it of its tax-exempt status.

obviously, the bill was a huge gift to Donny — it’s exactly the kind of fascism-enabling legislation he’ll need to feed his deranged appetite to go after — and take revenge — on his quote-unquote “enemies.”

well, the House voted it down. they’re not yet ready to hand Donny a blank check for oppression. that’s the good news.

Legislators in the United States House of Representatives have voted down a bill that would have granted the Department of the Treasury broad authority to revoke the tax-exempt status of nonprofits deemed to be supporting “terrorism”.

On Tuesday, the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, or HR 9495, failed to reach the two-thirds majority needed in the House to pass.

here’s the infuriating news: 52 Democrats voted in favor of it passing.

what in the actual fuck? what part of do not obey in advance do you need explained to you, Democrats?

fascism is knocking at the door, Democrats. we’re expecting you to fight it.

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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.