Wake for the woke
The satirical publication, the Onion, won a bankruptcy auction to buy Infowars, the website run by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Speaking of conspiracy theorists, Trump picked anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr, to be his next Department of Health and Human Services secretary. He is vehemently against vaccines and has called for the end of the public health practice of putting fluoride in the water. Trump has put him in charge of a massive agency that oversees everything from drug, vaccine and food safety to medical research and the social safety net programs Medicare and Medicaid. He’s a kook. His own family will tell you that.
MAGA congressman Matt Gaetz resigned on Wednesday. He stomped out of chambers and made a dramatic exit. He did it before the House Ethics Committee was supposed to vote to release its report today but they cancelled their meeting. When he becomes AG there’s nothing that can be done about whatever it is that they found on him. Imagine — Matt Gaetz, who helped with January 6 and is under investigation for several crimes, will be the top cop of America, in charge of 100,000 employees in 93 federal offices.
Trump is considering Todd Blanche as Deputy Attorney General. He’s the lawyer that represented him in the Stormy Daniels case and lost.
Trump nominated his former Securities and Exchange Commission chair, Jay Clayton, as the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He’ll police Wall Street for Trump and make the 34 felonies go away.
Trump picked Fox News talking head Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense. He lobbied Trump to pardon US service members accused of war crimes when Trump was president. He has said that women should not serve in combat. He’s a Christian Nationalist and an Islamophobe. He has two disturbing tattoos of a Christian symbol that was carried prominently at the Capitol during the attack on January 6. It’s called “deus vult” which means “God wills it.” The first tattoo is a large deus vult cross on his right pectoral muscle and the second are the words “deus vult” spelled out on his inner right arm. It was the battle cry to take back the Holy Land and kill the Muslims during the Crusades in 1096. “Deus vult” is used by racist, right wing groups to promote the idea of “liberation at the end of the sword” in the name of God. Hegseth wrote a book, “American Crusade” — how to protect our nation from the leftist agenda.
Trump is going to use his executive power to fire generals all at once. He wants a “MAGA military” and is going to get rid of anybody who has criticized him. Only the ones who flatter him will be able to stay. He’s already set his sights on Air Force General C.Q. Brown because he’s “too woke.” He’s Black.
It’s looking more and more like Elon Musk is going to be this term’s Jared Kushner, Secretary of Everything. He’s everywhere now, behaving like he’s co-president. He has already had access to the most powerful people in the world because he’s the most powerful man in the world — the richest. Over the past three years, Elon Musk has met dozens of times with presidents, prime ministers, lawmakers, government officials and political candidates from around the world. Now he’s got Trump so he’s even more powerful. This can’t last long. When two narcissists collide, only one will survive.
Elon Musk fun facts: Trump and Musk have 17 kids with 6 different women between them which should turn evangelicals off but it doesn’t. He owns 50% of satellites circling the earth and receives nearly $5 billion in federal government subsidies. He pretty much owns the planet which is why Putin likes him. Putin and Trump worked to get Trump elected for the second time and there has to be illegal activity connected to their efforts but there won’t be any investigation into that because Musk and Trump own the world. A super PAC that Elon Musk started for Trump is being criminally investigated in Michigan. Time will tell if Musk owns Michigan. A couple of years ago, after speaking to Vladimir Putin about Putin’s “peace plan,” Musk posted Putin’s demands on Twitter, purchased the app for $44 billion, embraced and endorsed MAGA, and turned Twitter into a propaganda spreading tool which helped Trump get elected. Now Twitter is worth 80% less since Musk bought it. He’s lost 88% of his workforce. He’s a big loser like Trump but like Trump, he’s insulated and above the law. Both men are out of control. This won’t end well.
“Before you criticize Elon Musk’s politics, remember he’s the reason we have the hyperloop train that gets you from LA to SF in one hour.” — James Hamblin
Stephen King got kicked off of X because he called Elon Musk the First Lady.
Rudy Giuliani is begging for money on social media. He can’t buy food because his checking account got frozen because everything he owns has been seized to pay Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. Rudy has been reduced to GoFundMe and Trump doesn’t care — so far he hasn’t given him a job in his administration or donated to GoFundMe.
Speaking of Republican bums, Congressman Michael McCaul, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was arrested for being drunk in public at the Dulles International Airport. This one offense would have ruined a politician’s career 40 years ago. Now you can be a fascist, racist, convicted felon, rapist, traitor to the United States, and conman and get elected to the presidency.
