We now can know the MAGA-fied, true-believer replacement force for federal workers demeaned and demoralized into submission by a president bent on destruction. Rats. When federal workers who had been doing their jobs perfectly well from home were forced to return to work by presidential edict, they found a field of horrors headlined by long-tail…
It doesn’t matter what Pete Hegseth does from here to eternity. He can’t undo this. His Defense Department had Jackie Robinson’s story scrubbed from a department web page. America not being a closed society — not yet, anyway — we found out about the stupid stunt. So — uh-oh! – DOD scrambled to undo it.…
Not that I was sapped of outrage. There are, however, only so many minutes of any day one can be aghast. So, as I pored through the long list of words lusty totalitarians now deem verboten by our newly enthroned junta and its strongman, El Tangerino, my eyes grew heavy. (I write satire, but this…
Say you had a gripe over a parking ticket. Say you had enough big-shot clout in town to resolve the matter by shutting down all parking enforcement. Say you thought your company’s water bill was too high. You had it dissolved. The water department, that is. In either scenario, that would make you Elon Musk.…
To mortified Americans everywhere — you who still cannot expel the hurt from your minds: This president has done many horrible things: conspiring to undermine a U.S. election; inciting a bloody insurrection; breaking the law and skating past felony indictments. As aghast as you’ve been at all that and about every stunning action since November,…