Tuesday, April 29, 2025

“You Already Paid For This”

 And yet my toilet remains unchanged:

(This is part of what I’m assured is Trump’s political genius. I’ve known at least two brilliant politicians (brilliant at politics, I mean, in my lifetime:  LBJ, and Clinton. Clinton actually balanced the budget and advanced programs that helped people despite being the target of a true witch hunt for most of his presidency.  LBJ, in just four short years (including his first term) created the modern world we’ve taken for granted, including Medicare, the Civil Rights Act , PBS, rural electrification…the list is incredibly long. Trump is not even a politician, by comparison. He’s only a con man, incapable of acting on the least of his promises.)

There is a process for changing product regulations. The FDA took three years to investigate and decide to ban red food dye no. 3, and gave companies using it until 2027 (in some cases 2028), to replace it in their products. Trump hasn’t changed anything, and if he had done so outside the regulatory process, the lawsuits would be (indeed, may be) flying. In any case, I’m pretty sure nobody’s re-tooling their factories.
These, after all, are the more interesting bits. Trump is doing this because Sean Duffy sucking his cock on Fox: is not affirmation enough. He had to sit through the Pope’s funeral, and couldn’t come back fast enough (Ukraine expected more discussions, for one). He needs the adulation. It’s really quite pathetic, and very newsworthy. Remarkable that the press doesn’t ask why a recently elected POTUS needs a rally like this. Well, that’s one reason. But does any objective observer really think this will change Trump’s standing in the polls? ???, indeed. He really didn’t. No more than the Supreme Court declared DEI illegal when they overturned Harvard’s admissions policy. Just not in the way he means.
100 Days, a Trillion Dollars: DOGE's Costs Keep Adding Up

$500B lost IRS revenue
$135B personnel fuck-up costs
$430B things we paid for but that were cut or frozen
ew has the receipts, here. Every sccusation is a confession. And the entire country is going to be in the shit.💩  Pretty sure Mike knows how to lose that much money while making pillows. Who explained that to him?!?!? I triple dog dare them. "You already paid for this. Ha ha ha ha ha.”—Laurie Anderson 
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