A Confederacy Of Dunces

CNBC: The Vietnam deal that the president announced earlier in July -- I don't think we've seen confirmation from the Vietnamese government of that deal. Do we have agreement with them on paper?

BESSENT: I assume we do

CNBC: You haven't seen that paperwork?

BESSENT: Ambassador… pic.twitter.com/8bZ7BiEUwf

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 29, 2025

There’s an old joke: “I have a friend, and between the two of us, we know everything.” When you ask a question, the answer is: “My friend knows that.”

Bessent is the fucking Secretary of the Treasury. Why doesn’t his office have a copy of papers that have to go to the Senate to be binding on the United States? (And don’t tell me these are “trade deals” that don’t have to be ratified. That’s equivalent to saying Trump can set whatever tariffs he wants whenever he wants.)

The US Department of Homeland Security put out this video today to show people the important work Kristi Noem is doing for us on her trip to Argentina and Chile with Corey Lewandowski. pic.twitter.com/niBCqOFtzs

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 29, 2025

Homeland Barbie. (The Lovely Wife hates that term. After the movie, she finds it insulting to Barbie. She’s not wrong.)

I think the climate in Argentina made Noem’s lips bigger. pic.twitter.com/eWS5XE40KY

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 29, 2025

I’m guessing our tax dollars paid for her lips, too. Wonder if Lewandowski appreciates that.

Trump: pic.twitter.com/SkTqKjzhjV

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 29, 2025

Is he not playing golf today?

Energy Secretary Chris Wright says rescinding all greenhouse gas emissions regulations is about ending "the cancel culture Orwellian squelching of science" pic.twitter.com/Ihz5aIEQ0Z

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 29, 2025

Sen. John Kennedy defends Emil Bove: "If everyone is corrupt, nobody is corrupt."

(Not the flex he thinks it is ... ) pic.twitter.com/2tGzBokJ7G

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 29, 2025

Not a flex at all. He’s happily complicit. He’s not scared of Trump; he’s an ally. When people tell you who they are, believe them the first time.

That’s a no. Wouldn’t even call the police officer’s family.

Plenty of time to golf, though. https://t.co/r4PVMOStFH

— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) July 29, 2025

Trump: "When people go socialistic, or when you get the radical left or the left going in, the countries actually become very mean. They become two things: mean and incompetently run simultaneously." pic.twitter.com/NZoLP2wb1M

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 29, 2025

Every accusation....