I’ve mentioned before what bullshit it is that Republicans are supposedly budget-conscious managers of our tax dollars, in contrast to spendthrift Democrats. It seems to be welded into American thinking about politics, never mind that Reagan left office with a record budget deficit. As did W. As did the Toddler in his first term. And now? Due to the Toddler’s desperate desire to leave his name everywhere, we have the Navy committing to buy 15 $14.5 billion Trump class battleships over the next 30 years.
Or how about this? “President Trump said that his handpicked contractor would charge only $1.8 million to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and paint it blue. The actual cost is now more than seven times that, after the Interior Department nearly doubled the size of the contract late last week, federal records show.” I assume either the Toddler’s getting a cost or someone in his social circle said pleeeeze give me the contract, I’ll make the pool so pretty for you. Either way, the Toddler is whining and butt-hurt that the media dared point out the real cost.
It’s probably not as expensive but Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and his family spent seven months on the road filming a reality show while still collecting his federal salary.
“I believe the president is profiting off the office and making foreign policy decisions based on business interests to a level we’ve never seen or even conceived of before, and apparently nothing is being done to stop it.”
How about a $10 billion taxpayer contribution to the Toddler’s board of peace? $1 billion for added security at the Toddler’s wretched ballroom. And who knows how much his Arch of Compensation for Having Small Hands will cost? Speaking of the ballroom, can you imagine how the media would mock a woman whose top priority was White House interior decorating?
This ICE contractor seems perfectly legit, no seriously!
Heather Cox Richardson adds a few more scum and villainy notes.
One of the burdens for Democrats is that once they get in, Republicans will demand a balanced budget and lower taxes on everyone and the media typically take this as serious criticism (some relevant discussion here). Let’s hope Dems are learning not to listen.
Now a few more examples of Republican lies, corruption and corrupt liars:
GOP Rep Harriet Hagemen: “The Aryan Nation, the Nazis, and the KKK are not far-right organizations. Those are far-left organizations, and they always have been.”
The right-wing liars refuse to let go of their lies about litter boxes for furries in our schools.
Paul Krugman: “We have created a machine which rips off consumers when the tariffs are imposed, then hands a bunch of money to corporations when the tariffs are ruled illegal. So this is really not great stuff, and it’s pretty big. The Trump tariffs have been something like 1% of GDP, and most of them illegal and therefore a ripoff of consumers. That’s a big deal. That’s hundreds of billions of dollars that were taken for no good reason.”
Black Florida Congressman Byron Donalds wants us to know SCOTUS ending the Voting Rights Act is no big deal because America no longer has any racial discrimination. A stock Republican talking point, but particularly odious after that recent ruling.
Speaking of which, the Roberts court is ignoring its own precedent — you can’t change electoral maps too close to an election — to favor Republicans disenfranchising black voters. LawDork says they’re also ignoring the Fourteenth Amendment issues, whcih may come back and bite them.
The Toddler’s liar-in-chief, Karoline Leavitt, claims the Unite the Right event in Charlottesville was a fake event.
I don’t know if Jacob Shell is a Republican but claiming if Democrats hadn’t tried to win in 2020, the Toddler’s era would be over is … a take.
You’ve heard the Toddler announcing the government will release all its files on UFOs? Some right-wing conmen — er, religious figures say the files include proof that aliens are demons. And Jesus is a velociraptor. Fred Clark puts it all in perspective.
To end with something sort-of cheerful, Sen. Bill Cassidy, who helped put RFK Jr. into the Toddler’s cabinet, isn’t likely to win re-election now that the Toddler stabbed him in the back. Couldn’t happen to a more worthless person.
