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Brian McFadden
Trump’s Tariff Rations
The container ships have slowed to a crawl (not because of something funny like the one that got stuck in the Suez Canal), and soon shelves will be empty. Many people predicted this would happen the night of the election. Unfortunately all of them were at home pulling their hair out while people on TV were chattering about all the other misery they’d soon be gleefully covering.
I was a kid in the ’80s when there were jokes and whole sitcom episodes about the empty shelves in the Soviet Union and its satellites. Now we’ll be the ones smuggling blue jeans and records printed on old x-rays.
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Unfocused Groups
Ever since the 2016 election, the New York Times has been doing Trump Voter Safaris for their ostensibly liberal audience to either gawk at or empathize with. They are a sideshow from the people with real power. And now they’re being moderated by Frank Luntz, which is especially gross for any of us old enough to remember his role in shaping Republican messaging in the early aughts.
Scrutinizing Trump’s supporters individually is a waste of time while authoritarianism runs amok and time runs out to stop it. But those daffy bastards sure are fun to goof on online.
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White House Approved Programming
Paramount needs federal approval for a merger, so they’re bending over backwards to appease the administration (it won’t work, they’ll just demand more obedience) by neutering CBS’s autonomy in its news coverage. Other corporate media giants have done the same to pre-emptively appease an administration that barely squeaked out a win and is already underwater in every conceivable poll.
That might work for some industries, but the media requires appealing to audiences bigger than one demented individual in the White House.
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Fascism Career Fair
We’re now three months into the regime and citizens are being detained and deported. It was already fascism when it was legal residents being shipped off to gulags in El Salvador, but now it’s “it could happen to you” fascism. That this is happening during the week most procrastinators did their taxes and kept acting like this is normal doesn’t bode well for the next three and a half years and beyond.
I’m still posting my useless little cartoons, so I’m not excepting myself from that criticism either. The Democrats are obviously not going to do anything except wait for the midterm elections, so it’s up to the rest of us to figure something out.
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Republican Economic Innovations
While the Trump administration makes headlines wildly tearing down the federal government, Republicans in Congress are making sure nothing will be left except for tax cuts for the rich.
This has been the case since I was a tiny baby, blissfully unaware of the cult of supply-side economics.
If Trump Take Condiment, snack-motivated Americans might finally riot.
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Elon Musk’s Suck-cess Seminar
Elon Musk’s preferred candidate in a Wisconsin Supreme Court election ate shit on Tuesday, and even oblivious people are starting to notice this guy sucks. Unfortunately it took the complete collapse of the federal government, the economy, and the international order for those ding-dongs to notice.
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Hegseth’s Texts
After two month’s of what would be the end of any other administration’s scandals, the one that seems to have stuck is Pete Hegseth communicating war crimes through insecure channels. The war crimes themselves are the same stuff we’ve been doing for a quarter century, but the Department of Defense at least tried to wait a while before letting the media know about it.
Hegseth was grossly unqualified from the get-go, and his boozy stink should be on every senator who voted to confirm him, or anyone in this fascist cabinet. Another thing this leak illustrates is how little Trump is involved in his own administration. These goons are free to do whatever freak shit they want while the demented president golfs or watches TV.
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