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The week started with the President threatening to annihilate Iran in a deranged post on his vanity website. That didn’t happen, which is a pleasant surprise! Despite claims of a ceasefire, we’re exactly where we’ve been for over a month now: Lots of people are dead in Iran and lots of boats are stuck in the Strait of Hormuz.
While we were all contemplating our mortality Tuesday, Congress was away on vacation, doing nothing to exercise any constraints on this madman. Of course Republicans are largely to blame, but Democrats also overwhelmingly approved of this stupid war in a retroactive vote that occurred after the bombs were already falling on schools and hospitals.
The plan since January 2025 was to give Trump enough rope to hang himself in the midterms. That’s a lot of rope, and a lot of people are being hanged while we wait for them to actually be seated.
While in the minority, they could gum up this idiot fascist machine by refusing to fund it, or confirm Trump’s unqualified and dangerous flunky nominees. I know this is possible because I remember Mitch McConnell. He practically single-handedly ruined the last quarter century by wielding every bit of power available to the Senate minority.
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After starting a war without a plan, the United States may be about to end it without one, while leaving Iran with more leverage that it had before it began now that it’s collecting tolls from ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz. The administration’s attempts to spin this as a victory aren’t landing with the MAGA crowd, who usually will eat whatever Trump serves them, but apparently even they have a limit and it’s $4+ gas.
Thousands of innocents killed, billions wasted, and turning the United States into a pariah state all because a sundowning pedophile got bored and thought some explosions would liven up his TV time. Now he’s bored again, and we all have to sit helplessly and wait for him to pick his next target. Unless you’re in Congress. There’s a lot of things you could be doing to put an end to this, but none of them read my comics.
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Our dumb war with Iran is still going on for reasons that become even more unclear as the weeks drag on. Even the selfish dummies who voted this guy in are starting to turn on him because their SUV juice is getting expensive. Unfortunately for us, and the rest of the world, Congress is dumber than that and agreed to fund this disaster to avoid being accused of not “supporting the troops.”
There wasn’t an entrance strategy, so there’s no hope for an exit strategy. One fuck-up after another until even our allies have to rethink their grand plan to do nothing and wait for the guy to die. Which, to be fair, is also the Democrats’ plan.
Not much funny to say about any of this, so I drew some poops and made fun of Marco Rubio’s big-ass shoes. We all cope with the horrors of war in our own ways.
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Trump’s adventure in Iran is predictably leading to soaring oil and gas prices, something that was very important for the media right up until Election Day in 2024. “I Did That!” stickers blaming Biden for inflation were all the rage, so I figured I’d take a shot at elevating the genre for this regime.
I might actually make these if there’s enough interest to cover production costs up front. But until then, I can tweak a few of the designs for My Threadless Shop, which needs some more designs to take advantage of the $13 t-shirt sale that’s currently going on. Let me know if there’s any you’d like to see!
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We launched another preemptive war of aggression that’s going to kill a lot of people and ruin even more lives for decades to come. At least Congress, including 157 House Democrats, retroactively signed off on it, ensuring this boondoggle is adequately funded while the rest of our lives aren’t.
With Iraq, there was a pretense of manufacturing consent, and public opinion supported it until the fact that it was a stupid war of choice became too obvious to ignore. Besides Congress and the media, nobody wants this war with Iran, and since planning is for nerds, the consequences are already extremely unpopular.
We all just have to sit and watch, and hope the blowback doesn’t happen to us personally, since the ostensible opposition party’s plan is to wait for us to bail them out in the midterms. So much damage is going to happen between now and then. And it all might’ve been prevented if Biden and Merrick Garland released any of the freaky Epstein details that have been trickling out over the past year when they could’ve influenced an election.
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TrumpRx was launched this past week, and it’s an inferior clone of GoodRx. No generics, the touted discounts already exist as hardship discounts, and everything listed is cheaper on most insurance plans, although a lot of people no longer have insurance thanks to this administration. The site looks nicer than I expected, which will inevitably trick people into paying higher prices than they can get elsewhere.
A newborn died from raw milk, thanks to this administration’s weird vendetta against public health. Even they know drinking Shit Milk is a weird fetish, so they’ve launched a campaign trying to convince people to drink whole milk instead. I’ve been buying 2% this whole time, but you can’t argue with idiot math: Whole Milk contains 98% more milk than the woke milk I’ve putting in my coffee and cereal.
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Like STIs on his island, more Epstein files are slowly leaking out and spreading everywhere. Pam Bondi’s redactions are sloppy, arbitrary, and leave a Donald-Trump-shaped hole in what they omit.
RFK Jr.’s Measles Marathon continues to break records across the country, Mike Johnson’s fine with a few essential amendments getting ignored to speed up DHS’s pogroms, and John Roberts had his flunkies sign NDAs as soon as Trump won, which is something a totally respectable branch of government does.
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