The American Dream Gets Laid Off by Drumpf and Elmo

If you were wondering how and why the Drumpf/MAGA candidate for the open state Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin got the shit kicked out of them the other night in that state-wide election, this is why:

Link: https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/economy/us-jobs-report-preview-march-doge-layoffs/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=blueskyCNN&utm_content=2025-04-03T11:43:16

This past month, the United States saw the third-highest number of worker layoffs occur in the recorded history of the nation.  80% of those job cuts came at the order of Elon's DOGE committee.  And all of this has occured before yesterday's big announcement of Drumpf's disastrous tariffs plan which is certain to destroy even more American jobs and will be one of the largest ever direct tax hikes on American workers and consumers.

The people who voted for and continue to support Drumpf are going to become accessories to his crime of murdering the American dream.

---TFG

Tariffs Are Indeed a Tax on Consumers as Americans Are About to Discover

Brace yourselves Ma and Pa MAGA.  Here comes the economic pain that your dear leader promised he would deliver to us all.

When this economic pain visits the households of Drumpf's voting bloc, I don't want to hear a goddamn complaining word out of any of them.  Nor do I want to hear them whining that it's all the fault of Joe Biden and the Democrats.  This is all on Drumpf.  It's all on MAGA.  It's all on MuskRat.  It's all on a clown college Trumpublican-controlled House and Senate.  The economic shitshow that these clowns are unleashing on the country is 100% their handcrafted shitshow.

Drumpf, with the help of Elmo and the Republican party, is selling out the economic futures of your kids and grandkids folks.  These bastards have aligned themselves with the billionaire broligarchs and right wing foreign interests to do their bidding and it will have the effect of triggering a deep recession that will devastate millions of families and communities and will financially benefit the already top of the ladder super wealthy like Elmo, Bezos, Zuckerterd, and their obscenely affluent friends.

Take care to remember that in all the upcoming state and national elections.

Link: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tariffs-2671664736/

"Global financial markets were rocked on Wednesday by Donald Trump's announcement of sweeping tariffs, targeting China and the European Union in particular, with the risk of undermining the international economy.

The US president laid out the new measures after Wall Street stock markets had closed. But his announcement still rippled through the markets that were open at the time, sending stock futures and bond yields lower, while gold surged to a new record high.

- Stocks struggle -

As the evening progressed, US futures fell sharply, with the Dow Jones dropping 2.4 percent at around 2345 GMT, the Nasdaq index plunging 4.2 percent, and the broader futures index for the S&P 500 falling 3.5 percent."

---TFG

The Taming of Unbridled Hubris - A Charming Tale of Comeuppance

Want to hear a truly feel-good story folks?

Well, pull up a chair, sit back, and listen to this one.  It will tickle you pink.

The wealthiest, nazi-saluting human on planet Earth was tasked by a certain, well known convicted felon to use his amassed wealth to rig an election for a state supreme court justice seat in the state of Wisconsin because, you know, he's a convicted felon and a dictator wannabe and that is pretty much what convicted felons and dictator wannabes do in their leisure time.  

Anyway, the wealthiest, nazi-saluting human on planet Earth swoops into the state of Wisconsin this past week with his army of weirdo groupies, waving around $1 million bribe checks under the noses of Wisconsin voters enticing them to commit to voting for the state supreme court justice candidate favored by himself and the convicted felon.

During his week in Wisconsin, the wealthiest, nazi-saluting human on planet Earth spent $25 million of his vast reserves of billions mightily attempting to convince Wisconsin voters that their vote for the candidate favored by himself and the convicted felon would determine the "destiny of humanity."  Stop laughing - he seriously did say that.

So the election was last night.  The favored candidate of the wealthiest, nazi-saluting human on planet Earth and his convicted felon buddy was soundly defeated and decisively rejected by Wisconsin voters.

Now doesn't that make you feel just peachy keen wonderful? 😊

Link: https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-elon-musk-trump-8fe006c7f8fa40b663eccd6751bada98

Thank you for patronizing today's episode of Gadfly Storytime.

---TFG

Seriously - WTF??

In what world but the dementia and brain fever ravaged world of Donald Drumpf do PBS and NPR suddenly become "MONSTERS" and enemies of the people?

If any of my MAGA acquaintances can rationally explain how publicly denigrating and attacking public television and radio in this manner is all part of Drumpf's plan to "Make America Great Again," I would truly love to hear your take on that.

That's all.  Thanks.

---TFG

They are Coming for Grandma and Grandpa's Meals

It's a given that Ma and Pa MAGA aren't paying attention to this shit, mostly because they simply do not care, but I sure as hell hope the rest of America is wising up to what is going on:

Link: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/agency-for-older-adults-and-people-with-disabilities-to-be-shuttered-under-hhs-cuts-d0ff3bc2

"With the announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services that it will slash its workforce, consolidate divisions and close regional offices, an agency focused on older adults and people with disabilities has become collateral damage.

The Administration for Community Living will be disbanded and its “critical” programs will be integrated into other HHS agencies such as the Administration for Children and Families, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the HHS said. The department did not say which ACL programs were considered “critical” and which would be eliminated.

“These are programs that truly are lifesaving and critical,” Alison Barkoff, who headed the ACL from 2021 to 2024, told MarketWatch. “Dozens of millions of older adults and people with disabilities may not know the name ACL, but they know senior centers and Meals on Wheels and programs that touch their lives every day.” 

In fiscal 2022, the ACL provided more than 261 million meals to older adults, assistance such as respite care to more than 1.5 million family caregivers, and independent-living services to nearly 250,000 people with disabilities, Barkoff said.

According to the HHS announcement, the department’s current 82,000 full-time employees will be reduced to 62,000. Meanwhile, 28 divisions will be consolidated into 15, and the number of regional offices will be cut from 10 to five. As part of that reorganization, the ACL will no longer exist."

It amuses me to no end thinking about how an inherited wealth, failed reality TV show host and guy who used to bankrupt casinos for a living hired the wealthiest human being on this entire planet to essentially dismantle the the American social safety-net infrastructure, which if they get away with it will be the cause of untold misery and suffering, and the people who voted for this to happen are blissfully ignorant of the fact that they themselves are going to be victims of this injustice just as much as any of their "libtard" neighbors will be.

What stupid, stupid, stupid, and cruel times we are living in.

---TFG

This is Your Political Party American Republicans

Ahh yes, the 'party of family values' demonstrating to us all what a manifestly sick joke that term is when applied to their own party members.

If you think Drumpf isn't already seriously considering pardoning this Republican creep, then you don't know shit about Drumpf.

Link: https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/27/north-dakota-senator-ray-holmberg-pleads-guilty-sex-underage-boys/

"A North Dakota state senator, formerly one of the most powerful people in the state, was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for flying to Europe to have sex with underage boys.

Ray Holmberg, 81, had pleaded guilty to traveling to Prague 14 times between 2011 and 2021 to meet minors at a brothel. As part of a plea deal, prosecutors recommended a sentence of only three to four years in prison.

But Judge Daniel Hovland went above and beyond the recommendation, telling the court Holmberg’s “egregious and despicable” conduct deserved a longer prison term.

“From my perspective, this was not an isolated case and this is not a victimless crime,” Hovland said, according to the North Dakota Monitor. “It displays a pattern of very vile, sickening criminal behavior.”"

"It displays a pattern of very vile, sickening criminal behavior."

Words that could easily be applicable to the entire Drumpf/MAGA movement.

Make no mistake - Ray Holmberg is the representative face of MAGA.

---TFG

Greedy Billionaire Wants So Badly to Own America

This is what is known as political corruption in broad daylight.

It speaks volumes about the quality of the Trumpublican Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel that the carpetbagging immigrant billionaire from South Africa has to swoop into their state a few days before the election waving around million dollar checks as enticement for Wisconsin citizens to vote for his candidate and against their own best interests:

Link: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-gives-away-two-1-million-checks-wisconsin-voters-high-profile-judicial-race-2025-03-31/

The other day Elmo was at a conservative speaking event and someone in the crowd heckled him.  Elmo's immediate response was to lash out and call the heckler a George Soros operative.  Funny thing about that is that yes, George Soros is a billionaire, and yes, George Soros does support generally liberal political causes, but I can tell you right now that George Soros has never openly attempted to bribe American voters like Elon Musk and Donald Trump are doing in the state of Wisconsin this very moment.

---TFG

Drumpf: So Many Fellow Criminals to Pardon, So Little Time

Nothing to see here folks.  Just a convicted criminal pardoning more of his criminal billionaire donors.

Link: https://apnews.com/article/nikola-trevor-milton-fraud-trump-pardon-3fcebb0a3820cecb205656f2dc3f6764

"Trevor Milton, the founder of electric vehicle start-up Nikola who was sentenced to prison last year for fraud, was pardoned by President Donald Trump, the White House confirmed Friday.

The pardon of Milton, who was sentenced to four years in prison for exaggerating the potential of his technology, could wipe out hundreds of millions of dollars in restitution that prosecutors were seeking for defrauded investors.

Milton, 42, and his wife donated more than $1.8 million to a Trump re-election campaign fund less than a month before the November election, according to the Federal Election Commission."

Apparently the going rate for a criminal pardon from Drumpf starts around $1.8 million.

Corruption in broad daylight.

---TFG

America's All in the Fox "news" Family Defense Department

FFS.  This alcoholic, Fox "news" personality clown Hegseth is endangering not only the military security of this country, but also the personal security of every citizen of this nation.  First he's caught stupidly holding a sensitive intel meeting about a live, in progress military bombing operation overseas on an unsecure public chat platform in violation of previous DOD policy.  And now he is dragging his Fox "news" producer wife into sensitive meetings with foreign military leaders.

Wtf is this guy doing????????  What are we doing as a country when we aren't outraged enough by this bullshit to demand accountability?  My God.

Link: Exclusive | Hegseth Brought His Wife to Sensitive Meetings With Foreign Military Officials - WSJ

I suppose next we will be hearing some crazy story that Hegseth has hired his podcaster brother for a high-level, taxpayer-funded position in the Department of Defense and . . . oh wait, he did do that too?  Well fuck me...

Link: Who is Phil Hegseth? Defense Secretary's Brother in Senior Pentagon Role - Newsweek

I don't ever, ever, ever, ever again want to hear a Drumpf voter lecture me or anyone else for that matter, about corruption, nepotism, negligence, and gross incompetence in government - not ever.  Not when they themselves are so willing to avert their own eyes to the actuality of it occurring every goddamn day while Drumpf and his cabal wield their illegitimate power.

Just know that the lives of more than two million Active, Reserve, and National Guard men and women are in the hands of this unqualified, unfit, C-grade Fox "news" celebrity.

---TFG

Elmo's Insatiable Greed for More Wealth and Power Escalates

Meanwhile, the guy who is as we speak is taking away the livelihoods of American veterans by eliminating their jobs, and trying to cancel out the economic safety net for millions of elderly Americans (Social Security/Medicare), is now traipsing around the state of Wisconsin attempting to purchase himself a Wisconsin state supreme court seat.

MuskRat is bribing Wisconsin voters with $1 million lottery checks to support his corrupt vision of purging judges who won't bend to the whims of his and Drumpf's illegal, unconstitutional orders.

This isn't democracy folks.  It is not governing.  It is not decent.  It is not normal.  And it sure as fuck is not American.

But it's what Ma and Pa MAGA voted for.  It's what they wanted.  That much they made clear to the rest of the country.

---TFG