By Michael Woyton
Connecting the dots has never been easier, especially because in the administration of President Donald J. Felon the dots are huge and the pencil doing the connecting is one of those big-ass pencils kindergarteners used to use.
Now that I think about it, maybe the people in this administration should be using crayons, because they’ve shown they can’t be trusted with anything sharp.
Keeping in mind that all the dots will lead to the Florida Man, we can start the connecting with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi “Dog Killer” Noem and the tragic, deadly flooding in central Texas that resulted in the loss of hundreds of lives with many people still unaccounted for.
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It was originally reported that Noem required that she must personally approve DHS expenses exceeding $100,000 which delayed Federal Emergency Management Agency search and rescue operations.
A report in the New York Times found that policy left FEMA call centers without staffing to handle thousands of emergency calls because hundreds of contractors were fired when their contracts lapsed on July 5.
ICE Barbie called that “fake news,” obviously following the lead of the golfer-in-chief. Never admit you’ve made a mistake; always call the reporting fake no matter how on the nose it is.
Another series of dots so easily connected begins with one that involves Jeffrey Epstein and “files” that may or may not exist.
The adjudicated rapist’s administration promised to release information about Epstein, who was a longtime friend of Trump as evidenced by being frequently photographed with him.
Denizens of magaworld are obsessed with Epstein and many of them expected United States Attorney General Pam “Bribe Taker” Bondi to bring full transparency to the table.
When the AG recently announced there was no “client list,” even though she said it was on her desk, and the conclusion that Epstein died by suicide in jail, with the evidence being a likely doctored video, the magas have called for Bondi to be fired, Newsweek reported.
Even former advisor Steve Bannon warned the administration that it stands to lose 40 House seats if the Epstein files aren’t released.
During a cabinet meeting last week, Bondi was asked a question about Epstein and the elderly golfer interrupted her response by saying to the reporter, “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy’s been talked about for years. You’re asking — we have Texas. We have this. We have all of the things. And are people still talking about this guy, this creep?”
That “your friend, the creep,” Mr. President.
And yes, we do have all of “the things.” It’s just that some of us can wonder about more than one thing at once.
So get your crayon out and draw a line from Epstein to, wait for it, Rosie O’Donnell, with the line going right through the mayor of MaraTACO.
Lo and behold on Saturday the former daytime talkshow host and now Ireland resident was the subject of post on the ironically named Truth Social by the president who announced he was “giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” Vanity Fair reported.
In the post, he said O’Donnell was a “Threat to Humanity” and “is not in the best interests of our Great Country.”
Aside from the fact that the convicted felon does not have the Constitutional authority to do what he was saying, it was jarring at the least to have an American president write and mean those words.
Alas, his powerless threat did not do what he expected it to accomplish, which was to divert attention from the Epstein spotlight.
It was wonderful seeing Rosie’s response to what she called “a dangerous old soulless man with dementia who lacks empathy compassion and basic humanity.”
She said she was everything he feared: “a loud woman a queer woman a mother who tells the truth.”
O’Donnell is certainly not alone in living rent-free in Trump’s head.
Considering that Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Barack Obama, James Comey, Robert Mueller, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, to name just a few, occupy space at Chez Brainrot, the parties must be fabulous.
One dotted line that is still in the process of being connected involves the Supreme Court, Robert Kennedy Jr. and Linda McMahon, along with the Health and Human Services and Education departments.
McMahon, as education secretary, wants to eliminate her department as does Trump. SCOTUS said Monday, sure go ahead, overruling a preliminary injunction by a district court.
Shutting down the Education Department will likely have broad implications for the quality and quantity of learning across the nation if the states cannot or will not take over the loss of funds.
In layman’s terms, getting rid of education is going to lead to a lot of stupid.
For example, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary, who was chosen for the gig by medical-fraud RFK Jr., actually said on television that he has “data” from families that their children behave better when they aren’t allowed to have foods with petroleum-based dyes.
Oh, the stupid. That is not data, Marty, those are anecdotes.
Have you been swimming with RFK Jr. lately?
Project 2025 outlined the dissolution of the Education Department and heralded a disrespect for science-based science.
With people like Makary spouting nonsense and making it palatable, we are fast seeing the results of the choices made by a president who doesn’t care what havoc he creates and should never have been elected in the first place.
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Lead art: Screen grab from New Jersey Herald. Cartoon by Dave Granlund.
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