OMG, the Stupid. It burns!

By Michael Woyton We’ve known for a long time that President Donald J. Felon was not one of Wharton’s brightest, but lately the evidence keeps piling up — and it seems to continue to infect the rest of the administration. How we laughed during the COVID crisis when the first-term Oval Office occupant suggested injectingContinue reading “OMG, the Stupid. It burns!”

TACO/Tesla Social Media Slap Down

By Michael Woyton As delicious as the very public spat between President TACO and Elon “I Don’t Take Ketamine” Musk is, I can’t get too worked up about it. Anyone who has followed the felonious real estate magnate over the years should have seen this coming. The Mad King of Mar-a-Lago always, always breaks upContinue reading “TACO/Tesla Social Media Slap Down”

NWS Cuts Will Impact Forecasts; Hegseth Celebrates Pride His Way

By Michael Woyton Anyone else wish that the firehose of news would slow down just a tad? There is so much to be pissed off about that there’s hardly any time to sit and craft a reaction. Here is some of what has my engine idling faster than usual. Subscribe to On Second Thought forContinue reading “NWS Cuts Will Impact Forecasts; Hegseth Celebrates Pride His Way”

DOGE Can Access Treasury; Colleges Must Obey King; More

By Michael Woyton This and that from Bluesky Social. Does anybody believe this administration really created a process to prevent improper private data disclosures much less trained Musk’s DOGErs? Subscribe to On Second Thought for free: — — — — — Well, the felon-in-chief did have a university once. — — — — — Hey,Continue reading “DOGE Can Access Treasury; Colleges Must Obey King; More”

Co-President Musk Also Underwater for Job Approval

By Michael Woyton And now it’s Elon Musk’s turn to take a drubbing from the pollsters. According to a new ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll, only 35 percent of Americans approve of Musk’s job performance in the Trump administration, with 57 percent disapproving. Those numbers mirror the poll numbers for the felon-in-chief himself. SEE ALSO: PresidentContinue reading “Co-President Musk Also Underwater for Job Approval”

Springtime for Fascism

By Michael Woyton Welcome to the United States of Fascism. No longer are we on the doorstep of an authoritarian administration. A dictatorial convicted felon has come in the door, sat himself down on the couch and assumed that he is the unquestioned ruler. Where’s the Diet Coke? Thanks, John Roberts and the Supremes.  SubscribeContinue reading “Springtime for Fascism”

Who Thought People Would Care About the Economy

By Michael Woyton We are 93 days into the second administration of the felon-in-chief — safe to say it seems longer, yes? — and it also seems that some Americans are beginning to see past the shiny gilt of the Oval Office. A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll found that the adjudicated rapist and crypto hawker isContinue reading “Who Thought People Would Care About the Economy”

Don’t Be Fooled by Tariff ‘Pause’

By Michael Woyton If you’ve looked at your stock ticker or favorite stock app, no doubt you’ve noticed that people who buy stocks aren’t that happy about the “pause” on tariffs that President Donald J. Felon announced Wednesday. That’s because, sorry about the all caps, THERE ARE STILL TARIFFS IN EFFECT. So if you readContinue reading “Don’t Be Fooled by Tariff ‘Pause’”

Booker Makes ‘Good Trouble’ on Senate Floor

By Michael Woyton As we wait for the grifter-in-chief’s announcement of “temper tariffs,” as Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-California, called them, let’s reflect on the remarkable 25-plus hours that Sen. Cory Booker spent on the floor of the Senate. The New Jersey Democrat talked for more than a day about the “grave and urgent” threat toContinue reading “Booker Makes ‘Good Trouble’ on Senate Floor”

Group Chat Shows Trump, Et Al. Can’t Be Trusted with Nation’s Security

By Michael Woyton The fallout continues in what is being referred now as #WhiskeyLeaks, the unbelievably stupid revelation to an editor of a major news magazine of United States government plans to bomb another country. It is beyond anyone’s imagination to say the group chat of administration higher-ups that happened on a commercial messaging appContinue reading “Group Chat Shows Trump, Et Al. Can’t Be Trusted with Nation’s Security”