Matt Gaetz lost his seat in the house, could his life get any worse? Yes it can!
After boarding a plane, Gaetz decided to message his mother. She started scolding him for criticizing Donald Trump. But Gaetz didn’t realize the person in the seat behind him recorded the conversation and posted it on TicToc.
You can see everything that happened on Mediaite.
Donald Trump (AKA, President TACO) has developed schizophrenia with his tariffs.
Schizophrenia is a chronic brain disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. It can lead to disruptions in thought, perception, emotion, and social interactions. Symptoms often include hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that don’t exist), delusions (false beliefs), disorganized thinking and speech, and negative symptoms like reduced emotional expression and motivation.
Saturday Night Live salutes Mother’s day, but I’m not sure if it is the funniest thing ever, or the scariest thing. I laughed until I cried.
Can Donald Trump do anything right? What a moron! He tried to trumpet (see what I did there?) a “trade deal” between the US and the UK, except that there is no actual deal, just a “tentative outline of a deal”. You know, just like his ongoing “beautiful plan” for fixing health care, which was just smoke and mirrors, and never happened.
But this is even worse. Because the three major automobile manufacturers in the US – General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis – are now attacking Trump for throwing them under the proverbial bus. Trump claims that his tariffs will bring back manufacturing to the US, but they do nothing of the kind. According to the car manufacturers, “Under this deal, it will now be cheaper to import a U.K. vehicle with very little U.S. content than a USMCA compliant vehicle from Mexico or Canada that is half American parts”. In other words, Trump would be destroying US manufacturing, just like he is destroying our government, our universities, our legal system, our film industry, and raising prices for Americans dramatically, for no good reason.
These guys are hilarious. They are so happy to see Musk go down in flames, and laugh that not only has he lost 30% of his money, but that he thought that Donald Trump was his friend. So sad (not!).
Yeah, yeah, I’m sure you have heard one or more recounting of Trump’s 100 days in office. But here is one you must see from Jimmy Kimmel, as it is so much fun. It is even pretty short (less than 15 minutes), and also includes some great AI time travel silliness.
You probably read earlier today that Donald Trump went ballistic when someone told him that Jeff Bezos was planning on showing the costs of tariff charges on Amazon. Trump called Bezos, and Bezos backed down (although Bezos denied it was going to happen).
Now, if Trump believes that his tariffs are “beautiful”, why is he afraid if people know how much they cost? Trump claims he is being transparent, but he is anything but! And the White House said, “Of course he was pissed. Why should a multibillion dollar company pass off costs to consumers?”
Of course, pretty much all states charge sales taxes, and they show the cost of those taxes separately from the cost of the products. As economists point out, a tariff is just a sales tax levied on products from foreign countries. So of course they should be shown separately. Likewise, we have gasoline taxes from both the states and from the federal government, and those taxes are shown when you buy gas (even broken down by state and federal).
Now, here’s the kicker! How many of you know where Trump’s love of tariffs came from. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so dumb (and you know that Trump will never admit to making any mistake, not just about tariffs, but about pretty much anything). Here is the sad story of how and why Trump crashed the world economy, and won’t stop this stupidity.
If it ain’t one thing, it’s another. Either way, you lose.
Donald Trump claims that he cannot return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US, even though the White House acknowledged he was sent by mistake, because Trump says he cannot meddle with El Salvador’s sovereign rights. Of course, he claims he has the right to completely take over several other sovereign nations.
There’s a good article in the National Review. Yes, I know, they are a conservative site, but it seems like even conservatives have their limits with Donald Trump. The article is titled, “Trump’s Cartoon Physics Takes America off the Cliff“. Here’s a quick quote to get you to read the whole hilarious article:
So it is with President Donald Trump who—convinced of his own superior intellect—has crowbarred open a newly delivered crate of ACME Trade Policy, unboxed Peter Navarro circa 1996, and strapped on his goggles and rocket shoes to catch that elusive, slippery trade deficit once and for all.
It is the funniest thing you will ever read about the current tariffs.
Obama has remained fairly silent for a long while, and I don’t blame him for that. But I am very happy that he decided that it was finally time to break that silence, and give a talk. An excellent talk. It is less than 20 minutes long (assuming that you jump to minute 1:25), and Obama speaks carefully but strongly about what has gone wrong (by both Republicans and Democrats), and has some ideas of what we need to do to try to fix it.
It is interesting that Obama never mentions Trump (or anyone else on either side) by name.
Pretty much every economist is pointing out that Trump’s tariffs will at least cause a deep recession, and at worst might tank the entire world economy. But here on Political Irony, we are just giddy that both SNL and Tom Tomorrow agree. We may be doomed, but at least we might go down laughing. Well, if we live that long.
I went to a Hands-Off protest yesterday at a relatively small town near where I live, and I was impressed by quite a few things. I couldn’t count, but it looked to me like there were at least 2,000 protesters there (way more than I expected!). There were whole families there, and people of all ages. And while people were definitely angry at what is being done by our government, the whole event was peaceful and calm.
There were big rallies in every state in the US, both blue and red leaning. Here are some photos from the protests.
We’re already seeing multiple news articles about even Republican politicians in the US Senate and House who are working on legislation to roll back the tariffs and limit Trump from imposing tariffs. Constitutionally, it is Congress that has the power to impose tariffs, not the President.
I’m looking forward to more protests in the future.
Do they hate freedom? Because this is insane. Do they really need to regulate sex toys???
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