Christopher Gould

I got accused of “toxic empathy” for defending refugees today - apparently, or so I’m today, I’m “a failure as a man and an American.” So I got that going for me!

The irony of making Social Security customer services more difficult for fear of fraud and abuse on the one hand while firing half of the IRS workforce on the other hand …

So evidently the theology of MAGA-land social media interprets “Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt” not as pertaining to caring for immigrants but about being friendly to foreigners when they’re visiting on vacation. 🙄

Don’t look now, but the Executive Branch is now ignoring the order from the Judicial Branch. This seems like a major milestone in a campaign towards totalitarianism.

There’s nothing untrue about what the South African ambassador to the United States said.

Economic genius.

I see a lot of people going after Sen. Schumer for backing the CR funding the government and I get it. I also get that it’s a tough decision: vote yes, you give the president more power; vote no, you give the president more power. It’s a matter of opinion which route poses the least damage.

YouTube video by Fluffle Puff FPMV: "PFUDOR"

A useful video to help as a coping mechanism -

Congress has one job that they must do each fiscal year: pass a budget. Having failed again, they are basically extending previous year funding. While it’s amusing seeing the GOP pass a Biden-era budget, it also endorses DOGE, which in turn relinquishes some of Congress’s authority: a bad precedent!

Krasnov speaks

It’s a good metaphor, this cartoon, for the state of things for many of us. What I like the most about it is that Simon’s cat is trying to help his sibling notwithstanding the fact that we do not know how they got into this fix.

Our man-child president is like an addict who acts out from time to time while everyone else tip-toes around him, trying not to offend or set him off. The unfortunate thing is that so many of our allies, from Canada to Ukraine, end up suffering in the wake of his temper tantrums.

It feels like the whole world is going to crap simply because Trump people more than anything else simply want to own the libtards. Am I wrong?

Evening light on the mountain.

“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” - James Baldwin

When Governors act as the adults in the room and the President and Vice President act like Scott Farkus and Grover Dill.*

*the bullying kid and his sidekick in “A Christmas Story.”

Although I take solace in the fact that social media distorts reality.

It’s disheartening to see how uneducated the general population is about public servants. I obviously knew this, but having the disgust of an ungrateful public thrown in one’s face after so many years of hard work is upsetting to see.

The President of the United States is openly mocking federal employees.

Trump told CPAC that “We have escorted the radical-left bureaucrats out of the building and have locked the doors behind the them…We’ve gotten rid of thousands.” Public servants are neither right nor left; they just serve the American people - but one thing is clear: this isn’t about saving money.

Our nation is being led by insane and power-hungry egotists. I feel for all the good public servants to have to put up with such humiliation.

This morning AG Bondi fired ATF’s Chief Counsel, Pamela Hicks. Within an hour, Hicks was given the memo from the AG, computer access was terminated, and she was escorted out of the building. Hicks was an exceptional and highly ethical chief counsel. Trump’s purge continues

Eliminating the Presidential Management Fellows program is unbelievably dumb. This program brings very smart talent into the federal government at very low salary rates in exchange for a fast-track into the civil service. Stupid, dumb, irrational, idiotic, crazy move on the part of the Muskies.

President Trump today called President Zelensky, not Putin, a “dictator” and said that Ukraine, not Russia, started the war. Dementia? Ignorance? The mind of a truly immoral man? Whatever the reason, this should give pause to anyone who considers themselves a patriotic American.

“The time is out of joint. O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right. Nay, come, let’s go together.” (Hamlet, 1:5:186)