Portraits of an Administration

Pete Hegseth, plastered against the wall, shaking with horror. Several of the little green army men toys he was playing with have turned their heads to stare unblinking at him.

A class war Thanksgiving greeting from the early 20th-century socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason.

Sean Duffy, fore and middle fingers pressing hard into his temples, staring hard at the latest burning helicopter wreck on the Reagan Intl Airport tarmac. He wills it all to disappear. Stubbornly, it persists.

Mike Johnson, panting, clamps his hands over his mouth and crouches, back against the wall of the cloak room. An enormous, mucus covered MSNOW microphone slowly rounds the corner. It opens and a second smaller microphone extrudes towards his face.

Kristi Noem, in an oversize flak jacket and wrap-around sunglasses, unrolls a blueprint in the mobile office of her newest concentration camp. It's schematics for the scream extractor in Monster's Inc.

Meanwhile, in the real economy:

The subtext in JD Vance asking for "patience" on the economy: When leaders stop talking about current conditions and jump straight to rosy forecasts, they’re signaling the present isn’t defensible. That’s your cue to scrutinize the numbers, not just the narrative.

JD Vance eats alone at the long table in his estate's dining room. He chuckles at something the AI Chatbot on his phone says. It is propped up on the seat where Usha used to sit.

Howard Lutnick, shoulders slumped, presses hard on a bubble of indigestion in his solar plexus. He stands in front the "Trade War General" costume Fox News has laid out for him along with another $22 bottle of Pepto Bismol.

Pam Bondi, working late in her home office under a pool of desk lamp light. She compulsively tugs her unwashed hair and sighs as she once again opens the folder labeled "good attorneys".

Tulsi Gabbard grips the frame of the door to the 8th floor conference room and steps back. Her staff knows she refuses to meet in any room with windows.

Scott Bessent, dozing off in the lobby of his hotel in Davos, smiles. He is daydreaming of an imaginary number that doesn't make anyone mad at him.

Jared Isaacman with a fresh haircut, pressing his forehead against the window overlooking the Cape Canaveral launch pad. "Rocket ships. Rocket ships," he whispers to himself.

Kash Patel, tense and sweating, teeth grinding, fists balled above the keyboard of his FBI office computer. A dozen men in dark suits and dark expressions crowd behind him, expectantly. One the screen is a single prompt. PASSWORD?

Pete Hegseth wakes, naked save for his Tap Out hoodie. He stares, bleary eyed, at the fresh MOLON LABE tattoo just above his penis. He cannot recall getting it.

Linda McMahon angrily snaps her fingers at the homeless boy she has just decided to adopt.

Karoline Leavitt, frozen in front of the studio's makeup mirror, staring wide eyed at where her cross necklace has fallen upside down for the third time this morning

Marco Rubio, eyes downcast, mouth a thin line, folds himself into the large valise that will be loaded into the cargo bay of the Qatari golden plane.

RFK Jr., over the ear headphones blasting Tony Robbins affirmations, squints at the blood lab results he has administered to himself. He is pregnant.

Tom Homan, arms wrapped around a sack of $50k in cash, crouching low between a stack of Epstein files and Venezuela invasion plans, hoping everyone forgot about him

Mike Johnson hearing these: "Uhh, we still have to, um, parse the language..."

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Bondi will do to the Epstein files what Barr did to the Mueller report. Get out ahead with a nothingburger summary before the real thing drops.

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They hate being ridiculed⤵️

Gun grooming

"please don't take this as an opportunity to bash Trump" = "I am too immature to take responsibility for my own civic actions"

“FINISH HIM” - me dropping my son off at finishing school

I remember this Seinfeld episode

This is why your Fox News-watching relatives think half the country supports Donald Trump. Notice Fox doesn’t turn the camera to the crowd. 👀