Here we are on May 19th, 2026 and all I can say is that America has lost its mind. As has become disturbingly more common lately, I find myself agreeing with someone that several years ago I viewed as one of the dumbest people ever in government. Today, she (MTG) is constantly on the mark and offers that slimmest sliver of hope that some voters will see through the bullsh*&. Yesterday’s gem- MAGA is a cult. Well no sh&* Sherlock, how else do you explain a solid 30+% of the public that believes Donald Trump is doing a great job, and living up to all his promises? Oh wait, there is one other way- they are STUPID. Not just the 30% of the public drinking the Kool-Aid, but almost all Republican members of Congress and six members of the Supreme Court. Let’s recap.
“I’m going to get us out of forever wars”. Followed by attacking Iran for various illogical and/or contradictory reasons, only to find that they are a little tougher opponent than Venezuela and don’t immediately cower and ask the Great Satan (their words) for mercy. And who would have thought they’d close the Straight of Hormuz? (Only everyone with a speck of military or geopolitical strategic sense, several of which I’m sure told Donald that up front). Where are we now? Trapped in a conflict that the President hasn’t a clue as to how to escape out of it without looking like a loser. We have no exit strategy, we’re reduced to voicing constant threats followed by delaying those threats and meanwhile the Strait stays closed. Our negotiating position is to ask the Iranians to agree to something wildly improbable (elimination of their entire nuclear program) which is even more ironic given the fact that we were controlling said program before Donald tore up the agreement simply because it was negotiated by Obama. STUPID.
As if that weren’t bad enough, Republicans in Congress refuse to assert their War Powers prerogative and demand that the conflict cease immediately unless authorized by Congress. Why? It might hurt Donald’s feelings or he might primary some of them. Meanwhile, destruction of the world’s economy continues, Americans are paying an average of $4.50/gallon for gas and if the Strait isn’t opened by mid June, those numbers will look time. Meanwhile, that 30% and idiotic “hawks” like Lindsay Graham say yes sir, please raise the price of gas even more, we love to be broke. STUPID.
Meanwhile, on the subject of what is really important to the President, we have a $1 BILLION request before Congress to help bail Donald out of his ballroom vanity project that was to be built with 100% donations. Of course we’re masking that as all “security” related, but we know that’s not true. Donald Trump never built or estimated anything in his whole life that didn’t end up over budget and behind schedule. Now the Senate parliamentarian just ruled that can’t be part of a “reconciliation” bill so of course we need to get rid of said parliamentarian. Couldn’t possibly be that it is a totally ridiculous vanity request. Same for the now $13M painting of the reflecting pool (so bad Donald is pretending he wasn’t involved in it at all). Or the proposed most ostentatious project of all “The Arc de Trump” celebrating a victory over what? Common sense? Sanity? Who voted for this sh&*? STUPID.
The producer price index just increased 1.4% in one month, after rising 0.7 and 0.6% the two months previous. While the 12 month rate is now 6%, any moron can see that the last three months show a rate much higher than that is in progress. The consumer price index rose 0.6% in April and is running at 3.8% year over year, but also heading up. The response from the government? Donald Trump says ” I don’t care about the financial condition of Americans at all” and the White House publishes the most cherry picked price list in history to tell the public that there is no inflation and “prices are coming down”. That price you see at the gas pump or on your electric bill? Don’t believe that, it’s fake news. believe what we tell you, not what you see. What does this say about how the White House views the public. Simple. They think those 30% of hard core believers are……wait for it…..STUPID.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) capital spending is powering the stock market to an all time high, but does that help the 40-50% of the public that doesn’t own stock pay their monthly bills? NO. It helps the wealthy get wealthier. No one knows what the impact of AI will be, but in order for those investments to pay off, either a lot of jobs will be lost, or everyone will be buying a lot more goods and services. You know, with all that extra money Americans have left over after paying their monthly bills. Say what? That extra buying will come from overseas? Oh that’s right, from those countries that are all in dumpster fire right now because of the price of oil. Seems like one should try and control what is happening there but no not us. Trump and the Republican Party refuse to put any regulation around AI, or to even allow the states to do so, because they are all in the pocket of the Tech billionaires. But don’t worry. The Tech billionaires say, it will all be fine, just trust us. What do they think we are? STUPID.
The Pentagon wants a budget increase of > 40%, up to $1.5 TRILLION, so that Brylcreem Pete and Demented Donald can simply buy whatever they want, not make any actual hard decisions about where to spend our defense (excuse me war) dollars? This based on the fact that we’ve spent $30 Billion bombing Iran, exhausted large percentages of our weapons inventory doing so, have yet to force Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz and have no strategy for actually ending the conflict. Not to mention that the Defense (War) Department is the only government agency to NEVER pass a financial audit, but hey don’t worry about that, let’s examine food stamps for fraud, when everyone knows the biggest fraud, grift and waste bureaucracy on God’s earth lives inside a five sided building. Just say yes to war. STUPID.
So what was the justification for said War spending? We don’t have the money to spend on Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. We only have money for ICE raids by neo-nazis and endless wars. Remember where the Constitution and Declaration of Independence say the government is only to provide for terrorizing the public and war? Neither do I. You know who does? People that are STUPID.
The Government debt is on an uncontrollable path, Trump has continued to add roughly $2 TRILLION per year to it, and guess what? Social Security checks will be cut by approximately 23% starting in 2034. Are we working on that? hell no. The “what me worry” President is too busy blowing up the Defense/War budget, using tax payer money to build monuments to himself and likewise enriching himself, his family and his closet buddies. Who cares about you retirees or veterans that might live solely off of social security? Not the Republican Party. They think you should pull yourself up by the bootstraps just like billionaires do. If you think the government has an obligation to its citizens, guess what? You’re STUPID.
On the bright side, the most hypocritical, egotistical and ideological Supreme Court in history has just declared that racism is dead. How quaint. Try telling that to black homeowners that get less for their homes when they sell them than white homeowners, or pay higher mortgage fees than white borrowers do. We all know that a white 20 year old male has exactly the same risk of being shot dead during a traffic stop as a 20 year old black male right. Try telling that to the Native Americans who have been screwed by the white man so many times they’ve lost track, and who today are seeing Native American monuments, burial grounds and tribal lands destroyed by mining or ranching or other development interests. Or Hispanic Americans who are being singled out for harassment at best and deportation at the worst, just because of their perceived race. My personal favorite however is ruling that it is perfectly ok to redistrict America so southern states with 30% or more black populations end up with absolutely no representation for that section of the electorate. Good knows your local Republican congressman is Isn’t that TAXATION without REPRESENTATION? Good job John Roberts. I guess you think that we in the public don’t see what you’re doing. You think we’re STUPID.
The EPA has been busy eliminating as many environmental laws as possible, the latest of which is removing water quality standards with regard to “forever” chemicals. Who cares if we drink plastics? Isn’t teflon great! Why control air emissions? Particulate from coal burning causing respiratory illnesses? Not a problem. Selenium leaking from coal ash tailings ponds? Hey that’s only a problem if you have a well, so just don’t have one. Greenhouse gases? That’s not causing climate change. Who cares if the temperature is going up and the weather is getting increasingly catastrophic? Flooding, wildfires, hail, tornados, hurricanes? Just part of the American Dream. Fossil fuels causing climate change? No way. There is no climate change! That’s just STUPID.
While we’re on health, who needs vaccines? They all cause autism right? Just because the supposed “evidence” of this has been scientifically discredited at every level doesn’t mean it isn’t true. Who you gonna believe? The NIH, FDA and CDC or random podcasters? Podcasters of course! What’s a few cases of measles anyways? It’s not really dangerous. STUPID.
My all time favorite. Donald Trump is going to clean up the “swamp”. What a joke. Aside from allowing crypto currency scams to proliferate, even to the degree of wanting to include them in 401 plans and as a government reserve, why should the President be prohibited from trading on insider information? Oh that’s right, he hasn’t been. He’s been trading away while meeting with companies that have upcoming legislative agendas or announcements and surely it’s just coincidence that lots of un regulated trades have occurred with Donald’s name on them. Steering government contracts to donors, political buddies or firms run by his sons Eric and Don, Jr? Sure! Isn’t it a god given right for the President to help himself to as much as he can get? I particularly admire the latest scheme. The DOJ “settlement” creating a $1.7 BILLION fund to reward those “victimized” by the big, bad Biden DOJ. People like the traitors and anarchists that stormed Congress trying to overturn an election. Surely it was mean and cruel to put them in jail so they should be compensated for their “suffering”. If you think that’s wrong well. STUPID.
Lying every time his mouth is open. Openly berating female reporters. Calling black people especially black women “low IQ”. Telling the Pope to shut up when criticizing inhumane treatment of immigrants or pointing out the terrible human toll war causes. Being complicit (this isn’t just Trump, Biden owns this one as well) in allowing Israel to conduct genocide in Gaza and Lebanon because there might be an islamic terrorist hiding somewhere. Suing every news organization possible for publishing facts that are contrary to the Trump spin and lies. Losing almost every lawsuit filed for defamation or fake news or whatever and then trying to extort money from the defendants to get them to settle or risk retaliation from the full force of the federal government. Isn’t this leadership? If you can see that as acting “Presidential” then you’re just STUPID.
The Republican Party owns every one of these and the dozens of other indignities, debasements and subversions of the office of President due to Donald Trump by never managing to work up the will to challenge him on ANYTHING. “I’m disappointed in his behavior”, “he’s just joking” or “you can’t take him at his word” are such pathetic excuses for complicity it’s absurd. Why anyone would vote for such a chicken sh&*, spineless, do nothing group of enablers boggles my mind but I believe the answer is clear. The voters that say they voted for Trump three times but can’t believe he did things that he said he was going to in the campaign because some of those things are sticking it to his supporters is just beyond comprehension. Only one answer. 30% of the American population and all of the Republican Party are STUPID. The rest of us? Dumber than hell (looking at you Democrats) or too much in shock to realize the America we grew up believing in is gone. The damage will take multiple administrations to undo or at least mitigate and we in America have such a short attention span that won’t happen. We’ve stood by while renewable energy that could make us truly independent of Oil, OPEC and the Middle East was systematically disenfranchised, while the protections for Clean Air, Water and Land to ensure a healthy future for our children and grandchildren were shoved aside for quarterly profits. What does that make us in America, Yep. STUPID.