For all the awful from Trump and the GOP, at least we can look forward to some amusement. Almost every day Trump/the GOP trips over his… well, not “junk” which Stormy Daniels tells us is less than average. There is however his sort of cod-piece – his way too long tie. Today’s entry in the ‘You can’t make this stuff up” Trump/GOP/MAGA world is touting Trump’s not-at-all Big Beautiful Bill making autos great again. With Trump photoshopped in front of a dumpy looking car. A RUSSIAN car!
Obviously they were going for an “alternative facts use” of MAGA. Making Autos Great Again. Get it? Well Hardy-Har-Har-Har. The assumption was folks would understand intuitively it was a bout making AMERICAN autos great again but the folks who created the GOP ad that was tweeted screwed the poor pooch. I don’t know any cartoonist could depict someone missing the mark, belly-flopping, face-planting and more into a single image but somehow these asshats managed to do all that and more. We keep saying ‘You can’t make this sh*t up’ but damn if Team Trump doesn’t keep coming up with ways to make up not just wild but STUPID stuff.
I marvel at this stuff. I really do. I can (while wincing) recall the days when the GOP had devastatingly capable PR/Marketing types crafting their messages and ads. Then Trump came along. Unlike the vile Lee Atwood who didn’t confess to being such a dirtbag and apologizing for the damage he’d done until he was dying this group looked on in horror at what their efforts eventually led to. As in Trump. Some went to work (quietly) for various GOP officials but the RNC and even Trump (starting during the campaign) saw a mass exodus of talent.
Over and over Team Trump, both him and his communications people have put out statements and ads that are amateurish. Typos. Messed up quotes. Pictures of the wrong thing (i.e. a foreign made military jet in something touting U.S. air power) and so on. And now this. There’s a couple of things that make this funny.
First, if you’re an old fart like me (and Trump is even older) you remember a stodgy, dumpy looking old car – the Studebaker. NOT something that would come to mind to anyone other than Mr. Magoo (look it up) as “cool.” Hell, Trump himself would would never have been caught dead being photographed near or in one! If he wanted something American and cool he’d have a muscle car like a Mustang or Corvette. If he wanted something more muted that lots of folks with money buy perhaps a Cadillac or a Town Car. But this? I’m sure if he’d seen this before it was published he’d think the same thing I did as in ‘What the hell? Some crappy looking thing like a Studebaker?’
So there’s that. Trump would never in a million years have approved a car that looked like THAT! If he were to grudgingly give in to using a common folks car it would have been a recent model Chevy or Ford four-door sedan. Which brings me to the second thing where the GOP idiots screwed up. As noted the car they did use is a RUSSIAN car! Specifically, as this article from Meidas Touch News tell us is the Russian designed/made Lada 1200 (VAZ 2101) painted yellow. Did they perhaps think the color would make folks think “Trump – Gold” knowing how he loves his gold?
Maybe, just maybe Trumpty has been firing the wrong people. Like everything else in the Republican Party the ultimate authority with that GOP twitter account is Trump. And remember, he might not care the freaking car is Russian instead of American but LOOK at that thing! It’s anything but cool, or sleek and classy looking. I’ll guarantee you he made fun at old cars that looked like that (and were common) when he was young. It’s the kind of ‘old fart’s car’ he’d have shouted mocking insults at if the driver’s windows were down!
But it’s out there. On twitter/X and Elon Musk, owner of Tesla (the “truck” looks awful but the cars are sleek and stylish) has to be laughing his butt off. Let’s hope as the mocking continues someone will suggest other ugly ass foreign cars replace the Russian one. A Ygo perhaps? It’s far from the serious stuff Trump and the country are confronting at the moment BUT it’s exactly the kind of thing that will drive Trumpty batshit insane. I hope his misery eats at him all weekend although I feel sorry for any ketchup bottles he can get his hands on.
Well, we get plenty each day from Trump and the GOP to make us frown. Just keep in mind if you pay attention they’d say/do something so stupid that you can’t help but smile over how incompetent and stupid they are. That so many ARE so stupid is actually a good thing. We all know the damage is bad but would be far worse if Trump and his minions had smart, capable people.
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I remember the Lada. Even from a distance you could recognize one on the road by the boxy appearance and the smoke billowing out the exhaust. Usually there was something hanging loose, like a tailpipe or a piece of trim, and they had a peculiar sound, like a badly tuned lawnmower. I don’t know what possessed the Maga who came up with this, but I suspect gummies were involved.
Like I said it could have been worse – they could have used a freaking YUGO!
I don’t think mind/mood altering substances were involved. I think they come by their incompetence naturally.
Gummies? Come on mate…we’re a nation of alcoholic nicotine caffeine addicts. But our real addiction is stupidity.
It’s not just the fact that it’s Russian. It’s the age, an American car that size from that era would be a Ford Pinto or Chevy Vega. Even earlier than the iconic AMC Pacer from ‘Waynes World’.
We were in Berlin during winter, 1990, shortly after the Wall came down. East Germans were driving one of the cars made in the communist half of the city. They drove these Trabants (or Trabbies as they were called) through Checkpoint Charlie (now open both ways) into what had been West Berlin. Trabbies were poorly made, and the engine sounded like a sick lawn mower. West Germans immediately made fun of them. They were quickly replaced with cars made with fine West German engineering. But Trabbies continued to have a cult following with car collectors buying the old cars up. Tourist shops sold little toy Trabbies to tourists from all over the world. Maybe tRump’s marketing folks could use Trabbies in their ads!
I’m sorry but both me and my dad loved our Studebakers! They were a great car. Look up the Avanti which was way beyond it’s time in it’s sleek style.I don’t remember any Studebakers looking like that ugly piece of çrap!