“They Want To Take Away Your Hamburgers” says Trump’s Counter Terrorism Pick

Why does everything they do have to be a race for the bottom?

Or a contest to find the worst person available?

Is it all just a weird troll on us?

I actually like this one. he’ll force senate Republicans to decide whether or not they actually want to be protected from terrorists

“And at some point politics will stabilize into something more resembling normal.” I don’t see this happening until we do better at educating the population about civics and how government actually works. And I don’t see that happening with what he and his hand picked incompetents intend to do. These traitors are planning to toss out the Constitution and turn the country into and oligarchic kakistocracy. Not one person he’s named to his cabinet is qualified for the position he’s giving them. I’m in my mid 70’s and I’m pretty sure I won’t be here to see this nightmare end.

Hmm. I recall an episode of “Good Times” in which one of the Evans family neighbors was an elderly woman (she had to have been over 65 based on the story but the actress didn’t really look that old–but I digress . . . ) who was forced to rely on dog food to help make her Social Security dollars last out the month. She had been giving music lessons (voice, as I recall) but she lost Social Security money for each dollar she earned from the lessons and the family discovered she’d been buying dog food (and, she didn’t have a dog). The big moment came when she was invited–in an act of disguised charity–to dinner with the Evanses and she came bearing a meat loaf (now, the plot thickens). Eventually, when JJ, who’s been tasked with saying grace, opens with “The Lord is my German shepherd I shall not want,” the whole thing comes to a head with the neighbor, absolutely furious that her neighbors would think she’d feed them dog food. She admitted that SHE ate it from time to time when she couldn’t afford regular meat but her meat loaf was made with pure ground beef.

Now, you may ask why do I bring this up? Well, the episode first aired in the show’s second season in early 1975. And which political party was sitting in the White House at the time? Why none other than the GOP, represented by Gerald Ford. Now, it’s true that the Democrats had supermajorities in both houses of Congress as a result of the 1974 elections BUT all policies dealing with Social Security in 1975 would’ve been enacted before those elections so GOPers would’ve had a say and the GOP had a very grudging relationship with Social Security even then; they largely accepted it but, even then, were doing as much as they could to do away with the program (as they’d been doing for the previous 30+ years and would continue doing all the way through the present).

And, in all honesty, most of the plans envisioned by Project 2025 will end up forcing plenty of the poor and elderly (including a hell of a lot of MAGAts) into considering just how many cans of dog food can replace 1 pound of ground beef to make a meat loaf or how well the dog food will hold its shape when making hamburgers. (And, it’s interesting that a lot of pet food companies–especially the high-end companies–are now touting the their products are “human-quality food.” But, at the same time, these products are about as costly as most of the “human-quality food” that so many of the poor and elderly won’t be able to pay for as long as the GOP gets its way.)

“They want to take away your hamburgers. This is what Stalin dreamt about but never achieved.” Given the starvation the Russians suffered under Stalin, I’m sure they’d have been happy to get dog food. Given what Rump has planned for us, we may find ourselves there too. God, I hate these people. A worse bunch of a**hats is yet to be found, each one worse than the last. No bottom in sight. It would be great if they start fighting amongst themselves, have their own circular firing squad, literally. It’d one way to drain the swamp.