If you’re poor, sick, disabled, or just barely scraping by, the Republican-controlled government has a message for you: Tough luck. While billionaires celebrate permanent tax cuts and Wall Street reaps record profits, Trump and his congressional allies have launched an all-out attack on the social safety net, gutting the very programs that keep millions of…
In the grand, crumbling funhouse that is the Musk-Trump bureaucratic experiment, the walls are closing in. Today, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., shattered the illusion of unchecked executive power, ordering the Trump administration to immediately restore foreign aid funds they had illegally shut down. Judge Amir Ali, in a ruling that can only be…
In a move that can only be described as a high-stakes political heist, House Republicans rammed through a budget blueprint designed to fulfill the fever-dream policies of Donald J. Trump. On a razor-thin 217-215 vote, this blueprint doesn’t just sketch the contours of government spending—it lays down the battlefield for an all-out war on the…
By Justin Jest – Gonzo Journalist, Reluctant Realist, Connoisseur of Chaos Three years into Russia’s bloody war on Ukraine, Europe is bracing for something even worse. Putin’s threats are escalating. His government is openly talking about annexing more Ukrainian land, rattling its nuclear saber, and testing NATO’s patience with missile violations and airspace incursions. Meanwhile,…
By Justin Jest – Gonzo Journalist, Reluctant Realist, Connoisseur of Chaos Warren Buffett is a capitalist—one of the most successful in history. But unlike his billionaire peers, he’s not full of shit when it comes to taxes. And when he spoke to Congress about why the estate tax is necessary and how America is sliding…
By Justin Jest – Gonzo Journalist, Reluctant Realist, Connoisseur of Chaos Here we go again. Trump supporters voted for Trump, and now they’re losing their minds because he’s actually doing the things he promised. This time, it’s about immigration. And the wrecking ball isn’t just hitting undocumented folks—it’s smashing legal immigrants, too. Take Riley Gaines—a…
By Justin Jest – Gonzo Journalist, Reluctant Realist, Connoisseur of Chaos It’s finally happening. For the first time since Trump’s second reign of chaos began, his own government is starting to resist him. Elon Musk’s dystopian bureaucratic purge—where every federal worker must justify their job in five bullet points or face unemployment—isn’t going down as…
Welcome to the great American magic trick: while the government slashes funds for everyday people, corporations bask in an endless downpour of cash. Trump and Musk, the self-proclaimed cost-cutting crusaders, love to rant about wasteful spending—but their scalpels mysteriously never touch the real fat in the budget. Let’s talk about where the money actually goes:…
The carnival of carnage continues. The great bureaucratic bloodbath of the DOGE era is here, and the justifications for the mass firings are so ludicrous, so reality-detached, that they make a fever dream feel like an episode of C-SPAN. But fear not, dear reader, for we are diving headfirst into the madness, armed with a…
By Justin Jest – Gonzo Journalist, Reluctant Realist, Connoisseur of Chaos America, you magnificent, reckless bastard, you did it again. Donald Trump is back in the White House, and in less than a month, he and his band of unqualified weirdos have already managed to gut the federal government, sabotage foreign alliances, and turn public…
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