Sounds a little like the title to a Tom Robbins book. His recent passing was very sad. I didn’t know him, but I feel like there was a sort of kindred spirit behind the prose in his works. There was both whimsy and gravitas in his storytelling that I always found satisfying. The hunt for a copy of one of his works led my then barely teenage son to chant “B is for Beer.” That was answered by “start em young,” from another passing patron.

But, I’ve been trying to digest Tom’s jaundice, wry eye in an attempt to digest what is happening in our immediate world. It is a lot of hard work keeping with the flurry of status destroying moves being put on by the current denizens of the White House. Ir has been a lot to digest as I continue to seek the leak on my coffeemaker.

Been a cup off makes it doubly hard to stay on top of the foolishness. The daily fuckery has made Canada seem like the upstairs quiet neighbor to a downstairs meth lab run by coked up monkeys. I’m sorry, Canada, most of us are not down with this at all. With every dumb move, with every syncophantic appointment, with every public utterance correctable by paying some attention in 8th grade civics glasses, the current administration reveals just how truly both selfish and dumb they really are.Who pisses off Canada? Honestly, it’s like insulting the person handing you that perfect ice cream cone. The hockey players at the four nations tourney need to bear with it as it is the politest venting ever.

Just the latest incident of why everybody who works for the current president needs to review every episode of Schoolhouse Rock.

The insanity list is high as is the thin skinned patriarchy is picking fights with neighbors, sucking up to dictators, not understanding the checks and balances in the Constitution, foresaking the oath of defending the constitution, laying down at the feet of Putin, demanding loyalty and criticism free press coverage along with removing those who don’t immediately use a new name for a body of water not entirely in their sphere of control. It’s a lot to unpack and it’s dependent on the lack of spines on congress, along with their lust for power, and the 49% of the eligible voters who voted for him to not realize he doesn’t care about them. He isn’t working in their interests. He isn’t working for anyone’s interest, except his own (and those that Elon deems worthy, when he isn’t telling the press things that are “incorrect.” Most folks would refer to that as lying, but I degress.

The folks who have drunken the kool-aid and the republicans lapping this all up publicly say, it’s a long overdue audit. To that I wittily respond, bullshit! This is a haphazard rummaging through government departments to take money, that taxpayers will never see, to fund things that most taxpayers won’t benefit from. An audit isn’t done by coders, you get forensic accountants who are concerned with being right as opposed to being speedy. Don’t get me wrong, there are numerous programs and agencies that could stand from an actual efficiency study, but this isn’t that.

So far, nobody has said if the buyouts the Muskrats are waving around are even funded, it’s just be targeting agencies the Great Pumpkin’s lesser cousin doesn’t like. He doesn’t want to help, so an agency created by President Kennedy gets the scorched earth treatment from Musk and the minions, overlooking things like among the millions spent, much goes to American farmers who supply goods for programs. So, it isn’t so simple, or right, or administered properly no matter how many press events are staged.

While I fixed the coffee maker, the list of things that have broken under this bull in a china shop administration has expanded faster. A wag on facebook suggested I’m only opposed for Trump is a republican. He’s incorrect, Trump isn’t a republican, and this shit is bad. I’m just as mad at the Democrats who are fighting and asking for donations, but with a few exceptions, watching the constitution get trampled, the system of checks and balances get ignored and agencies that should be funded to help people and make life quality good, get eviserated. The two parties need each other. The repubs want to keep their jobs and power ahead of anything else so they just wave President Elon on.

Is there bloat in the federal government? Absolutely. Could we spend better? For sure. Should that be studies thoughtfully? Of course, but so should 7th grade civics, which none of these schmucks could pass. The presidential happy couple in their political retribution tour ignored that congress is the purse string operators. The fund freezing isn’t going to teach President Biden a lesson, it’s screwing American farmers out of already approved grant money. We’ve all been paying into Medicare and they are working on taking that away, for no good reason other than to throw money in a different pile. USAid’s dismantling diminishes the country around the world and screws plenty of Americans, especially farmers who lost a huge custom for their goods. The funds found? Show it, don’t announce it. Refund checks? we all know those aren’t real because the savings aren’t.

There is a way to check expenses, instead of sending tech brahs to manipulate numbers and denude agencies that either protect citizens or investigate Musk, you send in forensic accountants in to analyze data and spending patterns. But it wasn’t about waste, efficient government or doing right by the people. It’s about control, always about control.

Control they don’t deserve