I can’t believe it’s May already. It seems like the Christmas holidays were just yesterday and Inauguration Day was a year ago. Oh well, time flies when you’re having fun. Are we havin’ fun yet? Speaking of Christmas, this week DJT commented on the tariff situation by saying he doesn’t think that beautiful baby girl’s need 30 dolls, but can get by with 2 this year and maybe they would cost a few bucks more. So there you go, don’t be a “Panican” and worry about his beautiful economic plan. “The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO. Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid! Don’t be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!)” he wrote on his Truth Social.
While you’re thinking about buying those 2 dolls you might think about poor Elmo and Big Bird as Don signed an executive order on Thursday night ending public funding of NPR and PBS to stop what he calls “biased and partisan news coverage.” The order directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to “cease federal funding for NPR and PBS” to the extent allowed by law. The CPB funds public radio and television stations in local markets, as well as fifteen percent of PBS and one percent of NPR. tRump also attempted to remove three of the CPB’s five board members in order for the board to lack a quorum and freeze its activities. In a statement, CPB says, “The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is not a government entity, and its board members are not government officers. Because CPB is not a federal agency subject to the President’s authority, but rather a private corporation, we have filed a lawsuit to block these firings.” Interestingly, the CPB chief executive now suing Trump, Patricia de Stacy Harrison, is a former co-chairperson of the Republican National Committee and State Department official under President George W. Bush. Anyhoo, let’s send some hugs to Elmo and Big Bird (not “Big Balls” at DOGE) and start a “Save Sesame Street” campaign.
Meanwhile, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the governor of Arkansas and tRump’s mouthpiece during Trump 1.0, is experiencing Karma as she begs for disaster relief after the recent tornadoes in Arkansas. “As long as I am your governor, the meddling hand of big government creeping down from Washington DC will be stopped cold at the Mississippi River,” she wrote in a post on X in January 2023. Well, sweetie, you don’t have to worry about that big ol’ government meddling because they have denied your request for federal disaster aid and to just manage it yourself. Arkansas voted for Trump 2:1 knowing that he and the GOP ran on a platform of drastically cutting federal funding including FEMA. Do ya remember Trump joking do his supporters during his campaign, “I don’t care about you, I just want your vote.” He got their vote, so he is following through and showing that he doesn’t give a s**t about them now. As they say, elections have consequence and you get what you vote for.
While he is probably out swinging his 5 iron on the links this weekend, he is getting ripped from Catholics across the world for the moronic AI generated meme of himself as the Pope. Here’s a sampling of the responses. “There is nothing clever or funny about this image, Mr. President,” the New York State Catholic Conference posted on X; “disrespectful”; Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, “It wasn’t good”; Michael Steele, former Republican National Committee chairman and a devout Catholic wrote that the post “affirms how unserious and incapable he is. At 78 he remains a 10yo child, emotionally scarred and broken while desperate to prove he could be somebody. His problem: he can’t grow up to prove it.”; and the winning rip goes to Anthony Scaramucci, who is also Catholic and tRump’s Communications Director for about 10 days during 1.0, “The dope of dopes not a pope.”
Congratulations to Sovereignty for winning the Kentucky Derby yesterday. I hear he and his jockey won’t be visiting the White House this year
Well, I could keep rambling because there’s been a lot of material over the past few days, but I just can’t waste this beautiful day. Have a great day and stay sane out there. And be safe, also. Oh, and don’t go tell that beautiful little 5 year old girl that she’s only getting 2 dolls this Christmas. Ziggyman
Mountain Man Musings 