Steve Brooks
stevebrooksaustin.bsky.social
Steve Brooks
@stevebrooksaustin.bsky.social
From beautiful South Austin, I write songs, articles, and sermons with the aim to educate, entertain, and inspire, to keep the darkness at bay by lighting candles of humor, hope, and a little hell-raising.
With 200% tariffs threatened on French wines, it looks like champagne will be replaced with real pain...
March 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
What's Wrong With This Sentence? Dept: POTUS, speaking with the NATO Secretary-General about Greenland, said, "We really need it for national security. I think that's why NATO might have to get involved."
Bonus sentence: "You know, Denmark's very far away, and really has nothing to do."
Have at it!
March 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Austin was on the DOGE hitlist yesterday, as the GSA proposed selling five properties. Three are in the IRS complex on I-35 South. Another is the Pickle Office Building downtown, which means that Ted Cruz might be booted out. This morning, the list was replaced by a note that said, "Coming Soon."
March 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Time once again to play "What's Wrong With This Sentence?": In the U.S. House chambers tonight, POTUS said, "We're also once again giving our police officers the support, protection and respect they so dearly deserve...They have such a hard, dangerous job, but we're going to make it less dangerous."
March 5, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Tesla’s stock price has tumbled 43% from its high in Dec., as sales stall at home and in China and sink in Europe. Its market cap has dropped $520 billion, meaning E-Mu’s fortune - of which Tesla stock makes the largest chunk - has dropped roughly $65 billion.
finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-c...
Tesla China shipments tumble, the latest sign of weakening demand
Tesla shipment data out of China is not good, the latest piece of bad news for the pure EV maker.
finance.yahoo.com
March 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
After letting E-Mu’s Gang of Geeks into its computers, the Social Security Admin is cutting 7,000 jobs and squeezing 10 field offices to 4. It canceled 45 office leases, despite making all remote workers return to the office - which suggests more layoffs are coming. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
‘Prelude to privatization:’ Social Security confirms workforce reduction targets, continues to shutter offices
Despite most of the agency being exempt from deferred resignations and the government-wide hiring freeze, early retirement and Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments are now available to the entire a...
www.govexec.com
March 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Apprentices and Masters Dept: Friday, we saw a confrontation between two leaders whose political careers both began on TV. One of them has gone on to become a hero to the free world. The other is still telling people they’re fired.
March 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
POTUS declares as the official language of the United States a language which he doesn't speak...
March 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Reposted by Steve Brooks
The vehicle is hideous. The owner of the company is even uglier.

Tesla Cybertrucks Are Gathering Dust, Even With $6,000 Discount

www.forbes.com/sites/peterl...
Tesla Cybertrucks Are Gathering Dust, Even With $6,000 Discount
As unwanted Cybertruck inventory rises, Tesla is forced to introduce discounts. But even $6,000 savings aren't bringing buyers into showrooms.
www.forbes.com
March 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Latest Acronyms Dept:
MRGA = Make Russia Great Again
MMGA = Make Measles Great Again
GOP = Gaga Over Putin
March 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
February 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
DODGE, the pseudo-agency charged with slashing fraud, waste, and abuse in government contracts, seems to keep posting fraudulent accounts. Its online “wall of receipts” lists $16 billion in contracts it’s canceled. When NPR dug into the actual contracts, the savings turned out to be $2 billion.
February 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
What's Wrong With This Sentence? Dept: When POTUS was asked about E-Mu's threat to fire federal workers who don't reply to his justify-your-existence letter, he remarked, "Well, it's somewhat voluntary, but it's also, if you don't answer, I guess you get fired."
February 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Leaked from the Dept. of Government Extinction:
"Five Things I Accomplished Last Week
By E*** M***
• Saved taxpayers money by speeding up the collapse of government services. I don’t need national parks, veteran’s health care, food inspections, or tax refunds, so why should anybody else?
February 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
What’s Wrong With This Sentence? Dept. Texas Senator Ted Cruz said this during a Commerce Committee hearing:
“U.S. acquisition of Greenland is not about military force, it’s about diplomacy and shared interests, the same way that we acquired the territories that make us the nation we are.”
February 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM