The war in Ukraine is a hoot.
Zelenskyy did not wear a suit.
Trump did Putin’s dance
And then J.D. Vance
Just licked off the shit from Trump’s boot.

Mandate (n.)— The authority that a politician gives to himself to carry out a policy or course of action that a minority of people agree with.

Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary”

Landslide (n.)— When a candidate wins a handful of swing states by a couple of points and the popular vote by the smallest margin in a quarter century.

Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary”

“Secretaries of Astronautics don’t have to know much about science. They have to know about politics.”

—Octavia Butler, “The Parable of the Sower,” written in 1993 and set in 2024, in which the president-elect wants to get rid of entire government agencies and do away with that pesky minimum wage.

“Efficiency (n.) - the idea that the government needs streamlining so you create a new, extra Department of Government Efficiency headed by not one but two freeloaders.”

—Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary “