Which says right there that all that uberreligious piety is purely performative.

Van Gogh Gogh Godzilla!

He wanted to prove it was finally safe again.
Not for him.

He as good as said "Bring it on."
Karma said "Sure. Here you go."

Sorry (not sorry), Mitch... we're not buying your redemption tour. YOU did this. You did it painstakingly over decades. You worked it all along. Now, I know it wasn't your intention to have the trap finally spring with a brain-addled criminal at the helm. You would have preferred it WORSE, smarter.

Melania: "Not with a rubber one."

They're unwittingly doing the work of the times. Can you think of a more obscenely "Let them eat cake" analogy for this particular moment in history?

But, hey... DOGE apparently made him more efficient, too. No wasted time and effort for telemetry and staging. Just blow it up on the pad!

I've settled on a nearly universal blessing for times like these:
May they get everything they deserve. If your karma is clean, it's a blessing. People who hear it as a threat need to take a good, deep look inside.

So much schadenfreude...

Sometimes all it takes is a little kompromat.

Yes!

Shit... why didn't you just turn out for the rally and pick up your $oro$ Buck$, eh?

Insurance is going to be the breaking point for people buying Teslas.

Accurate.

As Robert Reich put it: "In normal times, I recommend that Democrats vote for continuing budget resolutions. But these are not normal times. Why should any Democrat vote for the Trump-Musk-Vance regime to continue illegally usurping from Congress the power of the purse?"

They did try to ditch the leases on the courthouses. Pretty much the same outcome.

I hope he has a PEACHY time on his upcoming book tour.