Yeah, Let's Talk About indoctrinating Kids

      

     As one can reasonably expect, yesterday's Easter Egg roll at the White House was exploited as yet another partisan exercise right out of 1984, proving this White House, or what's left of it, holds nothing sacred. 

      I remember when new president Barack Obama spoke to schoolchildren in 2009 and gave anodyne advice such as, "Stay in school" and "work hard", Republicans lost their shit and screamed it was "indoctrination". They just didn't like it that a Black man was speaking to mostly white schoolchildren.

     This time around, we're hearing crickets and tumbleweeds from the Grand Old Party after a crazy old orange man was badmouthing Joe Biden and the autopen to children the same age. Yes, he did that. Don't forget the spectacle of Trump talking to kids on Christmas Eve ("Oklahoma was very good to me. I won there three times.").

Trump complains about Biden's autopen and the 'fake news' to children at the White House Easter Roll pic.twitter.com/Jt4cGQNjtQ

— Alexander Willis (@ReporterWillis) April 6, 2026

     Think I'm making this up? Watch the video above.

     It's kind of surprising that Trump seems to have lost his mojo when it comes to talking to kids. After all, he'd had plenty of experience doing so at Jeffrey Epstein's island and townhouse, dispensing such pearls of wisdom such as, "I can do whatever the fuck I want!", "Shut the fuck up!" and that alltime classic, "Get a fucking abortion!"

     So then it was Melania's turn. That would be the Czech Republic's greatest advancement in robotics. A reporter asked her a softball question: "Madam First Lady, can you tell us your message to children who find themselves in war zones during this holy week?" The response?

     "Well, all of this is happening for their future. So they will be safe in years to come."

     Which I'm sure will come as a great relief to the 160+ schoolchildren we'd killed on February 28 when we bombed their elementary school back to Stone Age.

      

Meme o' the Day

 

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     When Trump isn't clapping action figures together, I suppose he'll draft Tom Cruise.

 

     States' rights, huh?

 

     As Trump does his weird little sword dance, Republicans nationwide are heading for the exits.

 

     Trump invoking the Christian nationalist version of Allahu Akbar doesn't make him sound like a terrorist at all.

 

    Remember back in the good old days when we opposed brutal, authoritarian regimes instead of treating them like allies?

 

    "Trump is proposing a staggering $1.5 trillion in defense spending for fiscal year 2027, plus an additional $200 billion for costs associated with his unpopular war against Iran, marking a 42% increase from the previous year, the largest surge since the Korean War.

    To pay for the dramatic increase in military spending, the White House is also pitching around $73 billion in cuts to public health, housing and education programs, programs that are disproportionately used by key constituencies of the GOP." You masochists wanted the pain, now Trump is bringing it. Reap the whirlwind, you morons.

     To show you how far the New York Times has fallen since its heyday, they recently said NATO stood for "North Amerian Treaty Organization". Naturally, this was seized on by a guy who once told Israeli diplomats in Israel, "I just left the Middle East..."

    I know we have a Manchurian "president" but why are Republicans giving guided tours of Capitol Hill to sanctioned Russians?

    Trump recently said we can't afford day care or health care but we have a billion and a half dollars for defense and over half a billion more for White House renovations?

How an April Fool Spent His Evening

 

     To be fair, after Trump's humiliating appearance at the Supreme Court yesterday, he actually did something beneficial for the American people and fired Attorney General Pam Bondi. There were tears, pleas, begs, declamations but in the end, it was all for naught. Bondi was out. 

     Afterward, Donnie stood before some nonentities and blathered on about the Iran War. As usual, there was much ballyhoo that turned out to be a nothingburger. He insulted our allies, as usual, then claimed, even though it had nothing to do with Iran, that we were the only nation with birthright citizenship (Narrator: 30 other nations have it, you fucking moron.).

     So while he's doing his double jerkoff, overloaded washer dance with a dull sword in his hand (I guess he thinks that's how they do it in Scotland), Americans are paying $5 or more for a gallon of gas.  He's acting exactly like the stereotype of the pigeon that knocks over all the chess pieces, shits all over the board then struts around as if he won.

     Except, like the proverbial pigeon, this idiot doesn't understand the rules of the game. He doesn't acknowledge the learned hands controlling the actions on the board. His message is incoherent, contradictory and divorced from reality. He claims Iran's military has been smashed, even though they recently bombed one of our bases, wounding 15 service members. Plus, a nation with no military would have a hell of a time keeping closed a body of water that's 110 miles-wide.

     He needs our allies. He doesn't need them. He'll escalate with a bombing raid. The war will be over in two weeks. He's like a recklessly driving lost tourist desperately looking for an offramp that doesn't exist.