Our Fascist Idiocracy: July 23, 2025

Tesla Diner in Hollywood blocking the view

Big eye ouchie. At Tesla’s new Hollywood Diner & Drive-In, progress looks like a four-story movie screen blocking the view from the apartment building next door. One Tesla Diner diner said he loved the diner’s Blade Runner vibes. “Looks good on the eyes,” he said. When asked if apartment dwellers might enjoy the oversized spectacle on their doorstep, Roman didn’t miss a beat: “Probably not. That is a huge ouchy for their eyes.”

Meanwhile in Gilead. At a town hall in Tennessee a pregnant woman stood up to tell what happened when the state’s broken moral compass aimed itself directly at her uterus. She and her partner of 15 years are parents of a 13-year-old, but because they are unmarried her doctor denied medical care for her and her unborn child. The denial was based on the state’s 2025 Medical Ethics Defense Act, which puts Christo-fascist morality ahead of science.

Totally not thinking about Epstein now. Trump has been unloading distraction after distraction to avert public attention from his career-killing Trumpstein scandal. One of the low points was his playing politics with First People’s identity. Trump ordered the Washington Commanders to bring back the name “Redskins.” And he’s threatening the owners with withholding stadium permits as leverage. Worse of all, he called his policy “MIGA” — Make Indians Great Again.

Radar causes weather disasters. An diocratic group calling themselves Veterans on Patrol is out to destroy Doppler radar systems because, they say, radar caused the floods in Texas and other disasters. On July 6, they claimed credit for disabling a system in Oklahoma City at the height of tornado season.

Comey Fired Because of Her Dad

“If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain. Do not let that happen. Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought. Instead of fear, let this moment fuel the fire that already burns at the heart of this place. A fire of righteous indignation at abuses of power. Of commitment to seek justice for victims. Of dedication to truth above all else.”

— Maureen Comey, quoted by Politico, the day after she was fired as a federal prosecutor.