Pensito Illustration Musk and Trump have very different personality styles.
Trump is all lies and threats; Musk is all lies and wiles.
But their very public feud
Just got very publicly rude
When Elon said that Donald’s name can be found in the Epstein files.
Pensito Illustration His appointees are usually good at one thing: Trump pleasin’.
But agencies like FEMA require capable leaders, it stands to reason.
We don’t need some bloke
Who covers his ignorance with a joke,
Like FEMA head David Richardson, who doesn’t know it’s hurricane season.
Pensito Illustration Apparently, Trump’s beef with Biden will never be done.
The latest? Trump thinks Biden was murdered, replaced by clones.
Trump always needs an enemy —
Somewhere to focus his enmity.
But when it comes to “soulless, mindless entities” — it takes one to know one.
Maybe Sesame Street could help? Oh, wait. Donald Trump has been briefed on national security issues just 14 times since he took office. The normal number by now should be around 60 briefings. It shouldn’t even have to be said but when presidents are up to date on world events, bad things can happen. Months before the 9/11 attacks, George W. Bush, our second stupidest president, dismissed a PDB on Bin Laden months by telling his advisor, “All right. You’ve covered your ass.” To counter Trump’s boredom with these critical issues, National Security Advisor Tulsi Gabbard has come up with a unique idea. She wants to produce the PBD to resemble a Fox News segment. Sesame Street would be an even better way to keep the babyman’s attention. Too bad he canceled PBS.
Elon’s Ketamine bladder. The New York Times and other sources have reported that during his time as co-president of the United States, Elon Musk’s Ketamine abuse was so excessive that it damaged his bladder. This has led to speculation that as a result the world’s richest man often peed in his pants. Excessive recreational use of the anesthetic drug causes Ketamine Bladder Syndrome. The number one symptom of KBS is not excessive urination. According to urologists, the symptoms are:
Pain on passing urine
Blood in urine
Incontinence (having accidents)
Needing to go to the toilet more frequently
Feeling a sense of urgency to pass urine (even when it hasn’t been long since you last went)
Needing to get up in the night to pass urine
Pain in the lower abdomen and pelvis area
Pharmacy benefit managers. Writing in Salon.com, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, a physician, suggests that Democrats should dismantle a ‘legal’ drug cartel: corporate pharmacy benefit managers.
These middlemen in the drug supply chain don’t discover new medicines. They don’t manufacture them. They don’t even physically dispense most prescriptions. Yet they rake in tens of billions of dollars each year by driving up costs for everyone else — especially patients battling cancer, HIV, heart disease, and autoimmune conditions.
In their report, FTC investigators documented how the PBM industry — which is dominated by just three firms, CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, and OptumRx, that collectively oversee roughly 80% of all prescriptions dispensed nationwide — imposed eye-popping markups on generic drugs used to treat deadly diseases. The PBMs’ affiliated pharmacies charged hundreds — even thousands — of percent more than they paid to acquire drugs like the cancer treatment Gleevec and multiple sclerosis medication Ampyra.
Underpinning this is a universal misunderstanding about our approach to healthcare. U.S. healthcare delivery is not a “system.” It’s a legalized criminal racket. Private health insurance corporations, like pharmacy benefit managers, provide no service to patients or their providers. They are nothing more than paywalls that suck up working- and middle-class income to benefit billion-dollar corporations’ bottom lines. It’s a sickness at the heart of U.S. healthcare.
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From The Bullwark, Jonathan Last offers an analysis. He believes the “TACO” label — coined by a columnist at the Financial Times — has the potential to actually hurt Donald Trump:
It’s simple. Trump Always Chickens Out. You can put that phrase anywhere, apply it to anything, and everyone knows what it means.
It’s meme-able. You have the slogan. You have the word mark. And you have an universally recognizable image. Hell, there’s even a pre-built emoji for it. ?
It’s universal. You can apply it to any situation. Trump pulls back on tariffs? TACO. Trump gives in to Putin? TACO. Trump increases the national debt? TACO.
It’s organic. No Democratic strategist came up with TACO. It’s an observation that emerged from the finance world—from the very same bros who voted for Trump in the first place. You can feel the disdain of his own supporters dripping off of it.
It hits at something deep inside Trump. It’s about his soul. It’s about his weakness.
“By hitting him with TACO over and over, you (a) reveal his pull-backs as weakness and (b) dare him to go through with the stuff that will screw up the real world — and, in theory, create pain for his movement.”
Pensito Illustration Elon Musk is leaving after DOGE saved the nation hundreds of bucks.
Now it’s back to business to focus on spaceships, Mars and cyber trucks.
All in all, Musk had a pretty good run,
And breaking the government sure was fun!
But he left a parting shot for Trump: “Your big, beautiful bill sucks!”
Pensito Illustration Donald Trump is nothing if not a predictable lout,
And investors are profiting on his tariff turnabouts.
On Wall Street they’ve already made
Something called the “TACO trade,”
‘Cause when it comes to tariffs, “Trump Always Chickens Out.”
Justice deleted. Trump’s white supremacist Department of Justice is dropping negotiations for court-approved settlements in the murders in 2020 by police officers of both Breonna Taylor in St. Louis and George Floyd in Minneapolis. A spokseperson for the department called the consent decrees “unjustified.”
Taylor was shot by officers in her bed, and Floyd was murdered by an officer who suffocated him on a sidewalk with his knee. The two cases led to Black Lives Matter protests nationwide. To underscore the white supremacist message it means to send, the DOJ announced its decision just days before the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, on May 25, 2020.
As suggested in its Project 2025 manifesto, the Trump regime intends to instigate a new wave of protests this summer so that it can impose martial law on the country which could lead to delaying or canceling the midterm elections next year.
Joder y descubrirlo. MAGA rapper and Cuban immigrant Márquez Duany, better known as El Funky, has less than 30 days to leave the U.S. or face deportation and likely imprisonment in Cuba, where his music helped fuel the largest anti-government protests in Cuba in decades. “If I could vote, I would have voted for Trump,” he said recently. “He’s the strongest president when it comes to Cuba.”
Gonna need a bigger Sharpie. The Climate Change Denier-in-Chief has hollowed out the federal government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just in time for the 2025 hurricane season. NOAA’s weather forecasting and hazard-warning branch – critically understaffed ahead of the hurricane season, several scientists told the BBC. Six to 10 hurricanes are predicted for the Atlantic and Caribbean region from June to November this year.
Trump’s deplorable speech on trophy wives. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) weighed in on Trump’s deranged commencement address at West Point on May 24.
“I don’t think that those who have gone through West Point expected to have their commander-in-chief address them and start talking about trophy wives or start talking [about] how he has so many investigations,” Crockett said. “It is time for Republicans to start calling him out and start questioning his mental acuity, and whether or not he is equipped to serve mentally. We know when it comes down to his criminality, he is not qualified to serve, but this is just absolutely deplorable.”
Pensito Illustration That Trump meme coin surely is an amazing wonder!
It’s lightning in a bottle — all light, no thunder.
There’s absolutely nothing stealth
About how Trump’s enriching himself,
He’s just enthusiastically embracing the Politics of Plunder.
Pensito Illustration It’s been six months and still the Dems don’t understand
What happened in the election and how the disaster began.
Their ideas so far have been anemic,
But now they’re going psychologic
With SAM — short for “Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan.”
When Joe Biden tripped, Donald Trump made a big to-do.
When Trump slipped, tripped and gripped, it went viral, too!
But hey, you’re the president,
And it pays to have a sycophant
Like Li’l Marco, who will badly fake a trip to cover for you.
“I noted over the weekend several reasons why Donald Trump himself, his presidency, and his administration overall are nowhere near prepared for the Iran/Israel situation. … But the more that it becomes an Iran/US situation, the more it’s important to add one more important point: Trump is absolutely, utterly unprepared to rally the nation around a war effort. And nothing we’ve seen in the last ten years even hints that he’s capable of it.”
“Conventional political analyses do not come close to describing the way our world has been turned on its head. Yes, the GOP lost its spine and its balls; Democrats flailed; the electorate realigned. The enter>tainment wing of the GOP routed the establishment. Much of the rest of the media has been enshittified. … But that really doesn’t capture the velocity or the scope of the transformation. It’s not just our politics. America has become dumber, crueler, crazier, and more violent. To much of the rest of the world, we have become unrecognizable.”
“As is so often the case, Donald Trump’s opponents are playing into his hands. This is exactly the kind of fight that Donald Trump loves, with his opponents carrying Mexican flags past burning cars.”
“Don’t kid yourself they know they are absolutely getting cooked politically with their terrible bill and rising prices, and they want to create a violent spectacle to feed their content machine. It’s time for the mainstream media to describe this authoritarian madness accurately.”
— Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), reacting on X to President Trump sending National Guard troops to Los Angeles.
“The people have spoken. A new political party is needed in America to represent the 80% in the middle! And exactly 80% of people agree. This is fate.”
— Elon Musk floated a new political party on Friday after falling out with President Trump over the big, beautiful bill, The Hill reports. He followed up with a potential name for the group, “The America Party.”
America’s millionaire population grew by 379,000 for a total of 23.8 million, the most of any country, according to a new study by UBS, CNBC reports. Much of that wealth growth came from strong markets and a stable dollar, which both have been disrupted so far in 2025 by a trade war and recession fears.
A new Economist/YouGov poll finds 60% of Americans think the U.S. military should not get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran. Only 16% support U.S. military action, and 24% are unsure.
A new Washington Post poll finds Americans opposing U.S. airstrikes against Iran by a 20 percentage-point margin — 45 percent to 25 percent — with a sizable 30 percent saying they are unsure.
Americans broadly disapprove of the job Donald Trump is doing as president and favor Democratic U.S. House candidates for the 2026 midterms by 8 points, 45% to 37%, a new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll finds. The president is underwater on 10 out of 11 issues.
An Economist/YouGov poll found that only 16% of U.S. adults and less than a quarter of Republicans think the U.S. should get involved in the conflict between Iran and Israel. Trump voters are even less enthusiastic than Republicans as a whole. Only 19% of 2024 Trump voters support U.S. involvement.