Potent Quotables:

“For every complex problem, there is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong.”

— H.L. mencken
Beyond ironic that you would chose to trample our national symbols (our flag, the US Capitol, the Constitution, etc.) in the name of patriotism. The Confederate battle flag would be far more appropriate and intellectually honest. For Trump-Musk, Inc., this is a zero-sum, black-and-white world. But to me, it’s clear who the real “black hats” are (photo from Chicago in Feb 2025).

I’m in despair for, among other things, running low on negative superlatives to describe these MAGASSHOLES. It’s 95% lies and fantasies and hypocrisy and adolescent trolling. It will end badly. And worst for the red-state working class who voted for him. Suckers all. But Emperor Heel-Spur has no clothes. He fancies himself William McKinley but he’s so much closer to PT Barnum, only less honest. A carny huckster. A charlatan. A fraud. As your grandma might say, a giant fuck-wad. What we used to call in grade school a dickweed. Ultimately just a cowardly bully who will get his in the end.

And what he’s been setting up some are calling a monarchy. Nah. A broligarchy? That’s certainly part of it with Musk and Bezos (just cancelled my WaPo subscription, BTW. Where are the Ben Bradlee and Katharine Graham of yesteryear?), though he’ll toss his goofy hatchet-man aside before too long. Kakistocracy? Mos Def. But I was trying to think of other terms we might use to pass the time before the inevitable iceberg hits and sends the USS Trump to the cold and foggy bottom. Here are a few:

Doucheocracy

Trolligarchy

Clown Car-Kleptocracy (CCK)

Frauditarianism

Brutocracy

The Turd Reich

Flailistocracy

The Legion of Tools

Shitshowistan

Confederacy of Dumbasses

Cacastocracy

(Crony) Crapitalism

I’ll try to think of a few more. Let me know if you come up with any. Taking callers now…

The Orange-faced Howler Monkey throws his verbal poop in the hallowed halls of Congress flanked by the two most punchable faces in government during their insufferable smarm offensive. Makes me embarrassed to call myself an American. We would do better with three asylum patients from St. Elizabeth’s old neurosyphilis ward.

Published by Stephen Futterer

Much of my career in radiology has been spent studying, with great fascination, the internal mechanisms of the human body. This blog is an effort to expand that view to the outside world and also to map my own experiences engaging with it.

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