Tuesday, April 29, 2025

 

The Scarlet Delight, 47th Day of Spring, 525 M.E. (Helios): Today, as every news show, pundit, and talk-show host will tell you, is the 100th day of Trump's second presidency. Lest we forget that he once posted a picture of himself to social media wearing a crown on his head and the words "Long live the king," we here at WDW still bow to no king. Let's go over Agent Orange's "accomplishment" of the past 100 days:  

He spent roughly a third of that time in office playing golf on one or another of his tacky private courses. By visiting his own for-profit businesses, Trump directs government spending to follow him there and profits off the trips. 

He replaced a four-star general as Secretary of Defense with an inexperienced, alcoholic, black-out drunk Fox & Friends weekend host who's repeatedly used unsecure communication apps to discuss battle plans and military secrets. He fired the African-American four-star general who was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, calling him a DEI hire, and replaced him with a white, largely unknown, retired three-star general. The first female commander of the U.S. Navy was fired as well for the same spurious reason.

He claimed that Ukraine had somehow started the war with the invading Russian army and falsely called Zelensky an unelected “dictator” who took money from the U.S. to go to war with Russia. He demanded half of Ukraine's mineral wealth in exchange for providing military support. He spread a lie that U.S.AID had shipped $100M of condoms to Hamas and suggested the U.S. should take over the Gaza strip and "own it," displacing all of the native Palestinians to create some sort of Middle East Malibu. He hinted at taking over Greenland and Panama using military force and suggested Canada should become the 51st state, causing Canada to elect a Liberal Party prime minister who had been expected to lose but campaigned on a platform of opposing Trump.  

He imposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China and then lifted the tariffs on our North American neighbors after they repeated pledges that they had already made, then re-imposed stiff tariffs on every nation of earth, including uninhabited Antarctic islands, and then lifted those but not entirely while also  doubling and tripling tariffs on China and then giving car makers a loophole, and at this point no one can follow anything with regard to tariffs but everyone knows we'll be paying more for everything.

He's let his top campaign donor run wild on cutting personnel across government agencies, often with little to no idea what the furloughed workers actually do. For example, after firing the workers in charge of U.S. nuclear-weapon safety, he realized that those workers were actually kind of important but didn't know how to call them back. The very same thing happened after he fired Agriculture workers who were combatting the avian flu. 

He renamed Denali and the Gulf of Mexico and then threw a hissy fit when the AP didn't adopt his new names. 

He blamed the L.A. wildfire crisis on some imaginary "giant faucet" in northern California and then ordered 2.2 billion gallons of water dumped from the state's reservoirs onto Central Valley farmland that didn't need it and where it won't benefit firefighters at all (but will cause problems this summer when droughts begin). 

He accidentally had an immigrant legally here in the U.S. kidnapped and transported to a third-world black-ops hellhole, defied Supreme Court orders that he should make efforts to bring him back and has said there's nothing that can be doen about it and he intends to leave the victim of his administrative error there to suffer.  

He's named a vaccine denier to head HHS, a Russian asset now directs National Intelligence, and a conspiracy theorist is the new FBI chief. 

He pardoned or commuted the sentences of all of the convicted January 6 rioters, including the most violent felons who pled guilty to attacking and, in some cases, killing police officers. 

He withdrew the U.S. from both the Paris climate-change treaty and the World Health Organization.

He's trying to end the constitutional birthright citizenship of those born on American soil. 

After a tragic air accident, he blamed the incident on "DEI," even as he admitted he had no evidence but just "common sense." 

Finally, there's his "greatest hit," the continued Big Lie that the free and fair 2020 election was somehow "rigged" against him, despite the absence of a shred of evidence and multiple lost court cases.

This is unsustainable and can't go on for another four years. We need regime change and we need it now.

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