I was at the VA the other day. The thing I was most struck by on that particular visit was how openly they’re discussing concerns about ongoing funding for medical care for veterans. I hope their concerns are unfounded. I suspect their concerns are well founded.

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I hear Melania is not going to be living at the White House. I guess, again. She didn’t spend much time there during the first Trump maladministration. I ALSO hear (it’s pure rumor, though) that she has a lover who works in the building right next door to Trump Tower. It makes more sense that she would stay with her boyfriend, whom she likes, instead of her husband, whom she does NOT like. She DOES like the money, though. She kind of has the best of both worlds. Why the hell would she move to DC?

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There’s an old phrase, ‘Bend over a dollar to pick up a penny.’ It refers to overlooking serious savings in favor of some nickel-and-dime savings. Do you want to talk about fraud, waste, and abuse in government spending? Do you want to look at government corruption? Don’t look at social services programs. IF you find anything at all, it will amount to a few hundred dollars someone scammed. Look to the Pentagon. Those guys are defrauding, wasting, and abusing government spending in the millions and millions of dollars.

Yes, I know I started this column with a comment about the VA being concerned about their funding. And isn’t that exactly the way? It’s not health care for vets that’s wasting the money. It’s operations of the Pentagon. Active conflicts, sure, but “black programs” nobody – not even Congress – can look at? Are you aware that the Pentagon has never once passed an audit? Not ONCE. That’s not responsible and quality spending. That’s just downright wasteful.

Think of it as being in a small boat. There’s a tiny leak in the bow, and a two inch hole in the stern. Sure, you can spend all your time focused on the seepage in the front, but if you do, you’re going down. Your focus is in the wrong place. That’s how I feel every time I hear about some “welfare queen” who stole even a few thousand dollars. No, it isn’t right and I’m not defending that. I’m just saying that focusing on THAT and not paying any attention to what goes on at the Pentagon is working the seepage and not the two inch hole.

There are too many examples we all know about to highlight here. But I’d bet a dollar nobody will look at or even mention the Pentagon. No one dares…

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I can’t decide if it’s sad or funny, watching the left float various ideas for how to contain Trump and his incoming maladministration. Maybe the ACLU will do something. States have a plan. Maybe (the Republican controlled) Congress won’t confirm so-and-so.

Sorry folks. I don’t mean to be dark but you’d better plan ONLY for how you survive this. Don’t look for someone else to step up and do the right thing. The left has NO power. The right has no shame. They’ll do what Trump tells them to do. Even if they grumble about it, they’ll do it.

Did you see where RFK, jr came out publicly and criticized Trump’s diet? Truthfully, I thought Trump would pull his nomination over the criticism. Instead, we were treated to a photo of RFK, jr munching down on McDonald’s with Trump. RFK, jr said Trump had a terrible diet (this from the guy who brags about eating road kill), and so Trump made RFK, jr eat that same food… and be photographed doing it…

Funny, it didn’t look like McDonald’s so much as crow…

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Well, it looks like Trump really IS going to let Elon Musk lead a task force to make government more efficient – I guess because he did that for X? Since Musk bought X – back when it had a more memorable name – the value of that site has dropped 80%. Did you know that? 80%!

Musk gets a LOT of credit for a LOT of things he never really did. Musk didn’t invent the Tesla. He just took the company over – and pushed out the guys who DID invent the Tesla. (Musk later got a “co-founder” status in court.) Do you believe it was Musk, himself, sitting at a drafting table, working out the engineering details of catching a rocket returning to Earth? No, that was his team. But we HAVE seen Musk at work with X.

Musk took a fully functioning website that was very, very popular (though not very profitable) and managed to KEEP it not profitable while also making is as UNpopular as it had once been popular – all while crashing the value of the company. Yeah, I’m feeling very good about this. After all, what could go wrong?