Well, about the best we can claim is that we survived ’25. Most of us, anyway. That was a hell of a ride. A nightmare, to be sure. If you’re like me, you spent much of last year walking around in a kind of shock at what has happened in the US. Donny reclassified cannabis from a Schedule I drug, which it never was, to a Schedule III drug. Other than that, everything he has done has been harmful and intended to inflict damage.

He has stopped paying America’s normal bills – he just cut off child care funding – but has still managed to “spend” (steal) more money than any other administration in history. So, in eleven short months he has destroyed the US, crashed the economy, turned us into a world-wide laughing stock, stolen everything that isn’t nailed down – and a few things that are. The nation is wreckage. So instead, we turn to our personal lives.

People are losing jobs. Prices are high and going up. Millions lose health coverage – today – not because they don’t want it. They simply can’t afford it. Are you better off than you were under Biden? Hell, no, you’re not. Looking at our personal lives just puts in mind that we’re worse off, there, too. FAR worse off. But this is supposed to be a Happy New Year message!

It’s a tough message to deliver because I don’t think 2026 will be any happier than 2025 was. In fact, I expect worse. There are some possible bright sides. Our national embarrassment is in terrible shape. He might die at any moment. Short of that, this clown-show continues. Life will get easier and easier for the billionaires and harder and harder for everyone else.

No, wait, I almost forgot. The mid-terms are in November. If the left can take back Congress, or any part of it, we can stop him in his tracks. I have noticed that, these days, when there’s an election, it’s been an almost perfect clean sweep by Democrats. I think Republicans, by and large, are sitting out elections, intentionally handing control back to Dems. It’s not that they want the Dems, but they can’t take much more of Donny, either.

So there’s that. There IS possibility. There is hope. 2026 could be the year we turn things around. 2026 could be the year we get rid of this Cockwomble, once and for all. (A Cockwomble is a spectacularly stupid person.) In that spirit, I wish you a very… Hopeful New Year. So let’s get going…

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Man, this rift between Donny and Marjorie Taylor Greene seems to be complete. She says she was naive to believe in him. (She was.) He says she’s a traitor. (She’s just being honest now.) It’s been a back and forth that she traces to the Trump/Epstein files. She believed he would release them. She believed in him and felt like there was no reason not to release them. But then, he didn’t. He wouldn’t. He simply refused.

Finally, the House forced him to release the documents through a discharge petition signed by 218 members, one of whom was MTG. The White House ran a full court press on MTG and other GOP women who had signed the petition. Marjorie is now out telling everyone that when they pressed her, Donny shouted at her that his friends would be hurt. That’s something of an admission, isn’t it?

He KNOWS he has friends who would be hurt if the Trump/Epstein Files are released? How many known pedos does he call friend? Do you know how many friends I have that I know for a fact are pedophiles? None. Not one. Do you know who knowingly hangs around pedophiles? Other pedophiles. Have you ever heard of NAMBLA? It’s the ‘North American Man Boy Love Association.’ Pedophiles hanging with pedophiles. But Donny is yelling at MTG that his friends would be hurt by releasing the files. Pedophiles hang with pedophiles.

I think MTG honestly believed Donny’s name wasn’t in the files. She really didn’t understand his reticence to release them. When he was finally forced to release the files, the world was treated to black page after black page, releasing the paper, but not any real information. Fortunately, the black pages were redacted badly and clever sleuths figured out how to remove the redactions where we’ve discovered Donny’s name has been redacted countless times to protect him. Not his rich friends, him.

For the record, this, I think, is how people will recover from MAGA. It was often a single issue that drew normal people into the MAGA-sphere. After they were drawn in, they learned to accept and excuse one outrage after another, slowly chipping away at their own morality. A single issue can also be the catalyst to breaking the bonds of MAGA like it did with MTG.

Once she realized that he wasn’t releasing the Trump/Epstein Files because he was likely in them and protecting himself, the scales fell from her eyes and she sees him more clearly than she ever did before. Once the illusion of the greatness of the Precious is penetrated, the failure that is Donny becomes more and more clear. Be patient with your MAGA. It will work the same for them, too.

Conservative icon Bill Kristol is openly questioning Team Evil, as well. He wrote, “At first I just thought, what clowns. But after a moment’s thought I am more incredulous and suspicious. A million documents? When they’ve been on high alert for months? And DOJ and FBI do have filing systems. (That’s why they’re the Epstein FILES.) Something’s rotten in DOJ.”

Kristol has also now repeated some information those of us outside the MAGA media bubble have had for a long, long time. “In a court memo filed on July 8, 2019, two days after his arrest, DOJ outlined some of the evidence they had seized. This included stacks of compact disks labeled “Young [Name] + [Name].” In short, Epstein kept a carefully curated library of videos.”

One could simply make a list of the names on those discs. Leave out the ‘Young [Name]’ part and present the people of interest in the ‘[Name]’ part. Those are the men in whom we’re interested in the first place. I don’t care about who flew on the plane or when. I care about who raped whom. Give us those names, and, yes, even if they’re Democrats…

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In LA, they saw more rain on Christmas Day than they’ve seen in years. Meanwhile, on the same Christmas Day, it was a balmy 68 degrees Fahrenheit – in Iceland.

I’m sure glad I have Donny and other MAGA mouthpieces to tell me climate change is a hoax because, at this point, I have concerns…

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As you know, Felon 47 recently tried to add his name – illegally, I might add – to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He DID slap the letters on the wall. This was an illegal homage to his own insatiable ego that no decent person wants to see. So, of course MAGA is all in. The Kennedy family objected to the change and pointed out that it’s illegal. Only Congress can change the name of a national memorial and Congress doesn’t do anything these days. They certainly have not done that.

So, MAGA being MAGA, they started protesting people declaring the name change illegal, specifically, the Kennedy family because, of course they did. If a person can take a wrong position on a subject, any subject, MAGA will be there, passionately, gloriously, and publicly wrong and wrong-headed.

Then, the Kennedy family suffered yet another tragedy, JFK’s granddaughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, died of acute myeloid leukemia, aged 35 years. The Drumpfster is mad at the Kennedy family for not letting him associate his failed, gross, Jabba the Hutt self with one of the best Presidents in American history. So he did what he does. He attacked.

Now, in fairness to His Blobster, he apparently didn’t actually write anything himself. Instead, he spent an evening re-posting tweets and memes from other people who were mocking the Kennedys for not wanting Donny’s dark, evil, and horrifying name associated with JFK’s name. The family is mourning a tragic loss and Donny mocks and teases them. That’s one classy guy, isn’t it? Dear MAGA, remember this because what goes around, comes around.

I wake up every day hoping for the headline, ‘Trump dead at 79.’ Every day. The first thing every day? He keeps disappointing me on that – then he goes and does even more disappointing stuff. I understand he’s an abomination of a human being. I’m not sure why I ever expect any level of decency from that guy. My bad, I guess. He has never shown even a spark of human goodness and I remember Maya Angelou: when someone shows you who they are, believe them…

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According to Frank Luntz, the Federal workforce is nine percent smaller now than at the beginning of 2025. Meanwhile, Federal spending is up six percent over the same period.

Donny’s not spending one dime more than he absolutely has to on America or the American people. So, where the hell is all of that money going? Asking for a friend…