Every once in a while I pull my attention from the escapist entertainment that helps keeps me sane to peruse the daily headlines. On Monday we got a big reality TV callback when the current Secretary of Transportation and Acting Head of NASA—because no one can make up the idiocy and slafsafsadfdsaf that comprises the President BFF With A Pedophile presidency—said that he’s going to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon.
In other news, Sean Duffy has announced that America is building the world’s longest extension cord to bring nuclear moon energy back to America.#AnotherDistraction
— Sahara Stevens ❤️🇺🇸 (@sahara-stevens.bsky.social) 2025-08-05T15:15:10.286Z
I went and looked up Duffy. He has a bachelor’s degree in marketing and a law degree from a law school I have never heard of. And then he went to work for his daddy’s law firm. Mmmhmm. And it appears he literally did nothing during his time in Congress.
Was it because of this?
And of course I know that all of this is meant to distract everyone from what increasingly seems to be some really bad stuff about President Pedo’s BFF in the Epstein files. But what the actual fuck? How on Earth does this dumbass have anything to do with NASA? I mean, at this point the President BFF With A Pedo administration is more outlandish than the latest plot twist on The Gilded Age. (Isn’t Larry supposed to be an architect? And given how utterly clueless he was about Jack’s alarm clock, how is he suddenly an expert metallurgist? See what I mean?)
And then the reality show in the White House took a turn when President BFFWAP turned up on the roof.
— Helen Kennedy (@helenkennedy.bsky.social) 2025-08-05T14:55:12.477Z
And when asked why he was on the roof, he gave 2 nonsensical replies: something about the ballroom and something about nuclear weapons. Neither are comforting responses.
But at least it gave the wags something fun to do today:
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— smol bolz (@petrovia.bsky.social) 2025-08-05T16:54:25.047Z
Which brings me to:
It was an amusing, if annoying, diversion, but yeah, we need to see the Epstein files.
Here’s the cure for the ear worm in the title:
“The dotard is on the roof and doesn’t want to come down.”
🤨 A little off topic, but this comes from my mental file titled “Does America have the Prez it totally deserves?!” (Hiroshima Rememberance Day edition):
Many years ago, I visited Trinity Site at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Twice a year, it is opened for visitors who must follow a military convoy into a small, restricted area. While there, you can walk around ground zero and visit the tiny farmhouse where bomb materials were assembled.
My first time there, I was impressed by the hush. Many people, but very little noise as everyone contemplated the overwhelming nature of the place.
My second (and final!) trip was about 10 years later. I found myself crying tears of anger at what I witnessed. FOOD BOOTHS!! MUSHROOM CLOUD MERCH!! NOISE!!
A BBC reporter was there with a film crew and she approached me with questions. I let fly! I explained my first trip and the respect people felt and “now it’s just another fucking playground where idiots are amusing themselves to death!! Can you imagine wearing a mushroom cloud as a snarky message of how chill you are?!” While I was expressing my disgust, I finally noticed the reporter turning beet red and buttoning her blazer to cover her mushroom cloud t-shirt that she had purchased to join the Americans’ fun. As I stormed off, I said “at least you know enough to be embarrassed!”
My God, no wonder this country is doomed. We have been sowing our seeds of destruction for decades no matter how serious the place or the history!! 🥺🤬
I can’t believe you left out Duffy’s most relevant background to run NASA: he was a world class lumberjacker (he won the guy who can climb a tree the fastest competition). I expect more from First Draft guys.