Idiocracy is a 2006 film directed by Mike Judge who co-wrote the script with Etan Cohen. Judge is one of our savviest satirists and he nailed it in this movie about rabid consumerism and anti-intellectualism. I haven’t seen Idiocracy in years, but it captured the worst excesses of the Bush-Cheney administration. It’s even more applicable in 2026.
The idiocracy indulged in by Team W was child’s play compared to Team MAGA. The Bushies at least had some impulse control, which is notably absent from Trump 2.0, which is all Id, all the time. The Kaiser of Chaos is incapable of impulse control and is forever firing off tweets in the wee hours of the morning, many of which make no sense whatsoever. Unfortunately, both friend and foe feel the need to react immediately to this idiocy. Trump says dozens of stupid things every day and shit talking is the essence of MAGA. I prefer to let the dust settle to see if there’s any action behind the words of the Don of Distraction.
Repeat after me: Watch what they do, not what they say.
Back in the glory days of the NOLA blogosphere, my friend Liprap called Mayor C Ray Nagin, The Walking Id. Since the Insult Comedian has trouble walking, we need a variation on the Id theme: Sitting Id? Talking Id? Idiotic Id? Whining Id? Tweeting Id? At least one member of his regime thinks he’s a character in the Wizard of Id.
That’s why I call him the Wizard of Odd. This idiot now leads the FBI. Kash Patel is more interested in perks than perps, a bad quality for the country’s top cop. Like many others on Team MAGA, he’s more of a content creator than a leader. The country needs leaders, not influencers.
The MAGA DOJ is awash in incompetence, bad lawyering, and bad faith. As with her subordinate at the FBI, Pam Bondi is more of a social media influencer than Attorney General. That’s why I call her DOJ’s Chief Content Creator or is that Creatrix?
The self-styled secretary of war, Pete Hegseth, is all Id. His sycophancy knows no bounds. It’s led the Pentagon to claim that it can practice thought control on retired service members such as Senator Mark Kelly. The former astronaut ain’t playing that: He knows that Hegseth is a denizen of Bizarro World.
Surprised that I used a comic book image? Me too but it works even if there’s a dude in tights involved.
Bizarro World is a place where everything is upside down and the sensible has been rendered insensate. Larry David used it on Seinfeld, and the Duffer Brothers have created their own weird world, the Upside Down. Sometimes I feel as if life is imitating Stranger Things. I wonder if Kash plays Dungeons & Dragons with other Trump cabinet types whilst wearing his pointed hat. It would not surprise me at all.
The craziest places in MAGA Bizarro World are two departments with similar acronyms: DHS and HHS. The former is led by Cosplay Kristi and her boy toy and past malaka of the week, Corey Lewandowski. Noem’s DHS is so extreme that Tom Homan looks moderate in comparison. Homan is a sticky fingered cretin, not a moderate.
HHS is led by the crackpot son of a famous man. Bobby Junior is all Id and convinced that he’s right even when he’s clearly wrong as measles victims can attest. He still has presidential ambitions after being exposed as a fraud and mountebank. Alas, the voters pulled this trick in 2024 and are fully capable of repeating it if Prince MAHA is on the ballot. Will he become the first Kennedy to run for office as a Republican? Beats the hell outta me. I’m glad his mother isn’t alive to see the havoc wreaked by her son.
I could go on and on about how Team MAGA is putting the Id in Idiocracy, but who wants to read a 5000 word post? I don’t want to write one either. That’s why I stuck to the cabinet and skipped Stephen Miller. Suffice it to say that idiots are running the show. In a word: Idiocracy.
In the days after Hurricane Katrina and the Federal Flood I had two nicknames for New Orleans: Debrisville and Topsy Turvy Town. We all live in Topsy Turvy Town today. I get dizzy just thinking about it.
The last word goes to The Overtones: