As I have mentioned here before, I am the legal co-guardian for my oldest brother, along with my older brother. He is kind of an outlier as far as my immediate family, always kind of a deeply paranoid, odd, and very right-leaning guy, prone to fantastical stories that would always make my older brother and me raise our eyebrows.
So, he is in the throes of Parkinson’s and dementia, so he is not in great mental condition, and still occasionally makes outlandish accusations about the fellow residents of the assisted living home he is currently in. The inside joke I have with myself and my brother is “Is this dementia or just our brother?” because it’s kind of hard to tell.
We are all now playing this game with the president of the United States. There are multiple versions of the game, such as whether it is dementia or just Trump when he posted 55 times in just two hours late one night this week? That’s the “is he being fried by dementia or just being typical Trump” game version. The one I want to point out is the “Is it dementia or just plain Trump lying?”
Now, that game can be a bit interesting, but apparently, a big strike against “Is it dementia?” is the very real fact that so many of his cabinet members repeat the bullshit. Let’s take a look at some of them:
Solar power is only good during the day: You might have heard Trump blabber on about the idea that solar power only works during the daylight, and wind power only works when the wind is blowing. You might have heard of a thing called a battery. Apparently, to Trump’s Secretary of the Interior, this is woke bullshit.
BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of — it's a battery
I guess in this case, the question is whether Burgum is so stupid he isn’t aware of how batteries work or so dishonest he just repeats the shit his boss says.
Gas prices are going down: This one is amazing because, as I wrote on here recently, the proof that they are going up is placed on big signs all over the place that have glowing numbers at night, obvious proof of some sort of Soros-funded conspiracy to make Trump look bad. Trump still insists they are going down:
Trump straight up lies to this reporter and tells them that gas prices are coming down. The only people that can afford to make it in this economy is the Epstein Class. America have you had enough of #TrumpsGasFailure let’s vote out every MAGA republican enabler in November.
— Brian Cardone (@cardonebrian.bsky.social) 2026-05-08T20:08:03.613Z
So, at first the GOP went along with this idea, but now it’s kind of hard to deny, so they are either saying we all need to deal with some pain or this is just a very temporary thing, which most economists say just is not true, even if the Strait of Hormuz opens tomorrow. That didn’t stop Crazy Happy Man Kevin Hassett from assuring us that things are going to be great very soon.
Hassett: "Inflation is going down at the microeconomic level by a million things we've done, like fix the avian flu so egg prices are down and make drug prices more affordable with TrumpRX. But at the macroeconomic level the driving force right now is the temporary increase in the price of gas."
Seriously, Hassett always seems like he is either on something or one of those evil people who always look happy, or maybe both.
The War That Is Not a War and By the Way It’s Totally Over: This one has so many conflicting messages; the idea of message discipline is not just dead in this case, the Trump people keep running it over repeatedly. For example, Angry Drunk Pete Hegseth and Failed President Donald Trump keep insisting over and over again that we most certainly destroyed all of Iran’s nuclear capability, just like we did (checks notes) LAST SUMMER, and gosh, that might not be so.
Pete Hegseth squirmed over a damning intel leak showing Trump’s war on Iran has barely slowed the regime’s race to a nuclear bomb.
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast.bsky.social) 2026-05-05T17:05:01.222Z
Well, at least we will open the Strait soon, given that everyone in the administration is assuring us that the U.S. has wiped out all of Iran’s war capabilities so it’s over for them, and…well, okay, maybe not.
U.S. Intelligence Shows Iran Retains Substantial Missile Capabilities http://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u…. Utter incompetence. Trump and Hegeseth lie and lie and lie.
— Diane Fourny (@dfourny.bsky.social) 2026-05-12T21:49:23.317Z
I don’t want to go on too long. I haven’t covered Sean Duffy’s Excellent Adventure, how we taxpayers definitely are not paying for Trump’s ballroom, how Stinkin’ Drunk Kash Patel says he isn’t a stinkin’ drunk and if you say so he’ll sue, or any of the various and sundry lies like Obama let Iran have a nuke, wind power doesn’t lower energy costs, anything Howard Lutnick says about Jeffrey Epstein, etc. etc. etc.
All of these are provably not true. The only question is, are these people crazy and stupid enough to believe what they are saying, or are they just plain dishonest? Or both? In any event, none of these people should be anywhere near any sort of meaningful work once they are mercifully kicked out of public service.
The last word goes to Henry Rollins.