# The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [November 11, 2024, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068 "2024-11-11T06:19:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 91
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1801 "2025-02-10T09:33:56Z")
Call me cruel, but I have zero pity, zero patience for Trump voters who are getting what the rest of us are getting good and hard. They had access to the same information as the rest of us, the same nine years experience watching and listening to the world’s greatest conman and doubled down on him anyway. If the guardrails hold, if by some miracle the government doesn’t get dismantled – particularly USAID and medical research – would I withhold it from them? Hell no, they’ll deserve it like the rest of us. But I have no fucks to give if the guardrails fail. And no, evangelicals are no more a bloc than anyone else, there are a couple evangelical preachers on YouTube who are calling Trump the anti-Christ. However [PRRI](https://www.prri.org/research/analyzing-the-2024-presidential-vote-prris-post-election-survey/) reports 85% of white evangelical voters voted for Trump. I feel safe in applying Runyon’s law. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1802 "2025-02-10T09:45:52Z")
> [@yendis](#): > > So this idiot is suggesting that traditional Christians are those on the Orthodox side of the Great Schism. A lot of the Christian Nationalists are Orthodox. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1803 "2025-02-10T09:51:16Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > Or you think evangelicals vote as some monolithic block and are all MAGAts. They aren’t. They aren’t a majority by a long shot but the ones who care about the disadvantaged in other countries are the least likely to subscribe to the selfish ideology of DJT. Actually, evangelicals are notorious for using their “charitable” efforts to spread bigotry worldwide. One of their triumphs being convincing Uganda to apply the death penalty for homosexuality. I’m getting “[Hitler turning on the Brownshirts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung#Night_of_the_Long_Knives)” feelings from this rather than sympathy. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1804 "2025-02-10T10:23:05Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > “to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.” And those would be? [An extinction-level asteroid strike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater)? BTW, if you Google “Chicxulub” the result is amusing. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1805 "2025-02-10T14:19:51Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > How soon before he gets the “brilliant idea” of renaming the language to \*American" and declaring it, via executive order, the sole official language of the **United States of Merka** (yeah, he’ll change the spelling too)? Would the bolded part make denizens of the US Merkins\*? \* You can look it up yourselves. Not quite SFW. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1806 "2025-02-10T14:28:22Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > How soon before he gets the “brilliant idea” of renaming the language to \*American" and declaring it, via executive order, the sole official language of the **United States of Merka** (yeah, he’ll change the spelling too)? > > Would the bolded part make denizens of the US Merkins\*? > > \* You can look it up yourselves. Not quite SFW. - Does that mean we’ll have another Bush as President? What about the First Lady’s garden? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1807 "2025-02-10T15:25:42Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > > [@from EddyTeddyFreddy's link](#): > > > > The proclamation declares “February 9, 2025, as Gulf of America Day,” adding, “I call upon public officials and all the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.” > > “to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.” And those would be? Appropriate activities would include peals of scornful laughter. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1808 "2025-02-10T15:29:54Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > In Raw Story: > > > We affirm the goal of eliminating wasteful spending throughout government but caution against hastily pursued measures that will prove costly,” Carey said, as Business Insider reports. “The abrupt closure of many effective aid programs will mean that some of the money already spent will have been wasted. Commodities will be lost and food will rot, medicines expire. Other supplies may be stolen or misappropriated because the staff and the partners are not allowed to receive them.” > > “We didn’t think he’d let that billionaire eat _our_ face!” > > [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6\_siU-WYAEPTFC.jpg](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6_siU-WYAEPTFC.jpg) What an adorable tardigrade! What does it signify, in the context of your post? ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1809 "2025-02-10T15:46:44Z")
You may notice an incredibly small violin in the picture ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1810 "2025-02-10T16:06:24Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > “to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.” And those would be? Obviously, to send him money. What else? That’s the way everything should be observed. /s ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1811 "2025-02-10T16:08:18Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > “to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.” And those would be? Well, I am a cartographer, so I know what activity I’ll be doing… ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1812 "2025-02-10T16:16:17Z")
We can all dress in orange ghillie suits and play ring around the rosie. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1813 "2025-02-10T16:16:49Z")
I weep for the toponymists. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1814 "2025-02-10T16:31:10Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > “to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.” And those would be? I can’t help but think that someone on Trump’s staff went to John Adams’ description of Independence Day (that he wrote in a letter to Abigail): > [@](#): > > It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. I sure as heck can’t see Trump being familiar with that from his own reading or experience. The wording in the current suggestion is 21st Century Modern shorn of 18th century sensibilities, practices, and spellings. Maybe he’s envisioning things like blindfolded “pin the new label on the map” ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1815 "2025-02-10T16:58:33Z")
There’s always the Otis B. Driftwood option: > Let joy be unconfined. Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1816 "2025-02-10T17:24:33Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I can’t help but think that someone on Trump’s staff went to John Adams’ description of Independence Day He and TJ figured the day would be celebrated July 2nd, the day it was voted upon, not the 4th, the day it was announced. Most of that stuff debated upon in _1776_ was between the 2nd and the 4th, not in June as depicted. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1817 "2025-02-10T17:26:31Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > > [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > > > Or you think evangelicals vote as some monolithic block and are all MAGAts. They aren’t. They aren’t a majority by a long shot but the ones who care about the disadvantaged in other countries are the least likely to subscribe to the selfish ideology of DJT. > > Actually, evangelicals are notorious for using their “charitable” efforts to spread bigotry worldwide. One of their triumphs being convincing Uganda to apply the death penalty for homosexuality. > > :snip: You are correct there have been some evangelicals who have spread bigotry but not 100% of them. [This is one notable example of what a good evangelical looks like.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter) There are others but as I said they are not the majority. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1818 "2025-02-10T18:07:03Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > You are correct there have been some evangelicals who have spread bigotry but not 100% of them. [This is one notable example of what a good evangelical looks like.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter) There are others but as I said they are not the majority. Well then their PR teams are really falling down on the job. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1819 "2025-02-10T18:16:34Z")
What the actual fuck? > **[Trump to pause enforcement of law banning bribery of foreign officials](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/trump-doj-foreign-corrupt-practices-act-pause.html)** ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1820 "2025-02-10T18:18:38Z")
And most Americans aren’t supportive of Trump. We’re all still responsible for the election, though. That’s the price of being part of the country. Might not be our fault individually but it sure as hell is our responsibility. We can’t just absolve ourselves of that responsibility by saying we didn’t vote that way. Ditto evangelicals. Doesn’t matter if it’s not all of them. They’re all still responsible for what the solid majority of them profess and practice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=90) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=92)