# The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [December 1, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298 "2025-12-01T20:32:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 496
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2026, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9901 "2026-10-26T22:27:13Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > You just HAD to give them the idea, didn’t you? I’ve been advising Donald J. Trump for the better part of a decade now. Sorry, folks. I really don’t know what the fuck I’m doing. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2026, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9902 "2026-10-26T22:39:58Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > In response to Donald’s so-succinct takedown of Maher, someone posted: > > > [@](#): > > > > Thirty years ago I was on a high-volume high-aggro mailing list, and when someone lost it like this the tradition was for someone to take the text of the message, alphabetize it, paste it into a reply, and **say “these words didn’t appear to be in any particular order so I alphabetized them for you”** > > Love that. I had ChatGPT take out all the repeats, format into sentences and paragraphs, and add random punctuation: > A about Abraham, afraid after again against ago agreed alcohol all. Allowed almost, alone along also always am America among; an and another, any anybody. Anymore applause Apprentice approval, are; area aren’t as, ask asked asking associate associated at. Attacked attention automatically away; back bad badly; base be beaten; beautiful became because. > > Before being believe; believes biased Bill— Bill’s bit! Briefing brought bruised— building built business but California? Call called; calls came, can candidates can’t. Career careers cares cater; century; checking— Chuck CNN CNN’s! Come comfortable complete composed constantly controlled could couldn’t country cover coward crazy days. > > Dead decrepit defended deserves desparately destroying devastated. Did didn’t different dinner dishonesty— do does doesn’t doing Donald done! Don’t down drink drunk dumb Dumocrats easily Election else endorsement! Ends enjoyed, Enten equally especially even event every. > > Everybody everyone: everything exactly excitement, eye fact facts fake, false— falsehoods fans far Fellas. Felt few finale first fixed for form former found? Four friend friendly; from fully funny; gave get gets— go gofer going gone? Good Goofball, got great group guess, gutless, guy guys! Guy’s had hadn’t hand; happen, happening happy, Harry has have. HBO he health, heard; hell hello herself he’s high him. > > Himself his historic history hit hopeless; hot hours. House how I if illegal importantly in incessantly influential, insecure intention; into invited Iran. Is isn’t it it’s I’m, J joke. Just Karoline Kid know knows: LaBella last! Lasted laugh, laughing laughter learn learned least. Leavitt less let’s liberal: lie lied, lies like Lincoln location long looked loser losers! Losing lots love, loves; low lowest machine Maher, Maher’s; major make many matter maybe? Me meet— meeting, mine— minute, miss; mock more most mostly; moving much! > > Multiple my NBC needed nervous network, never news nice. No nonstop nose not nothing now nuclear; number obtain of off; often ok. Old on once one or, other our out over overall; partook party. People person personally place platform pleased; policies poll polls! Pool popular pothead; president press— putting quality questions— quickly radical ranks rated. Ratings Reagan real record renovated, Republican Republicans respects response— reverted ridiculous right Rock Ronald room. > > Running s, said; say, saying says second. Seductive seemed self Senate; serious seriously she. Should show, showing shows sleazebag small smart Smith so some— somebody sooner— space speak. Spewed spouts; start started state statement statistics; Stephen stop. Style subjected success support swimming take talk: tell ten; term than. Thank that that’s the, their them, then there; these, they thing think, thinking this though. Thought through time times, timestamps to together; too took top; total transformative? > > True Trump truth try trying turn, two u uncontrollably understand unfair unfortunately. Up use: useless using; very voters walked, want wanted wants. Was wasn’t waste watch; watched ways we weapon; weeks well, went— were what, when whenever. Which White who why will with, within without won wonderful won’t worked. Working world worse worth would year, years you your. You’re. It’s actually an improvement. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9903 "2026-10-27T02:38:36Z")
_The President’s Brain Is Missing_: Only six more days of this edition We still call people who say that crazy, but we used to too > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mysuf5hxyg2x)** > > Trump: "Can you imagine standing here 15 years ago and talking about the transgender mutilization? Everybody would say 'this politician is crazy'" We have always been at war with Eastasia > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mysvecsq7526)** > > Trump: "We didn't start the war with Iran. Iran started the war with us." Polymarket just raised the odds of him saying the N-word by 41% > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mysw4tccns26)** > > Trump: "It was $1.85 on the top of the jigger" “Manufacturing cunt” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3myswvzxdf62d)** > > Trump: "We'll never be a manufacturing c\*\*t, company -- uh -- country again" 100 people surveyed, best states to send your kids to school in, show me Mississippi! **[X]** > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mysxddr3nv25)** > > Trump claims that thanks to Republicans, Mississippi's schools are "among the best ranked in the nation" “Republiclee” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mysxsiae5r2u)** > > Trump: "Our country is doing so well under Republicleeeeee leadership" My new favorite person > Sen. Husted’s gonna be heartbroken > This man has no idea what Daylight Savings Time is or how to change a clock > > > _And you may say to yourself, this is not my beautiful house!_ > “They said that to me at a dinner!” > “I love lamp” > ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9904 "2026-10-27T03:39:33Z")
It’s not just the Navy. We got the same sort of memo in our email at NIH. Everyone here is just rolling their eyes and still calling it AI amongst our selves, but if there is anything that is going to be seen by the powers that be, we try to us SI just to be safe. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9905 "2026-10-27T04:20:54Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > “Republiclee” Is that anyting like _republicish_? > [@dougrb](#): > > I read it as Ha to the 34th power. "Ha to the felonieth power.\* > [@Odesio](#): > > I’ve been advising Donald J. Trump for the better part of a decade now. Sorry, folks. I really don’t know what the fuck I’m doing. You’ve had this power for how long and _this_ is all you’ve done with it. Step into the Fonz’s office for a moment, if you don’t mind. I’ve a few suggestions for you. [SECWARCRIM wants to lower average IQ of the US Senate.](https://www.aol.com/articles/pete-hegseth-eyeing-senate-seat-094900000.html) > [@](#): > > Defense Secretary [Pete Hegseth](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/pete-hegseth) is reportedly “angling” for a Senate seat over fears House Democrats [plan to launch an impeachment investigation](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-hegseth-house-investigation-pentagon-b3071464.html) into his tenure after the midterms. > > [According to _Puck_](https://puck.news/hegseths-senate-exit-option-and-a-gop-money-pit/), the secretary is interested in succeeding [Tennessee](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/tennessee)’s incumbent Republican Sen. [Marsha Blackburn](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/marsha-blackburn) should she [win her race to be the state’s next governor](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/china-communism-marsha-blackburn-fortune-cookies-b3011757.html) against Democratic rival Jerri Green, as she is currently on course to do. > > If Blackburn does secure the keys to the governor’s mansion, Hegseth is reportedly hopeful of her appointing him to her vacant seat, rather than waiting for congressional Democrats to come after him and attempt to force him out of office – or for President [Donald Trump](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/donald-trump) to fire him. [The felon’s DOJ thinks _Groundhog Day_ is the way to go.](https://www.aol.com/articles/james-comey-charged-third-time-212101000.html) > [@](#): > > The former FBI director, a longtime target of President Donald Trump, hasn’t been indicted in the latest case. > > Federal prosecutors have charged former FBI Director [James Comey](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/james-comey-seashells-case-delayed-early-2027-rcna599883) with transmission of [national defense information](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security) and conspiracy to transmit national defense information. > > It’s the third federal case against Comey, who has been a longtime target of President Donald Trump since he initiated the FBI investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. > > [The case](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.297298/gov.uscourts.dcd.297298.1.0.pdf) has played out under seal since Oct. 5. > > Comey’s defense attorneys filed a motion 10 days ago to dismiss the charges. He has not been indicted in the case. > > Comey responded to the new charges in a video Monday. > > “Well, they’re back again. It would almost be funny if it weren’t such an appalling abuse of the Department of Justice, one that we cannot become numb to,” Comey said in a [video on Substack](https://jamescomey.substack.com/p/yet-another-case-now?r=16z5v&utm_medium=ios)after the charges were made public. > > “Nothing’s changed with me. I’m still innocent. I’m still not afraid of these people, and I still believe in the independent federal judiciary,” he said. Or, in other words, their plan is _throw enough ketchup at the wall, some’s about to stick_. [_Where’s the beef?_](https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/trump-promised-300-000-tons-210324968.html) > [@](#): > > At the nexus of an ongoing affordability crisis and midterm election push, the Trump administration’s effort to reduce beef prices appears to be falling short. > > President Donald Trump signed a [proclamation](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/further-ensuring-affordable-beef-for-the-american-consumer/) in August to temporarily increase the quantity of beef in the U.S. by importing 300,000 metric tons of lean beef trimmings into the country at a reduced tariff rate. The imports were scheduled over 90 days, from September through November. > > “This deal will reduce prices for Americans while giving space for our Great American Beef Herd to grow again,” Trump wrote on Truth Social announcing the policy. > > But as of Oct. 19, the U.S. has imported just 59,423 metric tons of beef, according to [U.S. Customs and Border Protection data](https://www.cbp.gov/document/report/commodity-status-report), or just 20% of the target. And ground beef averaged $6.79 per pound as of September, according to [Bureau of Labor Statistics data](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/apu0000703112), down from $6.92 in August, but still above $6.32 a year ago. [Felon melts down over bestie losing a free and fair election.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-slams-rigged-brazil-election-202144653.html) > [@](#): > > US President Donald Trump claimed on Monday that Brazil’s elections were “rigged” and “so corrupt” after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva beat Trump’s right-wing ally Flavio Bolsonaro. > > The 45-year-old son of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro has called for the annulment of a result which denies Trump the South American political map he wanted. > > “It looked terrible to me,” Trump told reporters when asked about the Brazilian election as he left Washington for a campaign rally for next week’s US midterm elections. > > “I didn’t take sides but it looked like another rigged election frankly… it was a terrible look for the world.” He’s included this cryptic comment. > [@](#): > > “I’m not running for Brazil, i’m running for the USA,” Trump said. [The tackiest person in the history of the universe insinuates one of the best presidents the United States has ever had is just a slum dweller, which of course is code for…you know.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-hits-back-obama-over-213624443.html) > [@](#): > > US President Donald Trump hit back at Barack Obama on Monday after the former president jokingly said his successor’s White House looked as if it were a cheesecake restaurant run by Saddam Hussein. > > “For you to say it’s a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president,” Trump said in a three-minute diatribe when asked about Obama’s comments over the weekend. > > “Guys like Obama, they would pass the front door, they would see the broken masonry… He doesn’t notice dirt and filth where the walls haven’t been cleaned for years,” Trump told reporters as he headed for his latest midterm election rally. [“My first name is ‘Senator’.”](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/el-sayed-trump-senator-mohamed-122626732.html) > [@](#): > > Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) on Sunday fired back at President Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric toward him, telling supporters that the president will be referring to him as “Senator Mohamed” if he wins in November. > > “I get that the president of the United States takes personal offense to my first name,” El-Sayed said at a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich. “He doesn’t mind as much when it’s a shared name from the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law’s private equity. Doesn’t seem to mind as much when it’s the Qataris who are giving him a $400 million private jet. He just seems to have trouble pronouncing it when it’s my name.” > > “But y’all, I don’t care how he pronounces my name,” he continued. “I don’t even care that he remembers my whole name. Because he can just go on and call me ‘senator’ after November. I will be Senator Mohamed to you, bro.” [Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Licker has gone full prepper.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/pentagon-orders-bases-plan-90-205142545.html) > [@](#): > > The Pentagon wants every major U.S. military base to run for 90 days without outside help if a war cuts off power and supply chains. Across the Atlantic, Britain is telling families to keep canned food, bottled water and cash on hand to get through three days of disruption. > > The two efforts aren’t known to be coordinated, and neither government has said a new war is imminent. But both are planning for disruptions that could leave homes and military installations without the services they depend on. > > The Pentagon is developing a requirement that every major military installation in the continental U.S. be able to sustain essential operations on its own for at least 90 days, [Fox News Digital reported Oct. 25](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/inside-pentagons-doomsday-plan-keep-america-fighting-global-war-erupts), citing internal planning documents. The requirement falls under an initiative called FORTRESS, short for Federal Operations for Resilience, Troop Resources, Energy, Supply, and Survivability. > > Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth [unveiled FORTRESS in his Sept. 30 “State of the Force” address](https://www.airandspaceforces.com/hegseth-drones-autonomous-warfare-command-state-of-the-force/). He pledged that every major installation would generate its own power, independent of the civilian grid. A [follow-up memo](https://defensescoop.com/2026/10/07/pentagon-memo-operationalize-fortress-america-program-office/) laid out plans for a dedicated program office. The 90-day standard goes further than that original goal, extending self-sufficiency beyond electricity to water, fuel and communications. > > The plan envisions portable nuclear reactors, large-scale battery storage and microgrids that can disconnect bases from civilian power networks. The Army has already moved in that direction: In August it [announced up to $2.2 billion in awards to build nuclear microreactors at five bases](https://abcnews.com/US/wireStory/army-spend-2b-build-nuclear-microreactors-5-bases-135985595), including Fort Bragg and Fort Hood. FORTRESS? I couldn’t come up with a good backronym to more accurately describe this insanity. Have a go if you can. And the skeptic/realist in me can’t help but think this has moret than a little to do with the disaster the felon has turned the global oil supply into. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9906 "2026-10-27T05:31:16Z")
> [@Monty's link](#): > > President Donald Trump signed a [proclamation](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/further-ensuring-affordable-beef-for-the-american-consumer/) in August to temporarily increase the quantity of beef in the U.S. by importing 300,000 metric tons of lean beef trimmings Not being familiar with the phrase “lean beef trimmings” I looked it up. I see increasing quantity certainly means decreasing quality: the product is apparently mechanically recovered meat. Yes, that pink-dyed sludge made of scraps of meat and related tissues and squeezed into sausage shapes. Yes, that disgusting product that was responsible for the spread of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (leading to the outbreak of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease or “Mad Cow” disease in humans) in the UK, and - at least according to the US Department of Agriculture (via Wikipedia): > [@](#): > > Due to FSIS regulations enacted in 2004 to protect consumers against bovine spongiform encephalopathy, mechanically separated beef is considered inedible and is prohibited for use as human food. It is not permitted in hot dogs or any other processed product. Sounds like a great solution to unaffordable beef: just grind up carcases and sell those. Hegseth must be delighted. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9907 "2026-10-27T05:47:35Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > just grind up carcases and sell those [Eating Raoul](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_Raoul) or [Soylent Green](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green)? The latter could play into his 90 day prepper requirement for the military. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2026, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9908 "2026-10-27T06:13:34Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > We have always been at war with Eastasia > > [@atrupar.com on Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mysvecsq7526) At least they were safely shielded from the trajectory of Plymouth Rock. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9909 "2026-10-27T06:14:46Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [Eating Raoul](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_Raoul) or [Soylent Green](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green)? The latter could play into his 90 day prepper requirement for the military. Before or after they run out of MREs? ---
**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:** [October 27, 2026, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9910 "2026-10-27T10:25:44Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > JD Vance: “Gas prices are too high … they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum” This is fantastic. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2026, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9911 "2026-10-27T10:50:46Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > 100 people surveyed, best states to send your kids to school in, show me Mississippi! **[X]** > > [@atrupar.com on Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mysxddr3nv25) Reminds me of the way Molly Ivins always used to say that Texans believed that Mississippi’s reason for existence was to keep Texas from being 50th in all the rankings. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9912 "2026-10-27T12:18:37Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > I see increasing quantity certainly means decreasing quality: the product is apparently mechanically recovered meat. I’m thinking the stuff they sell as stew meat. Cook it for 3 hours and it’s fine. > [@Monty](#): > > Because he can just go on and call me ‘senator’ after November. I will be Senator Mohamed to you, bro.” Ha34 I love that he added ‘bro’. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9913 "2026-10-27T12:26:14Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > The plan envisions portable nuclear reactors, large-scale battery storage and microgrids that can disconnect bases from civilian power networks. A quote of Monty’s quote. Batteries, eh? Almost seems to envision solar panels and/or windmills. Can you imagine Donnie showing up at an Army base and having to look at windmills? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9914 "2026-10-27T12:31:28Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Batteries, eh? Almost seems to envision solar panels and/or windmills. Can you imagine Donnie showing up at an Army base and having to look at windmills? That’s just what I was thinking. I wonder what Trump thinks about PV panels on every roof top? I’m sure he hasn’t noticed them or has any idea what they are if he has. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9915 "2026-10-27T14:12:00Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > > [@Smapti](#): > > > > You just HAD to give them the idea, didn’t you? > > I’ve been advising Donald J. Trump for the better part of a decade now. Sorry, folks. I really don’t know what the fuck I’m doing. Neither does he! ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9916 "2026-10-27T14:20:48Z")
Oh My Og! There will be batteries, solar, windmills, and (GASP​😱) MAGNETS on these bases. STEAM, WHERE THE HELL IS THE STEAM?? ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9917 "2026-10-27T14:29:50Z")
I just heard someone describe Steven Cheung as Chet from _Weird Science_ after Lisa tranformed him into a pile of shit and I can’t unsee it. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9918 "2026-10-27T14:39:29Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Everyone here is just rolling their eyes and still calling it AI amongst our selves, but if there is anything that is going to be seen by the powers that be, we try to us SI just to be safe. In all seriousness, please re-think your compliance. We’re here because people aren’t willing to risk their jobs. Easy for me to say, I know, but what if everyone refused to comply? ---
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> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Mississippi’s reason for existence was to keep Texas from being 50th in all the rankings. Alabama’s state motto: At least we’re not Mississippi! And you can’t put windmills on airbases! They attract planes, then they fly into them! ---
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The motto of nearly all southern states is some variation on ‘thank goodness for Mississippi for making us look good by comparison’. I was hearing it decades ago in Arkansas (!?) as well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=495) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=497)