Muskrat Droppings No. 1

Always best when fresh!

Maybe Musk, like Stalin, doesn't trust a doctor to do anything about the wrinkles.

Dear Readers: I promise you on my sainted mother’s grave, that when the Muskrat does something stoo-pid I will tell you ASAP.

At the Oval Office press conference Tuesday, Musk expressed irritation that the federal government was paying Social Security benefits to people who are 150 years old. Clear proof that the bureaucracy was stupider than even MAGA thought!

But wait! A reader on Paul Krugman’s excellent Substack explained that when a social security recipient’s birthday is unknown, it is filled in as 1875 as a placeholder. Just speculating here, but there are plenty of immigrants who do not know their exact birth date, but the taxman doth know the dates that Federal Social Security withholding is taken out of their paychecks.

May I remind you of a previous stinky pile of Musk shit when de facto President Musk informed us that USAID had sent $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza. Such waste! Such fraud! Such abuse! Turns out, the condoms were sent to a town called Gaza in Mozambique for the purposes of AIDS prevention.

At his Tuesday press conference, Musk opined, “Would the American taxpayer really be wanting to do that, sending condoms to Mozambique?” Keep in mind that according to the State Department, AIDS Prevention programs are supposed to be exempt from DOGE cuts.

Moral: Both de facto POTUS and pro forma POTUS seem poorly informed about many details of government.

Remember: This is a coup, and this is a war. A coup is a sudden illegal movement to seize power. World War II began with two coups: Germany attacked Poland without warning, and Japan attacked Pearl Harbor without warning. Never forget that both countries ended up with the shit bombed out of them.