F**king Mondays: The Fascist Takeover is Complete, Bonkers Bongino, and Zelensky the "Dictator"
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Welcome to another edition of “F**king Mondays”, the only column to start your week off! In the round up today:
Dan Bongino joins the FBI
If putting deranged conspiracy theorist Kash Patel in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation wasn’t enough, Donald Trump has now appointed a far right podcaster with no experience working in federal law enforcement to serve as the Deputy Director.
Dan Bongino, a former policeman and secret service agent, is mostly known for being hugely popular with Trump supporters on Facebook. Bongino runs a daily podcast The Dan Bongino Show on the far right Rumble network where he peddles anti-vaccine and 2020 election conspiracies.
If you are not familiar with Bongino, he helpfully summarized his raison d'etre when he said this on a radio show he hosted in 2018: “My entire life right now is about owning the libs.”
So now we have a man whose sole mission in life is to inflict suffering on liberals managing all FBI domestic and international investigative and intelligence activities.
Bongino may have been a good cop in the 1990’s and an entertaining podcaster, but he has no business running an organization with almost 40,000 people in it. Trump knows this, of course, but does not care—his aim is to install loyalists in every branch of government so that he can commit as many crimes as he wants without oversight.
Bongino’s role as Deputy Director gives him direct influence over the FBI’s investigative priorities and resource allocation. With his history of pushing conspiracy theories and his deep loyalty to Trump, he will almost certainly pressure FBI personnel to stop investigations into the president and instead pursue witch hunts against his enemies.
“Dictator” Zelensky
In MAGA world Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a brutal dictator who murders his political opposition, steals US money for fast cars, and is entirely responsible for Russia’s invasion of his country in 2022. Vladimir Putin on the other hand is a benevolent leader in charge of a country with great supermarkets, hot women, and a stalwart ally in the war against liberal trans nonsense.
In reality, Zelensky is a democratically elected leader, has not murdered his opposition, and has not taken any US money for himself (it is true that Zelensky has suspended elections in Ukraine, because that is because under Ukraine’s constitution holding national elections during a period of martial law is illegal).
Putin on the other hand, is a full blown dictator who has murdered his opposition via poisoning, starvation, blowing up planes, and throwing people out of windows. He has also stolen billions of dollars of his own people’s money and launched an unprovoked, murderous war on Ukraine. Putin has sent almost a quarter of a million young men to their deaths to “liberate” Ukraine from Nazis (this despite Zelensky being a Jew), and has, up until the election of Donald Trump, been an official enemy of the United States. But not any more.
Putin has now been given a seat at the negotiating table with the US over a “peace deal” with Ukraine and offered almost everything he wants. Trump has taken Ukrainian NATO membership off the table, said that Russia deserves the land annexed during the invasion, and claimed Zelensky is a dictator and responsible for the war. Trump is now trying to extort Ukraine by lying about how much money it received in military aid and forcing them to sign away their mineral wealth for absolutely nothing in return. According to Trump there will be no security guarantees, just a huge sum of money Ukraine has to pay back for hundreds of years.
Zelensky has refused the deal and proposed a new one by offering to resign if Ukraine gets NATO membership. “If to achieve peace you really need me to give up my post — I'm ready," said Zelensky during a briefing on Sunday. "I can trade it for NATO membership, if there are such conditions."
Here’s how MAGA world reacted to Zelensky’s noble offer:
If you are struggling to understand the logic behind Greene’s statement, don’t worry, there isn’t any.
We are sadly witnessing a fundamental realignment of the international order, where the US mocks and bullies allies while saddling up to brutal dictators. This likely means the end of NATO, the carving up of Ukraine, and more Russian expansionism in the near future. That is unless Europe gets its act together and comes to terms with the new reality they are living in. As Rick Wilson suggested:
Elon Musk is taking over the government
According to Joe Rogan, Elon Musk doesn’t care about making more money or accumulating more power. He’s decimating the federal government for the good of the American people. “He has $400 billion, he’s not going to steal your money,” Rogan during a recent podcast. “That’s not what he’s doing….The party is just getting started.”
“He’s a super genius that’s been fucked with,” Rogan went on. “And when you’ve been fucked with by these nitwits that hide behind three-letter agencies, and you’re dealing with one of the smartest people alive, you fucked up.”
Musk is so smart that he has egregiously miscalculated the savings DOGE has made, not understood contracts he has incinerated, and promoted easily disprovable lies about recipients of US funding.
Setting aside the torrent of bullshit Musk has been spreading about 'government waste,' what about Rogan’s claim that Musk is doing this out of the goodness of his heart?" Well it turns out Musk does stand to make a lot of money from the ashes of the American government. From Politico:
The cost-cutters from Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency have arrived at the Federal Aviation Administration and visited its air traffic control facilities over the weekend, according to an email obtained by POLITICO — just days after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said people from Musk’s for-profit space company SpaceX were doing the same.
DOGE plans to expand its footprint at the agency as they work on solutions that “keep the airspace open and safe,” according to the email from FAA acting Administrator Chris Rocheleau to employees sent Wednesday. It says DOGE and teams of “special government employees” will be looking to solve challenges, add more tools and support the safe operation of the national aviation system.
In other words, Musk is destroying a federal agency, then rebuilding it with his own company.
This is a classic case of a private entity taking over a government function for its own benefit. The FAA is supposed to regulate aerospace activity in the public interest, ensuring safety and fair competition. If Musk dismantles it and then hands control to SpaceX, he would be consolidating power in a way that prioritizes his own company’s interests over broader industry fairness and public oversight. This is of course the definition of oligarchy—where a small, powerful group of individuals control key institutions and part of the nation’s economy.
Unfortunately the right wing propaganda machine is so effective that much of the public thinks this is absolutely fine. Their country is being turned into a fascist oligarchy, but the three-letter agency libs are getting owned, so who cares?
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Yeah, Musk is a “super genius” who fires people then says “oops, guess we better rehire those”, not once but several times. A super genius who has people play video games in his name because he’s not smart enough to do it himself.
This man is another narcissistic
sociopath just like Trump.
And MTG is a piece of white trash trailer trash.
How much more of a dough-headed know-nothing dipshit can Joe Blow be? I swear he thinks he's smarter than he really is (and he's probably less mart than I'm giving him credit for). When things go south with the Donnie-Musk administration (and that time is on it's way fast) will he cop to endorsing this inept duo? Probably not...which makes him a disingenuous coward too.