The End is Near - Donald in the White House - February 2016

 

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“This is a stage that all dictatorships reach; when they do the dictator can no longer afford mistakes and always makes them.” 

Bernard DeVoto

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THE HARD-WORKING blogger will soon get around to filing a general report for the month of February, regarding the presidential antics of Donald J. Dumpling, and misfit members of his administrative crew. Currently, he is swamped with a flood of toxic Epstein Files-related news. A grumpy old gentleman can only do so much before settling down for a revitalizing nap. 

So, let us do what little we can this morning, as we pick up the cudgels of the First Amendment, and use our free speech and free press rights to (metaphorically) wallop sense into Trump supporters. 

 

A few quick notes on how the month is going: 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plan to bring back measles is working great, as he continues to tell everyone that vaccines will make you grow third eyes. As of February 6, we are enjoying a boffo run of … measles. 

With 733 cases already reported, this promises to be an even worse year than 2025, which (good job, RFK Jr.) was already, by far, the worst year since 2000, when the disease was declared eradicated in this country.

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If measles cases are up, our nation’s standing, as measured by Transparency International, related to public corruption, is down one spot. 

On this, Donald Trump’s 388th day as president (on his second try) we land in 29th place, behind such countries as Denmark (#1), Uruguay (#17) and Barbados (#24), but well ahead of Namibia (tied with four other nations for #64), Mexico (#141), Russia (#157) and Somalia and South Sudan (tied, dead last, at #181). 

Not only did we drop a spot, the nation’s score has fallen to 64, lowest ever, with “100” representing “very clean” and “0” representing, “okay, you are screwed.” Mexico, for example, where drug cartels often rule, scores 27. Haiti scores 16. Venezuela scores 10, but not “10” as in hot. 

Coming in last, Somalia and South Sudan rack up 9 points, each. 

As reported by Newser, 

“We are very concerned about the situation in the United States,” Transparency International CEO Maira Martini says, warning that the downward trend “might continue.” Forbes notes that the current rankings don’t even include anything that happened at the end of last year and early this year, a “particularly chaotic time” for policies of the Trump administration. 

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Speaking of 388 days, we should also point out that it has been 464 days since Donald Trump, was elected, a day on which, he had promised, he could end the Ukraine War in 24 hours, without even needing to take office. 

In fact, Donald made that promise 53 times.

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We can also report that the January jobs numbers came in better than expected (so, yay, Dumpling!) with a net of 130,000 people put to work, and unemployment dropping to 4.3 percent. 

Trump officials have called the report a “blockbuster,” and touted the president’s policies as a “spectacular” success. 

 

We can also point out that the number of federal employees has been slashed by more than 10%, which Trump fans will tell you is great news (unless one of their relatives working for the Social Security Administration or CDC got the axe). 

In any case, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised jobs numbers for November and December, as BLS always does, for two months. With November’s report now locked in, and December’s report scheduled for one more revision, we can report that Donald’s job-creating magic was missing in 2025. 

 

If we do the math and stick all the job losses for January in Joe Biden’s column, we find that only 229,000 jobs were added in the last eleven months of the year – with The Dumpling at the helm. 

For comparison purposes, note that in 2016, 256,000 jobs were added in March, 247,000 in June, 373,000 in July, 306,000 in September, and 220,000 in January 2017, when President Obama turned over the job to Donald, himself. 

(Donald whined, of course, and said that he had inherited a mess.)

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Well, at least we know the president has ended budget deficits once and for all, with his tax cuts for billionaires, and his tariffs that nobody in America really pays, and his other hocus pocus fiscal policies. 

For example, why not make houses more affordable by having banks offer 50-year mortgages, that you can pass down to your kids. 

Maybe even the grandkids! 

Soooooooooooo…. 

The Congressional Budget Office can now report that federal deficits will increase by $1.4 trillion over the next decade, based solely on Trump’s own policies since he sat his buns down again in the White House. 

The deficit for Fiscal Year 2025 was $1.9 trillion. And the deficit for Fiscal Year 2026 is projected to match that red ink bath. Over the coming decade, the CBO now warns that $23.1 trillion will added to the stack of IOU’s we keep writing ourselves. 

I’m sorry, in other words, if you really believe Donald Dumpling is going to reduce the deficit, I think you should log on to the Debt Clock and watch the dials spin and spin and spin. At a little after 10 a.m. on February 6, the total federal debt had hit: