It's 1920 and the Pentagon just bought billions of dollars worth of buggy whips.
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2026
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"The CEO of buggy whips donation to Dear Leader has nothing to do with it, nor does their purchase of 11 Trump condos. That's just coincidence."
I know this is meant as sarcasm, but honestly I sometimes suspect it's actually to some notable degree true.
First, Trump is collecting so much graft from so many different sources that there's no way he could serve all of their interests, and he likely can't even keep track of them all.
Beyond that though, I think that to some degree he actually pushes for things like coal power and gas-guzzling cars and open discrimination against minorities and LGBTQ+ people living in fear because they're nostalgic reminders of his privileged childhood as an ignorant racist serial-raping piece of shit living off of someone else's money.
You know - as opposed to his more difficult adulthood as an ignorant racist serial-raping piece of shit living off of someone else's money...
Simpsons, of course, did it first
Me every day with every damn news story about every sector of the economy:
