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In other news: Thus spake Trump: “We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future.” Missing from this comment was the announcement of the installation of a new revolving door in the cabinet room. BoingBoing: “A whistleblower claims the Trump Justice Department effectively eliminated the government's only office dedicated to preventing hate crimes and community violence, cutting it from 57 staff to just one.” This will be the kind of thing we’ll miss under much-loved Bondi’s regime. Author Maris Kreizman: “H.R. 7661 is a bill brought by House Representative Mary Miller (Republican, Illinois) that seeks to remove any book that ‘involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism’ from public schools in the entire United States. Seventeen of Miller’s colleagues in the House have cosigned it.” This will certainly make teaching a lot easier when Melania’s Robot Educational Brigade takes over. A...

 

 

Donald Trump, prior to becoming President—a statement that to this day boggles the mind whenever we type it—devoted his career to putting his name on things. He wasn’t a great architect or urban planner or visionary or business executive, despite his demurrals claiming all of these. He made his money by selling his name to people. That was it. Period. The buyers believed that using this name, putting it on a hotel or apartment building or the like, would add enough of a layer of class to warrant the expense. And there certainly are people who believe that all you need is gilt. Which is why we here at ConstiToonies HQ are surprised neither by the man of wealth and taste today putting his name on everything he sees in the neighborhood, nor by his decorating of the White House in goldenesque self-awarded trophies. None of this is new, yet when himself decided his name should go on the dollar bill, suddenly the media was all over the whole TrumpStamping business as if they had never heard ...