THE CABINET OF INCOMPETENTS

By Ruth A. Sheets

On April 2, 2025, Robert Reich presented his weekly poll, this time about the presidential cabinet , put into place since January 20^th.  OMG!  It was a hard poll.  The question, “Which of Trump’s cabinet officers is the worst?  His choices:  Pete Hegseth of Defense, RFK,Jr. of Health and Human Services, Pam Bondi the Attorney General, and Marco Rubio Secretary of State. 

There is another cruel incompetent who should be included, the new director of Homeland Security (a cabinet-level position that should not even exist, has far less reason than the Department of Education which actually does positive things to help our children and young people).  Kristi Noem The head is a dog murderer who feels about the rest of us the way she seems to have felt about her dog before she killed it and dumped it into a quarry. 

Among the poll members, there's Rubio whose family were "refugees" from Cuba.  They and their cohort came here and did a lot of disrupting over the years, particularly in Florida and few "long-time American citizens” demanded they be deported and that their children, like "Little Marco" are not citizens.  What an evil hypocrite! 

There is nothing positive to say for either RFK,Jr. or Hegseth.  Neither of them should ever be in charge of anything since they can't even take care of themselves properly.  They are both ignorant of not only the departments they were foolishly approved by our Senators to run but ignorant of just about everything else too; they prove it every single day, putting us all at risk.  I chose RFK,Jr. in the poll because he is undermining the already precarious health of this nation with his lies and disinformation, putting us and the rest of the world at risk. 

Pam Bondi’s  law school should erase her from their records of graduates or rather should never have graduated her in the first place; she is a person of no moral compass who knows nothing of our Constitution and cares less than that about it or this nation, only her infatuation with Donald Trump, adult-toddler-in-chief.  She like the rest of the Trumpers and Trumpettes just makes things up as she goes along just to see what she can get away with, and she is getting away with a lot, or thinks she is. 

They are all despicable, the whole crew, like McMahon in Education and the rest of the ignoramuses our Senate Republicans and a few Democrats chose to sick on us.  None of them has a clue, but tries to pretend they are working for their god and will follow his wishes even though dementia has clearly taken hold.  They were chosen since they play the role of sycophant quite well and together represent the worst of America, not one of them worthy of any positive recognition.  Thank you Senate Republicans for proving your judgment is just as poor as Trump and his handlers and fan club hoped it would be.  Justice would be that every single Senate member who voted for these destroyers and incompetents would be voted out.  Not likely, but one can dream! 

OPTIMISM? WELL MAYBE

By Ruth A. Sheets

I appreciate the need for optimism as we watch our nation sinking under the BS of the Republican Party, led by the "would-be-king/deity" Toddler-Trump and his goons, but it’s hard, and maybe they’re evil. 

Senate Republicans voted for some pretty despicable people to run our critical departments and agencies.  They supposedly interviewed and questioned each candidate, but clearly they didn’t care about the nominee’s past, biases, personal vendettas, lack of competence or qualifications.  One can’t help but wonder why.  I suspect it has something to do with Toddler-Trump’s desire to be a MAFIA Don who collects information on everyone around him to use against them, blackmail, you know.  In addition, those in office will owe their toddler-boss for a job they clearly didn’t deserve.  Among the worst:  

• - an absolute fool, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to run our department of health and human services - he knows nothing about medicine, research, or just about anything else, but he does have a lot of ridiculous ideas about vaccines, medicine in general, and how the Department should be run, all without knowledge or experience;
• - a personal lawyer for Toddler-Trump, Pam Bondi,  as Attorney General - a woman who has her own “hit list” to nurse, mostly people who legally opposed Trump;
• - an accused rapist, incompetent manager, you know, criminal, Pete Hegseth, with minimal experience of the Department of Defense, but a lot of vengeance in his heart and hatred for anyone who is not rich, white, “straight,” and male, a minority in our military;
• - a Putin "mole," Tulsi Gabbard in charge of our intelligence service – enough said;
• - an empty suit, Marco Rubio, to be our Secretary of State – He has traveled a bit, so knows what he needs to do, right;
• - an ignoramus, Sean Duffy at Transportation– already 7 aircraft “accidents” since Toddler-Trump took office;
• A hateful vindictive sycophant of ?Toddler-Trump, Kash Patel to run the FBI – he maintains an “enemies list of people he plans to go after.

  Then there's Toddler-Musk and his child-hackers tearing through our government's tech to see how much damage the richest man in the world, supposedly, can do to many of the poorest.  The Senate didn’t even get to vote on these kids - They were not vetted or even required to fill out an employment application, but can steal our personal information and fire people whose jobs they neither understand nor care about.

Toddler-Trump moving deeper into dementia has now decided to betray an ally and turn his love toward Putin of Russia.  That should be seen as treason since he is betraying an ally for an adversary while that adversary is conducting a war it began for its own purposes. Trump now lies that Ukraine started the war which was actually a Putin/Russian invasion to annex Ukraine.  Is it Trump’s dementia or Putin conducting some blackmail on our current president?  Hmmm!

I am working on staying at least somewhat optimistic.  I think one must be optimistic if a teacher and if I believe in our nation and working toward making it a more perfect union. 

Optimism comes from people using their courage to stand up and say “no.”  The most recent example was Governor Mills of Maine who told Trump trans athletes would be able to play sports in Maine because they have rights in the Maine Constitution.  Trump threatened to cut off funding for the state of Maine if they did let those athletes compete.  She said “then, I’ll see you in court.”  I was hoping the other governors would have stood up to support her, but nope.  She did show people how to stand up to a toddler-man who thinks he can control everything and everyone because all his life, the people around him regularly bow and kiss something for him on request.  Not everyone will do that.  That is where I have optimism, real hope!

In any case, we need to stand together against this coup mastermind by The Heritage Foundation and corporate America, a right-wing collection of white supremacists and pseudo-christians who want to stop anyone and anything that does not promote rich white maledom.  Well, they are a minority and we need to let them know that as often as possible. 

We can do something.  Don’t forget the 24-hour boycott over February 27-28^th, and the Amazon boycott from March 7-14.  If you need to buy something, go local!