We're not even three weeks in

The Bizarro Cabinet just got another supervillain, as Russell Vought—architect of Project 2025, champion of pain and chaos, and admitted enemy of the Constitution—was confirmed by every Republican in the United States Senate. (It's fitting that our new Director of the Office of Management and Budget shares a surname with the evil corporation that employs Homelander and the other psychopathic superpowered maniacs from the comic-book series and TV show "The Boys"; I mean, it makes it very easy for him to be on brand.)

All of the Republicans in the Senate have just declared themselves to be anti-American and in blatant violation of their oaths of office. Every one now is under grounds for expulsion. Of course, they're also running the joint, so they won't actually be expelled. But I want Democratic leaders to remember this and other confirmation votes when they regain Senate control, assuming we actually have elections in 2026.

This guy, along with Kash Patel and possibly Tulsi Gabbard, is the most dangerous of all of POTUS47’s absurd nominees. RFK Jr. and now-Secretary of Defense Hegseth are also horrifyingly bad, but Vought is straight-up destruction personified. And all 53 Republican Senators voted "aye."

Assuming we survive this presidential term as something still resembling the United States of America—and, yeah, that's a big "if"—I don't see how the Republican Party can come back from what it's become. Its very name has already become an Orwellian term of irony, just as Presidential Puppet-Master Elon's "Department of Government Efficiency" is really about being "efficient" in destroying the government.

I realize people out there don't want to come here for yet another screed about the political hellscape we now live in. It'd be more fun to post about the great TV on now—anyone watched "Paradise" on Hulu yet? It's terrific—or how I'm eager to see the upcoming Fantastic Four film, or even complain some more about the Commissioner of Baseball being a fool and a disgusting boil on the face of the sport. But the calamities just keep coming and the speed at which our country is dissolving into oligarchic chaos is relentless.

I am heartened that Democratic leaders have (belatedly) started standing up for us, the law, and sanity. I am hopeful that the pushback we have already seen is but a glimmer of the backlash to come. But normal avenues of resistance seem impossibly inadequate to the moment—yes, regaining control of Congress in the Midterms will be enormous, but we have to get there first and still have elections not under the control of King Elon and his puppet the orange-faced moron.

We'd have a real chance at saving ourselves from this self-inflicted bloodletting if even a portion of elected Republicans respected their oaths. But today they have doubled down on betrayal. They are insurrectionists just as much as the January 6th rioters were, and if they are not ether stopped or driven to grow consciences, that war Captain Pike told folks about in the SNW pilot seems inevitable.

Please absorb the two videos below for further edification. And please make use of the link in the sidebar to write your representatives and let them know you want this country to remain a democratic republic.