Trump and a Political Fantasy

Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper’s inside sources have learned that there are White House plans to knock down the Washington Monument obelisk and us the material to fill in the reflecting pool. Since the obelisk is only 555 feet tall and the reflecting pool is 2029 …
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Dialogues on Our National Embarrassment: The Presidential Brain Drain

Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., John K., Michael D., and Geoff Carter Hey bots, I’m thinking we all must be kicking back in a major way this summer. Between the weather, the Brewers, and retirement, things seem good—if we ignore the news …
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Kickass and The Correspondents Dinner

Attribution: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, wonders at the keeper’s insistence that if he had been at the recent Correspondent’s Dinner, he would have led a mid-speech walkout that would have left the orange POTUS spouting his garbage to an empty house. There is something …
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Kickass and the Sunrise

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper fell asleep during the Correspondents’ Dinner program just as awards were given to the reporters who wrote about the Epstein/POTUS connection. This prompting the keeper to dream about efforts to remove the wolf from grandma’s bed and caused him to …
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Kickass and the National Bird

Attribution: Photo by Pete Godfrey on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, noting the keeper’s reference to an old Kickass post, advises the bald eagle that its days as the national bird are as much as over and it should look for a new job, perhaps in recycling. The historical item is from July 24, 2018 …
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The American Gestapo

Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Minnesota Governor Tim Walz created a major controversy when he compared ICE agents in Minneapolis to the Gestapo. In a commencement address to the University of Minnesota Law School in May 2025, he said, “Donald Trump’s modern-day Gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets. They’re in unmarked …
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Kickass Edits the Shooting Statement

Attribution: DonkeyHotey, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper, in his fumbling attempt to organize political information to make it as useful as possible, revisits the file that begins with the quotation, “I could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue and it …..” In his assertion that he is …
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Kickass Dissects the News

Attribution: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with Phyllis in her monumental task of untangling the keeper from the tech webs that ensnare him on what seems to be an hourly basis.  Most recently, in an effort to pass along important “breaking news,” the keeper …
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Bad Sportsmanship

Attribution: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter The United States of America is approaching its semiquincentennial—its two hundred and fiftieth birthday. This is going to be quite the celebration—parts of it have already begun. The reflecting pool in Washington, D.C. has been inadvertently dyed a gangrenous shade of green—not on …
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