Category:POTUS

Dialogues on Life During Wartime: The Price of Opportunity Costs

Posted on April 9, 2026Updated on April 9, 2026by Geoff CarterCategories:Politics, POTUS, War

Attribution: Petty Officer 2nd Class Jordan Jennings, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., John K., Michael D., and Geoff Carter Bots, Allow me to interrupt your nonstop chanting of “USA! USA! USA!” for a few brief moments, with this unfortunate note of warning. Commandante …
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Kickass and White House Dogs

Posted on March 31, 2026Updated on March 31, 2026by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, ICE, Immigration, Kickass, POTUS

Attribution: Maarten Honnebier, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper in possession of a secret White House memo that seeks the services of guard dogs to accompany ICE agents on their visits to schools and parking lots where very dangerous little foreign felons lurk. The secret document …
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Shame on Us

Posted on March 26, 2026Updated on March 26, 2026by Geoff CarterCategories:corruption, Michael DiMilo, Politics, POTUS, Social Commentary

Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, three times, four, more… and shame on us. All of us. Over the past fifty years, the American people have been screwed over so thoroughly and completely that we can’t tell up from down anymore. We’ve been screwed from …
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War Games

Posted on March 12, 2026Updated on March 12, 2026by Geoff CarterCategories:Politics, POTUS, War

Attribution: Photo by Saifee Art on Unsplash By Geoff Carter One of the most popular films of 1983 was WarGames, in which our hero David Lightman, a teenaged hacker, runs across what he believes is a very sophisticated online computer war game, hacks into it, and initiates the “Geothermal Nuclear War” program. Unfortunately, the hacked device turns out …
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Dialogues on Dumb and Dumber: The Donald Trump Amateur Hour

Posted on March 9, 2026Updated on March 10, 2026by Geoff CarterCategories:Law, Politics, POTUS, Social Commentary

Attribution: White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., John K., Michael D., and Geoff Carter Hey bots, I am still reeling from the last episode of The Donald Trump Amateur Hour. Pam Bondi’s appearance in front of the House Judiciary Committee looked …
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Operation Epic Quid Pro Quo

Posted on March 5, 2026Updated on March 5, 2026by Geoff CarterCategories:corruption, POTUS, War

Attribution: White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter On a Sunday morning eighty-five years ago, December 7th, 1941, our nation awoke to the news that the U.S. was at war. Last Sunday, we awoke to learn that we were at war once again, and that this time we were the aggressors. The …
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Kickass and the War Morning

Posted on March 1, 2026Updated on March 1, 2026by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, POTUS, War

Attribution: Fars Media Corporation, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper reassessing his self-assigned responsibility to make a daily comment on whatever registers on his erratic flight plan, sometimes as a diversion from an impossible truth and other times to call attention to yet another absurdity or …
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Tariff Tantrum

Posted on February 26, 2026Updated on February 26, 2026by Geoff CarterCategories:Michael DiMilo, Politics, POTUS, tariffs, Taxes

Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter In a highly unusual occurrence in modern American politics, the Supreme Court of the United States made a ruling that President Trump did not like. Not at all. Like a nanny taking away a favorite toy from an extremely spoiled child, the justices removed Trump’s tariff powers, ruling …
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Kickass and The State of Dog Walking

Posted on February 24, 2026Updated on February 24, 2026by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Politics, POTUS

Attribution: Tony Alter from Newport News, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in doing something special to mark the reading of the “State of The Union” in the legislative chambers tonight. As suggested by Kickass himself, an arrangement will be made to treat …
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Kickass Remembers and FORGETS

Posted on February 23, 2026Updated on February 23, 2026by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Politics, POTUS

Attribution: Illustration by DonkeyHotey, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis and their crowd of “seniors” working with each other and the younger establishment in memory matters. Accepting the verity that almost at birth memory begins to do wacky things in the forgetting department—Where did …
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Kickass and Earth’s Fate

Posted on February 20, 2026Updated on February 20, 2026by Bill StokesCategories:Environment, Humor, Kickass, POTUS, Social Commentary

Attribution: Photo courtesy of National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper tuning in to his Outer Space frequency to hear the following: “Attention all those millions out there observing the quaint space experiment on Earth whereby the most advanced …
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Our National Embarrassment

Posted on February 19, 2026Updated on February 19, 2026by Geoff CarterCategories:Epstein Files, Oligarchy, POTUS, Social Commentary

Attribution: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter She sat in front of the panel like an animatronic Barbie doll (Weird Barbie), glossy and blonde, but radiating an arrogant, overweening and disdainful vibe. She was there to testify to the House Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives about the status …
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