So the GOP managed to cut $9 billion of spending, including over a billion dollars from National Public Radio (NPR), as the GOP has been promising for two decades. But DOGE identified a lot more waste than that and the cuts amount to about 0.13% of the budget of some $7 trillion so… big whoop.

Meantime some smart-ass hacked the X-account of beloved Sesame Street icon, Elmo – and triggered people as intended. The hacker picked a hell of week because the Democrat Party was desperately trying to save the funding for the people producing the show. The good news is that it actually wasn’t supporters of Israel who got triggered. They responded with memes….

I especially liked this one given that it’s the mainstay excuse / rationalisation of Minto and company.

But it wasn’t just Democrats who got hit…

I put the usual Powerline link this far down because their first half is the same as this post, frigging Elmo!!! TBF the rest of theirs is around the idiot CEO and his HR squeeze who got caught on Kiss Cam live at the Cold Play concert. His wife is about to become independently wealthy.

When it comes to reducing spending or raising revenue you have to start somewhere…

I don’t think that’s going to happen until Trump leaves office, and even then it’s going to take a while for people to calm down, at least until the next Hitler is elected.

De-escalation strategies are needed, or though the following is for fights between guys…