The following editorial appeared in the August 8, 2025 The Week Magazine:
“It’s a fierce competition, with no winners and only losers: Which of the unqualified kooks and fawning toadies working for Donald Trump is the most incompetent?
Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel are currently the most visible contenders, thanks to their tragicomic bungling of the Jeffrey Epstein debacle.
They promised the MAGA base the release of the full ‘Epstein files,’ even though their boss was the sex trafficker’s buddy for more than a decade and noted during that time that Jeff liked women ‘on the younger side.’ Ha, ha!
When Bondi and Patel discovered with cold fear that Trump’s name appeared multiple times in the voluminous records, they announced, ‘Nothing to see here, case closed!’
Now they’ve saddled the president with a festering scandal that won’t easily be reburied.
But the self-inflicted Epstein wound is no anomaly. It’s just the most lurid demonstration of the Trump gang’s pervasive ineptitude.
Pete Hegseth, a Fox News talking head chosen as Defense Secretary for his chiseled, jaw and good hair has babbled classified information on an insecure app about an imminent military attack, cut off defensive weapons to Ukraine without Trump‘s approval, and demanded that top AIDS and generals take polygraph test to prove they weren’t telling the press he was unfit for his job.
Health secretary of Robert F Kennedy Jr., a quack who thinks jet contrails are a Pentagon plot, is aggressively dismantlng the country’s vaccination regime, and shutting down scientific research on viruses and cancer, while promoting suntanning, cod liver oil, cane sugar, and measles.
The Golish senior advisor. Stephen Miller does not hide his sadistic glee as he dispatches masked agents to drag away migrant workers and parents from farms, construction sites, and restaurants.
Director of Homeland Security, Christie Noam, a.k.a. “ICE Barbie,” has shown up at migrant raids and El Salvador prisons while sporting cowboy outfits, tactical gear, false eyelashes and a $50,000 Rolex.
After catastrophic floods killed 138 people in Texas, she delayed disaster relief for three days.
And so it goes. It’s a ship of fools, and we’re all passengers.
William Falk, editor at large.
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Sadly, an extreme, right-wing majority in the Supreme Court has facilitated an incompetent and dictatorial President’s darkest dreams.
Here is a President so ignorant and dishonest that he claims he reduced prices by 1,500%, a mathematical impossibility that only his MAGA followers could accept without question.
The Court MAGA bigots in black robes long will be remembered as the gang who did exactly the opposite of what the founders intended when the Supreme Court was envisioned.
Despite being given lifetime sinecures, they caved. They failed to serve as an independent defence against an anti-democratic leader. Instead, they helped him destroy America’s democracy.
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
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I have been following your counterintuitive rationale of how a large US FED debt is not in any way alarming. USD, decoupled from gold since 1971, is based on full credit and faith in the heretofore stable, dependable, reliable government. We have accumulated a CUM debt of $36T, the highest in the world. And yes, while the term debt is a misnomer, it can become very relevant in our current climate. US has broken off ties with our allies, it has started acting like a banana republic, and is no longer a viable dependable government. I feel all bets are off now, and USD may start falling like a rock against other more solid currencies. Do you agree?
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I agree with you that the USD may fall like a rock, but the problem is not with the so-called debt. It could be a trillion, trillion, trillion dollars, and still not a problem because the payback money always resides in in the T-security accounts. To pay back the current “debt” all the government needs to do is send the T-security owners the money that is in their accounts.
If you put a few trillion dollars in your bank safe deposit box, and asked for the money back, would the bank have trouble giving it to you?
Also, of course, the federal government has the infinite ability to create dollars. So, what is the problem other than people not understanding what T-securities are (They are a form of money, like dollar bills, which are Federal Reserve notes.)
The concern about the federal “debt” is based on a semantic misunderstanding of Federal finance.
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