The On-Crack Ass Clown for November, 2025

It's always a challenge to scoop the largest floating chunks from the swirling cesspool of ass clownery for purposes of presenting this award. Sometimes, the winner is obvious, but most of the time the selection is difficult, and sometimes it's nearly impossible. Lately, it seems as if the event horizon of the socio/political/religious black hole of lunacy threatens to suck me into the Zone of Virtual Selection Impossibility. But the choice still needs to be made, and I'm going to step up to the challenge

Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Readers, we raise the tattered curtain and shine the flickering spotlight of shame upon

The On-Crack Ass Clown for November, 2025

to

Der Furor's Governmental Clown Car

Der Furor once grandly claimed that he would appoint only the "best" people to positions in his administration, and that the nation would "win" so much that we'd be tired of winning. It hasn't worked out that way, as Der Furor and his chosen advisors have appointed dozens, if not hundreds, of individuals so staggeringly incompetent and unfit for their positions that describing this administration as a clown car is an insult to clowns. And cars. Here are but a few recent examples:

A judge ruled that Lindsey Halligan, the insurance lawyer with no prosecutorial experience hand-picked by Der Furor to run his revenge prosecutions of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, was illegally appointed and that the prosecutions were thus invalid. 

The administration proudly announced a 28-point "peace plan" to end Russia's war in Ukraine that was so obviously weighted in favor of Russia that it was widely denounced even by Congressional Republicans, and administration officials fell over themselves backpedaling to describe it as a "starting point" for negotiations. 

Following a video prepared by five members of Congress (all veterans) and former intelligence professionals reminding military personnel that they are not obligated to follow illegal orders, Der Furor accused them of treason ("punishable by DEATH," per his social media post) and called for them to be hanged, saying that any order given by the president is - de facto - legal. The Defense Department announced that Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona would be investigated for interfering with the “loyalty, morale, or good order and discipline of the armed forces” by participating in the video.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., blithely ignoring decades of science showing vaccines to be safe while showing that he openly lied to Senator Bill Cassidy during his confirmation hearing, personally instructed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to change its longstanding position that vaccines do not cause autism.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a draft memo to Congress, announced plans for the military to sever hundred-year history of ties with Scouting America, because the group once known as the Boy Scouts is no longer a meritocracy, has become an organization designed to "attack boy-friendly spaces," and promotes diversity, equity and inclusion.

Ignoring the advice of senior military lawyers concerned that such attacks are illegal, the administration continues to attack small boats in the Western Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, claiming - without evidence - that they are manned by terrorists transporting drugs to the United States. Since September 6th, at least 21 boats have been attacked and sunk and 83 persons killed; a further two victims were rescued and repatriated to Colombia and Ecuador rather than being tried in a US court ... which would have required presentation of actual evidence of their committing a crime. 

What's left of the Department of Education has proposed excluding a wide range of college degree programs - including nursing, education, social work, public health, physician assistant, occupational therapy, physical therapy, audiology, speech-language pathology, and counseling and therapy - from the definition of "professional degrees," specifically in relation to their eligibility for student loans.

The East Wing of the White House has been razed - apparently with no coordination with the affected historical preservation organizations - to make way for a Versailles-style grand ballroom ... for which no firm plans seem to exist.

 

The Oval Office has been garishly decorated with tacky gold embellishments that has turned it from a place of subtle power and authority to the inner sanctum of the madam of a cheap whorehouse.

I could go on, but it's just too depressing.

As political commentator Rick Wilson noted of administration actions in another context,

“This wasn't a dumpster fire. It was a dumpster fire on top of Burning Tire Mountain during an eruption of Mount Shitshow.” 

And as legal journalist Ben Wittes described Der Furor's first administration (and even more true now),

"Malevolence tempered by incompetence."

Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Readers, the On-Crack Ass Clown Award for November, 2025, is presented to the Clown Car that has replaced legal, ethical, and moral governance in the United States. The damage will take decades to repair, if it can be repaired at all.

And one must wonder that so many Americans are okay with all this.

Have a good day. Demand better from your government, but expect less. As Jerry Reed said at the end of his classic song "The Crude Oil Blues," "he who expected nothin' ain't gonna be deceived."

More thoughts coming.

Bilbo