Archives for January 2017

The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus has finally folded its last tent.

The iconic spectacle will close forever in May.

While there are many reasons for the show’s demise, a company spokesperson told reporters, with Donald Trump in the White House, there was no way they could, in good conscience, continue to call themselves, “The Greatest Show On Earth.”

Don’t feel bad for the unemployed circus animals. The new, jobs-creating Republican president has already negotiated to buy all of the circus’s elephants and put them to work.

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Sarah Palin, former vice-presidential candidate and half-term Alaska governor, is angry.

“That bumper sticker that maybe you’ll see on the next Ford F-150 driving by — a Trump bumper sticker — you should stop the driver and say, ‘So how’s that swampy, drainy thing workin’ out for ya?'”

The once loyal Trump supporter has gone rogue, having jumped off the bandwagon after being snubbed for a cabinet position by the new incoming president.

Palin is taking pleasure in mocking Trump’s campaign promise to “drain the swamp” in Washington D.C. of lobbyists, corruption and pay-to-play.

A quick look at Trump’s cabinet picks suggests the much-used slogan of “drain the swamp” was just that … a slogan to attract the gullible. Instead of protecting the man on the street, Trump is protecting the men on Wall Street. Two of Trump’s picks, Wall Street insider Steve Mnuchin as head of the Treasury Department and investor Wilbur Ross at Commerce, suggest instead of draining, Trump is augmenting.

The word on the street is that Palin had her heart set on being tapped for Secretary of State. After all, she did have some foreign policy experience. During her run for vice president, Palin boasted she could see Russia from her backyard in Wasilla, Alaska.

Any chance of being part of the Trump administration, in any capacity, was lost when Palin publicly slammed Trump for breaching Republican orthodoxy of letting the free market pick winners and losers.

Palin criticized Trump’s deal with Carrier — which purportedly kept 1,000 jobs in Indiana instead of moving them to Mexico, but which still sent 1,300 jobs from a second shuttered plant anyway — calling it “crony capitalism.”

Palin penned an op-ed for the website Young Conservatives, where she blasted Trump for giving Carrier subsidies to keep some of its jobs within the United States.

Who knows what the future holds for Sarah Palin. Certainly a 2020 presidential run is not out of the question.

Trump should have known better than to upset a mama grizzly. Don’t be surprised if Palin’s next line of attack against Trump is that he is an illegitimate president!

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After praising his ten-year-old son’s computer skills, the President-elect has named Barron Trump his cyber security adviser.

In a tweet, the soon-to-be president of the United States lauded his son while at the same time proposing a solution to cyber espionage:

“I have a boy who’s ten years old, he can do anything on the computer. You want something to really go without detection, write it out and have it sent by courier.”

Many opponents feared a Trump presidency would set the country back. Very few, however, envisioned the return of the Pony Express.

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