📰 Chronicles of Misrule
Pardonpalooza: The Killing of Irony (Again)
June 3rd, Year of Our Ford 2025
🎺 PARDONPALOOZA CONTINUES: THE KILLING OF IRONY — AGAIN
Having utterly failed to locate any “waste, fraud, or abuse” in Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid (apart from their continued existence, presumably), Elon Musk has slinked back to his X perch, undisturbed by the irony tsunami now crashing through Mar-a-Lago’s gilded halls.
For no sooner had the billionaire bloodhound whiffed and whimpered than Donald Trump bestowed clemency upon a man who bilked Medicare out of tens of millions of dollars and was sentenced to fifty years for his troubles. Read it and weep (or rage).
Yes, dear reader. Not a wrongly convicted man. Not a cautionary tale of prosecutorial overreach. But a South Florida fraudster whose only real error was, apparently, doing the same thing the current administration does — just without a presidential seal.
This freshly loosed bandit now joins a conga line of Pardonpalooza alumni: grifters, racketeers, cronies, influencers, and evangelists of extraction, each waved through by the rotund rubber stamp of clemency.
All of this arrives hot on the swampy heels of Trump’s bald-faced lie that his "Big Beautiful Bill" contains “no cuts” to Medicaid — despite the actual legislative text cleaving access like a budgetary guillotine. “Who Are You Going to Believe?” he dares, “Me or your bleeding eyes?”
We are reminded once again: the cruelty is the point, but the joke — the tired, gallows-rung, mercy-murdered joke — is on us.
🔖 Filed under: Pardonpalooza, Chronicles of Misrule, Medicaid Butcher’s Bill, Billionaires Behaving Badly
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