President Trump fires the Department of Transportation’s independent watchdog

Gee, there’s a surprise …

“At DOT, the acting IG was overseeing a high profile investigation of Secretary Chao’s alleged favoritism benefiting her husband Senator Mitch McConnell’s political prospects.”

As a replacement, Trump has selected a professional drawbridge oiler named Skippy who will immediately begin investigating Joe Biden’s conduct in 2009.

20 thoughts on “President Trump fires the Department of Transportation’s independent watchdog

    1. This time you better grab ’em while the grabbin’s good. He has no links to those pages and sooner or later he’ll figure out that his directory is unprotected.

      1. Done and done. I don’t think I’ve pointed and clicked that much since I used a 90s-vintage version of ChemDraw to build structures for my dissertation.This stuff should be in the water supply; it’s just what this fractured but whole country needs to light our way through the current unpleasantness. And covid.

  1. The visuals mysteriously appeared after I posted (LOL). I had forgotten it was “Oral Passions”. Old age. The old Lampoon stuff was funny. I wish I still had their paperback parody of LTR (e.g. , Gandalf was “Goodgulf”).

    1. I am sorry to be nitpicky, Bill Deecee, but I think the Lord of the RIngs parody was done by the Harvard Lampoon. IIRC, it was called “Bored of the RIngs”.

      Yep, there it is:

      I don’t like to get books from Amazon much any more. Nothing political, I just find Amazon’s delivery service a nuisance.

    2. Yeah Bored of the Rings is great – “he showed them an ancient weapon of dwarvish manufacture called a Browning Automatic Rifle.” But the zombie lawyers of NatLamp are second only to Led Zeppelin’s. Someone went to the trouble of scanning every issue and putting it up on archive.org. Like an idiot, I didn’t grab it all immediately. Two weeks and it was gone.

      1. UncleScoopy’s link suggests that it was the Harvard Lampoon that did the LOTR parody.

        1. Guilty, as charged. Same lawyers I’d guess though. BotR has a character who is an obvious rip of the Jolly Green Giant. In the first printing, someone says “Why, you’re the Jolly Green – ” and then they get interrupted. This must have been perceived as actionable because later printings change it to “Why, you’re the Jolly – “.
          Admitting I know this reminds me of the Comic Book Guy quote “yeah, I’ve wasted my life.”

          1. Sorry for the double post about the Harvard Lampoon. It’s not like I went to the ‘Vard or anything. I am just not good at posting.

          2. Pointless but fun – when my daughter was in elementary school, she overheard one kid seriously successfully convince another one that the famous author’s full name was Jolkien Rolkien Rolkien Tolkien.

  2. Harding’s Cabinet included the likes of Charles Evan Hughes (State), Andrew Mellon(Treasury) , and Herbert Hoover (Commerce). Heavyweights. Also for you connoisseurs of 2nd iteration Progressives Henry C. Wallace, father of Henry A., at Ag. It also had the odious Tea Pot Domer Fall at Interior and the completely corrupt Daugherty as AG.

    Grant’s had a couple of good people, more corrupt ones, and Alphonso Taft, father of W.H.Taft, the star of National Lampoon (the mag)’s “The Oral Passions of William Howard Taft”.


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    With the possible exception of Azar, Trump’s Cabinet right now has nothing but Falls and Daughertys.

    1. Thanks for going to all the trouble of posting the Taft piece, Bill DeeCee. I used to really enjoy the National Lampoon. Maybe I’ve changed.

  3. Well, that’s pretty much an admission of guilt, isn’t it? Man, what American city was ever this corrupt? New York under Tammany Hall? Jersey City under Frank Hague? Places long since buried in time and infamy? Now it’s the national government.

    At one time, people would have thought the American public would not sit still for this stuff. What percent of the US voting population is die-hard Trumpers who support everything Trump does, including this?

    1. Warren G. Harding’s administration was exceptionally corrupt. Also U.S. Grant’s. But when you adjust for the norms and expectations of the times, Trump’s wins easily.

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