The Daily Dose/April 5, 2025
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
THE LATEST FROM THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF AMERIKA: Witless tariffs that cause the stock market to plunge; legal aliens being deported to untold horrors; equally witless talk of a third term: none of this is a bulletin. We elected a selfish, ignorant megalomaniac, and when you do that, these things happen.
Get Your Official Daily Dose Policy Right Here: From Day 1 we always thought Donald Trump threw in for the 2016 GOP nomination because he wanted the attention. We have yet to find a reason to think otherwise.
Dry, Technical Matter: This means America is in for another four years of not having competent executive leadership.
More Get Your Official Daily Dose Policy Right Here: America hasn’t been led since Kennedy said let’s go to the moon. This was a clinic in executive leadership: Kennedy set a goal and provided the inspiration to get there, which is what any good CEO does. And we met the goal, too, putting two manned missions on the moon before the 1960s were out.
Fly In The Ointment: America has been pawing at air since. Johnson got mired in Vietnam, not recognizing a fruitless endeavor when he saw one. Nixon might well have lived down the ages had he not had personal demons to answer to and resigned in disgrace. Ford, not elected, did well in circumstances the Son of Man would’ve found challenging. Carter meant well but couldn’t make it work. Reagan was brilliant at cutting an issue down to its most basic terms, but he was the most managed president in history. The first President Bush was another Carter. Clinton did produce our last balanced budget, but it was always something with him. The second President Bush lied to get us into war. Obama talked a good game but left the country much as he found it. Trump I has blood on its hands from an incompetent COVID response. Biden wanted government to be all things to all people. Trump II is even more witless than Trump I.
The Bottom Line: We are being governed off the top of Donald Trump’s head, which is bad because he believes – among other things – that the moon is part of Mars. He is ignorant because he doesn’t know things and stupid because he doesn’t want to know things. This is not a bulletin; we knew this when we elected him the first time. And as Trump is a man of no substance, this means America is no longer a nation of any particular substance.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow actually has to work at the hospital. Today’s Diary.
We had just pulled into the parking lot – fulling expecting a quiet nite – when an ambulance and a fire engine pull in like they’re responding to the Kennedy assassination…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1792 – George Washington becomes the first president to veto a bill, declining to sign a bill concerning how US House members are apportioned to the several states. Congress later passed a revised bill. To date, presidents have vetoed 2,597 bills, with Congress overriding 112 of them. Franklin Delano Roosevelt had the most vetoes (635) while Andrew Johnson had the most overridden (15).
Editor’s Note: this entry has run previously.
In 1981 – The Philadelphia Flyers establish a new NHL record for most penalty minutes in a season in a 2-0 loss to the New York Rangers. The Flyers had four penalty minutes, to finish the season with 2,621 penalty minutes, breaking the record of 1,967 minutes they had established in the 1975-76 season. The record has been broken four times since and is now held by the Buffalo Sabres, who had 2,713 penalty minutes in the 1991-92 season.
In 1980 – Pink Floyd is at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for the twelfth of 15 consecutive weeks with The Wall. The album went to #1 in ten other countries, including Norway and Spain, and was Billboard’s #1 album of the year. It was the third of five #1 albums for the group, and the title track was in its third of four consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
His assets reliably compounding, his philosophy rendering him deaf to the appeals of humanity, he plowed through any contradiction.
Harvey Wiencek
Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
Babe Ruth broke Roger Connor’s career home run record in 1921 with his 139th home run.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
How many #1 albums has Pink Floyd had in Great Britain? – Answer next time!
