The day free-market Republicans became Soviet economic planners

May 12 2023 The Washington Post

The day free-market Republicans became Soviet economic planners

This very entertaining piece by Dana Milbank, is another example of Mark Twain’s “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”

This covers, among other things;

-The House Oversight Committee, run by Republicans, denouncing capitalist asset managers;
-a Democrat defending the free market against a Republican legislature;
-Republicans in the Oversight Committee in a press conference revealing nothing;
-the George Santos indictment and his vote for The Protecting Taxpayers and Victims of Unemployment Fraud Act;
-the Debt Ceiling charade;
-and of course the DeSantis, Trump and McCarthy.

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And this is The Washington Post, not late night comedy.

When Trump was in the White House, we all learned that truth can be funnier than fiction, I just naively thought that those golden days for comedy writers were over.

My bad, I was wrong.