The ship of fools, and we are passengers.

Here is a word-for-word reprint of the Editor’s letter in the August 8th issue of The Week Magazine.

“It’s a fierce competition, with no winners and only losers: Which of the unqualified kooks and fawning toadies working for Donald Trump is the most incompetent?

Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel are currently the most visible contenders, thanks to their tragicomic bungling of the Jeffrey Epstein debacle.

They promised the MAGA base the release of the full ‘Epstein files,’ even though their boss was the sex trafficker’s buddy for more than a decade and noted during that time that Jeff liked women ‘on the younger side.’ Ha, ha!

When Bondi and Patel discovered with cold fear that Trump’s name appeared multiple times in the voluminous records, they announced, ‘Nothing to see here, case closed!’

Now they’ve saddled the president with a festering scandal that won’t easily be reburied.

But the self-inflicted Epstein wound is no anomaly. It’s just the most lured demonstration of the Trump gang’s pervasive ineptitude.

Pete Hegseth, a Fox News talking head chosen as Defense Secretary for his chiseled, jaw and good hair has babbled classified information on an insecure app about an imminent military attack, cut off defensive weapons to Ukraine without Trump’s approval, and demanded that top AIDS and generals take polygraph test to prove they weren’t telling the press he was unfit for his job.

Health secretary of Robert F Kennedy Jr., a quack who thinks jet contrails are a Pentagon plot, is aggressively dismantling the country’s vaccination regime, and shutting down scientific research on viruses and cancer, while promoting suntanning, cod liver oil, cane sugar, and measles.

The Golish senior advisor. Stephen Miller does not hide his sadistic glee as he dispatches masked agents to drag away migrant workers and parents from farms, construction sites, and restaurants.

Homeland security, Christie Noam, a.k.a. “ICE Barbie,” has shown up at migrant raids and El Salvador prisons while sporting cowboy outfits, tactical gear, false eyelashes and a $50,000 Rolex.

After catastrophic floods killed 138 people in Texas, she delayed disaster relief for three days.

And so it goes. It’s a ship of fools, and we’re all passengers.

William Falk, editor at large.

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Trump’s incompetence and dictatorial bent would not be quite as concerning were it not for the even greater incompetence and preference for dictators exhibited by the SCOTUS’s Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

History will remember them as examples of exactly what the SCOTUS was created not to do.

Sadly, that Court is responsible for repeated headlines like this: Trump Sends Vance to Another Red State to Force Gerrymander or this: Donald Trump’s plan to divert funds from the US nuclear arsenal to convert a luxury jet gifted by Qatar into a new Air Force One.

Really, SCOTUS, is there anything you won’t allow him to do?

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

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